A new spot for the memorial

While walking cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle this past weekend, I chronicled the fact that construction workers have checked off the box of moving the memorial for veterans to a new spot from their work list at the town offices for the neighborhood work project. Looks good.

Another good year for Advent beers

I made it widely known how much I enjoyed the gift of Advent beers from terrific daughter Elisabeth and George Three last year. Earlier this week George dropped off not one, but two boxes into our front alcove before he got to work. Yes, my dear wife Karen has 24 beers to sample from them,…

Pardon, you lost a piece of your car

You’d think they’d miss it. Spotted while strolling on a library work break during warmer and sunnier times: A big car underside piece, I think, sitting on the sidewalk smack dab in the middle of the Village of Liverpool. Usually the cleanup crew any sort of debris, big or small, up PDQ.

Woof if you’re confident parking

My work colleague at the library came back from a break walk and said she had a photo I might like for my blog. Text received … Love it! My text back: New driver Barkley practices in the Nichols parking lot.

What comes next for Orange and us?

With Syracuse University’s football season done with a record of 5-7 after Saturday’s 31-14 loss to the Pittsburgh Panthers, it’s the time for the higher-ups to answer questions. Yes, they brought back coach Dino Babers even though he has just that one 10-win season on his plus-side, and five losing seasons now to go with…

Ready for that final contest

Yes, the new lighting inside the Carrier Dome sure flashes things up for the pregame ceremonies, I thought just before the start of the season finale between the Syracuse Orange and Pittsburgh Panthers on Saturday night. Then as I looked around minutes before game time and noted all those empty seats, I noted that some…

The walk’s still pretty

My dear wife Karen and I walked up the hill toward Saturday night’s football game in the Carrier Dome, and I thought about how pretty a late November night game can be on the Syracuse University campus. I admired the way the dome’s new roof structure peeked out at me to the right of the…

So this is a night game tailgate in late November

My dear wife Karen and I sat in my car in the full dark shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday and watched the tailgate activity around us in our designated Syracuse University football parking lot. We agreed this was the first 7:30 p.m. game start for the final contest of the regular season we’d experienced during…

There was a good team down there

My dear wife Karen and I had hopes that the Syracuse Orange would qualify for a bowl game with their sixth victory of the season in the Carrier Dome Saturday night. Not to happen. The Pittsburgh Panthers are the team advancing to better things. The relatively easy 31-14 win was their 10th of the season…