It’s yours for now, birdie

My dear wife Karen pointed to a burly knot up in the corner of our covered side porch. Yes, I saw the bird flying out of it toward me a bit later on. Yes, we’ve seen tiny birdies peeking out at us, too. I do not have the heart to pull it down. I’ll wait…

Moving toward the big dip, maybe

My dear wife Karen is out in the backyard of A Bitter Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville working on the in-ground pool. She listened carefully to the instructions from the man who took the cover off and explained the pump system. She’s watched YouTube videos. We went to a nearby pool store to…

We may have found how to cover that awkward shelf hole

My dear wife Karen and I have been wondering what to do with an awkward space we inherited in the first-floor hallway of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I guess this hole above the second bedroom door could be called storage space. But it does not have a door to hide…

Now we see a purple tiger stripe

Of course my dear wife Karen and I both hold our breath after putting the new plants into the ground at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I do not think we need worry much about the tiger lily chosen by George Three for her Mother’s Day present. Soon after we put…

Soon to be swimming?

My dear wife Karen is carrying on with her late springtime mission at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. The cover is off our in-ground pool as our first summer since moving from the Syracuse neighborhood of Eastwood approaches. She located the man who closed the pool right before we moved in…

So many new plants to color A Bitty Better

My dear wife Karen’s weekly food run to the local supermarket got sidetracked. I’d had my suspicion as the clock ticked on, but the text I received from Ballantyne Gardens over on Hopkins Road cemented the deal. I admired the plant in the photo she sent over. Little did I know how much more there’d…

Diamonds aren’t forever

The diamond is mowed into the front lawn of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I pushed our red mower through the final diagonal, the fourth and last of the pattern I’ll establish in this first summer since moving from The Little Bitty in the Syracuse neighborhood of Eastwood. Final verdict? It…

Happy Memorial Day! And Go Terps Go

We salute those that served us today. Happy Memorial Day from A Bitty Better in the Liverpool, N.Y., neighborhood of Galeville. My dear wife Karen and I included a flagpole yesterday among our holiday weekend purchases. And when we got home, I mounted the bracket on the fence at the back of our driveway and…

Galeville boasts resourceful squirrels

Out one recent morning with my iPad Pro in my hand, a commotion in the neighbor’s yard to the right caught my eyes and ears. A squirrel was hoisting a piece of white bread or somesuch as big as it was up a tree. Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville squirrels are extremely strong, I see. Much…

Appreciating the May angle of the sunrise

Letting Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle out the back door of a Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville this interesting May, I noticed the sunrise. It struck me how far the path had traveled to the left since I shot a photo with my iPad Pro on a cold day in March with…