Ellie B takes a dip

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle is not a one-route dog. We can go left instead of right when get to the end of the lane. Our cherished rescue mutt indeed wants to sniff the eggs and the honey, but my dear wife Karen and I manage to pull her past with a whispered word. We…

Ellie B enjoys the vacation life of Cape Cod

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle appreciates the Cape Cod lifestyle, too. It’s not all lounging around. We take her on a daily walk away from the Happy Cottage. One of our regular routes takes us through the village of Dennis Port. The surrounding blocks this year pass an interesting construction project. Hover over a gallery…

Ellie B and Bailey enjoy the Chiefs’ Bark in the Park

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle made a new friend at Bark in the Park this season. Our cherished rescue mutt’s ears went back when her beloved George Three piled out of the car in the NBT Bank Stadium parking lot with my terrific daughter Elisabeth and … Bailey. Another dog! My dear wife Karen had…

Don’t be so nervous, Ellie B

Sometimes I wonder what’s going through the head of Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. Like when she looks like this on the couch in the living room of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Relaxed, much?

So very unique. And odd

Our new neighbors in the blocks surrounding A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville continue to amaze Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I as we take our post-work walks. My cherished rescue mutt allowed me to stop and take my iPhone 6 out of my pocket for this eccentric sight. Bunnies abound.…

Solid like a rock

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I have been trying to make the best of the above-freezing move toward better days here in our new Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. We enjoy the new stuff we take in during our post-work walks in the blocks surrounding A Bitty Better. Last week a few neighbors on a…

Life imitates art imitates life

I received the text above from my dear wife Karen. She thought the dog involved looked an awful lot like Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle when she perches herself by the kitchen window of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville when she hears my car pull into the driveway. I chuckled. Loved…

A springtime tree thing discovered at A Bitty Better

Another month, another discover about A Bitty Better. I opened the door after sunrise this early April in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville to see newly dropped stuff all over the pool cover. I guess the buds from overhanging branches in the flanking yard are shedding something or other. I don’t want Ellie B aka…

This is what cold looks like in the middle of March

The little temperature readout on the corner of the screen of “Today” reads 15º F this bright morning of March 11. Dogamous Pyle aka Ellie B got me up at 6:45 a.m. to fill her bowl and let her out in the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I saw…

This tree’s a hard one to dress up

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I came across another eccentric tree during a recent stroll around our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. First we noticed the tree itself. Worse for wear, for sure. Seen better days. Victim of something that led it to a big blade of some sort. Then the face really popped out…