It snows and blows up here on the Galeville hill

My dear wife Karen and I wondered how life at A Bitty Better would be when the first major snow hit our life in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. We woke up in deep Monday morning. Sunday’s weather forecasts had me prepared for early shovel action. Yet you don’t really know what you’re going to…

Jeff comes to the rescue to fix the fence

We knew the backyard fence at A Bitty Better was sagging. Hover over a gallery photo for a description. Click on an image for an enlarged slide show. As soon as we moved from The Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, I took a trip to Lowe’s for the cinderblocks needed to…

Supermoon over A Bitty Better

A Bitty Better makes a good backdrop for a Supermoon. Our first phenomena in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville delivered a fairly stupendous shot of the sky above our new home. I called my dear wife Karen out around 9:30 this evening of Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, a night when the moon is closest to…

Giving A Bitty Better the special (window) treatment

My dear wife Karen and I couldn’t live for a whole week in A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville leaving certain windows bare, now, could we? Hey, now, the ones up front were covered quickly with sheets. Modest, we are. But the first full weekend after moving from The Little Bitty, we…

A first walk around Galeville in a fine fall

The rain stopped enough last weekend for my dear wife Karen and I to fulfill our promise to Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle to put on the leash and take our first loop around the block since moving into the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I’ve noticed on my drives that one of the nearby streets…

First things up on the walls are …

The DiecTV folks were able to make it to A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville on the Monday we moved in. So we had a dish on the corner of the roof because no unobstructed sight lines to the bird in the sky were available in the backyard. And we had our…

That first treat at A Bitty Better

Amid all of that packing to get ready for the move to A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, my dear wife Karen and I allowed ourselves one side trip for an indulgence. We visited Raymour and Flanagan on the busy Saturday to look for new living room chairs, our one furniture indulgence…

That sweet first moment with the keys to A Bitty Better

So my dear wife Karen picked me up from work at the Liverpool Public Library two Fridays ago at 10:25 a.m. At 10:30 a.m., we were meeting our friend and realtor Mary at A Bitty Better for the final walk-through to make sure everything met our approval. We had not set foot inside its doors…