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Homeowner's Blog

http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/

The trials and tribulations when fixing up an older home

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  • Installing our Photovoltiac system, Part II

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 13:14 in yard, environment, electrical, solar, solar energy

    Laying out the support frame.  As mentioned before, the south facing roof on our house is taken up with the solar hot water system.  The only mounting option for the photovoltaic system was to build a sun shade type support frame in the yard. The f...

  • Installing our Photovoltaic Solar System, Part I

    Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 19:08 in yard, environment, electrical, solar, solar energy

    I have had a pretty good year with the solar business thus far.  Therefore, I decided to roll some of this year’s profits into our own Photovoltaic (PV) system.  This idea has been batted about before, including as a battery back up for the s...

  • Things to ponder

    Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 11:11 in General, polititcs

    I think Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could identify their corporate sponsors. Or have term limits. ...

  • Walkway over the Hudson pictures

    Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 14:47 in General, hudson valley, catskill living

    From last Sunday, October 11, 2009.  I though for sure that there would be a good amount of color along the Husdon River, however, likely due to the micro climate induced by the warmer river water, the trees were mostly green.  Around the Casa De C...

  • Walkway over the Hudson, AKA Poughkeepsie Rail Road Bridge

    Posted on Saturday October 3rd, 2009 at 08:19 in General, hudson valley, catskill living

    After years of work and hurculean efforts by all those involved, the Walkway over the Hudson opened last night.  The original  structure, the Poughkeepsie Rail Road bridge was built in 1888 to to carry rail traffic over the Hudson, mostly coal trai...

  • Top 50 construction blogs

    Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 18:31 in blogging

    The Homeowner’s blog has been listed in the Top 50 construction blogs, the fact of which finds me a bit flabbergasted.  I perused the list, which can be found at Top 50 Construction Blogs via The Construction Paper.  There are some well writt...

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stevendev

4 stars steven

Keep up the good work!

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