With the temperatures finally falling to match the calendar, I hooked the leash upon Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle, and off we went from the Little Bitty around our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood neighborhood.
We spotted a gray house for sale two blocks over.
The big push.
Did they add another realtor since our last time by, I asked Ellie B? She merely sniffed the second sign.
Dish on the roof.
Do you think it’s moving slow because of that old-style satellite dish on the roof, I asked? Or maybe that’s to help guide the planes in over at Hancock International?
Ground control to Major Tom?
I mean, that’s a really big dish up there on the roof, Ellie B. That’s what people had before the small bird on the pole we just got placed into our backyard.
Bird? Where’s the bird, da?
Off we went on other pursuits.
What’s the last big thing you’ve seen in your neighborhood? Did you ever own a satellite dish of this size, and if so, did it pull in a lot of stations worldwide? How strong do you think the bracketing has to be to hold this thing up there, and would you live in constant fear of it pulling your roof off, or is that just me?
Mark Bialczak 
I think our first dish was of the smaller variety…. and yeah, that roof fear would be in my head. They should probably take that dish off while trying to sell it. I think the biggest thing I see in my neighborhood is vehicles and dogs. All of the houses are pretty bitty.
LikeLike
Pretty bitty. Love that phrase, MBC!
LikeLiked by 1 person
😉 It does sound good doesn’t it MBM? 🙂
LikeLike
It would have been cooler had there been an old time TV antenna still on the roof. Ellie B would probably perk up at the talk of rabbit ears as well…
LikeLike
Yeah, we have bunny chases in the backyard, too, Bill!
LikeLike
All satellite dishes are eyesores. Just pay for cable like the rest of us. It’s crazy expensive but it doesn’t go out in a storm. Not that we have those here. Glad you are enjoying cooler weather.
LikeLike
I like our new dish on a pole in the backyard, Kerbey. Not an eyesore. I hope it doesn’t go out a lot in the winter. At least it will be (relatively) easy for me to brush off.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It must look different than the ones on our neighbors homes. It’s on a pole, not the roof? Can’t it get blown over, Mark?
LikeLike
They sunk the pole into the ground, with cement. Seems as sturdy as the roof-type to me, Kerbey, and less affected by the wind, surrounded by our fence and porch on two sides.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well, why didn’t they think of that years ago?
LikeLike
I had to ask for it specifically!
LikeLiked by 1 person
The biggest two things u have seen were an emergency helicopter flyong ti the Delaware County Grady Hospital and the big horses! We had the Clydesdales at the fairgrounds, where Micah and I watched them get “dressed” with halters with reins and 8 of them pulled the Budweiser cart. The cute dalmatian (who has a black eye patch of hair) got lifted up to sit next to the driver. Instead he ran across the top of the cart. I got a photo of him looking like he was scouting for fires instead of being concerned about the Budweiser beers!!
LikeLike
Way to go, Robin, enjoying the Bud horses and dog with Micah! And a photo, too. Yay!
LikeLiked by 1 person
This was more in answering what large or unusual things I had seen. Those big dishes seem like what we’re in the movies where people felt everyone was watching each other. They do seem mysteriously big sometimes like capturing interstellar rays 🙂
LikeLike
They sure look like they’re up to something intergalactic, Robin!
LikeLike
Reminds me of The Cup and the shenanigans a young soccer crazed monk incited to rent a satellite dish so they could watch the World Cup. http://youtu.be/hgErhy2TLUw
LikeLike
Good one! Thanks, Livi. A dish can be a powerful tool, we see.
LikeLike
I hear Mars has way better TV options that Earth so clearly, those folks are watching Martian cable. 🙂
LikeLike
Matt Damon on every channel right now, Austin!
LikeLiked by 1 person
That looks like an intriguing flick!
LikeLike
I agree.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That is one gigantic satellite dish! They must be getting channels from Russia!!
LikeLike
And the moon and Mars, Lisa. 😮
LikeLiked by 1 person
funny Mark- that’s originally what I was thinking but didn’t write it!
LikeLike
i have to say, i’m somewhat afraid of it )
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, it is mysterious as well as humungous, Beth.
LikeLiked by 1 person
We had a huge satellite dish like that in Wyoming and when the winds would howl at 60 miles a hurl incessantly across the prairies, and the green 50 gallon garbage can would fly past our kitchen window, the satellite dish would shiver and shake. I always thought for sure it would come loose, but it never did. The wind played hell on our reception though.
LikeLike
Wow. It stayed anchored. I’m amazed, SD. I picture an Oz-like Dorothy-and-the-Wicked-Witch type experience.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It was almost that bad. The guy across the street had a thick chain he used for a windsock. I remember seeing it at a horizontal position on several occasions.
LikeLike
Oh, my, SD. Now that’s an eye-opener!
LikeLiked by 1 person
When we bought our house 20 years ago, it came with one of those humungous old-time TV antennas. I was always afraid a good wind would blow it off along with that part of the roof. When we had the roof redone a couple of years ago, we had that antenna removed – after all, it hadn’t been used in 20 years.
Now if I could only get the roof fixed once and for all (it’s raining again today, and still leaking into the kitchen area. Aargh!).
LikeLike
The roof is still not fixed. Arrrrrrrgh! Oh, CM. Let’s get a big solid dish, like an umbrella, over the wholel house. Oy.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’m going to call Steven King and ask him about getting a dome. 🙂
LikeLike
But then really creep things would start happening underneath it, CM.
LikeLiked by 1 person
YOU
LikeLike
BaHAHAHAHAH-Wow that was some sight Terp! No would never see that along our shoreline! Might need a crane to move the thing though? LOL Have a great day and get over to Name That Tune-I have not see by all week. The Gatorette, if you please…
LikeLike
SEEN
LikeLike
BY
LikeLike
I know. Bad me. I owe you a big, long, click-by-click visit, Gatorette. I simply could not keep up with my reading this week. Sorry sorry sorry, my friend.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Aw shucks Terp its okay! We’re buds. The Gatorette
LikeLike
Bit like Mary Poppins’ umbrella, that!
The biggest thing I’ve seen in my neighborhood lately is some people scopin out the house for sale down the way. It’d be nice to get new neighbors. We have three vacant homes on our lil street!
LikeLike
I hope you lil street gets a bunch of great new people, Joey. We have one house that won’t sell for months now across and diagnonal, but the nice lady just had new windows put in. Maybe that will swing the vote her way. The block up, we notice three houses just went up for sale. I think people want to beat the winter.
LikeLike
Good call, Major Tom !! ☺☺☺
LikeLike
Never let a good Bowie lyric go unused, Van. 🙂
LikeLiked by 2 people
That is a big dish. I would have to seriously question the dish Mark. Maybe the original owners would want to take the dish with them…you know, as a souvenir.
LikeLike
I think that dish can be used to strain the biggest spaghetti dinner ever, Marissa. Oy. Look at the thing. No nests, even, because birds won’t go near it.
LikeLike
The biggest spaghetti dinner ever….Mmmm… dinner at this place!
LikeLike
I don’t want to be assigned to make the meatballs!
LikeLike
I already called ‘not it’.
LikeLike
Had an old dish taken off the hose just last week. It was an ugly, useless rusty old thing. I enjoyed the walk 🙂
LikeLike
Maybe you could recycle the metal for a few pounds, Rachel? Glad you came along on the walk. Ellie B misses you. 😉
LikeLike
all taken away – we would never have fitted it in the car. Maybe be back blogging soon – just been happily busy 🙂
LikeLike
Happily busy is good, Rachel. I suppose the teens are starting the new school year? Hello to those two, and Steve, from Karen and I.
LikeLike
They say hello to you two too! All back at school and life just flying by.. 🙂
LikeLike
Perhaps they are using it to communicate with the mother ship.
LikeLike
Yes, they were reading inside: How to Serve Humans. Scary twilight zone episode, Rose.
LikeLike
Ah time to see that again. For me the scariest is the one with the ventriloquist dummy that talks.
LikeLike
Oooooooh. Goosebumps.
LikeLike
And not the good ones.
LikeLike
Nope. The scared ones.
LikeLike
There’s an old blue house at the end of my street and they’ve thrown tarp across the whole front of the porch. I’m guessing they’re building a new porch.
Never had a dish Mark, but I can see that I would share your fear of the roof tearing off. ❤
Diana xo
LikeLike
The big wind, and that bird could fly, Diana! With the house bouncing along behind it. ;-o Yes, the mysteries behind the blue tarp. Maybe they’re cooking up something, a plot!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ve seen them come loose in the wind before and start to bang, but not come off. The problem I know some people have had with them is that over time the seals around the bolts leak and then the roof leaks. I was watching one at a friends place and he had so many channels I couldn’t count that high – his was black market. We were having a few adult beverages and laughing at a newscaster who was getting ready for his appearance and didn’t realize that he was live on a secondary channel used to focus and test equipment. He was busy picking his teeth and making faces and arguing with the camera guys that they weren’t getting his best side. Meanwhile they had him going to satellite – the moral of the story is: never piss off your crew – they will get even. Ha!
LikeLike
Sometimes behind the story is much more interesting than the story itself, Paul. And with a black-market dish, I imagine you can watch whatever anybody wants to beam up in the sky!
LikeLiked by 1 person
In my defense, I didn’t know he was doing the black market thing before I arrived. What bothered me most was that he was so proud of his set-up. To each his own I guess – I doubt I could sleep at night worrying about being caught..
LikeLike
Me, too, Paul. I would be worried every day!
LikeLike
Good to see the good old satelite dish! ( havent seen one like that for years!
have a great sunday!
/a
LikeLike
Back in the day, I used to envy those that had a big bird like that, Anna, and imagine all the great programming they were scooping up from around the world! Have a great Sunday in Stockholm, my friend. 🙂
LikeLike
Mark, still kind of warm and sunny here- but you can tell that fall is here. Colder during night and the colors are changing.
Hope we will get a indian fall!
have a nice start to the new week
/a
LikeLike
Cooler here at night, too, Anna. At 8:21 a.m., the temp F on TV says 55! I saw leaves changing yesterday. Yes, fall in our sister cities. Have a great week, my friend. ❤
LikeLike
Today: puoring rain…
And we are having a terrible problem here with the refugees…thousands a day are arriving….
Its a hopeless situation..wish there was more to do.
LikeLike