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With Hurricane Irene on the way to the Northeast and possibly making it through our area with 80-100mph winds on Saturday evening on into Sunday it’s important to make a few preparations just in case.  The Northeast hasn’t been hit by a hurricane like this in many years and it’s not really something people are [...]

Continue Reading Preparing for Hurricane Irene in Eastern New York

Tags: Weather

The laundry/mud room got painted this weekend. What in the world could one do with a really long weekend? Why paint, of course! D’oh! We got tired of seeing how crappy the entry way looked so I decided to pick up some paint and stuff needed to paint the room. The room is part burnt-orange [...]

Continue Reading Painted the Laundry Room / Mud Room

Tags: painting

I’ve been noticing as the flowers in the planters have started to sprout that something has been nibbling the tops off of them. They’re still growing, they’re just a bit mangled. The other day I was looking out the window and saw the culprit so I took some photos of it. You can see in [...]

Continue Reading Something’s Been Eating my Plants

Tags: bunny, cat, Wildlife

This week has been pretty successful for automotive work. Bryn’s car has been needing some maintenance and it’s been warm enough this week to be outside and take care of it. Bryn’s car is a West Coast 1987 Honda Accord DX with the carbeurated 2.0 liter 4-cylinder (it’s actually 1.996 Liters) so it’s in pretty [...]

Continue Reading Replace Brakes, Air Filter, Valve Cover Gasket 1987 Honda Accord

Tags: 1987 honda, air filter, brakes

Recently at work I ran into someone asking me about one of our cell phone bills which had a weird charge on it. Originally the guy that had the phone thought he had accidentally subscribed to some app service called ‘NewUNeed’ so we went through his phone checking for any apps or anything else which [...]

Continue Reading Do You Have Strange Charges on your Cellphone Bill?

Tags: Cell Phone, Charges, Money, scam