We could use a good dousing from above

I’ve been showing you consistently the good year it’s been for our flowers. Our lawn is less vibrant. It’s been so dry. It looks kind of parched after last weekend’s mow. We do give it a drink from the hose, I promise.

My first impression about The Wrong Missy holds mostly true

Watching Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? this season with my dear wife Karen, we noticed how well celebrity contestant Lauren Laplus projected from the hot seat across from Jimmy Kimmel. Smart. Cool. Engaged. Successful. So different than the characters we usually spot her playing on our widescreen, including that prison guard in one of…

Tippy-top bloom

Noticed Saturday by my dear wife Karen, the first bloom on the big front yard bush that’s usually late to yield flowers. More buds to follow.

Take your pick

During a recent walk around the blocks, my dear wife Karen and I noticed an interesting spread. No sign. We were left to imagine what was what. We did not take anything with us.

We add our Gerber Daisy

Walking all the aisles at Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center is a pleasurable safe hike, mask and all. After soaking in the genres we decided upon … A lovely Gerber daisy. Yes, we do have an annual every year, too.

A garden center in a suburban setting

When you look out in the distance at Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center, you’d think they were growing and welling their plants and trees out in the country. Look in another direction, though, and you can spot the big buildings of other businesses poking through the nature. This is, after all, the suburbs of Syracuse.

Hamilton lives up to all of that jazz

Add Hamilton to my list of waited-too-long to discover. My good friend KP told me years ago how he listened to the soundtrack in his car. I read about the merging of rap and Broadway, raised an eyebrow and … didn’t buy the music, or try to get down to Broadway or … Then I…

Hafner’s Garden Center can do it socially distanced

It took us way longer than usual to take our annual trip to Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center. The biggest of our local nurseries always looked too darn crowded for safe socially distancing for my dear wife Karen and I. Then we took the Monday following the July Fourth weekend off. The plants were still many.…