As the Golden Snowball reports, Syracuse has actually lost its first-place position in the national Golden Snowglobe contest to… Baltimore?! (I blame myself for this.)
You would think, with all this snow falling on them, that New York City and other southern metro areas would be looking to the salt mines of our region to […]

I know where it’s hiding.
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Keep driving north. Run the red light. You’ll find it.
(Note: This is only for those who have exhausted the entertainment possibilities of the Zombie Outbreak Simulator.)

The Golden Snowball goes national.

I am sorry to report that one of my tater tots has died. I don’t know what caused the problem, but it doesn’t look like the dreaded late blight (especially since the one right next to it is doing fine). It all started after a heavy rain which flattened the plant. Some […]

This evening, my black raspberries — running more than a week late this year, as you might expect — yielded the peak harvest of their (all too brief) season. Starting tomorrow, the daily take will grow steadily smaller.
This means that summer is now exactly half over.

For years, when I would talk to people who weren’t from around here and who expressed shock or disgust at how much it tends to snow in Syracuse, I would reassure them that Central New York had the best snow removal infrastructure in the world. Heck, I would brag about it, even. World’s […]

Word to the wise: When running a blog, thoroughly back up your data. My web provider had a server failure yesterday, which had the unsettling effect of wiping my account with them clean. Fortunately they do keep backups, and I do too… just not in one easily accessible piece. (While briefly contemplating […]

Tomorrow’s the first day of fall. Listening to the pagan hooting of a flock of Canada geese on their way south — I hope they’re travelers, and not just the lazy ones who hang around town all winter long — I wonder if it’s time to get a jump on the annual local […]

CNY ecoBlog catches up with the state of the Great Lakes Water Compact, the nondiversion agreement that’s close to being “ratified” by eight states and Canada, and points out that there could be a stumbling block in Washington for U.S. assent to this pact, since the Great Lakes states are losing political power (along with […]

It rained on Saturday evening, and then again all day on Monday.
Was anyone upset?
I wonder if mainstream American society will ever get to the point where, no matter what we have planned outdoors for the day, a rainy day is first and foremost seen as something to be grateful for. Thoughts of […]