A rainy road trip to Citi Field

I bought the four tickets to see our New York Mets play the Cincinnati Reds online two months ago, so my dear wife Karen, my great friend and bowling teammate Steve Vicik Jr. and his wife Kristen were sort of excited when our Saturday in June finally rolled around. Rain in the forecast for the…

OK, I do know you

Rain, rain go away All the Polish people need to come out and eat their kielbasa pierogi golabki with sauerkraut please and thank you. After catching the matinée showing of Inside Out on Father’s Day, my daughter Elisabeth, her boyfriend George Three, and my dear wife Karen and I headed to downtown Syracuse and Clinton…

Oh, to be 4

Spiderman leads leaps over blocks as high as their heads Silly string shoots straight taking turns to build webs on the big old tree Pizza and fruit salad and chips and dip feed all the old people in shifts Eyes light up for singing because then comes Cupcakes Three flavors of cupcakes and yes to…

One last look at Cape Cod, because I can

Of course not every picture I took while hanging out with my dear wife Karen and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle the pre-touring explosion week in and out of the Happy Cottage on Cape Cod fit right into my posts-of-the-moment. That’s what these ruminating recaps are built to encompass. And so I give you one…

Well, what do you know?

It started with the desire to snap a picture of the pretty orange bushes. Click on any gallery photo for a description. Click and hold on the photo to the right for an enlarged slide show. So as our pre-tourist boom week in the Happy Cottage of Cape Cod wound to its close, we gently…

Call it the Beach Bar, please and thank you

The second drive the mile down Depot Road to the Atlantic Ocean was not met with a shuttered establishment. The Tiki Bar was … Hold on there, enthusiastic sir! As my dear wife Karen and I practically skipped from the parking lot to the little open-air joint already packed with people on the Friday Happy…

In Provincetown, the tide is out

There was more to our trip to Providence than the great Straight from P-Town T-shirt door-knocking venture. This tip-of-Cape Cod city is a fixture on My Dear Wife Karen and I’s Traditions List for our pre-tourist-boom June week in the Happy Cottage. It’s dog friendly. So we took a left from the main street and…

Dogamous takes to the paddle

The first year we decided our beloved rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle was better off with us in the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod rather than a week boarding somewhere in Syracuse, we fibbed to our year-plus pup. We told her a mucky nearby dog park pond was the ocean. The second year…