Good promo for the home squad

Good promo space for the Syracuse Crunch at Destiny USA, I figure. The downtown AHL hockey squad and the mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex can root for each other to do well. The pro team is having a good season, by the way. My dear wife Karen and I must get to a game,…

Battling the big wind

It really gets windy up here on the hill around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. The other day Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I were sitting in the living room listening to the gusts that the weather folks told us were topping at more than 50 mph. As we waited…

A pleasant surprise from many miles away

It wasn’t the usual piece of mail I get in my box at my workplace, the Liverpool Public Library. The envelope was addressed to me, and it declared that it came from across the miles. Inside was a Christmas card, bookmark and beautiful message. The sender was a fellow blogger. New Bloggy Cat, also known…

A nice New Year’s Eve at a couple of different spots

It was tough to give up the old New Year’s Eve routine. For a couple years in a row, my dear wife Karen and I enjoyed dinner at Rico’s Ristorante and drinks at Chadwick’s. Then we moved in October from the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood to A Bitty Better in…

That darn cat

I’ve come across the first animal problem for Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle at A Bitty Better. If you recall, at The Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, our backyard was roamed, in turn, by skunk and and a hedgehog, both of which drove our beloved rescue mutt – and, subsequently, my…

Up or down for the boot leggings?

My wonderful daughter Elisabeth gifted my dear wife Karen with a piece of clothing I’m not quite familiar with as part of her Christmas collection. Boot warmers. Leggings. Tops. Something like that. In any case, these pretty white knit things go on top of boots to make them look cool and keep your legs extra…

New bowling shoes are a wrap

My dear wife Karen can be so tricky. The shoe-sized box was wrapped so nicely on Christmas morning. I saved it for last. I smiled like a kid and pulled out the bowling shoes I’d requested and proclaimed: Just like my old ones! Her reply: Look closer. They were my old ones. She’s removed them…

The Cowboy joint opens at last in Destiny USA

It seems like forever since Toby Keith’s place closed its doors at Destiny USA and other Cowboy joint hung a shingle with the promise to bring some yee-hah back to the pahdnahs of Syracuse. In fact, it was sway back in February of 2016 when I wrote and posted photos about the pending new place…