Plugging the hole, or sometimes you must vent

When my dear wife Karen and I moved into A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, the master bedroom came equipped with one gaping hole. At the bottom was where the heat came out. At the top we saw the plug from the mounted TV … in the living room on the other…

A clear look at our foggy backyard

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle delivered an extra woof when I let her out into the backyard of A Bitty Better Sunday morning. I looked out further from the back door, brushed the sleep out of my eyes, grabbed my iPad Pro, and stepped out the side door. Our cherished rescue mutt wanted me to…

We’ll go there with the shampoo bottles

We completed a bathroom project at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. And I’m so glad we didn’t have to drill into the tile inside the tub/shower enclosure to do it. When our dear friends Theresa and David gifted us with a card from the new At Home store in Syracuse mega…

Battling the big wind

It really gets windy up here on the hill around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. The other day Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I were sitting in the living room listening to the gusts that the weather folks told us were topping at more than 50 mph. As we waited…

A nice New Year’s Eve at a couple of different spots

It was tough to give up the old New Year’s Eve routine. For a couple years in a row, my dear wife Karen and I enjoyed dinner at Rico’s Ristorante and drinks at Chadwick’s. Then we moved in October from the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood to A Bitty Better in…

Piling on

Who knows how long the melt will last. The weather folks say lake effect may move back to the Syracuse area as soon as Thursday night. So I had to point the iPhone 6s toward the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. A two-day warm up had melted every bit…

I can still see your boat

While walking with Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle around our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, I noticed a boat put away for the winter. My cherished rescue dog and I both greatly admired the camo tarp used for weather protection. Yet we saw the boat. Easily. Plainly. Obviously. Ellie B wanted to get closer, even, but…

A smoky lake view

The tiny slice of “lake view” we get on our street in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville figures to be constantly changing. I think it will be different, depending upon many factors. What’s up with Onondaga Lake that day? The weather? And, as I discovered on a morning, the doings on the far shore factor…

On to a small brace for my dear wife Karen

Good news came again at the last checkup for my dear wife Karen. The recovery from her fractured wrist continues with the implementation of a truly portable brace. Her doctor says this latest version only needs to be worn when she travels out of A Bitty Better here in the Galeville neighborhood of Liverpool. So…