A Perfect Sunday
Last Sunday was busy. Mer and I worked the pancake breakfast at the West Seenca Lodge after having some ourselves, and then we were off to Olean. It was a wonderful drive and perfect weather. Our destination was the shelter where Byron (the pit bull or "pitiful bull" we met at the Ellicottville Fall Festival) was kept, and brought Pasha to see if the two dogs would get along. Byron wanted to be friends and Pasha...
A Great Weekend
Merry has off for several days and we decided for our (relatively broke) anniversary to do autumn cleaning and such together. We went through our clothes rotation, donating as we went. The attic is more organized, and I recycled a large volume of miscellaneous religious tracts I had from years ago. I made huge headway in catching up on reading comics and other magazines. And something magical happened ... for a...
A Hot Autumn Weekend
I don't remember it ever being this hot at the Ellicottville Fall Festival. We went early Sunday and saw a few neat things (including an Internet cafe that was cash only ... seriously?), but it was uneventful except for Mer being enchanted with a rescued stray pitbull named "Byron". Afterward we went to Pumpkinville and filled up on pretty much everything we need for Halloween, but then discovered a place called...
The Buffum House
This year I've gotten involved in restoration of the oldest house in South Buffalo, the "Buffum House" on the next block. I built a website (yet to be used) and did some outside painting. I've also started reading a pile of historical materials loaned to me by Matt Fisher, Councilman Kearn's assistant. I had no idea Red Jacket lived in a cabin in Buffalo, let alone down thr street! The house itself is a gem. ...
My Daughter Had Something To Tell Me …
We usually have our important talks in the car. So here we were, in the parking lot at Galleria Mall, picking up her last paycheck before heading back to "Fredtown". She was a bit distraught and somehow I knew what it was. I just knew. She wasn't sure she could even talk to me about it. Embarassed, confused, unsure what would happen to her life and what she would end up doing after college. I decided not to...
Sushi … the Next Step
Didn't take a picture, but here's the receipt from my sushi-making adventure last night at Bob & Susan's (his wife and mine were watching Doctor Who while Bob taught me how to make sushi). Merry is still concerned over my ideas to make breakfast sushi, desert sushi, and fruit-filled sushi in general. Today probably calmed her apprehension, as after a trip to Mayer Brosthers, Viddler's, and driving around in...
Wayside Restaurant
We'd eaten there before and I learned about it from my friend Bob Hubbard, but when Mer and I went out yesterday, a decision was made. This was our spot. She had liver and onions and the chicken and lumpy mashed potatoes made me wonder if the chef was my grandmother reincarnated. Our life before moving to South Buffalo seems like a different lifetime, a world away. But we never really settled into any kind of a...
I think she’ll make it.
Christina texted us an image that shows us that we did good. That she will survive on her own someday. That she wont go hungry. Here is it ... her first crock pot meal, made by herself, with her own crockpot.
Guy Times Ahead
Earlier this summer, I went to a picnic put on by a friend's Freemans lodge, men only but open to non-Masons. We had a great time, and being at Chestnut Ridge, I led a bunch of them on an unintentionally roundabout journey to the Eternal Flame. Once there, a guy who could tell from my fashion that I was involved in martial arts challenged me to a duel with sticks on the riverbed. I was just having fun and not...