Category: House & Home

  • Neighbors

    Everyone has neighbors. Some are close by, some are less so. Some you rarely see, some are out every day. By and large, we’ve had some doozies, but for the most part, they tend to take care of their own properties and don’t spend too much time being annoying. For as long as we’ve lived…

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  • Getting ready for Winter

    Just got my snowblower back from the repair shop. Honestly, I wasn’t sure I was going to be posting something like that anytime soon, since the machine has been down for the count for almost the past 2 years. Back in ’23, I discovered an issue with the fuel line leading from the gas tank…

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  • 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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