Author: Mark
-
Knoxville
Not the one in Tennessee. We’re on our annual vacation somewhere between here and NC. We have friends who live near Raleigh, and we’ve visited them a couple of times, but mostly they’ve come to visit us up in NY. Mostly because they at one time had family in the area, but as the years…
//
-
New Wheels
Today is the day we get our new lease. We’ve been leasing vehicles since 1998, and in that time, we’ve had the following: The new car is going to be another Nissan Murano. We very much liked the one we got in ’19, and at the end of the lease were trying to figure out…
//
-
Happy New Year in the Acres
Since this is a relatively new blog, I don’t have a lot to share in terms of New Years content. In my family we didn’t spend a lot of time with resolutions for the New Year, because generally we didn’t spend a lot of time making good on them, and like most people, if we…
//
-
Christmas in the Acres
That there is the family home, circa I’d say about 1975. Dad had gotten a printed set of pictures from someplace, I’m thinking either Caldor or the local AGWAY and went to the lumberyard to get plywood to glue them on, and then cut them out with a jigsaw. Lots of curves on there, but…
//
-
Summer Is For Fun
Summertime is traditionally a time for families to go on vacation. That was definitely true for my family while my brother and I were growing up. My family was considered middle class, my Dad worked for IBM, and my Mom was a housewife, though when she and Dad met, they were both working for IBM,…
//
Search
Categories
Tags
#Agway #airbnb #autum leaves #curiousity #curiousity in cats #cute cats #daydreams #grey cats #house projects #hudson valley #inclement weather #knoxville md #leased vehicles #life and death #mybirthday #neighborhoods #neighbors #newblog #origins #pastbirthdays #personal history #reminders #responsibility #russian blue cats #snow #snowblower #travel #vacation #weather preparation #winter