Outta here

I really is quite something to see on our Dunkin‘ Donuts morning coffee run from the library how efficient the Village of Liverpool crew is in clearing the streets of snow. They collect it in piles. And then they scoop it into the beds of trucks for removal to someplace else. Bravo!

Snow bank

On a recent workday, I took the chore of picking up the takeout lunch for the communications department at our library. Out of my car, the big snow bank caught my eye. And then the Key Bank behind it. Yeah, I had to do it.

Thank you, gift card

I picked good, that Applebee’s gift card for my dear wife Karen. I could tell. Yes, it was enough to allow the choice of this peach sangria before the appetizers and entrees! Feelin’ good in the neighborhood, indeed.

Let sleeping cats lie?

My terrific daughter Elisabeth and her sensational significant George Three thought they were going there playful rescue cat Miss Ava a solid by purchasing her a new cat bed. That’s the new bed to the right. That’s Miss Ava’s favorite blanket, well, underneath her. I suggested that maybe they stow away the blanket for a…

Go (fill in your squad)!

I admired these fans’ post Super Bowl dedication during Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I’s walk around the block in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Didn’t matter that the Pack didn’t make the big game to them.

It’s not all gone

A break in the weather can make even the remnants of garbage pickup day look better during a walk for Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I when I get home from the library.

Let’s crane to spot what’s going on

As our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B and I appreciated the chance to stretch our post-polar vortex legs, we spotted something down the horizon as we navigated the blocks around A Bitty Better in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Way up at the end of the block, there it stretched. We noted a crane up…

A pool over the pool

So this week’s thaw made for a happy backyard time for our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. I opened the back door of A Bitty Better as soon as got home from the library. I discovered a day near 60 degrees F had left us with a melting mass on top of…

Everybody outside

It’s been weeks since my work friends and I have taken to the paths of Onondaga Lake Park during either our morning or afternoon breaks. It seems like that’s how long the polar vortex hung over the Village of Liverpool, anyway. Monday, though … The trail at 11 a.m. was, well, packed with happy people.…

Crows lead to foxes, I discover

On a January work break walk with my colleagues, the loud screeching of crows broke our conversation. Laura declared that in her neighborhood a few blocks away in the Village of Liverpool, that has been signifying the sighting of a fox. And she spotted it, too. Off to the right in the backyard. Out came…