This week around the blogshed: Don't fence me in

Above: Filmmaker Jessica Vecchione's cat Greykitty must be free.

• Over in Greene County, former Brooklynite Larissa Phillips and her kids slaughter three roosters under a locust tree, "with every bit of the squeamish, precious, halting nonsense you’d expect of former urbanites." Hey. Props for getting the job done.
• Realtor Amy Wallace snaps some great pix on a walking tour of Uptown Kingston -- but she can't resist Photoshopping a little more blue into the gray sky.
• The Beekman Boys share a springalicious sloe gin cocktail recipe.
• The Saugerties Times reminds us that on wet March nights, it's amphibian road-crossing season. Don't squish the newts.
• The Catskill Cabin blogger hikes up Overlook. Nice weather for it.
• McDonald's is to Coxsackie as Olive Garden is to Grand Forks.
• There's a fungus among us. A new film about Hudson Valley mushroom hunting, Now Forager, premieres in NYC on March 30.
• This weekend, Hunter Mountain is finally throwing in the towel and declaring ski season over -- and so are the rest of the local ski mountains. See you next year, ski bums.

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