Tomorrow morning, we leave for Brimfield with a very small wad of cash and a truck. Any bets on what we’ll come back with, or how over-budget we’ll accidentally go? Given the size of the show, I have a feeling we may be too overwhelmed to even make a purchase…. ?

Grace Bonney, editor of the inspiring design*sponge blog, has impeccable taste. On her blog, she highlights unique and beautiful house products. The picks are mostly modern, so they’d fit perfectly in a NYC loft apartment, but not so perfectly in our middle-o-nowhere fixer-upper. Every now and then, though, I see something I think we could […]

We’ve been trying to connect with our neighborhood more, and develop some pride in our little town. With that goal in mind, we hit up the Canal Festival this weekend. Unfortunately, it was not all I had hoped it would be; there was nothing too festive about it, and the 90-degree weather did not help. […]

This is too funny not to share……. Drug Stashes Found At Home Depot Police are investigating Massachusetts outlets of Home Depot Inc. after discovering caches of cocaine and marijuana stuffed into merchandise at three local branches of the retail chain. The investigation began after a shopper found 40 pounds (18.1 kilograms) of marijuana and three […]

Our county is celebrating it’s bicentennial, and you know what that means – fun little fairs galore! This Saturday (June 17th) our town is hosting “Canaltown Festival”. Activities include a parade, a flea market, live music, lots of junk food, and……. a historic house tour. Which one do you think we’re excited about? The house […]

Last year, we noticed a rather large hole under one of our sheds. Though it was obvious we had a tenant, we never got a good look at him. This spring, he (or she) has gotten quite a bit braver. Teague even managed to snap a few photos: (Notice that our transplanted trees, at right, […]

UPDATE: After much futzing and hair-pulling, I finally figured it out. In Options > Reading, I changed it from ISO to UTF-8. Fixed! Damn it, why is it always something so obvious and easy that takes sooooooooo long to figure out? Anyway, feeds are fixed so all you subscribers should be getting posts now! WARNING: […]

I won’t be posting much this week – I’m too busy hiking, window shopping, and sleeping in. We’re up in Bar Harbor – Teague is here to put a screen room on his parent’s cottage, and I tagged along for the views. Right now, I’m listening to drilling behind me – so even though I’m […]

Gary’s latest post over at This Old Crack House reminded me that Antique Show season is upon us. I have always loved garage sales, thrift stores, and flea markets, so antique shows leave me squealing with glee and wishing I had won the lottery or been born a Hilton. Ok, maybe not a Hilton – […]

By now you’ve probably noticed our new look. Pretty snazzy, right? I thought it was time to clean up and simplify. What you might not notice is that the software running our blog has changed. After building a few sites in WordPress, I fell in love and decided to wave bye-bye to MT. Non-techies won’t […]