Category Archives: Life

The trains don’t run anymore….

Photos from a short walk at the Orchard Park Railroad Depot yesterday. The Depot, you may remember, has been lovingly restored after years of neglect after the trains stopped running, and the tracks are now a rail trail. These weren’t … Continue reading

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Sunday Thievery

I haven’t done one of these quiz-things in a while, so why not? Roger did this one, and now I’m going to appropriate it. (The quiz is from a blog called Sunday Stealing, so the fact that I’m doing this … Continue reading

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Domestic Bliss

In which I attempt to share a video I took with my phone: Carla and Remy, deciding to battle for supremacy of…The Wife’s lap. Yup, this is what goes on here sometimes. (No one was hurt…and eventually Remy left and … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, My Love

As I keep adding to this post every year, and with cross-posting it and importing it from my old blog to this one, I suppose it gets a bit more ungainly each year. Well, that’s just the way it is. … Continue reading

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Heavens, what’s THAT!!!

There’s a bright thing in the sky! Has anybody contact NORAD about this?! I kid, obviously…and complaining about the lack of sunshine this time of year is just a thing we WNYers do, along with bemoaning the latest Bills playoff … Continue reading

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If God meant for us to shovel snow, we’d have shovels instead of hands!

If you’re at all familiar with what’s been going on in the Buffalo Niagara region lately, you probably already know why I took an unplanned hiatus from blogging this week: Lake Erie decided this was a good time to remind … Continue reading

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Still breathin’

I’ll post more later on about The Week That Was, but for now….

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“You still remember, Admiral!”

“I cannot help but be touched. I, of course, remember you.”–Khan Noonian Singh, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan I’m thinking of that quote because after several weeks of a very mild start to our winter, this week winter decided to … Continue reading

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Reading by Candlelight

  Yesterday saw a big storm push through…well, lots of places. I have to be honest, I didn’t really pay a whole lot of attention to this one, beyond what its forecast effects in Western New York were going to … Continue reading

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OK, let’s talk 2024!

NOTE: I’ve had this post in drafts since last Tuesday, when 2024 was still going OK. Then, things started going awry very quickly, hence the lack of posting much since then. I’m not going to write just yet about what’s going … Continue reading

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