Camping May Be Out, But…

August 29, 2008 by  
Filed under travel

I have my suspicions that we may not be able to go camping this year. The kids will be disappointed. It’s been an off year for travel and renovations. I am working now (writing articles at home) and my husband can’t get away from his job, either. However, we have a number of appointments coming [...]

Do You Hulu?

August 28, 2008 by  
Filed under media, news

If you haven’t heard about it, Hulu is online Internet video. They have tons and tons of videos, including television shows and movies. They are based in, Los Angeles, New York, and, surprisingly, Beijing. Watching the videos is free and legal. They have contracts so as to offer content from FOX, NBC Universal, MGM, Sony [...]

New York State Fair

I have a confession to make. Or some might consider it an accomplishment! re: I have never been to the New York State Fair. Nope, never. Year after year, I’d see the media blitz on TV, hear it on the radio, see it in the papers. It’s a BIG event here in New York State. [...]

The Erie Canal Blacksmith

August 27, 2008 by  
Filed under agriculture, art, Erie Canal, history, reenactments

I finally got this video uploaded to YouTube. Took me all day! It’s the Blacksmith demonstration we saw while at Erie Canal Village in Rome, NY. I love watching these things. This guy is relatively new, but I think he did a great job. And those double-bellows are amazingly large.

Cell Phone Gear

While I’m on a camping/hiking travel gear mode, I thought I’d post about this, too: cell phone accessories. The cell phone has completely transformed camping, I think. When once you were at the mercies of whatever nature could throw at you, while you ate and slept in a strange, forested, and completely unknown area, the [...]

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