I have a few small affiliate businesses on the side, to earn a little money from Amazon and Christian Book Distributors. New York State is (once again) killing business (and the Constitution) by forcing Amazon (and it’s subsidiaries) to charge New Yorkers sales taxes on purchases, even though there are no physical Amazon stores in [...]
I can’t believe that I took over 100 photos of our day spent at the Erie Canal Village in Rome, NY! We were there for most of the day, on July 4th, and had an absolute blast.
You can see all the photos I took here at my Flickr site. I’ll showcase only the basic photos [...]
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We took a short drive to Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, NY. I am continuing my research into the Oneida Stone of the Oneida Indian Nation. The stone used to rest at the cemetery. I have all sorts of information and photos to share, but I am still compiling everything. I hope to have all [...]
The beginning of spring in Upstate New York is a beautiful thing. Spring is coming! Last March about this time, we decided to break out of our winter hibernation hole and go for a drive in the country. My youngest son wanted to go fishing that day (he is a fishing maniac– he even reads [...]
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See Part One of our visit to the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse. This is Part Two.
After pulling the children off the packet boat and into the Museum, we wandered around the halls. There was a great deal to see and explore, and I wanted to soak it all in. From the packet boat [...]
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Stupid is as stupid does, right?
Did you know that Congress recently passed a bill banning the incandescent light bulb in 2014? Yow, that’s pretty radical. The goal is to force everyone to start using CFL bulbs. New York State passed such a bill over the summer.
The ridiculous thing about these bills– the federal government and [...]
We were discussing the disgusting condition of New York State, the state of the Union, and the latest propaganda from the presidential candidates, when my husband blurted out:
“Give me liberty or give me death” has now been replaced with “Gimme, gimme”!
It made me crack up! So true!
Looks like fellow Upstate blogger, Strikeslip, got a similar [...]
New York’s governor, Eliot Spitzer, of illegal immigrants driver’s license fame, gave his State of the Union address yesterday. If there is anything New York loves, it is a show. Spitzer and the Legislature put on quite the act: melodrama, whispers and glares of underlying hostility and intrigue, and “meaningful” moments of prolonged or [...]
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