It’s hard to remain stoic for Only the Brave

Only the Brave was ripped from the news. So anybody who followed the the course of the Yarnell Fire of 2013 or the GQ story No Exit by Sean Flynn from which this screenplay by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer was fashioned would know what’s to come. But still … The drama of that…

Wine o’clock with a side of Di’Giorno’s

So what does a guy do when he gets home from a snowy Friday at the library and his dear wife Karen is in Florida with Georgia visiting Chris? I toasted toward the south. And I shared a slice from the new oven with our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. And still…

The Florida look

My dear wife Karen was able to join her great friend Georgia for a quick getaway to visit Chris in Florida. They split their time between a hotel and Chris’ house because husband Dave had a friend in town with first dibs. Yes, Florida friends are really popular in March. There was a music festival…

Now that’s a tape job

My dear wife Karen’s flight with friend Georgia to Florida was delayed, she told me in a text. There was a problem with an overhead bin, they and the other passengers had been told, and they could not pull down the runway until a maintenance worker took care of the situation. The hatch couldn’t flap…

Shutterfly brings Hawaii to us

Some of George’s Hawaii prints are in … The biggest of the order came on its own. George got this one at our Kona hotel. Now it’s forever-caught on cardboard stock. Next, we’ll get some frames and complete the wall up the stairs.

New construction, old ???

My great friend Michelle and I looked at the renovation going on across the street from this year’s Martinfest, and we wondered. What had been in that building before the supermarket and boutique coffee shop on the bottom floor and newly restored apartments to come upstairs? Even though we’d worked for decades at the big…

Now we’re cooking

One thing we did not like about the kitchen when moved into A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville in 2016 was the stove. We were spoiled by the one we’d hand-picked when we renovated the kitchen of The Little Bitty in the Syracuse neighborhood of Eastwood. We lived with the four-burner model…

We’re really grown-ups now, art-wise

My dear wife Karen and I took our time in the numerous art aisles at the grand At Home store in Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. We had two spots on the living room walls of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville that we wanted to fill. We…