Category: House & Home

  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • Origins

    Or, where ya came from. For me, this is going back more than a few years. This is the house that I grew up in located in the Hudson Valley of New York. It was built on an old farm, so old that I’ve never been able to find anyone that could tell me about…

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