Going big

My dear wife Karen’s year of deliberation about the photo she had made of one of our digital captures from our family trip to Kona led to her determination that bigger would be better. And so our Hawaii wall has been altered. I do believe none of us will forget our time in the 50th…

Baseball, please

As we turn the calendar to February, I say: Baseball, please. Spring training will be starting soon. And, yes, that is a new Syracuse Mets hat on top of my head.

World class vibe at Bangkok Thai

So I’m sitting with my work friends/colleagues for a business lunch at our favorite, friendly Liverpool quick getaway spot Bangkok Thai, and something amazing hits my gaze. The faraway wall has paint peeling in a peculiar pattern. Or maybe somebody chipped it away on purpose. I did discern the shapes of large land masses I…

Here’s the whole library sign

I promised that the next trip I took to the downtown branch, I’d catch all the letters of the cool sign. First I took a photo from the outside looking up. Coming at it from the other direction helped my sense of order. They really did hit a home run with this one. And inside,…

Open and shut, a better look

Little by little, we make A Bitty Better suit our needs and wants. My dear wife Karen was tired of two closets that were left without doors. So she called our friend Bert, an able carpenter willing to quickly take care of both spaces. I much appreciate both the downstairs and upstairs vibe.

On board at work

My dear wife Karen took a great image of our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. I swear we could get this dog on TV commercials. For now, though, the photo takes its place on the new pet-only bulletin board at Karen’s place of work. Bravo, eye place! Karen says her colleagues are…

Icy morning

If it’s not snow to clear from the car before pulling out to work … … it’s ice. My Chevy Cruz had a thin layer of freeze all over it on Wednesday morning in the Galeville neighborhood in Liverpool. I thought maybe that a few minutes running with the defrosters on would take care of…

The dog toys slip past me

As hard as I guard that back door, our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle somehow seems to slip one past me now and again. So when I dig out in the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville I find gold. Or in this case, an orange carrot…

A road worth taking

So sometime in December I got a text from my dear wife Karen asking me which Bruce Springsteen song was my favorite. Thought so, she answered to my reply. At home, she told me she’d been talking about the Boss with co-workers. Cool. Then I opened holiday presents and unrolled this poster. She spotted it…

So much to clear

Maybe we didn’t get the two feet top end the weather folks had warned me about when we were heading into the storm that came to our neck of the world last weekend. No matter the final count. When I went out front of A Bitty Better in our Galeville neighborhood in Liverpool on Sunday…