June 2017

Since shortly after our arrival, we have not had access to the side door of our house. When the building inspector came to inspect the plumbing, he also informed us that our side steps were not safe and needed to be removed… immediately! Now this is the only door that has a key. So here we…

When we left Honolulu, we left a condo that needed to be sold. We weren’t sure how long it would take to sell, but we knew the longer it sat on the market the longer we would be making condo payments. We found a fabulous realtor, Caroline Parobek, from Elite Pacific Properties because of my friend, Karen. We…

Cooling System… Climate Control… AC… Central Air… Air Conditioning! Whatever you want to call it… we have a two ton system installed for our third floor and it is operational as of today! Just in time! The temperature reaches the seventies today which means our third floor will reach well into the nineties! Yay for…

Sometimes we become so focused on our overall projects we forget to scrutinize the finer details. This is what happened with our two kitchens… well to be accurate, primary kitchen and bakery. We love the Black Fantasy Leathered Granite we picked out for our primary kitchen countertop and the Bianco Parana Quartzite for our bakery countertop. But…

What a glorious Upper New York State morning! It is a lovely 53 degrees, our feathered friends announced dawn’s arrival with their melodious songs and it is overcast with thunderstorms in the forecast for this afternoon. If we are fortunate… they may develop into some those extraordinary Upper New York State rolling thunderstorms. This weekend…

Our home has four fireplaces… one in the living room, one in the dining room, and one in each of the two larger bedrooms on the second floor. We plan to put gas inserts in three of those fireplaces. So we went to Pine Lake Stoves in Adirondack State Park. They were recommended to us by our amazing…