Our new little tree makes us smile

Little by little, my dear wife Karen and I got the inside holiday decorating done in A Bitty Better exactly the way we wanted it. The final piece of the puzzle fell into place with a trip to Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center, just down the road now from our lovely new home in the Liverpool…

Let there be more lights for A Bitty Better’s first holiday

At first I thought I’d buy enough strands of lights to decorate the evergreen tree to the left of the front of A Bitty Better. In fact, I told my dear wife Karen that was the plan for our first Christmas in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Then I took a good look up. And…

From a cast to a brace for my dear wife Karen

Progress! The news was good when my dear wife Karen went for her follow-up appointment to check on the healing of her fractured wrist. Her doc allowed her to go from cast to moldable brace. Next step … we’ll find out in a few weeks. There will be physical therapy involved. That much she’s been…

All that snow can’t stay on the deck of A Bitty Better

I could not just sit and wait for my dear wife Karen and I to walk over to our friends Georgia and Bert’s house one block over from A Bitty Better to partake in a wonderful Thanksgiving bird and all the accompanying treats. No. All that snow that had fallen a few days in front…

The elusive Warren Beatty applies his rules to recluse Howard Hughes

No doubt he’s an odd duck, but wildly intelligent. That much I was certain of even before my dear wife Karen and I took in the Black Friday 6:50 p.m. showing of Rules Don’t Apply in the Regal Cinemas’ theater at Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. When I left after the…

Sometimes I feel like a King at the library

The task: Promote another meeting of the Liverpool Public Library Chess Club. The photo file was full of pictures I’d used previously. So I went down into our main room and snapped off a few new ones. I used a version of this one on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Get it? Why do you think…

Really, Let’s Go Orange

As far as I’m concerned, the Syracuse Orange did one thing extremely right for the last home game seven days ago now in the Carrier Dome against the Florida State Seminoles. They wore their orange jerseys. Better than the blue. Way better than the gray. Just saying. Good luck in Pittsburgh in the last game…

Living Like Mabel (and Calvin) is plenty nice and friendly

The plan was made months ago, when my blogging friend from New Zealand contacted me through Twitter and told me that she and her husband were coming to America again. I’d been enjoying her interesting takes on the world as Living Like Mabel for a good, long while, appreciating her humor, rooting for her to…

A Funky Thanksgiving to all

I can’t give you a personally shot video of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade today because, well, here I am with my dear wife Karen in A Bitty Better in the Galeville neighborhood of Liverpool getting ready to celebrate the holiday, and the big hoo-ha is down there in Manhattan. But I did think ahead…

A Little seat-saver

When I came back from stretching my legs before the game between the Syracuse Orange and Florida State Seminoles started Saturday in the Carrier Dome, I found a little surprise saving my seat. My dear wife Karen thought that my cushion was an excellent resting place for my Floyd Little bobblehead to take a short…