Category: mountain-brook
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Update from Camp Perseids (Labor Day Weekend)
I didn’t really meet my aim of blogging regularly from the cabin build, nor did I have much success documenting things with my audio recorder and doing radio updates. Once folks started arriving, the assembly of the shed and managing camp logistics took the forefront and plans changed. What I can report is that 20…
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Update (June 17 & 18)
One of the biggest and earliest obstacles for this project is setting footers for the shed. The winters are cold and long in this part of NY, and there is usually a lot of snow thaw and freezing. So anything just plopped on a gravel pad will heave up in just a few years. My…
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Update (Memorial Day Weekend)
Friday, May 28th marked my fully vaccinated day. Two weeks after my second shot! So, I returned up Mountain Brook Road for the first time in 2021 over Memorial Day Weekend. I drove up that Friday and stayed until Tuesday. Originally I planned to work through the weekend and return Sunday, but most of Friday,…
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An Update on Mountain Brook Build Days
An exciting update about our plans this summer to build a small structure on our place in the Catskills.
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Mountain Brook Build Days
In December of 2017 we bought 45 acres in the Catskill mountains, adjacent to the Plattekill State Forest in Delaware County, NY. It is a beautiful spot and when all this work for pay stuff is over you’ll find me there. To this point, we’ve done a lot of camping and hiking, but except for…