Christmas 2013
Starting things off with our annual kids Christmas party at Praxair. This year, Cambree wasn’t afraid of Santa. She was actually quite excited to see him.
One of the advantages of being a homeowner is that certain home improvement projects are sales tax free, if they fit the New York State’s guidelines of being a “Capital Improvement”. The tricky part can be determining what exactly qualifies as a capital improvement. The NYS Department of Taxation lays it out like this: A…
It’s been six years since I’ve been out of school, and longer than that since I’ve had a summer vacation, so the only thing that somewhat delineates the summer period for me is the break our church choir takes for a few months. Our last choir mass was yesterday, so until sometime in September I…
My Aunt wrote a lovely opinion piece about the olden days of the Broadway Market in today’s Buffalo News. Please go have a read! Old Broadway Market A Wonderful Place If you liked it, let us know so we can pass it along! I too remember the Market, albeit a much more modern one than…
BROADWAY-FILLMORE ALIVE: NEW GROUP TO PROMOTE HISTORIC EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD BUFFALO – February 6, 2006 – Broadway-Fillmore Alive announced its formation today. The group founded by three individuals with ties to the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood wants to promote, preserve and revitalize the area focusing equally on its historic past and on building its future. Co-founder Christopher…
Homeowners – notice how no project ever goes as smoothly as you intend it to? The previous owner of our house built a deck on the back. Then he put a hot tub on the deck. Then he built a sunroom over the hot tub, which covered about 3/4 of the deck, making it just…
I’ve been having a hard time keeping up with all the blogs lately, so I completely missed this piece from BuffaloBlogger, whose in-laws were in town from England and ranked the Central Terminal at the top of their vacation memories list. This ladies and gentlemen was their highlight. This grand old building that so many…