A grandma who will remain unnamed let Ariella get her little fingers in our ice cream cake the other night at Amanda and my combined birthday celebration.
A big thank you to everyone for your generous gifts!
I’ve posted all the other Terminal events for October… except for this one – Doors Open Niagara 2006. The Terminal will be participating again this year both days – Saturday 10/14 and Sunday 10/15 from 10am-5pm. The Terminal is even the… ahem… poster child for this year’s event.
Today I bring to an end a three year springtime tradition of shoveling half my driveway from the ditch across the street [where it gets plowed to] back to where it’s supposed to be. Yes, today we finally had a blacktop driveway put in. Here are the before and after shots:
The universe has a tendency to balance itself out, and this time, unfortunately, the announcement of Dot was countered with the departing of Grandpa Punaro. I grew up living next door to my grandparents, so seeing them was a regular occurrence. While age took it’s toll on his body, his mind was always sharp and…
Not only is it great that there still is a DeLorean Motor Company in existence, providing parts, service, restorations, and upgrades for the classic DMC-12 – the real star of the Back to the Future trilogy – but they have a sense of humor too! Try going to their parts search page and looking up…
2010 was an incredible year for us. It started with an amazing trip to Europe, which I never quite finished blogging about and Derek never quite finished post-processing pictures of. We had such a wonderful time, but were very happy to come home to our beautiful daughter. On my trip in June to see my…
Buffalo Hodgepodge is a relatively new blogger, but it’s good to see another intelligent person emphasizing a point near and dear to many of us “fringe Buffalonians”… Conflict between Amherst and Buffalo, Clarence and Amherst, Orchard Park and Buffalo, etc. etc. only masks THE big whopping, massive problem – which I’ll call “global economic uncompetitiveness .