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…

Getting a better drainage setup

When our friend Jeff came over last fall to help shore up the backyard fence, he took a good look at our gutters and gave me some advice to help keep A Bitty Better as good as it can be here in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Get some gutter extensions to keep the rainwater…

Galeville’s getting green

There’s a coming-out spring party in the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I still don’t quite know what these perennial plants are going to be. More stuff is coming up out front, too. These particular plants were out of the ground a month ago. Then came a big snow…

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…

Can this really be the path to spring?

The second morning of Storm Stella was as bad as the first here in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I walked out the side door of A Bitty Better and sighed. My neighbor was snow-blowing his backyard. I grabbed my shovel and got to work. When he stopped for a moment, I mentioned across the…

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…

Hail, yes, this February thaw has been interesting

On the morning I posted all about the bulbs popping up around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, I had to run out to my car in the pouring rain to let my dear wife Karen pull out from behind me to leave for her job at Syracuse Media Group. Lightning flashed…