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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...

When Morning Comes

The Scaffold Disappears… Actually, it’s more like when the moon rises the scaffold disappears. Stone guys worked until about 8:00 pm last night cleaning up the roof and stone and taking down the scaffolding. As of right now this job is officially complete....