Super moon, indeed

It’s in there. The morning news folks yesterday morning were talking about how the super moon would peak at 6 a.m. As my dear wife Karen was preparing for her 7 a.m. start to her final shift of the week, retired-guy-I grabbed my iPhone and went out the front door. I had three minutes to…

Way to bobble, kids

Great job, juniors. What happens when you take two kids, put them on the dugout between innings, attach counters to their heads, and tell them to act like bobbleheads? Cuteness prevails. I called out that they both were winners as they walked up the aisle past me, and a mom told me thank you.

Dancing at the ballpark

The Syracuse Mets invited a special guest for the last game of the 2023 season this past weekend. Breakin’ BB McCoy was not your run-of-the-mill bat boy. Between innings, this hard worker danced this way and that on the field and on top of the dugouts. He brought back scenes from the late, great Michael…

He had our number

Big numbers. As Andreis Chaparro of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders came to the plate in the first inning of the last game of their last game of the season against the Syracuse Mets this past weekend, I looked at his uniform number and thought that 87 may be the highest I’ve seen in a good long…

From start to finish

Fall ball. We helped the Syracuse Mets open their 2023 season, and so we decided to help them close it, too. Baseball-loving family. Much like that first game in April, we dressed for the late September tussle in layers. Well, I mused, the many games I caught in between this season allowed me to appreciate…

Tomatoes for us, too

Finding their level. The tomato plants given to us by terrific daughter Elisabeth and fantastic fiance George Three did, indeed, bear fruit. The bounty was noticed weeks later than what they reaped just a mile away at their house, proving once again, different soil, varying sun angles, timing will differ.

Hello, Donnie!

Man of honor, front right. When a great friend moves away, the very best thing is they want to come back to visit. Donnie counts the gang from the big daily as his crew. When he bounced back from Nashville recently, Nolan set up a welcoming bash and Chelsea’s. Yes, this big group of us…

Happy hostas

Not just big, green and bushy. Our quite large hostas plants out back took on their late summer flowers. A full garden for sure. And they were big and beautiful, too.

Big interior ideas

Cozy in the primary. These builders know they must go all out on the interiors and enlist smart designers, too, to make their <em>Parade of Homes</em> houses memorable. So I took out my iPhone to capture some of their good ideas. This main bedroom window seat made me smile. In a great light. The wall…

Dreaming about the new builds

House No. 1 My dear wife Karen and I thought this was a good year to return to Central New York’s see-it-and-dream event, <em>Parade of Homes</em>. We’d given the stroll-and-admire opportunity a break since the first big virus year, but with she taking a half day from work, we figured a weekday afternoon was a…