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If you ever return, go downriver a few miles to the Royal Botanical Gardens, and the Butterfly Conservatory located there. It is something to see, but is missed by most tourists.

But in WNY in winter? I remember standing my frozen pants on the floor behind the stove so they could thaw, or the winter my father was cutting trees for firewood and came across a bee tree, and how my mother cooked down gallons of honey on that old cast iron stove. In a way, I think that kids...

If you say it was beautiful, then you must be referring to the Canadian side, as the American side was and is pretty much a dump. We used to go to the Seneca casino 3 or 4 times a year, but no more, and we live less than an hour's drive from the place.

As far as I'm concerned, ketchup should be banned from the earth. I want nothing on either meatloaf or steak. Let the product stand or fall on it's own. Besides, the way I like steak- rare- it isn't so dried out that it needs anything.

We rented for our first 33 years of marriage; saving money when and where we could. When necessity forced our hand, we went to a bank for pre-approval on a mortgage even before we went house hunting. They looked at our financials and told us that we could go as high as $320,000. What? was our...

I know what you mean about living on a fixed income, as both Michele and I are in that position. Our only saving grace is that we have always lived relatively simple lifestyles, saving our money for the future. Well, that future is here, and while we're not rolling in dough, we have enough for...

I call that sort of thing 'Committee Disease', because someone comes up with some bright idea, and a majority goes along because the money doesn't directly come out of their pocket so, why not? How many ideas would be shot down if the people on any given committee had to personally foot the...

It wasn't really a vacation- more like an extended weekend- but Michele and I took a trip to West Virginia and Ohio, during which we rode trains at Cass and Sugar Creek; descended into the New River gorge at Hawk's Nest; toured the Fenton glass factory at Parkersburg; visited an Amish store at...

There is a store in Kidron, Ohio that serves the Amish community, and everything they sell is non-electric. We stopped there once in our travels years ago, and they had such stoves on display, nickel fittings and all. One, in particular, would make two of the one shown, and it cost, in 1990...

I'm not fussy- I'll eat almost anything as a side. Michele will make slow-roasted beef with gravy on a bed of rice, and that's good, or pan-fried potatoes, sometimes we'll have a salad; sometimes carrots or peas, or green beans are the side. All will pass muster.

I bought a roll of aluminum screen at a home center and built screen frames that fit into the tracks of our double hung windows, so now the cats have to go through two layers of screen to get out. None have yet.

I don't know, as they didn't do the trim in the exam room where we were.

As a matter of fact, while at the vet's office for checkups and distemper shots yesterday, we had them trim their claws as well. Mind you, these cats started life as ferals, but they required no gabapentin or any other sedation. The vet techs took them to the room they have for such things, and...

Same here; between the hearing loss and tinnitus, carrying on a phone conversation is, at best, difficult. If the person on the other end has any kind of foreign accent? Forget it.

I don't remember the Four Tops version of Walk Away Renee, only that by the Left Banke back in '66, I think it was.

Most of the cats at that place were content to live and let live, but not the one cat. There were 3 bays in that garage; on the right was the lift bay, in the center was the pit, and on the left was the flat bay where we did the collision and body work. There wasn't a lot of distance between...

In this case, it was Prancer (as usual), Bashful (a first for her), and Miss Eleanor (also a first) doing the honors.

So we took the whole gang to the vet's for their annual checkups, and it mostly went OK, aside from some unplanned stool samples in a couple of the carriers. The only discordant note was that Prancer and Stretch have lost some weight, and they found a Grade 3 heart murmur in Stretch. To do...

Liver! I don't know if it was the way my mother cooked it (dipped in flour, then pan fried) or not, but it was like chewing on a piece of leather, and about as tasteless. To this day, I wouldn't touch liver with a 20-foot pole.

Blueberry, Red currants, and cranberries; in fact, I have blueberry bushes planted in my garden.