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Cleaning up the homestead

I had Friday off from work. While Eric was at pre-school in the morning Kathryn and I took the dogs on a long walk to the old homestead on the top of Pen Bonc Hill. We found the house and barn foundations and the old well. Everything is pretty overgrown as you [...]

Tomato Soup Cake & My Weekend

This weekend I celebrated my 55th birthday. It began by taking some time off work early; going to my friends Jim & Pam to get a load of aged horse manure for the garden. While Kathryn and Eric visited with Pam it took me about 1 hour to fork a heaping load on [...]

Situation Wanted

Lately I have been focusing on my WinterCampers.com poem “I’m Not Going To Lie To You” – but this was a good poem that I wrote for Robert. In 1996 my beloved brother Robert was leaving DMC and his friends were having a going away party for him.  Like most activities associated with my brother [...]

Spring, finally.

In the duration of 4 days we have gone from snow

and ice on the pond.

to no snow and ice and blooming crocus.

Alphabet Stories from Pre-school

Each day at pre-school the kids learn and practice letters of the alphabet.  Wednesday night at dinner I asked Eric how school was. Eric said “Not good – we did the letter Y.  It’s not for me”.  Apparently he had problems drawing his Y’s.

Friday when queried about school he said “Yahoo! Dad – guess what?  [...]

Eric’s Power Rangers

Playing Power Rangers is one of Erics favorite games.  He has male, female, all sorts of colors and special powers.  Here are some of them on display.

Ballet for Pre-Schoolers

A few weeks ago, on a Friday, Kathryn picked up Eric and Trevor from preschool. Driving home, Eric says, very calm and serious, “I’m not going to school on Monday, Momma.. I am going to stay home and take care of you, because you are not over your cold yet.” Kathryn thanked him for his [...]

Canoe Trips Planned for 2008

During the winter we brain stormed ideas on potential canoe trips to include:

May 1-4 Delaware River 4 days / 3 nights Port Jarvis (Mile 255) to Portland (Mile 207) or Phillipsburg (Mile 184)
Fawn Lake – Needs scouting trip.  Fawn Lake also has Lake Trout, smallmouth bass and pickerel.  Fawn Lake can be reached via [...]

Living in Holland Patent

Demographic data for living here.

Statistic

Holland Patent

Oneida County

NY State

High School

22%

21%

19%

Some College

14%

12%

10%

Bachelors Degree

9%

8%

11%

Graduate Degree

6%

5%

8%

No. of Households

1,389

91,787

7,156,765

% of Households with Children

38%

32%

34%

% of Households with No Children

April Fools Dinner

It has been a family tradition to celebrate April Fool’s Day with the kids by having a “crazy dinner”. We dress up weird, eat our meal in reverse order (dessert 1st), and use kitchen utensils instead of normal silverware. For a 5 year old boy this is one notch below Christmas as a [...]