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…

A portrait of Ellie B, done well by my dear wife

The finished painting is fantastic. My dear wife Karen came home from her night with friend Marie at Painting with a Twist carrying her best work yet. The evening was capture-your-pet night, and, wow, did Karen get Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle to a T. She had sent a photo of our cherished rescue mutt…

Making the most of the stairwell

My dear wife Karen had a great idea for another wall at A Bitty Better. She picked the photos we’ve know we’ve wanted to hang up for a while. They’re a collection of great places and things from our life together. We’ve even received three more taken by George Three on our Summer of 2017…

I’m getting tired of these big snows

They say the Northeast may get hit by another snowstorm Wednesday. I’m not over last Friday’s slam. This yo-yo effect, melt-and-more, is getting to me. Our vehicles were covered, and good, when I got the text the library would be opening Friday until noon instead of 9 a.m The view from my desk to the…

A sort-of-warm year for Martinfest

I had to attend Martinfest solo this year. Bah! My dear wife Karen had her Saturday shift at the library and couldn’t make it to the annual better-than-Winterfest Bash in the downtown Syracuse parking lot thrown by our great friend Michelle and many other Martin siblings and cousins. I took the early shift, leaving to…