October 2017

Our public service announcement: Have you had your FLU shot this year? This is the best time to receive it… right at Halloween… PLEASE! If you have not gotten one yet, get it today! You are not only protecting yourself, but possibly saving the life of some child, senior citizen, or medically fragile person because…

We have so many tree adventures. As many trees, shrubs, ground cover, and hundreds of bulbs as Scott has planted, you would expect him to say, “Enough!!” But, my precious hubby, with all his muttering and grumbling, says, “I wish we could find a couple of flowering trees to add to the shady side of…

Yes, we went to another estate sale! Well, we didn’t go to just one… we went to one on Thursday, two on Friday and a private estate sale on Sunday. I know many of you are wondering, “What is she doing?” We are finding treasures to enjoy in our cottage once it is renovated. We…

It just took one chilly morning, when the temperatures weren’t really “that cold” for me to realize that I do not own a coat for the approaching winter weather. Nor do I own gloves for the weather ahead. By mid morning, the realization hit… I better find or purchase something to keep me warm. People…

One of the things we like about estate sales is that they start at nine or ten in the morning. Imagine our surprise when we saw one that was starting at eight o’clock in the morning! And it was a good hours drive away. That meant if we wanted to go to it, we needed…

Yesterday morning when we went out to the car, we were so surprised because what we thought was dew on the windshield was actually a light sheet of ice. How fun! Our first frost! The last few days have been filled with excitement… Not the kind I particularly wanted, but part of the reality of…

Now that our basement work is complete, we can button up our sweet cottage. New windows are now installed in the sewing room, the laundry room, one in our second floor bedroom, one for the future upstairs bathroom, one in the red room on the third floor that had been shot by a bullet while…

Tonight will be our first hard frost of the Fall… We will dip to 29. Days are shorter (11 hours). Fall has been gracious, but now it is time to accept that mild weather is ready to take a break… When we think of all the horrible weather different parts of our country have faced…

I so enjoy wandering around our home. It is so full of treasures. There is no sneaking about in our Victorian cottage. A creak here, a squeak there, a moan, a groan… the floors announcing each step… Our old wooden floors are scarred and pitted, each marking a memory that will remain untold. These old…

There seems to be a bug going around upper New York State so I decided I should check it out. Well, I should have avoided it because it put me slightly under the weather. But, today we continue with our updates. As we set out on our latest dual adventure we discovered a new feature…