Silence is golden

When we last went out to a departmental lunch, our boss handed all three of us library communications workers who toil out in the big room a package. Our boxes each contained BOSE noise-deafening headphones. It can get somewhat loud, she has heard from each of us. The headphones are ours, personally, to take home…

Me, not me

A work colleague put this magazine on the desk of one of our co-workers. I grabbed it and looked twice at the cover. I think Joe Lovano and I look alike. You? Oh, what I can discover at the library. I’ll try to stay upbeat about it.

On top of the world for Father’s Day

We decided to put in our Father’s Day golf round early this year. I even got to wear a new shirt, courtesy of my fantastic daughter Elisabeth and terrific significant George Three. It put me in the mood for a big day one week before the holiday proper. I decided upon Burnet Park, a City…

New squirrels arrive on our property

A new batch of squirrels showed up one day on the grounds of A Bitty Better in the Galeville neighborhood of Liverpool. They landed on the kitchen table! OK, they were ordered in from Amazon by my dear wife Karen. Our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle needed to replenish her stock because…

They finished the building

I hadn’t been up near the Syracuse University hill since the final football game in November. On a spring walk up the hill, I was glad to see that the construction on the Crouse/Marshall area building had been completed. Progress is good.

Take a rest from that walk

While chronicling activity on the Onondaga Lake Park Shoreline trail as the LPL Walking Club took its paces, I couldn’t help but pull out my iPhone 8 to snap a blog photo of some very busy geese on the grassy slope to the water. One parent, though, found the offspring more ready to rest than…

Now I can see that sandwich I’m making

My dear wife Karen and I were so over the light-and-fan unit that was left on our kitchen ceiling. To us, it was way more form than function. In particular, it did not allow us to shed enough light on any particular situation because of the strange bulbs it employed. We took a trip to…

A mere four or five hours later …

The big box arrived early on a Saturday morning, and my dear wife Karen and I spread the parts around the cleared-out space in our kitchen. Hover over a gallery photo for a description. Click on an image for an enlarged slide show. The instructions for assembly were three pages long for the counter-style table…