A Supersite to Enhance Home Living
January 15, 2011
Visit our new home staging/home improvement supersite, Our Home and Castle, to enhance your home living: http://www.ourhomeandcastle.com
Children’s Bedtime Stories Come to eBooks
November 29, 2010
It may seem a bit odd at first, but moms and dads are reading bedtime stories to their kids from ebook readers. Ebooks are the vehicle for more creative content than what you find in a bookstore these days, simply because book publishers’ costs have risen dramatically. They are tending to select manuscripts to publish [...]
Obamacare’s Notorious Form 1099 Reporting
November 24, 2010
Effective January 1, 2012 (unless repealed or amended), the 2010 health care law requires reporting on Form 1099s of all customer sales to coin dealers totalling $600 or more in a year. This statute applies to payments by any business for everything from office supplies to automobiles, not just your resale to a dealer of [...]
Harriman Park in Autumn
November 9, 2010
Fall is one of my three favorite hiking seasons, along with winter and spring. The dry, once colorful leaves blow off the trees and open up views of the distant hills and valleys. Hikers make the most of the cooler, often breezy weather, hiking longer distances than in summer. There is adequate sunshine on your [...]
Mohonk Mountain House
September 16, 2010
One of the most interesting areas of the Hudson Valley — especially for the breadth of its activities — is the Shawangunk Ridge near New Paltz, home of the Mohonk Mountain House, Mohonk Preserve and Minnewaska State Park Preserve, totalling over 20,000 acres. The two Smiley Brothers — Alfred and Albert — purchased the land [...]