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Stone Ridge Farmhouse ion 20+ acres- 2200 sq ft plus a finished basement.

Olivebridge NY 2100 sq ft  Barn 9 on 5 acres rising beside this Old Heifer ('who's calling me old?' "Actually, who's calling me a heifer?")

Hudson River Modern Rehab

1390 sq ft Cottage 45 in Barryville.

Barn VII, 1750 sq ft,  in Barryville closing tomorrow.

Mini Barn in Barryville - all 720 sq ft of it.

1800 sq ft Farm 24 in Woodstock NY.

Then we got Cottage 46 starting in December in Rhinebeck.

And Cottage 47 starting in Narrowsburg in November.

And Barn 10 starting in Narrowsburg in December, unspoken for.

That's a lot of construction.

So, I was on my way home from sending back UPS-like the sales closing papers for Barn 7, that is all done and ready for the new owners, and at the same time taking advantage of their Notary Public services to have my affidavit and lawsuit against Jeff Meola and Chris Ryan notarized and faxed back so they can have a pleasant weekend contemplating the destruction and retribution I shall levy on them, and so it was getting late and I'm tooling around on my new bike cruiser and came across the beginning of the Miami Beach HS Homecoming football game in Flamingo Park (yes, the same park in which I'm taking tennis lessons from a real mean no nonsense bastard).

You're not gonna believe this - guess what the school sports team's name is -

The High Tides.  Yep.  The High Tides.  I thought that was great.

The new beach bike, fully outfitted-

Carrying rack with mesh net with flashing back light-

Krypton lock with water bottle...

Nother place to store things.

Front light and odometer.

My new old school Wilson getup for the courts.

And the beach.

This fantastic 720 sq ft mini-me barn in Barryville is a super exciting home.  Everyone who walks into it simply blurts out the ultimate compliment - "I could live here."

For those of you not from or familiar with Sullivan County, you may not be aware of how that county was put on the front lines of the debate over hydraulic fracturing.  How every town board meeting, editorial page and newpaper issue was dominated by the issue and its specifics for years.  It was really like living history (and to a history buff, it was kind of cool).  And you want to talk about aggravated harassment, -jesus, follow the creation, evolution and tactics of the anti-fracking movement - the whole idea was to harass public officials into submission and intimidate anyone else out of the discussion.

But I digress.

So, I'm on the beach, Miami Beach to be exact, and I open up the Sunday Business section to page 7, and the Header screams out "The Birth of an Energy Boom", and it goes on to say -

"One could argue that, except for the Internet, the most important technological advance of the last decades has been hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking.  Practically overnight, it seems, this drilling technique has produced so much oil and gas beneath American soil that we are that the brink of something once thought unattainable: true energy independence."

Considering the Times for years led the bandwagon of hysterical extremism against this domestic energy harvesting, it's been fascinating to watch its business pages evolve into subtle and not so subtle support for domestic gas exploration.

For me, as someone who from day one was suspect of the carpetbaggers landing in our small towns with tales of horror and catastrophe, the evolution of this grey lady's reporting has been welcome indeed.

And the fact that the whole country has adopted some measure of fracking and gas harvesting except New York says all one needs to say about this economically downtrodden, population-losing, politically paralyzed state.

At least France agrees with New York. (low blow I know).