Snow Daze

We are slowly getting the study set up at the house. Eventually, this room will have a wall lined in book shelves and lots of heavy wood and leather chairs. For now, I've got my home office set up in the study with the fire going and I just looked out the window to see it's snowing ... again. It has been about four days since the last heavy snowfall so I guess I should have expected it. Thank god I bought a case of wine.

I'm not sure if you can see the snow in this picture but this is the view from the study.



Uh-oh, I better throw another log on the fire.

Living In A Winter Wonderland

It literally snowed all day yesterday up here in the mountains. From the time I woke up in the morning to the time I went to bed - it was snowing. It looks like we have about 6 inches of snow on the ground right now but I'm no meteoroligical expert.

Here is the view from our living room window.


Crazy, huh?

The best thing about living in the mountains (our town is in the foothills of the Berkshires) is that the people up here know how to handle the snow. The roads are plowed and everyone goes about there business as if nothing is covering the ground.
This much snow in Manhattan and everything would have come to a stop. Or at least, the Subway would probably shut down.

Our First Homeowner's Headache

The small leak that appeared in the basement bathroom last week didn't fix itself as I originally thought it would. Seth and I, having absolutely no experience with plumbing, diagnosed the cause of the leak as two faulty gaskets that attach the toilet to the floor. Surely replacing those gaskets would end the problem so off to the hardware store we went.

I can't tell you how shocked we were to find the leak had returned. It was finally time to call in the pros and Glen the plumber arrived on the scene shortly after. Glen determined the problem was either a clog in the pipes under the house or the septic system needed to be drained. He had to call for backup.

After uncovering the septic system, it was determined the problem is a clog in the pipes and the fellas from Darcy Construction are currently hard at work to clear that clog.

It's a bit of a relief to know that the septic tank isn't the problem but that doesn't answer the question of what and how this mysterious clog arrived. Of course, I have a theory as to the cause and her name is Kelly.

Good News!

I finally have the interwebs up and running and a land line at the new house! We still don't have cable TV but hopefully that will be remedied this weekend when the Direct TV folks get out here.

Otherwise, the unpacking and setting up home is coming along nicely. Even though we are just a little over two and half hours north of the city, the weather here is drastically different. We had close to two feet of snow fall last week and it's just staring to melt. Check out the following picture of my back yard to see what I'm talking about.



Hopefully now that I've got the "emails" I'll be getting back to a more regular posting schedule.

Closed And Closed!

It's official, Seth and I are now the proud owners of 20% of a house on two acres of land in upstate New York!


This picture is of the back of the house taken from the yard.