This is the 2007 rejected pilot for a series called “Babylon Fields”, an edgy show taking place in Babylon, Long Island, New York, and how one day, all of its dead, got out of the ground and went back to living their lives. Now, as far as I can tell, none of it was actually shot here in the village, but it’s neat enough that it it was set here., I think.

The joys of home ownership have kept me from doing much blogging, not to mention the lack of things to write about. Buying a house has somewhat dampened my interest in real estate and the market. The long list of chores still undone on the new place have taken away a lot of the time available for writing.

Still, I do have this blog and I want to write something. In the mean time, feel free to leave a comment if there’s something you want to talk about.

Happy Easter Rabbit…hooray!

Return to regular blogging starts this week.

Free firewood! Come with your chainsaw and take as much as you like!

Saturday night, three of the four big trees on the back, left corner of my property blew down in the hellacious Nor’easter.

We didn’t notice it until the morning. In fact, I had to work on Sunday and I didn’t learn about it until Debra called me. She woke up that morning, looked out the window and had a bit of a freakout seeing giant trees lying across our backyard.

I can’t complain too much. The trees fell almost straight across the fence line and didn’t land on anything important. I know that some fellow Babylonians had trees fall on or into their house. The only real damage from this little incident was to my back neighbor’s fence, which got bent up from the tree roots.

I’m not quite sure what to do at this point. As you might expect, local tree guys are going to be pretty busy for the next few weeks and I’m not real confident in my ability to handle a chainsaw sell enough to slice up a three 75 foot trees. Plus the one remaining tree needs to come down as well.

Paul the Wood Floor Guy, aka Paul of Unlimited Hardwood Floors finished up late Friday night. 55 year-old hardwood floors shine up pretty nice, eh?

More pictures after the jump.

10 W Pershing Ave

• MLS# 2183498 – Zillow Page
• Sold: $395,000 – 9/22/2009
• Prior Sales: none
• 2 bedrooms – 1 bath – Cape
• Taxes: $6,221 – Village Taxes: N/A

A boat-lover’s special, for sure. This is a tiny tiny house with a place to keep your boat. Not much to say here except that it’s a bit hard to square the price for this with what 109 Lighthouse went for.

19 Nehring Ave

• MLS# 2184651 – Zillow Page
• Sold: $315,000 – 9/23/2009
• Prior Sales: none
• 3 bedrooms – 1 bath – Ranch
• Taxes: $5,480 – Village Taxes: $636

I wrote about this one back in May. You can my original report here.

As I said then, this house was a tempting proposition. Yes, it’s a small house, but it’s nicely put together and very livable. Plus, with the price and the taxes so low, you could really afford to either finish the basement and get more space there or even dormer out a partial second floor if you were so inclined.

199 Frederick Ave

• MLS# 2197066 – Zillow Page
• Sold: $375,000 – 9/30/2009
• Prior Sales: none
• 3 bedrooms – 1 bath – Ranch
• Taxes: $9,367 – Village Taxes: $538

We went to an open house here, back in August I think. It was a warm, summer day and the big in-ground pool was just so inviting. I was tempted to make an offer right then and there. This was one of the homes that I didn’t write about here on the blog because we were making contemplating an offer.

What struck me most about this house is that it seemed to be set up for entertaining, big pool out back, covered patio area, bar in the finished basement. I liked this house a lot, but Debra thought it was a bit too small and needed too much work.