It’s going to a be a big week, but the weekend was relatively quiet.
I helped a neighbor get some siding up, worked at the store a few nights. In the leisure department, I bought a couple of bags of dirt (to me, that counts as leisure), and we went over to the Fish & Game [...]
Posts Tagged ‘antiquities’
27 Jul
Fish and Game(s)
6 Jul
I’ll Fix Your Wagon
My wagon, technically.
Ever run into one of those things you have always wanted, always? I received a pretty awesome Independence Day gift. There was a century old wagon/carriage (technically a buckboard, I believe) on the side of a friend’s antique shop on Saturday morning. When I see these sorts of things, I generally toss away [...]
7 May
Half Cracked
As the city house approaches “half packed,” and I approach “half cracked,” I’m thinking less about the city house, and more about the RV and cabin at the Adirondack Place.
Daydreaming really. There’s a little less, “I have to remember to patch that hole,” and a little more, “These two Adirondacky prints will look good in [...]
16 Apr
Saranac Lake, 61 Years Ago Today
I think old newspapers – and especially old ads – are fascinating. Windows to a world gone by, and all that.
I was recently looking through an April, 1948 edition of our local paper – Saranac Lake’s Adirondack Daily Enterprise, archived at Northern New York Historical Newspapers. I found it really interesting that nearly every ad [...]
