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…

Snowhenge, perhaps?

My imagination runs wild as I walk with Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle around our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I picture these snowmen in a thaw standing like rock on a mountain across the big pond …

Winter’s last stand?

The kiddies built some stuff outside their playground across the street from A Bitty Better in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I liked the way they stood up to the latest melt.

I’ll own up to the dirty pile

During the last melt, the stubborn plower’s pile at the end of our driveway at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville was, well, not exactly attractive. From any angle. What was the plow guy going through when he was pushing this stuff off our driveway, I wonder?

The coming of the green?

What does a bit of warm weather bring to our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville? Just a bit of a burst of the perennials. I know they’re very likely to be covered by snow sometime in March. Still, they raise my spirits.

Racing to find that sound

A recent weekend visit to Nichols to buy some staples also led to a stray toward Onondaga Lake when the return trip to my car included some sounds coming up from Onondaga Lake. People were doing something down at the park, I thought. The sound that was carrying up the two blocks was people cheering…