Erie-Escape

12/05/2025

Welch’s biggest manufacturing plant isn’t somewhere across the country. It'’s right here in Pennsylvania. For more than 50 years, the small town of North East, PA (yes, that really is the name) has been the heartbeat of Welch’s production. It sits in the middle of vineyards that have kept grape-growing a proud Erie County tradition since the 1800s.

Generations of Pennsylvania families have worked those lines, harvested those grapes, and built Welch’s into the household staple it is today. From your grandma’s PB&J to the juice box in your kid’s lunch, it all starts with Pennsylvania grapes—and the people who’ve been growing them for over a century.

11/06/2025

Only in Pennsylvania could something as simple as an egg become a tradition this colorful. Pickled red beet eggs aren’t just food, they’re part of our heritage. Born from Pennsylvania Dutch kitchens, they were a way to make use of every garden beet and leftover egg from the farm.

The brine turns them that deep magenta color, with a tangy bite that takes you straight back to Grandma’s table or the counter of a small-town tavern. You’ll find them in Mason jars, fire hall dinners, and corner bars from Lancaster to Luzerne.

They taste like home. Sweet, sour, old-fashioned, and proud. In PA, we don’t just eat history, we pickle it.

10/16/2025

10/04/2025

We offer a range of spa treatments, from Swedish and Hot Stone Massage, to body treatments, facials, and Botanical Skin Resurfacing. Clymer, NY, Erie, PA

09/25/2025

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My bucket garden. The corners are zucchini and squash the center is watermelon. The cattle panel is for the watermelon to run on above the ground to keep the dog out of the melons.

08/06/2025

A wind chime made out of an old chair! How cool is that.

07/28/2025

✂️ Pruning Lilacs for Better Blooms
A well-pruned lilac rewards you with fragrant, vibrant flowers year after year.
• Thin out dead, diseased, or crossing branches
• Deadhead faded blooms just above the next set of leaves
• Remove old wood over 3 years—or all at once for full renovation
• Cut suckers low at the base to focus energy on mature stems
• Best time to prune: right after spring flowering

🌸 Shape today for bigger blooms tomorrow
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12/22/2022

11/19/2022

Our received many upgrades during our 3 week visit:

- Replaced the chain link fence with a custom 45’ cedar fence incorporating copper tubing for to climb on.

- Installed a 24x24 Riven-stone walkway with black granite gravel surround. Thank you Afton Landscape Supply ❤️

- Bailed out our well and replaced the water holding tank with a 40/60 pressure gage. Thank you Tri-State Well Drilling.

- Installed custom pantry shelves (which involved kitchen re-organization)

- Connected dishwasher.

- Cleaned all carpets.

- Tinted sun facing windows.

- Celebrated Vi & Emily’s birthday 🥂

- Discovered THE BEST smoked salmon from Urbaniak Brothers butcher shop on E. 24th St.

Special thanks to: Levi, Eric, Mom, Suzie & Suzzanne!

08/19/2022

Let the painting begin!! Putnam's Painting and Services for taking on the job of cleaning & painting our dated… brown… faded… metal window-awnings to match our new metal roof! It is coming along nicely! Thank you team Putnam!!

The roof colors called “Ocean Blue” reminding us of our Pacific.

(Adjective Pacific means peaceful, calm, tranquil, or non-violent… when capitalized, Pacific is best known for Pacific Ocean, the largest and deepest of Earths five oceanic divisions!)