Pickles

If you’re growing cucumbers in your garden, you’re probably overwhelmed right now.  We are.   But that means one of W’s favorite projects:  homemade pickles!  If you’d like to try it and don’t have any, buy some cucumbers at your local farmer’s market, but ask for pickling cucumbers specifically.  One year we tried another variety and … [Read more…]

Kids Eat Free in the Capital District

All right, all right, people have asked for the post enough times that I finally had to suck it up and put it together.  Here’s a list of restaurants that do “Kids Eat Free” or something else special for kids.  Of course, we’d all love to hear about other great deals. Local Restaurants: Forno Bistro … [Read more…]

First Week in August

Okay, remember that this is autopost, so I’m writing this on Friday, and the only thing between this moment and leaving for our week at a lakeside cabin is this post.  So I’m going to get a little lazy and list some things with limited information & without links, typos ignored.  It’s not high quality, … [Read more…]

Still More Free Summer Events

Welcome to the splendor of auto-post!  Hopefully you won’t miss me a bit this week while I am attempting to connect to nature instead of cyberspace.  My Facebook links might be a little tardy, and if you’ve never commented here before and try to do so this week, your comments might not appear until I’m … [Read more…]

A Little Help Here?

I’ve been preoccupied with daily life, and I haven’t spent a great deal of time planning this summer. But starting on Friday, I will be spending a week at a rustic camp near Lake Placid. Without an internet connection. I know: it’s Wednesday!  Why didn’t I think about this?!?  My current plan is to do … [Read more…]

Collins Lake

The other day we met some friends at Collins Lake in Scotia.  Between visits, I forget just how pleasant it is.  The beach is open from noon to 7:45 pm, and if you go late like we did, it’s quiet and relaxing.  It’s $2/person with kids 5 and under (or maybe it was 6?) free. … [Read more…]

Ice Cream Trucks

For more than 30 years, ice cream trucks have been banned in Niskayuna after a girl was hit by a passing vehicle.  After kids submitted a petition asking to get the ice cream trucks rolling around town, they’ll be discussing the issue at the regular Town Board meeting Tuesday at 7 pm. I am generally quite … [Read more…]