We’re feeling dishy again at the Little Bitty

I stood in line at the Time Warner Cable office with a pile of equipment in my arms. When it came my turn, I stepped to the window and dropped to the counter two DVRs, one phone modem and two remotes with a slight grunt. Yes, I said to the guy on the other side,…

But things go better with Diet Pepsi

My dear wife Karen received the above photo with a text from our D.C.-area friend Carolyn today. Glad to see our beloved rescue mutt is on her mind down there in our sweltering nation’s capital. And also that her name makes the Coke folk’s bottle label game grade. As for me, no thank you to…

400 days away, but who’s counting?

The Cruise Buddies got together Saturday. Kathy and Sam volunteered their little log cabin in Lafayette for our group to meet and eat, greet our friends who like to get on the big ships every year or so, and thus make this summer complete. We’d never been, so we printed out the directions she sent…

Skunk Patrol, continued

Upon return from our less-than-a-week trip to the thin air of Colorado, we were quickly greeted by the thick, familiar and awful scent in the backyard of the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Syracuse. A day back, and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle showed too much interest around the shed and back…

Next, the butterflies?

The rest of the gang in the fenced-off triangle in backyard of our Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood have come to bloom. The purple-top, the highest in the bunch and the one planted first in our butterfly garden by my dear wife Karen, has been joined by the white sprout transplanted…

Powerful image to me

While striding around to capture the feel of the farm earlier this week, my eye caught sight of another towering presence up the road apiece. Between the plants and memorials of a country cemetery stood sentry structures that have drawn arguments for and against. In the old days, they were called windmills. Don Quixote battled…