Everything you need in a backyard

Is it fair for the new vacation house to be compared to the old vacation houses? You know I have to weigh the differences, especially at the start of the stay. My dear wife Karen and I adored sitting out back of the Happy Cottage in our many years of a weekly stay. This place…

A different cottage in Cape Cod to make us happy

At the end of our stay at the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod for our 2017 vacation, our friend Julie told us that indeed she and Lisa were selling. And great place that it was, they found a taker. We missed our annual trip last summer. My dear wife Karen regrouped. She found a place…

Rock me

These folks don’t want anybody parking too close to the high side of their Onondaga Lake trail house. You can’t miss their point.

Yes, you can view the Harbor

Do you think about the places you patronize? I do not go into any cellars to buy wine at Harbor View. But I do look out at the horizon when I walk back to my car. The Syracuse Inner Harbor indeed sits below. Nicely.

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.