A new try with 19 Crimes

We broke into one of my presents from my dear wife Karen. She knew I enjoyed the 19 Crimes Red Blend. And so the new Banished had sat invitingly on our little rack since Christmas. Deep red the color was, meeting my tastes, which have traveled in the Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Free Range Red…

We’ll go there with the shampoo bottles

We completed a bathroom project at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. And I’m so glad we didn’t have to drill into the tile inside the tub/shower enclosure to do it. When our dear friends Theresa and David gifted us with a card from the new At Home store in Syracuse mega…

Battling the big wind

It really gets windy up here on the hill around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. The other day Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I were sitting in the living room listening to the gusts that the weather folks told us were topping at more than 50 mph. As we waited…

A nice New Year’s Eve at a couple of different spots

It was tough to give up the old New Year’s Eve routine. For a couple years in a row, my dear wife Karen and I enjoyed dinner at Rico’s Ristorante and drinks at Chadwick’s. Then we moved in October from the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood to A Bitty Better in…

That darn cat

I’ve come across the first animal problem for Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle at A Bitty Better. If you recall, at The Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, our backyard was roamed, in turn, by skunk and and a hedgehog, both of which drove our beloved rescue mutt – and, subsequently, my…

Up or down for the boot leggings?

My wonderful daughter Elisabeth gifted my dear wife Karen with a piece of clothing I’m not quite familiar with as part of her Christmas collection. Boot warmers. Leggings. Tops. Something like that. In any case, these pretty white knit things go on top of boots to make them look cool and keep your legs extra…

New bowling shoes are a wrap

My dear wife Karen can be so tricky. The shoe-sized box was wrapped so nicely on Christmas morning. I saved it for last. I smiled like a kid and pulled out the bowling shoes I’d requested and proclaimed: Just like my old ones! Her reply: Look closer. They were my old ones. She’s removed them…

The Cowboy joint opens at last in Destiny USA

It seems like forever since Toby Keith’s place closed its doors at Destiny USA and other Cowboy joint hung a shingle with the promise to bring some yee-hah back to the pahdnahs of Syracuse. In fact, it was sway back in February of 2016 when I wrote and posted photos about the pending new place…

Happy New Year, and may things look up in 2017

The Christmas tree at the very center of Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA caught my eye on the one day I rushed around to complete my shopping for my dear wife Karen. I was hit hard by the angle above, and knew I’d hold onto it for the first day of…

Piling on

Who knows how long the melt will last. The weather folks say lake effect may move back to the Syracuse area as soon as Thursday night. So I had to point the iPhone 6s toward the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. A two-day warm up had melted every bit…