Sounds like where I grew up, too, in upstate NY. I really hope I can afford to buy up there someday. I have a lot of great memories from childhood. Property up there is still cheap, too, especially where I was, which is farther away than most NYC people want to go for a weekend house.
I know it sounds funny, since it is New York City, but where I grew up in Staten Island (before the Verrazano) was semi-rural. There were thousands and thousands of acres of woods on the South Shore. When I go to a place like Mohonk, it all comes back. But where you were……wow. That had to be amazing.
It was great Donatella. My own private paradise. The only skate marks I ever saw on that ice were my own.
There were a couple of houses near one end of the swamp but I never went near them (except in the summer to buy honeycomb from a guy who kept bees). Other than that the swamp is surrounded by one of the largest contiguous forests in Massachusetts. I used to fish for brook trout in the stream that empties out of the swamp. I know where there are caves out there. They aren’t much fun though because they are full of of porcupine shit.
Can you use the spring-loaded extension rods? That’s what I do, since I rent. They aren’t any more expensive than regular cheapo curtain rods. I got mine at Target.
We pulled a few comments that were critiquing the female broker’s physical attractiveness.
Sorry, just got back from lunch. Let me check the broker thread.
Sounds like where I grew up, too, in upstate NY. I really hope I can afford to buy up there someday. I have a lot of great memories from childhood. Property up there is still cheap, too, especially where I was, which is farther away than most NYC people want to go for a weekend house.
I know it sounds funny, since it is New York City, but where I grew up in Staten Island (before the Verrazano) was semi-rural. There were thousands and thousands of acres of woods on the South Shore. When I go to a place like Mohonk, it all comes back. But where you were……wow. That had to be amazing.
A lot of memories out there in that forest.
DeLepp, obviously Russkis have good taste. Now if only I can find where their 24 year old daughter lives in NYC :o).
It was great Donatella. My own private paradise. The only skate marks I ever saw on that ice were my own.
There were a couple of houses near one end of the swamp but I never went near them (except in the summer to buy honeycomb from a guy who kept bees). Other than that the swamp is surrounded by one of the largest contiguous forests in Massachusetts. I used to fish for brook trout in the stream that empties out of the swamp. I know where there are caves out there. They aren’t much fun though because they are full of of porcupine shit.
Oh WOW, Lechacal. What a dream that must have been. That is how I imagine scating in the Black Forest or some such place.
Rob,
Can you use the spring-loaded extension rods? That’s what I do, since I rent. They aren’t any more expensive than regular cheapo curtain rods. I got mine at Target.