My new masks are right for the library

My terrific daughter Elisabeth made me a new mask. Two, in fact, of the same style. She picked the book-adorned fabric to honor my job at the library. I wore it out on the Dinosaur Garden lawn, where our three dinosaur statues have their own masks as an example for proper safety measures.

So that’s the early noise

I woke up to a clatter a couple days in a row recently. The infamous Central New York road construction season had reached the circle in front of the Town Offices on our street. The crew surely liked to get an early start before the office workers arrived.

Listen in the rain

The house on one side that had been rented out since we’ve moved in was purchased in the spring. I talked to the guy who seemed to be in charge of all the work being done since, and he disclosed that he’s working a flip. The new tin roof looks pretty cool. Yes, we can…

May the best bass win

Walking with the kids around Onondaga Lake Park on Saturday, we spotted a lot of action around the marina. Busy social day out on the lake, I voiced to Elisabeth, George Three and Mason. George spotted activity down yonder. Yes, red digital numbers indeed caught my eye. I asked. We had come upon a bass…

Hunting for hidden treasures with the kids

My terrific daughter Elisabeth sent a Saturday morning text invitation? Up to join a metal detector expedition with her, George Three and nephew Mason? You betcha. The Town Hall campus across the way would be a fun place to start, she continued, and then onto Onondaga Lake Park. By the time I’d gotten out the…

Is it what’s in the Banana Split or the local flavor?

Made in Liverpool, N.Y., this movie Banana Split that’s become a Netflix fave of late. My eyes opened wider at that declaration. I’ve followed the reports about the movie production company based in the old school building a couple miles down the block from our house and even a shorter distance from the library where…

The signs of this summer

This has been an unusual summer in so many ways. Everything seems to be affected by the virus. Our driveway sealing company told us in their prep letter to please keep their signs and stakes at the ready because a worker would come by to take them back. And so they sat next to my…