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Of Fall Festivals Leaves and Wine - Saturday, October 10th 2009 12:18 PM (47 days, 14h, 14min ago)
Here we are, it is the second weekend in October, the leaves are changing here and there is so much to do these next few weeks! The Allentown Harvest Festival is tomorrow, and...
Fall at the Rue House... - Friday, October 2nd 2009 6:20 AM (55 days, 20h, 11min ago)
    We lost round one in trying to get the Sam Rue House registered under the National Register of Historic Places. But I swear I will persevere. The very...
Fall coming soon - Thursday, September 17th 2009 3:46 PM (70 days, 10h, 46min ago)
The summer is winding down, our garden has had it. The rain has done bad things to our vegetable gardens, which produced so much at the beginning of the year. Most of the tomato...
Requiem for the Clarksburg Inn - Saturday, August 22nd 2009 3:35 PM (96 days, 10h, 56min ago)
Since about 1840 the Clarksburg Inn, about two stagecoach stops away from Cox's Corner, served meals and drink and took in travelers for the night.  About three weeks ago,...
Summer and Please "Rate My Space" - Sunday, August 9th 2009 12:16 PM (109 days, 14h, 15min ago)
Yesterday our next door neighbors had a first anniversary party.  There was a bunch of their family there to celebrate the event.  People sang, danced, and hugged....
Service at the Old Yellow Meeting House - Sunday, July 26th 2009 1:04 PM (123 days, 13h, 27min ago)
Today we attended the semi annual service at the Old Yellow Meeting House, part of the Upper Freehold Baptist Church. The Old Yellow Meeting House is the third oldest church in...
Our Home Town - Sunday, July 19th 2009 4:31 AM (130 days, 22h, 0min ago)
Ugh, as usual lost a very long post.Anyway, suffce to say that last week was our first annual Rue House BBQ.  We have done nothing since then in the house due to severe...
Interesting News and Our BBQ - Sunday, July 12th 2009 11:43 AM (137 days, 14h, 48min ago)
So I am pleased to say that, after doing a preliminary application for the Samuel Rue House to be accepted into the NJ Historic Preservation Office, I have received a...
New Jersey is a Waterworld! - Saturday, June 20th 2009 10:18 AM (159 days, 16h, 13min ago)
This has to be about the fourth or fifth straight week of almost only rain. If we had a few clear days when the rain stopped and things started to dry off, then it was a...
Greenhouse is coming along... - Thursday, June 4th 2009 12:48 PM (175 days, 13h, 43min ago)
So I have been so busy we really worked to the bone last weekend and then went straight back to our day jobs! Suffice to say that Farmer Ed has done a bang up job putting most...
More Greenhouse Work - Monday, May 25th 2009 2:05 PM (185 days, 12h, 26min ago)
This is the close of a long four day weekend.  I took off Friday because on Thursday night my daughter, Kimberly, graduated college!   We had a pretty leisurely...
Beautiful Spring Day - Wednesday, May 20th 2009 2:38 AM (190 days, 23h, 53min ago)
Good morning everyone, it is a beautiful spring day and I wish I could spend the day at home in my beautiful house! But work calls..I wanted to share just a few pictures. Ed has...
Of Mud, Water, Backhoes and Rubble - Sunday, May 17th 2009 10:41 AM (193 days, 15h, 50min ago)
When Ed and Josh started the demo on the greenhouse " bench" they discovered about ten 50 gallon drums filled with water buried into the soil on the greenhouse floor. We are not...
Weekend Forecast - Friday, May 15th 2009 1:59 AM (196 days, 0h, 32min ago)
I took off today and am up with the birds so I can get the fullest out of this weekend!  I plan to start the day by having us go to Gasko's garden center, a very big one in...
C.P. Rue and the 19th century vagrants of Upper Freehold - Tuesday, May 12th 2009 2:14 PM (198 days, 12h, 17min ago)
Busy weekend - Tuesday, May 12th 2009 2:34 AM (198 days, 23h, 57min ago)
We hosted a party for my dad and aunt on Mother's Day.  So we were very busy getting the yard and the house ready for that, my aunt loved the house as did my cousin Larry...
A Second Flood... - Friday, May 8th 2009 4:33 AM (202 days, 21h, 58min ago)
Not in our house thank goodness, but we have had a deluge of rain.  It started last Friday when Ed started to put on the new corrugated red roofing on the carriage...
The Great Imlaystown Fire, or, how Imlaystown became a sleepy little village - Tuesday, April 28th 2009 2:42 PM (212 days, 11h, 50min ago)
The great Imlaystown Fire of September 19th 1897-- almost 213 years ago, decimated what was the business district of the little hamlet of Imlaystown, about one mile south of...
Outdoor Stuff going on - Saturday, April 25th 2009 7:29 AM (215 days, 19h, 3min ago)
So this is supposed to be a really warm weekend. For granted right now it is 10:30 am and 67 degrees but it looked like rain earlier!   Last weekend, Ed and Josh's...
Happy Passover and Easter and Lancaster PA - Sunday, April 12th 2009 4:31 AM (228 days, 22h, 0min ago)
Well our day at Lancaster yesterday was quite cool and drizzly, I guess not all days there can be spring-perfect.  I was amazed at home MUCH development has taken place...
Happy ONE YEAR anniversary of the Samuel Rue House - Saturday, April 11th 2009 12:56 PM (229 days, 13h, 36min ago)
Happy anniversary to us... we saved Sam's house from destruction and bad previous owners and it has been an entire YEAR today.  Thank you, God, for letting us have the...
Edible Allentown? - Thursday, April 2nd 2009 2:56 PM (238 days, 11h, 36min ago)
Second try at this post!...spring is in the air bigtime! The weather is balmy but no bugs yet! I am truly looking forward to the weekend and doing more around the farmstead!Our...
Colonial Woodwork - Sunday, March 29th 2009 4:24 AM (242 days, 22h, 7min ago)
I wanted to feature some of the colonial woodwork in our house and also some of the reproduction woodwork we have used to reproduce missing woodwork.Amazing to think this was...
First Spring Weekend--or why we need a hitch for the Chevy Pick Up - Sunday, March 22nd 2009 2:12 PM (249 days, 12h, 20min ago)
Whooo... we spent way too much money this weekend as usual. Or so it seems. Ed continued on the fence project.   It is looking good. We do have to get a hitch so we...
Productive Weekend and Some Interesting Pictures - Sunday, March 15th 2009 5:19 AM (256 days, 21h, 12min ago)
So we have embarked on a new project that was "inspired" by Meat's little sojourn up to Assunpink a few weeks back. We are installing a 3.5 high fence to keep him in. ...