Collection row

A day off from the library allowed me to walk with Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle around the block surrounding A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville in the weekday morning of our garbage collection. We scooting past cans and bins before folks had a chance to bring them in from the curb.…

Gotten good at the library by my wife and colleagues

My Birthday Week celebration continued full steam ahead at my workplace, too. Between the time I’d left in the late afternoon and made my way to my desk the following morning, a bunch of surprises had turned up on my desk. My dear wife Karen had placed a big and gorgeous birthday cake in plain…

The door stops here

Our side screen door at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville has been free to do what it may for almost a year now, or ever since the big wind grabbed hold of it last winter and forced me to struggle mightily to keep myself and said rectangle from taking a skyward…

Another version of Spider-Man, oh, boy!

Marvel thinks we all need another Spidey in our universe. And so Spider-Man: Homecomimg came forth from the pens of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. Directed by Jon Watts, the 2-hour, 13-minute reboot of the superhero who pulls on his red costume one arm at a time is decidedly aw-shucks in nature. Tom Holland…

Light show, squared

I think I got the swirl of holiday lights on the front tree on the lawn of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville done right this year. It looks pretty good even without the help of Mother Nature in the background, if I say so myself.

One last mow in December

I missed mowing my lawn in November this year. And with the mild weather that has lingered around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, I watched the green grow higher. Leaves from surrounding trees also found their way onto our property. So when a day off coincided with yet another window of…

We nailed my first mani/pedi

I’ve told you about the great-looking nails my dear wife Karen has come home with from her classes at BOCES. A football for our trips to see the Syracuse Orange graced a finger. A heart with a nine tipped off the waitress that it was our ninth anniversary. I knew that cosmetology student Ann did…

They keep holding on

Some trees won’t let go. Some look as if they’ve been bare forever. This makes for an interesting combination outside the Cobblestone in the Village of Liverpool.