OuiOui

No More Front Porch

2008-09-25T05:52:00.000-07:00

So here it is painted (but not clompleted). I still am wanting to add certain accent colors around or on the bay window, above the door and the big windows on the first floor. Also thinking of adding an accent to the peak...who knows. Probably wait til next year.
SO my front door is about 10 feet off the ground. It's kind of funny.

My front porch is gone. And it's amazing how great my house looks with out it. I mean it looks so much better. The bummer is that it can't be back to the original. I believe the original porch went straight out into the street. The street must have been much narrower and thus the porch was constructed differently. Kind of sucks but what can you do. My friend Gabe is making me a new porch and I am sure it will be much prettier than the old one that was falling down.

Hudson a Go Go

2008-09-07T04:07:00.000-07:00

Robin's Egg Blue (WRONG color)

Building Down by the Hudson River. Perhaps one of the first Whaling Manufacturing Companies in Hudson?

The View From River Park

Trusty Amtrack

I am back in town for two months. Which is really nice. Trying to get to know Hudson and settle in a little bit. Meanwhile painting my house. Which turns out to be more difficult then I thought. Figuring out the colors has been a daunting task. Colors look much different on a swatch then they do on a house.

My house being primed. It looks really tall from this perspective.

Pictures just because

2008-02-27T17:46:00.001-08:00

THis is the front of my lovely mansion. It needs a little tlc and a paint job. But none the less she is a beauty...
SNOWY HUDSON...
THE LOCAL BAR WHERE I MIGHT MEET MY HUSBAND:)

uprootin'

2008-01-31T19:36:00.000-08:00

so since I have come back to the blog to post pics I figure why not a few words too. So needless to say that I am happy now that I am in my house, sans furniture:) the move was interesting and stressful. I thought the buying the house part was going to give me a hernia. Try having a gaggle of freaks work on your house. My contractor, Chester, is definitely an amazing human in many ways. He looks like Santa on more than a 6 pack of coors lite a day. Although, I must say he did a fine job on my house.

most of you know that i can be a bit anal and manic so the best thing about Chester and my relationship is that we could yell at each other. It was a match made in heaven. I was so worried that they were doing everything wrong. I mean come on you have these people tearing up your house and well I don't know dittly about building a corner foundation. So that part caused me to go to Homedepot, Lowes and Dunn's (the local contractor joint) about 50 times a day. They all know me.

When fixing a house the amount of decisions that are necessary to be made are unbelievable. I mean lighting fixtures, paint color, toilets, tile, cabinets it's endless. I started to not have the ability to make a single decision. Everything seemed all too permanent.

So now that I have had a few days in my own bed, it had been over two months not recommended for you sanity, I love my house. I hope that I come to believe buying this old beast was the best decision I ever made.

There is still much work to do. Paint the outside, grow a lawn (the back yard is pretty much dirt) build a fence and so on.

I hope that all of you get to come visit. The spring here is UNBELIEVABLE they say. I love this town and have made a lot of new friends. I mean hicks are good people too after all. Funny I don't even want to go to NYC I just want to wonder around and learn about this town and the area.

Lots of love....

front door inside

2008-01-31T19:25:00.000-08:00

here is the beautiful double front doors. There is this amazing window above that actually opens up (the long horizontal one about the doors) I love it.....Melinda your owl hangs from the door for good luck :)

out of order pics of this old house

2008-01-31T19:23:00.001-08:00

Okay here are the last batch. It's a bit all over the place these pics but they give you the general idea and layout.

House House House

2008-01-31T19:19:00.000-08:00

Well let's just say it's really difficult to take flattering pictures of architecture. I tried and this was what I came up with. Everybody has been asking me to send pics so here you go. Remember this is one of 4 floors of my new mansion. These pictures don't really do it justice.

gotta love it!!1

my house

2008-01-31T19:00:00.000-08:00

down vest

2007-11-26T21:36:00.000-08:00

I picked up the paperwork for my new house. I walk into this amazing old building on Warren Street (that is the "Main" street in this one pony town). The building was probably built in 1840 or somesuch weird old ass year. The door knob barely works "turn to the right and push hard" are the instructions, you know the old double doors with glass windows.

As I walk in, I look around and uprealizing the hallway is covered in this crazy wall paper, but like all the way up the walls, the ceilings to the second floor. i mean wall paper heaven. As I take a closer look i see that this place is fortress...too many colors too much stuff just too darn much. I am probably the only person in tight sass and bide jeans ever to step foot into this ancient time capsle of a law office (are they really lawyers or cut outs from a Norman Rockwell painting?)

I meet with my lawyer, who I yelled at a month ago cause I think he was in cahoots with the people I was buying my house from. I mean the deal he gave me from them was ludicrous. Like I was supposed to give them my first born child, my left toe and wipe their ass. A little yelling goes a long way. Needless to say after the "yelling" i got a reasonable deal on the house.

I am way off course here. So after my visit to my lawyers office, I think to myself "i need to make copies of keys to my house" so I stroll the two blocks to the oldest hardware store on the block...I guess it's been around since say 1834 or something. One other tid bit of information that might interest you, it did me, Hudson is known for what you may ask? Like what is it famous for? George Washington? Tug Boats down the River? That famous American painter who built a fortress on the hill? Nope Hudson is famous for Whore Houses and breaking Prohibition. And that is why I moved here?

I walk into this old hardware store and i rub my eyes a couple of times as I gaze past the rows of nails, paint, keys and just a bunch of junk really to see in the very back a man on the phone sitting at his desk. yes, he must be the hardware store owner, and by god he is....he is wearing a blue down sleeveless vest over his ironed button down shirt. I take a closer looks and low and behold "it's my lawyer". He is my lawyer and the hardware store owner and he makes keys!!! Keys that don't work but none the less he makes keys.

Needless to say, today was strange. i feel like a figment of somebodies imagination. I mean I belong here and I don't all at the same time. I wonder "am I going to lose my mind here" I suppose what better place to do it. Soon enough I will be your waitress and your hairdresser and I might even be the bank teller all in one day.

Yup It's true

2007-11-25T19:18:00.001-08:00

So here I am stuck in this little baby town called Hudson and that affords me time to write about myself. How convienent.

I am finding this a bit strange. It's a lot like dating on line. You set up your account and then when it comes down to making the deal and going on a date, I am out. I never follow thru. So let's see if I have the nerve to actually continue with this blog thing.

Hudson-my new home. Suffice to say i didn't get here and think "what the fuck have I done" I am actually extactic (that word fits my emotion at the moment). I mean it's like having a clean slate and a new u (me). I can't really explain it but I will try.

I feel that I am born again in a sense. That I can see my truth and my dreams. I feel that god is closer here there aren't so many distractions. Maybe god is the wrong word but angels definately live here. I see their faces everywhere I go. I feel them. People here just seem more gentle or perhaps my perception is softer because I don't feel bound and tied.

Maybe I will just finish writing my book this way. i will "blog a book".

One thing I need to say is how much I love my friends and family. Sounds silly, trite and stupid but it's true. I only have courage through those who believe in me.

Anyways, hopefully weird crazy fun things will happen so i can tell you about them. Otherwise you will just be reading about me, me and me. Oh fun fun.