Bring on the Carrier Dome and Orange football

The Syracuse Orange plays its first college football home game of the season this afternoon. My dear wife Karen and I will be happily walking up the hill to seats again for the third season under head coach Dino Babers. Thanks for the personal letter, Coach! Oh, that went out to every season ticket holder…

This text get an extra half hour from my dear wife

My dear wife Karen was working the later Friday shift, meaning she’s get home from the eye place after my arrival at A Bitty Better from the library. What’s that, I see on my phone after I feed Elle B aka Dogamous Pyle? A text saying that my wife is running late. I set up…

Now we’re really ready for guests

Since we moved into A Bitty Better, my dear wife Karen and I had the look of a welcoming spot in the upstairs room. Really, though … It was two spare single box springs stacked upon each other with a spread on top to look OK. Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle didn’t mind resting on…

I hope this chair lasts longer, Ellie B

When you have a dog … … maybe the best-looking chair is not the perfect choice. And so the cool first piece for A Bitty Better’s living room lasted just less than two years in the living room. The trip to the big furniture store’s clearance center led to a great discovery of a similar-colored…

The large and small of it for Centro

My dear wife Karen and I were waiting for a ride on a Centro bus at the New York State Fair when I spotted a Centro car parked a few dozen feet behind its larger cousin. The comparison between the two hit me, as, well, as somewhat humorous. But maybe it was just me.

One last Chiefs game for the 2018 season is tater-ful

When my terrific daughter Elisabeth texted the invitation to go to the Syracuse Chiefs game with her, George Three, George Two and Sue, we were thrilled. My dear wife Karen was in danger of getting shut out this season. The rest of us got in one more, and she got her first for 2018. That…

Pentatonix proves to be very, very popular

When I bought our $20 lawn tickets to see Pentatonix at the Lakeview Amphitheater a few months ago, I figured we’d use our annual trick of trading up to pavilion seats the night of the show. So my dear wife Karen and I left our bag chairs home when we took the Centro bus from…

One way or another, we wanted to see Blondie

My dear wife Karen and I spent enough hours sitting on the benches waiting for bands to start at Chevy Court, back in the years I reviewed music for the big daily. So nowadays we walk around the New York State Fair beforehand and then catch songs from the bands we cherish by making our…

A smooth first day for us at the New York State Fair

The very first day of the New York State Fair was calling out to my dear wife Karen and I this year. We’d never yet picked the extra Wednesday the fair folks had tacked on the traditional 12-day run that’d gone on over at the fairgrounds a few miles from Syracuse for decades. So Wednesday…