Visited a new place for the first time today while geocaching – the Times Beach Bird Trail. The cache happens to be out on the breakwall, which made for a rocky, yet fun hike.
You never know what you might see on these little adventures…
The Buffalo Light
The Buffalo Fire Boat (Edward M. Cotter)
My mom’s cousin’s store, Definitely Buffalo in Main Place Mall, is featured today on Buffalo Rising! Joan and her husband, Chuck, are both great people. They also own the Deer Head Inn on Clinton Street in West Seneca. It’s one of those great small, neighborhood, family-owned and operated restaurants. They have excellent steaks, turkey, fish…
What a relief that the Sabres finally finished off Ottawa. All these playoff games have been seriously affecting my ability to get other things done, like work outside, pay bills, etc. Hopefully NJ/Carolina goes 7 games so I can get back on track!
Random Thoughts 101 posts the following: Tonight, Tuesday into Wednesday morning, a very rare occurance will take place: On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. (Providing you write your dates the American way.)†That won’t happen again for 1,000 years. Back…
Variety Club is holding a fundraising Halloween Party at the Terminal on Saturday October 28th, 6pm-midnight. This isn’t a CTRC-sponsored event, we’re just renting out the building, but I like to share all events going on at the Terminal. 🙂
I didn’t think we could have an event bigger than last year’s Oktoberfest, but the train show blew the doors off of that. I’m not sure on the specifics yet as to attendance or money, but I’m guessing based on the number of door prize tickets we handed out there was at least 2000 people….
Turns out, New York State’s STAR program failed in it’s primary goal – to reduce the property tax burden. It actually had the opposite of it’s intended effect – it accelerated spending by local school districts, which in turn raises the homeowner’s taxes. I really don’t understand how politicians think. If a whole bunch of…
