Projects
Rebuilding the pool
In 2024 we tore the old pool apart and did it properly — new hardscaping, dark water, bluestone underfoot, and a heater strong enough to be dangerous. The story of the biggest project we've taken on here.
Jul 2026
Saugerties · The Catskills · The Hudson
The Area Guide
The trails we send people up, the tables worth booking, and the places we never get tired of. Written from the porch, updated as we go.
Projects
The middle yard, the cedar tub, and a great many plants
The stretch between the patio and the pool used to be the part of the yard you walked through to get somewhere else. Then came a cedar hot tub on a gravel pad, a very long plant list, and a 2024 that changed the whole back of the property.
Jul 2026
History
1844: Dr. De Witt, a folk-art portrait, and the little sawyer
The main house was built in 1844 for a village doctor whose portrait now hangs in the company of paintings at the Met. A short history of the house and the town it sits in.
May 2026
Hike
Hike
Seven trails, from a lakeside mile to the Devil's Path
A short list of favorites — an easy boardwalk by the Hudson, a downhill walk off a ski lift, a waterfall everyone photographs, and one twenty-four-mile trail with its own Wikipedia page. Drive times from the house.
May 2026
Eat & Drink
Eat & Drink
The village table: a weekend of eating in Saugerties
Brunch by the falls, an old ale house with live music, the closest good coffee three minutes from the door, and an ice cream worth planning around. How we work through a weekend.
May 2026
See & Do
See & Do
Opus 40: one man, thirty-seven years, six acres of bluestone
A sculpture park hand-built by one man over thirty-seven years — he planned for forty, which is how it got its name. Hard to describe, easy to recommend.
May 2026
No entries here yet — more on the way.