A Champ of a visit to Happy Valley

Hello, dear wife, Karen, I declared at the end of my 4-hour-plus drive into the big state of Pennsylvania. A few months back, she decided to take a different path in her sterile technician career. A traveler’s path. Every few month’s hunk of time, my dear wife will be working in a different place. Learning…

Wet, those six innings were

We enjoyed the five hours we spent at Citi Field in Flushing, N.Y. this past Saturday, my dear wife Karen and I with our New York Mets-loving friend Steve Vicik Jr. and his lovely wife Kristen. But it was wet. How rainy was it as our Mets and the Cincinnati Reds played to that 1-1…

Wow, the Mets have memories

You walk into the main entrance of the New York Mets’ Citi Field and into the Rotunda. There’s an elaborate tribute to Jackie Robinson, the first to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Many considered these Metropolitans to be a replacement for his Brooklyn Dodgers, who’d left for Los Angeles, when they were…

Ellie B’s big homecoming

For that day trip to see the New York Mets play the Cincinnati Reds at Citi Field on Saturday, my dear wife Karen and I had to drop Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle off at the Shop City Animal Hospital before we picked up Steve and Kristen to start the journey. And they don’t staff…

A rainy road trip to Citi Field

I bought the four tickets to see our New York Mets play the Cincinnati Reds online two months ago, so my dear wife Karen, my great friend and bowling teammate Steve Vicik Jr. and his wife Kristen were sort of excited when our Saturday in June finally rolled around. Rain in the forecast for the…

Oh, what a week it was at the Cape

On the first day that my dear wife Karen and I woke up back in Syracuse after a week at the precious little cottage owned and cherished by our wonderful Central New York friends Julie and Lisa, I give thanks to all it gave us. From the front that greeted us every time we pulled…

Can’t let a rainy last Friday get us down

Even before Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle stirred me for her morning let-me-out session, I’d heard the news today, oh boy. Pitter-patter on the roof. One look out the front kitchen window confirmed what the Boston weather report had warned the night before. Our last full day not in Syracuse would start with rain. The…

An ocean of excitement

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle, meet the Atlantic Ocean. Our rescue mutt was introduced to really wavy water for the first time in the fourth year of her life, when we woke up on our fifth morning not in Syracuse and decided to drive to Provincetown. Our smart dog liked the ocean more than she…