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Farmhouse 21, aka Arts & Crafts 2, is located in Saugerties NY, where we are building our 3rd and 4th homes in that area since last July.

Here's the annual bed race below on a main downtown street, just below my apartment.

Then over to Old Sawmill Road where we have a 1600 sq ft 3 bedroom 2 bath home on 3 acres.

Defined on the outside by the stone and tapered columns, and on the inside with an open floor plan and a super cool space serving as the dining room.

Using some salvaged wood right inside the front door.

The man-shed back behind the house.

Lot's of work being done last week on this house, with most of the interior going from the insulation phase to the paint stage in less than 6 days.

Then next door on 3.5 acres is Barn VI.  This is a hot house, an iteration of Barn V which was such a head-turner.  This week is this houses turn to be fluffed and flattered and fretted over and fondled.

I figure the Craftsman will be done in Mid-September, and it's for sale.  And the Barn should be rounding the final corner here at the end of September as well.

Well, just to make it real easy on those folks out there wish us harm and are always poking needles in Catskill Farms dolls, we went out and bought this real expensive, high-profile mailbox that catches your attention regardless of how distracted and driving you may be.

Below is our old big boy mailbox.

And here's our new one.

We've been taking bets on how long it would last before someone took a baseball bat to it, and have built up quite the kitty, with an under/over hovering around 30 days.  Gary over at Barn 3 has $20 on early September but I think it might fall before that.

Though, in all honesty, most of the nonsense we deal with up here in nowheresville comes from folks who would pee in their pants just thinking about doing something so 'crazy' so I tend to put my big money on a longer out date, hedged with a few dollars on tomorrow.  Of course it's not really fair that I can bait them like this, but hey, it is my blog, and it's also my mailbox (and my camera watching it).

So if you want in, let me know before it's too late.  $20 minimum, and you must provide an alibi if the mailbox falls on the date you predicted.

Happy weekend, a little humidity-free chill was in the air this morning. Hitting the links with the Jeff Bank prez and Senior Loan Officer in a few hours - first time out this year.

I had a nice visit with some prospective customers the other weekend and then in the mail I got this unexpectedly.  

The Lego set and Single Malt.  Now there's some class (unlike Brandi Merolla up in Narrowsburg).

Our architect Kevin and myself lent out our knowledge to Builder Magazine, a rag I think is one of the best national magazines on home-building trends, real estate and design.

Builder Magazine Design Article

Many of you will recognize this design trick since we probably used in your home if you built with us in the last 2 yrs and have a home smaller than 1400 sq ft.

Upstater.net is probably one of the best easy go-to reads I've come across.  Not quite as funny, varied or nerdy-with-the-numbers as catskill4sale's blog, but there's no shame in coming in 2nd to that well-written upstate commentary.

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