That terrible sinking feeling hit when we got the quote for a new roof. It was twice what we had expected even thinking on the high end. Besides the original 1917 black slate still on large parts of it, one of the big costs is that the aluminum siding on the sides of the dormer […]

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We visited the Erie Estate Buyers store last Saturday for their 30% off sale and Wow!! you should have seen all the people there. This was a first-class affair with food and drink that was amazing! But I wasn’t much interested in that (which isn’t normal) as much as the “arts and crafts”-era […]

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(Warning, sweet cat photo at bottom.)
We stopped buying our meat at the supermarkets because…..it just isn’t very good. We found Urbaniaks and just love the flavor and tenderness of the meat. It’s like an old-time meat market. Their ground turkey is awesome. So much so that they were out when we […]

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