Our country home

Letter from the editor

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Welcome back for the fall edition of Our Country Home!

It’s been a year, all right. Let’s just leave it at that.

We decided that what everyone needed right now was a little comfort. But what does comfort mean? Is it something warm and familiar? Certain rooms in the house? Delicious food, cooked for you?

Jonathan Charles Fox photographed Rachelle Carmack’s home in Cochecton; she has created a house that wraps you in warmth and comfort as soon as you walk in. There’s something soothing about the stained glass, the elements of her life that decorate her home, her garden with its flowers, the fields and barn. But don’t miss the great room, which is just breathtaking.

Alan and Anna Li own Catskill Concierge and Catskill Home, two businesses that combine to renovate your home, to maintain it and to help you shape your life in the country. But they also weigh in on being here, in this place. What surprises await the new resident? What wonders, small and large, can be discovered?

Jude Waterston has polled her friends and family about comfort food. What fills your soul as well as your stomach? She wrote up a recipe for creamed chicken on buttered egg noodles that, I can assure you, is delicious and warming.

Bees aren’t really comforting. They’re less comforting when they’re actually yellowjackets and they’ve moved into your walls. Ramona Jan confronts wasps and ponders what to do.

Barbara Winfield has a list of tips for us as we get ready for winter. It’s an easy checklist to follow in a time when we’re all kinda discombobulated.

Barbara and I also wrote about Linda Lee Babicz and Eddie Gilbert of Jeffersonville, whose kitchen and bath design business, Building Traditions, will give you the comfortable rooms that you need as we head into 2021.

So, we invite you to sit back, get comfortable and dive in.

Annemarie Schuetz, section editor

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