Gorgeous locally handmade, all natural soap: free from GMO, parabens and phthalates using organic oils and botanicals. Pick up a bar for $4.50 for a 4-ounce block at The Catskills Artisan’s Guild on Main Street in Margaretville, New York.
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50F at 8.30 this morning, chilly with a light breeze. We have pockets of red in the trees here at Upstate Dispatch and in the surrounding mountains. It started raining late morning but stopped before lunchtime. Midday temperature hovered around 50F. Update 9/14/14: it rained for most of the afternoon too.
copyright J.N. Urbanski 10am 9/13/14
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If you’ve bought a parcel of land with forest, there are plenty of things you can do to maintain it. You can sell trees or use them for firewood.
If you have dead trees on your property, you can tell that they’re dead now by observing that they have no leaves. Before Autumn rolls around, right about now, you can go through your forest and paint the dead ones, so that when all the leaves are gone you have a reminder of which ones are dead. This gives you time over the winter to fell, chop and season the wood. (Only paint them green if you’ve run out of white spray paint and need to get the job done today.)