Nichols Knows It’s Time

The folks at Nichols are ready with a display come every season. The Thanksgiving twist may be a bit, well, self-involved? I’ll give it to ‘em. They work hard to make their stretch of Second Street look good. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

Snow tracks

I can’t forget that the November snow affects all of us at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle tip-paws her way out the backdoor for her morning ways. And I get to spot a stunning sunrise as our cherished rescue mutt does her snowy thing.

Here we go

Here’s what my dear wife Karen and I woke up to outside A Bitty Better in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville on Monday morning. It is the week to give thanks, right? I’m happy it’s supposed to go back up to 50 degrees. Melt, maybe?

Sun reflects a weekend mood

After a big work week at the library, I was glad to put the leash on Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle for a late Friday afternoon stroll through the blocks around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. The path I chose this time around took us to the bottom of the block,…

She really doesn’t look it

Happy Birthday, Georgia! A whole, big, batch of family and friends got together to celebrate a round-number birthday for one of my dear wife Karen’s besties. Georgia is one of the crew of the annual girls getaway vacations. She and hubbie Bert also now are our neighbors in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, too. S…

A double dose of promise

As my dear wife Karen got ready to leave for school yesterday, she popped back into the front door of A Bitty Better. She proclaimed that the sky was blue in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, and it was raining. And there’s a rainbow, she added. I took my iPad Pro off my lap and…

Speaking of getting your gray on

The Syracuse Orange football squad wasn’t the only thing dressed in gray Saturday. The new building going up across from our usual parking lot down the hill had a new layer on certain portions of the outside wall, too. Dark gray. Charcoal, is the proper description, perhaps.

They looked in good form, really

I stepped out from buying my second cup of coffee from Nichols, striding back to the library from my short morning break, when I saw the runners approaching up Second Street. By the time I fished my iPhone 6s out of my pocket, they’d apparently reached their personal finish line. Don’t you think those orange…

The Orange started off looking sharp in the gray

The Syracuse Orange went with a different look for Saturday’s game in the Carrier Dome. Not the blue jerseys. Not the orange jerseys. For this important game against Wake Forest, the hometown squad put on the grays. My dear wife Karen and I thought they looked kind of sharp warming up for the game so…

I refuse to take the bait except for with my iPhone 6s

I rather enjoy what I spot on the 15-minute break walks from my workplace at the library. Indeed, you can get live bait 24 hours a day in the Village of Liverpool. No, the blocks of First Street do not include a true bait shop. Instead, the worms turn from a soda-like dispenser. It’s at…