Old favorite for new game night fun at our house

Friendly competition. My dear wife Karen was happy to honor my birthday gift request for an old favorite game. I grew up rolling the dice and filling out boxes for Yahtzee with my parents and then with my sisters. Karen and I have happily fit the dice rolls into our leisure time since December, a…

Too generous neighbors

Bread on the pool cover. The food chain around here can work like this: A neighbor decides birds and squirrels need nourishment. Out goes half-loaves of their uneaten bread. (Nice, thick, crusty artisan bread, I must add.) Said wildlife lugs weighty food toward some hiding place or another over the fence that divides properties. The…

Trying the angle

Part of the cast. Meanwhile, over on the jetty across the inlet, a couple other nice weather fans were wetting lines. I know not what they were hoping to land, nor how they were doing.

Appreciating my through way

State of the roads. In addition to the quaint one-lane bridge that travels over the entrance to Willow Bay and the creek width of Onondaga Lake Park, much busier roads wind their way past as well. Interstate 690, the New York State Thruway and John Glenn Boulevard intersect quite nearby. Spot to reflect. I decided…

Beauty of the bridge

Take our turn. Go either direction on Long Branch Road and you’ll find a very important traffic light well in front of the skinny bridge. Take heed. The rustic green bridge spanning the creek-width portion of Onondaga Lake is one-lane wide. And so each lane of Long Branch enters the funnel upon green to take…