It is unofficially official. We have a new month, Novembruary. Novembruary occurs when you get winter like weather in November that would be more normal for the months of January or February. I am referring to things like daily high temperatures of 25 degrees, snow storms…
There is a little trail that is less than a quarter of a mile from my house. The Charlie Major Nature Trail is only three-quarters of a mile long and runs along Skaneateles Creek on the old railroad bed. It is a historic place with the…
This past week I spent a day helping a friend get in their fire wood for the winter. After five hours and two chain saws, two trees were cut up, a lot of splitting was done, a large pile of chunks was near the wood splitter,…
Today on the way into work there were whitecaps on Owasco Lake. The wind has to be blowing pretty hard for that to happen. It reminded me of a great story from many years ago. It was a windy fall day about fifteen years ago very…
Spirit of Giving My son was a junior in high school. He had just returned from an away track meet. I had given him $10 to stop at the fast food place after the track meet as was the custom. When I asked him for the…
When I was about sixteen years old my love affair with cars started more out of necessity than anything else. With little money and in constant need of cheap car parts I spent a lot of time at the local salvage yard looking for used parts.…
Being a fall baby, I suppose it is only natural that fall would be my favorite season. The only bad thing about fall is that it leads to winter. That is a whole other story. I like the fall not only because of the changing colors…
The phone rang one day and there was another young couple looking for one of my sisters to babysit so they could have a night out. My oldest sister Debby had long since moved out and my sister Stacie was out on a date with her…
Making Due As a kid growing up, as a family we didn’t have much. There was hunting, fishing and gardening to make up the short fall of the money we lacked. We picked and froze fruit, canned and we even kept potatoes in the basement kind…
Stage Fright Thank God I do not get stage fright though it would be more correct to say I do not get stage fright like I used to. I vividly remember my first band concert in sixth grade. I sat down in my chair, the curtains…