- Name: Heather
- Surname: Coton
- Location: Upstate NY
- About Me: I'm a city girl trapped in this country lifestyle... and you know what? I like it! My husband and I may be "livin' the dream" because we bought an old farmhouse on 33 acres - but falling in love with this place has come with some growing pains.
When you live in the city you have access to everything - in the country, we are 40 minutes from everything.
Like so many others, we've felt the wrath of the economic downturn with the loss of business for my husband, and layoffs from several jobs for me. On top of that, the salaries here don't come close to what they were in the city.
We used to travel and go out all the time - now, we spend all our money maintaining our house and our land.
But this shift in lifestyles has renewed my appreciation for the things I have always loved - baking and cooking, taking pictures, hiking/snowshoeing [only now I do it with our dogs, Acadia and Denali], and spending quality time with friends. Not only have we made some amazing local friends, but I love that we have become a country getaway for our friends.
I have chronicled my life in pictures for the past five years, and now, on June 21, 2011, on this glorious Summer Solstice, I begin the blog that has been dying to come out for years.
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