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SU Lemoyne Basketball

I share season tickets to the SU basketball games with three others.  That means I end up with 5 home games.  This year the two exhibition games (Cal State & Lemoyne) were lumped as one game I chose to go.  I like the early season games as an opportunity to see new players/freshman that are [...]

Bittersweet

We have a healthy growth of bittersweet in several trees across the road.  Kathryn harvests it for fall decorations.  This year she had a bright sunny day for collecting the vines.    She and Linda collected it on Friday, gave it a week to dry out and then on Sunday she went to Rochester to [...]

A Halloween ChimChar

Eric was the Pokemon character ChimChar for Halloween. He got to wear the costume three times.  He and his buddy Colby went to the Utica Zoo Spooktaculur fundraiser two weekends ago; last weekend Jen took him to the HP Middle School Halloween Carnival and then finally the HP Halloween parade.

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AYSO Team 3 U8 Soccer

I was blessed with a really good soccer team this year.  Unlike previous years when I served as assistant coach, this year I plunged in and served as coach.  I kept attendance of the kids, tried to have a schedule for each practice, knew in advance who was going to be missing for upcoming games [...]