Welcome back from Florida, my dear wife

My dear wife Karen returned from her annual Girls Getaway trip at the end of last week, so I took on half day from my job at the library. We took advantage of the warm spring Friday and went back to the Village of Liverpool for a sunny sit outside The Retreat. We sat at…

Happy Easter to all you good eggs

The Liverpool Public Library will be closed today, keeping its doors shut for a Sunday. Easter, you know. The folks down the street have been prepping me for the big day for more than a week. Yes, every time I’ve stepped into Nichols for a cup of coffee, I’ve been greeted by a cute little…

Cobblestone pizza to go, yum

I’ve been talking up the pizza at The Cobblestone lately. Ever since my dear wife Karen and I decided on a Friday night after work that a trip to the cool-looking bar on the corner in the Village of Liverpool for some pub food was in order, in fact. We selected a plain cheese pizza,…

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…

First lunch down by the lake is pretty darn early

Mark it down. I picked my lunch bag up from under my desk yesterday and walked the two blocks down from my job at Liverpool Public Library. And it was good on the sunny noontime of Monday, April 10, 2017. Many folks were enjoying the spring day, with the sun shining and temperature well into…

Seagulls and a boat signal spring at Onondaga Lake

A quick walk down the block from my job at the library reveals that spring indeed is settling in over Onondaga Lake. The grass looks a little greener once I crossed the threshold into Onondaga Lake Park. A worker had aligned three picnic along the marina’s edge. Closer still to the water, the sound of…

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…

Somebody besides me appreciates the paws of a good pun

The pet store just down Tulip Street from my work at the Liverpool Public Library has the habit of putting signs out on the corner that make me paws as I stroll be. Er, pause. Hover over a gallery photo for a description. Click on an image for an enlarged slide show. I appreciate good…