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Tryptophan Dreams

And other stories… We celebrated a lovely Thanksgiving at my brother-in-law’s house up in New Paltz. (New Paltz being home to one of North America’s first Huguenot settlements and a town selected this year by Outside Magazine as a top destination for...

Wicked-good Cranberry Sauce

Lovingly stolen from Cuisine Magazine Several years ago my mother gave Kathy and me a subscription to Cuisine At Home. It has since become our absolute favorite cooking magazine. There hasn’t been a single recipe that we’ve tried that hasn’t been an...

Stairs on the Way

Porch posts too… The final stage of outdoor work is about to commence. I got word yesterday that the reclaimed 6 x 6 straight-grained fir posts for our porch are due to arrive sometime within the next two or three days. (Perhaps an after-Thanksgiving project?)...

Rue the Upgrade

Ruin the database… The message from my ISP stated that there would be routine maintenance on their servers starting at 1:00 am Sunday morning and that it should be finished by 8:00 am the same morning. We had a pretty busy weekend as both my girls were involved...

Change Your Site…

As Often As You Change Your Clothes—Part#1 As I mentioned in an earlier post on my old site, I’m in the process of transferring my blogging platform from TypePad’s hosted service to a WordPress site sitting on my own servers. This will save me a...