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Spring time brings along a lot of frisky thoughts and actions, and up here in the Catskills, things are no different. Daddy Turkeys strutting around all puffed up with their harem following, momma mouse, momma deer, momma everything catching the spring fever. I think it's pretty universal up here in Sullivan County that this winter wore us out, and was day in and day out pretty challenging, and then the real kicker was it never wanted to stop - with a pretty angry March, and an April that stayed mean all month. So, with this weekend moving into the high 70's, everyone is pretty beside themselves with anticipation. I mean, even this week, it snowed, hailed, and hovered towards the shitty side of climatic affect. Here's Lucas down in Lancaster PA, getting jiggy with one of his first ever spring days. His new nickname is "Paleface", or "Ole Doublechin". Lisa Richard Petersheim, the quiet hero of my ventures, demanded photographic credit for these photos, I think mostly to quiet Gavin who has been dissin both her camera and her photo abilities ever since the first in the 'blurry series' was released a few months ago. Lisa said it was pretty neat when she figured out that a 'red hand' on the lcd screen meant 'wait', and a 'green' meant shoot.

Here's Lucas taking one for the team by lying in the wet grass patiently while Lisa captures this great shot.

And then on the way over to Cottage 21, this young bear ran across the street and hung around long enough for me to break out the camera. I'm always afraid when I have these bear shot opportunities that while I'm focused in on shooting a pic of one bear, another one is going to sneak up and crash through my driver's side window and get me good.

I guess these bears are just coming out of hibernation.

And, per the previous thread, Juan's got the wall put back together, repairing stones that probably hadn't been touched by human hands since they were first laid 120 yrs ago.

The addition is going great, with the plumbing, heating and electric finished and we are getting ready to insulate with our hi-tech soy-based next week.

I got a few prospective customers coming up this weekend to check things out, and tomorrow I got a game of golf scheduled with Eric at Swan Lake golf course.

Remember, comments allowed.

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Well - here we go. Instead of 'one hand clapping', we are opening this blog up for comments, info, guidance and cautions. Of course, comments that include phrases such as 'he's so smart', and 'what a guy' will be encouraged, and those less flattering/glowing will be frowned upon. Let's see how it goes. Beautiful day up here for sure. Here is the emailed letter to assorted readers opening up the blog to comments - "Dear Readers and Homeowners, After 18 months of keeping a consistent blog, I’m opening it up to comments and the like. I figure all our new homeowners always have similar questions and the pre-existing ones have a lot of info to share, so maybe the blog can serve as more than just me monologue-ing about my latest conquest or hurdle. Anyway, efforts like this on my part usually backfire, and hopefully it doesn’t turn into a tool for everyone to gang up on me. I will be moderating the blog, because I don’t want it to turn into ‘bitch session’ or ‘my front porch light doesn’t work, why hasn’t anyone returned my call’ type thing. The blog has been a great marketing tool from Catskill Farms, and we aim to keep it that way, so all posts will be vetted with that in mind. Please don’t hold it against me if the post gets rejected – it’s nothing personal – the blog is one thing in my business I can control, and it’s nice to have a least a little control over something. Other than that, maybe it will be a useful tool to the community we have built – maybe not, but here goes nothing…. I’m hoping it becomes a great resource for restaurants, hiking trails, cocktail party lists, badminton tournaments, local stores and shopping and general connectedness through info sharing, if desired. We have a couple hundred people checking in a weekly basis, so maybe it will be fun and valued. Chuck, Owner."

OK, it's been 15 minutes since I opened my blog for comments - where is everyone?!