Catskills - Sullivan County - Ulster County Real Estate -- Catskill Farms Journal

I don't play a lot of golf, but I try to get out once or twice a year and one of those times is nearly always with George and Wayne at Jeff Bank, and typically Eric, Owner of Nest Home Concierge business (and insurance).

The summer nearly slipped by us, but then this 8 weeks of super awesome fall weather gave us another chance, and we took it.  Considering Sullivan County is dramatically beautiful, and can really show off during the autumn transition, and the Villa Roma course outside of Jeffersonville in the Beechwoods is quite nice, it all added up to ranking up there pretty high on the awesomeness scale.

George, Senior Loan Officer at Jeff Bank, at the T.

Eric about to muff one (coincidental use of Muff twice this month).  Note they are wearing the same shoes!

Wayne, President of the Bank, zeroing in a par from the fringe.

I forget what was happening here, - I think a dirty joke or something...

That's it - then the clubs, and shoes and other assorted golf sundries were retired to the back of the closet until next season.

Cottage 45

Barn VII

Barn VII Chimney veneer.

The Hearst building in NYC...

Where I met with some editors and publishers who are interested in our homes...

Some people who know me say I'm a dork - I don't watch a lot of football, baseball, my grill skills are lacking, I can't fix anything, I studied English in college and sometimes my fashion can be challenged.

I listen to books on tapes things like "The life and times of George Washington" or Lyndon Johnson's 4 volume biography masterpiece "Passage of Power" or 52 hours of the Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich, while reading "The Quest - Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World" (which by the way makes the pop-star anti-frackers seem all the more silly in their fluff approach to science) , and "Undaunted Courage" (who knew Merriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark ended up broke, depressed and then committed suicide!!).  I go to dorky Harvard Club science debates, and search the NYC libraries of Frick, Morgan and Carnegie.  Top that off with the fact that I actually record PBS Nightly Business show and you can see where I'm going with this.

So it should come as no surprise that I was reading a New Yorker critique of the well-received new adaption of Tennessee Williams' 'Glass Menagerie' when the critic, the well known Hilton Als said the following about Jim, one of the main characters I guess -

"He is an amiable Irish-American, a go-getter who's increasingly baffled by his life; he can't break out of his niceness to achieve anything truly great".

"He can't break out of his niceness to achieve anything truly great."  I like that- I get that.  That Y in the road was really clear to me when it arrived on the horizon.

On 13 acres in Barryville NY stands Barn VII, on 13 acres, nearing completion.

Interior Painting and final trim phase.

Floor finishing, handrails, countertops Oh My.

Little bit of tile to be done (hummed to that tune 'little bit of blah blah blah blah blah")

Nice stained accents throughout, but not too much.

Awesomeness in this bathroom.

A bedroom...

Some stone work.

And a good pic of the general house palette.  Pretty sweet.