Ready for the long rake job

I know how hard my colleagues who handle the custodial work at the Liverpool Public Library work to keep the building in tip-top shape. When I saw the size of the roof rake after the last big snow, I pictured how hard it must be to get that thing up there and scraping. Bravo, Annika…

February finery at the library

The call of outdoor duty was strong Wednesday before my lunch break at the Liverpool Public Library. It looked fine from the second-floor windows. So I grabbed a lens and headed down the stairs. Could we not use some sun-drenched, sun-sparkled photos of the library for our files? You know, just in case. I think…

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…

Snow turns Ellie B into a happy Dogamous Pyle

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle took this trait with her from The Little Bitty to a Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. It was obvious to me when I made my way home from my job at the Liverpool Public Library through the squall late Wednesday afternoon and accompanied my cherished rescue mutt…

Beware the snow and blowing snow

It didn’t look too bad outside A Bitty Better when I woke up Thursday morning. The dire weather forecasts seemed to be, well, a bit too dire. The snow really hadn’t arrived in full force. It was cold, though. But then I reached the bottom of our street in the Galeville neighborhood of Liverpool and…

It snows and blows up here on the Galeville hill

My dear wife Karen and I wondered how life at A Bitty Better would be when the first major snow hit our life in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. We woke up in deep Monday morning. Sunday’s weather forecasts had me prepared for early shovel action. Yet you don’t really know what you’re going to…