I Love New York Travel

What is that, you ask?

Got any guesses?

We find ALL SORTS of surprises when we open up the walls here. Unfortunately, no golden dubloons… just a lot of mouse nests, dead things, chewed up walnut shells…. and wasp nests. This thing is as big as a basketball, maybe bigger. Right over the dining room area. And another one the same size was sitting in the floor joist cavity next to it.

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When I saw it, my hair nearly turned white, and I was nearly a prime candidate for some hefty wrinkle creams…. thank God the nest was empty. I have no idea how long it sat in there. THANK GOD it was not active when we were demolishing. It would have been…. a wild experience.

Unbelievable. LOL, gotta laugh.

Pelts were once the backbone of the Canadian and American economies, long before Canada and America were nations. Pelts are the furry skins of small mammals. People in Europe had an insatiable thirst for pelts, for making into hats and muffs and other such things. Many of the large cities in Canada and America had their start as fur trader outposts. This photo of pelts is of Fort Stanwix, Rome, NY.

This is a bateaux, a flat-bottom boat used during New York’s colonial days. It was lightweight, enabling the users to carry it across the dry land; but flat-bottomed for stability in New York’s rugged streams and rivers. This reproductions sits at Fort Stanwix, in Rome, NY.