Cape Cod can seem pretty wild

So we’re walking our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle on the block that hold our Cape Cod rental, and she hears it before we see it. Down the far-side lawns struts a turkey. My dear wife Karen and I assumed it was wild, but perhaps it is someone’s pet. It did not…

Everything you need in a backyard

Is it fair for the new vacation house to be compared to the old vacation houses? You know I have to weigh the differences, especially at the start of the stay. My dear wife Karen and I adored sitting out back of the Happy Cottage in our many years of a weekly stay. This place…

A different cottage in Cape Cod to make us happy

At the end of our stay at the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod for our 2017 vacation, our friend Julie told us that indeed she and Lisa were selling. And great place that it was, they found a taker. We missed our annual trip last summer. My dear wife Karen regrouped. She found a place…

Mindy Kaling, Emma Thompson both deserve to crash the barriers in Late Night

Some people overstay their welcome on TV, that’s a fact. Some people get their foot into an office door for completely the wrong reason, right. In Late Night, written by Mindy Kaling, who knows a thing or three about the TV comedy game and starring Emma Thompson, who should be on our big screens even…

Paint this one, somebody

Now that was a backyard in spring. Bravo, Village of Liverpool house dweller. (Left over from my walk collection.)

Rock me

These folks don’t want anybody parking too close to the high side of their Onondaga Lake trail house. You can’t miss their point.

Yes, you can view the Harbor

Do you think about the places you patronize? I do not go into any cellars to buy wine at Harbor View. But I do look out at the horizon when I walk back to my car. The Syracuse Inner Harbor indeed sits below. Nicely.

Silence is golden

When we last went out to a departmental lunch, our boss handed all three of us library communications workers who toil out in the big room a package. Our boxes each contained BOSE noise-deafening headphones. It can get somewhat loud, she has heard from each of us. The headphones are ours, personally, to take home…

Me, not me

A work colleague put this magazine on the desk of one of our co-workers. I grabbed it and looked twice at the cover. I think Joe Lovano and I look alike. You? Oh, what I can discover at the library. I’ll try to stay upbeat about it.