Big snow in the front yard

I’ve heard that folks in warmer parts don’t mind seeing snow shots from around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. This past weekend’s weather wallop piled the white stuff up in our front yard. Note where the plow has had to go with the stuff taken out of our driveway.

Don’t let these pipes get clogged

With the temperatures outside A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville barely approaching zero last weekend and the windchill quite below that mark in Fahrenheit, I said in our living room and felt a chill. More than the obvious. I looked at the thermostat and saw the digital reading fall. Below 70. Once…

Hope Cafe Coffee and Tea House serves big tastes, more

My Communications Corner co-workers and I may be in the market for a new once-in-while business confab/lunch spot. Bangkok Thailand has announced its official owners-retiring date of Feb. 17, with a somewhat hazy mention of a possible buyer in the wings. So boss Diane, Librarian Assistant Edina and I took the short walk to Hope…

Now this is a genuine Hawaiian calendar

My dear wife Karen and I have been hanging calendars with inspiring photos from Hawaiian on our kitchen wall for, oh, a handful of years now, back to when we put the cheery scenes up in The Little Bitty in the Syracuse neighborhood of Eastwood. This past summer, I thought to purchase a 2018 calendar…

Doggie, it’s cold outside

The whole dang country is cold this week, according to news reports. So I won’t complain about the temperatures or wind chill around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. But I will show that even Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle pauses before going out for her second morning trip into her Central…

Now we can picture this perfect Hawaiian spot

Kona Family Reunion gift-giving continued: The kids gave us a nice frame and shots of the four of us at the breath-taking Hilo lookout. It was the closest she could find to the four of us together, my terrific daughter joked. Yeah, we gotta work on that next trip. But this will do very well,…

The Hawaiian theme makes us quite happy

Elisabeth and George Three came in from the car lugging some hot gifts for my dear wife Karen and I this holiday season. Our Family Reunion week in Kona will forever tie us in the greatest of ways. The kids obviously knew how much the old man loved Wailua Wheat. They went online to find…

Getting it right for that first apartment

My dear wife Karen came away from our visit to the kids’ first apartment together with the perfect idea for a gift. We’d used artisan Kym to create a nice wall hanging for A Bitty Better, and my wonderful daughter Elisabeth and her sensational significant George Three had expressed their admiration for the result. And…