Photo history of the Central Terminal
Much thanks to CTRC Secretary Sara Etten for putting together this great video on the Terminal’s history and progress!
I was thinking about writing an update on Facebook about the latest in our home building adventure when I remembered – hey – we have our own blog. We pretty much stopped writing here when Facebook and Twitter got popular, exchanging blogging for microblogging. But since microblogging became social media which is now mostly everyone…
We rarely go anywhere new without doing a little geocaching along the way. One thing that made this trip fun was the series of caches at rest areas along I-90 East. Out of four rest stops before we exited, we found three geocaches. The fourth appears to be missing altogether. We hit a nice two-part…
Sharon Linstedt, reporter for the Buffalo News, has a story today on the unknown fate of the Aquarama. The Marine Star, the rusting passenger ferry that spent more than a decade sitting on the Buffalo waterfront, is on its way to Turkey. But it is still not known whether the once-proud ship is headed to…
Each 4th of July party at our house is headlined by a smoked turkey. We usually pick an extra one (or three) up around Thanksgiving when they’re insanely cheap and keep it socked away in the freezer until a week before the 4th, when the defrosting process begins. This year’s bird was 19 lbs, and…
Amanda and I met up with John, Lauren, Chris, Allison, Suzy, Dave, and Sue and went to the Bring It Back To Life show Saturday night. Also spotted were Steven and RagingTaxpayer from SpeakupWNY.com. The show was great as always. The crowd size was a bit disappointing. We got to talk to Christina and Scott…
Over the last month we’ve had some real progress! On the paperwork side we signed the contract, picked a lender, and submitted the loan application. We’re now waiting on approval from the bank (it’s already been preapproved, but now the bank does more due diligence and someone has to give a final yea/nay before we…