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…

Digging the fall colors around Galeville

I’ve been able to let Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle walk me around the blocks surrounding A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville almost every day since we moved in. It’s a colorful place this time of year. For a day or two, at least. I can’t leave my iPhone 6 in my…

The new lawn sure mows up nice

I halfway had it in my noggin while I was marching in all our bins across it that the first time I’d mow the lawn at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville would be sometime in the spring of 2017. As the man who ran for president said so many times in…

The first mishap at A Bitty Better

The first misfortune at A Bitty Better came after one week. I was getting ready to step out the front door to drive the two miles from the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville to my job at the library when I heard a foreign sound and then the voice of my dear wife Karen. She had…

Do they have to play the second half?

When my bowling teammate and good friend Randy asked me this week if I thought Syracuse had a chance this weekend in its college football game against Clemson, I shook my head emphatically and said, nope. Clemson would win 70-0, I said. Too big, too strong, too fast are the undefeated and No. 2-ranked Tigers,…

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…