My girlfriend Suzanne received a jigsaw puzzle / mystery box for her birthday. It’s part of a series called “Murder Most Puzzling,” where you assemble a jigsaw puzzle and then look for clues in the puzzle to solve a murder. And we tried the puzzle. Let me tell you … the puzzle was harder than…
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The end scene of Wildwood
Last weekend, I took Suzanne to see the new stop-motion animated film Wildwood. It’s a fantasy piece about a young girl who tries to rescue her baby brother, who is captured and taken to a mystical world just past the railroad tracks in Portland, Oregon. And when I say “stop-motion animation,” I’m not talking about…
Read MoreThe results at the Big E, 2026 edition
Right at the beginning of this blog, I have to tell you this. My girlfriend Suzanne is a trooper. She went through every Big E tradition and superstition with me without batting an eyelash. Superstition #1 – get to the Big E as early as possible. That means leaving Albany at sunrise, so that we…
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After nearly two months of dating, Suzanne and I have reached the next step of our relationship. I met her friends. And by friends, I mean her buddies who sing all night at a karaoke bar. Yep. Chuck went karaoke. And usually, “karaoke” for me means my audience is the shower head, the steering wheel,…
Read MoreThe Warning Beep from Lightning’s Girl
Last week, while out on a photo trip, I stopped by a roadside pumpkin patch and purchased some pumpkins. One for me, one for my girlfriend, one for my girlfriend’s mother. Because I’m that kind of guy. I put the pumpkins in the back trunk of my 2017 Chevrolet Volt Premier (“Lightning’s Girl”), and drove…
Read MorePlanting Peaches with my girlfriend over the weekend
A week ago, I purchased a blooming cornflower plant from a roadside orchard. Not wanting to damage my car’s leather seats (and my car’s trunk was already filled with my New York State Fair artwork and pickups), I placed the plant in a cardboard peach box. Yep, the plant rode shotgun in a peach box.…
Read MoreGirlfriend, meet Peaches. Peaches, meet girlfriend.
Yesterday, I drove to Syracuse to pick up my artworks and photos from the New York Stater Fair. The weather wasn’t fantastic – it felt like I drove through one rainstorm and came back through another. On my way home, somewhere around Exit 33, one of my car’s TPMS sensors reported low air. Oh, that’s…
Read MoreThose rocks are NOT from my head.
My girlfriend has made some major upgrades and restorations to her backyard. What was once a collection of overgrown paver stones that were originally part of her home is now a fully replaced and beautiful concrete pathway. But there’s one portion – a triangular patch between the deck and the back of the house –…
Read MoreCaption time: Three American Goldfinches
I was at my girlfriend’s house over the weekend. She has a couple of bird feeders in the backyard, and I’ve found that her songbirds absolutely love this super-hot birdseed that’s mixed with hot chili sauce. The birds have no salivary glands, so they just eat the seed like it’s a normal day. But the…
Read MoreWhere are all the bingo chips??
Last week, my girlfriend and I went out for a meal-and-movie date. Lunch at the 99 at Rotterdam Square Mall, followed by a showing of A Quiet Place: Day One. As we left the restaurant, we noticed that the mall anchor that once housed a K Mart now exists as a bingo hall. And you…
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