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Greg has been thinking about this Loll Adirondack chair for a while, and one came up at the most recent employee sale. It’s a nice addition to the patio!
Lucky us! Greg scored a new couch at the Design Within Reach Employee sale. We have loved our old “Gucci” couch — so dubbed by our guests because it is so luxuriously comfortable — and it has served us well […]
Greg ordered himself and early Christmas present: A milk frother. Now we have fancy coffee on the weekends. (And sometimes during the week, too.)
An adorable new cheese and charcuterie shop in downtown Nyack. The duck rillettes are killer! The 411 on Simard & Co.
We picked up some new dressers at the DWR employee sale. They work great in Sam’s room, and allowed us to make the other dressers into a high boy for even more storage. We also moved the Eames chair into […]
New blinds. Well, new is sort of relative. We purchased them about three or four years ago and they sat in our basement until today. With Chris and Aiya staying in the living room, we figured it was time. Gives […]
It’s just my favorite time of year to shop the market. With tomatoes like this, how can you resist?
Another DWR employee sale yields two sets of very beautiful chairs, one outdoor and one indoor. Moller dining chair:
At the Nyack Farmers Market, where everything is beautiful. These cucumbers will soon be pickles. Still life with heirloom tomatoes.
A Saturday morning trip to the Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Farmers Market, which has some of the best vendors in the region. Blooming Hill! Fishkill Farms! Bien Cuit Bakery! Tomatoes are finally here! The cheeses from Chaseholm Farm Creamery were delightful. The Samantha […]
I now have a new favorite piece of art, purchased at a tag sale around the corner. It was done in the 90s by the niece of the owner of a popular local frame shop, It’s the Hudson River in the […]
The spring season is in full swing now at the market. Asparagus is in, so are ramps. And I found a very special treat there today. Morels! Love my Larchmont charcuterie. Gorgeous lilacs.
Well, a new old raincoat. After admiring the Barbour coats owned by Ed and Mary, I decided I’d join the club. Purchased on eBay for about half the cost of a new one. Proud new owner.
A lovely spring day at the market. Young greens from Blooming Hill. Larchmont Charcuterie, how I love thee. Hello tulips! If only! Glad the market is back outdoors again!
Some new furniture at the farm! Our new Nelson Eye Clock, nabbed at a recent Design Within Reach warehouse sale, and two new Noomi Swivel Chairs. Clock! Chairs! The chairs have replaced the red wing chairs, which were the last […]
Next step on our Big Day of Fun: The Design within Reach warehouse sale in Industry City in Brooklyn. A balmy day, indeed. This is a similar sale to those that Greg has often worked in Secaucus. Tables: Furniture: Our […]
While cleaning the radiator one afternoon, I found this wallpaper peeling from the wall behind it. I think it’s super-cool! We are debating about what to do with it. A fabric, perhaps, on Spoonflower? Comments and suggestions welcome!
On our first visit to this new farmers market, we discovered a new favorite vendor: Fishkill Farms. I don’t recall seeing this farm at other markets, and I was really impressed with its diverse varieties and easy-to-read signs. For example, […]
Ed enjoys finding these glasses from the 1980 Winter Olympics on eBay and collecting them. This time, he gave them to me. Cheers!
In the name of market research for our start-up, Destinate, we set up a booth at the Saratoga Farmers Market to see how people liked our little product. Turns out, they LOVED it. My friend John (aka @docsconz), one of […]
I’ve heard tell of the Smokehouse of the Catskills — an old-school, German-style smokehouse and deli in the tradtion of Schaller & Weber — but I’d never visited. When Kristin and I drove past on our way back from Opus […]
It’s my favorite time of year for farmers markets: the summer harvest is still going strong, and the fall vegetables are coming in, too. Everything is so beautiful. The colors are so rich. It’s the first day of fall, […]
Our wine tasting at Zachys! Delicious rose! And these fine folks won a case of wine. Now that’s a good event.
The DWR employee sale has been kind to us again. Greg picked up a new sofa and chair for our living room! So, alas, it’s time to say good bye to the pretty ugly but very comfortable couch and chair […]
A few random photos from a morning in Suffern. Wow! That’s Unusual! Ace Hardware. Gelateria.
Congratulations to the farm’s great friend Kris, who is opening a flower shop called Festoon. Festoon will be a slow flowers shop, meaning Kris will source only seasonal flowers from local farms. Her first night in the place was a […]
We’d had enough. The ceiling fan that we installed when we moved into the house in 2002 just wasn’t giving us enough light. Every winter, especially, we’d squint to see what was bubbling on the stove. And then, to top […]
On our way home from Orange County, we stopped off at the (somewhat) new Tractor Supply store in Stony Point. My, what a large rooster! And little, itty, bitty chicks, ready to go home to someone’s coop! Not ours, though, […]
Rancho Gordo is a Napa Valley company that pretty much single-handedly set up a market for heirloom beans. We’ve been buying (and loving) them since 2009 (see our posts on our old blog here: Rancho Gordo beans). We stocked up […]
After we got a new dining table last summer, we knew we’d have to replace our chairs. The ones we have just don’t go. So imagine our surprise when our friend Megan, who’d recently moved into her new house, found […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
