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From Animal House - Boon: It's not gonna be an orgy! It's a toga party. Katy: Honestly, Boon, you're twenty-one years old. In six months you're going to graduate, and tomorrow night you're going to wrap yourself in a bed sheet and pour grain alcohol all over your head. It's cute, but I think I'll pass this time.Bluto: TOGA! TOGA! True, it's been a long time since I bought a keg and rented a tap, barrel, lent a security deposit and hauled it back home, hoping my tap skills have improved in the years since my last rental. And Lara's request if they rented 'beer bongs' and 'beer googles' didn't go over that well with the vendor, but sure cracked James and I up. So today is Juan's last day of work - sure, he gave me a two year notice, but it still snuck up on me. So Lisa is busy downloading Guatemalan music for the party, and I have to go pick up the keg in Port Jervis later today. Whenever I build a small road, I get to name it, and currently we are building on Catskill Drive. The picture below is of Cottage 20, which was just pledged to Susan, friend of Gayle, Bryce and Thom. Great house, a smaller version of Cottage 23, sitting way up on a hill outside Narrowsburg NY, above what used to be Luxton Lake. I got there early today before the sun came up and all you could see across the mountains were a few singular and solitary porch lights that were left on overnight.

And here's our next attempt at Mid-Century - a revised 50's Ranch - the first one was snapped up by Erin and Greg last spring. This house got big big views.

And, even though we just started, this is what Cottage 24 looked like two days ago. This 1300 sq ft 2 bedroom, bath a half, 7.5 acres, big ass porches and big views is actually currently for sale, case anyone cares. This busy picture was taken at 7:55 am - not only are all the truck impressive, but everyone is already unpacked, plugged in, and working. No morning coffee powwow for this team - although I am taking some pizza over at lunch today for Juan's Last Lunch.

And Sweet Lil' Cottage 23, - the interior paint is just being complete and we will be turning this house over the new homeowners by month's end (end of November). Good looking house with standing seam metal porch roof.

That's it for now. Katy: It must have been some party. Boon: Unbelievable. A new low. I'm so ashamed. Katy: I'm almost sorry I missed it.

Last night in Bed Lisa said that maybe Brad and NestDweller don't know my humor well enough to call them 'hanger oners' so this post is to clarify that that was a joke and we hope Brad and NestDweller and friends are the hood for the partee. In a very exciting development, most comments ever - between facebook and blog - per my last post. Maybe they will overtake that one mean voice mail message I posted that has been the number one post visited for 5 weeks now. The question remains - what is the magic that is brewed here at Catskill Farms, in Eldred NY?

So I have this pretty wife, funny young son, new puppy and cool house - and now I have more than 21 comments on a blog post - the last remaining aspiration for my young life. And not even 40.

My God, what else is there?

Anyway, I had my fun, made my point, settled some scores and I'm taking down my most famous post ever. Thank you all who commented and made me feel special, loved and what have you - like Lisa says - "Charles, you know standing up for yourself has never turned out negatively."

For all of you who didn't make the email lists of invitees - there is a very informal going away party for my friend and co-worker, Juan Mayen, this Saturday, at my house. Nothing rave-like or anything like that, but a nice get together with homeowners, coworkers, neighbors and various hanger-oners (Brad and NestDweller - this means you!) Anyway, come on over if around to our home to celebrate the 8 years of Juan's contribution to Catskill Farms and it's stable of 65 unique homes. We'd love to have you. Doors open at 5ish.