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Eric’s 1st SU Game

Kathryn and I have been going to Syracuse basketball games for the past 3-4 years as we share season tickets with 4 others. Eric has expressed an increasing awareness and interest in the fate of Syracuse basketball. Last year we took him to a couple of Holland Patent High School basketball games, but, [...]

Rochester Crew

Dad’s skin looks really good, the best in a long time. Kathryn took him in to have casts made so they can make new legs. The prosthesis lady is making these a little different since he is really not able to walk anymore and needs the legs more to stand/pivot. He should get them next [...]

Spring Weekend

Kathryn and I went for a nice walk on Friday.  We heard and saw Canada Geese circling around our ponds looking for open water.  We saw robins on our property.  On our snowshoe hike we followed a set of raccoon tracks where he went exploring during the warm weather.

 

We saw otter slides in the [...]

Ordering Trees

We heard red wing black birds this morning and although we still have considerable snow on the ground the birds offered a sign that it was time to order trees.  I made two orders this morning. Oneida County Soil & Water Conversation District (SWCD) annually offers a tree and scrub sale and annually I have [...]

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

There is a kid’s book called Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day or something to that effect.  Alexander tells a story of all the bad things that happened to him during the course of a day.  Something like “I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there’s gum [...]

Playing in the snow

We had some fun this weekend playing in the snow: sledding, making forts, and throwing snowballs. The new snow was so deep and fluffy that we made our own primitive rope tow.

Here Eric returns from a long run.

What good is a fort without an escape tunnel? Whoa, Dad [...]

Trey & Scout

With our deep snow the dogs are having a hard time deciding where they can comfortably use the outdoor toilet facilities. Here Scout is trying to make a decision.

Trey and Scout ask me if we are going to take those snowshoes for a walk. Trey is 95 lbs and Scout was recently weighed [...]

Who has been walking in my woods?

Turkeys

My neighbor’s small dog

A field mouse

and squirrels.