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Dyngus Day 2013

Everyone loves a party and a parade and pierogies and pussy willows! HAPPY DYNGUS DAY! But being PELTED with snow on April 1st? Maybe not so much, but…

Niagara Area Cultural Center Art Auction

Niagara Area Cultural Center Art Auction HWMMS and I bid on a bunch of artwork through the Niagara Area Cultural Center silent auction last night and it seemed…

Castle by Candlelight

Old Fort Niagara: Castle by Candlelight My favourite event at Old Fort Niagara! The French Castle dressed up in Holiday Finest. Merriment everywhere! (View photos of the event…

Porter on the Lake with Henri

Porter on the Lake with Henri We had to have puppy love time before sending Henri to the kennel tomorrow while we are away…so we took him to…

Buffalo Irish Festival

The BFF came into town for the Buffalo Irish Festival at the end of August. This year the festival was held at Canalside which I thought would be…

Strawberry Picking!

Strawberry Picking! I know tis hard to believe but I actually FORGOT to bring my camera when we went strawberry picking the other weekend! And my camera phone…

Sting

  Sting. First of all. Wow. DO YOU SEE THIS BEAUTIFUL MAN? Beautiful body. Beautiful voice. I liked him even more when his voice started to fade a…

Happy Dyngus Day!

Happy Dyngus Day! I took today off of work…gonna go Dyngus now. Ten reasons why I love Dyngus Day. Vodka. Krupnik. RED the color red is everywhere. Polka,…

Fish Fry

Fish Fry. You Wanna Be Where Everybody Knows Your Name. HWMMS and I went on a quest for a fish fry that failed. So we ended up at…

Jayne Hat

He Who Makes Me Smile LOVED the Jayne hat. He proudly wore the goofy Jayne hat on his head for the Guinness toast at the Irish Center last…

No Noo Ramen

No Noo Ramen A ramen noodle restaurant? STOP! DON’T EVEN GO THERE! You went there, fair enough I did too. I’ve been seeing a lot of BUZZ on…

Anniversary Sabres Game

To celebrate our upcoming anniversary He Who Makes Me Smile and I went to a Sabres game last night. (Just like we did on our first date, Fat…

Queen City Roller Girls Holiday Frolic

Queen City Roller Girls Holiday Frolic Last night He Who Makes Me Smile and I attended the Queen City Roller Girls Holiday Frolic. For those of you who…

Niagara Celtic Festival

Niagara Celtic Festival. Ah, another weekend, another festival. This time it was the Niagara Celtic Heritage Heritage Festival. Fun times, fun times. We hung out with and watched…

Field of Sunflowers

Love. I’m totally in love with this field of sunflowers up the road. Note to self: Plant lots of sunflowers next year! Save

I Can’t Believe It’s Hardly A Pirate Festival!

I Can’t Believe It’s Hardly A Pirate Festival! He Who Makes Me Smile like pirates. And he had never been to the Olcott Pirate Festival before, so we…

Allentown Art Festival

He Who Makes Me Smile grew up in Niagara Falls, NY and had never been to the Allentown Art Festival. Hence, spending my Sunday in Allentown…people watching and…

Artvoice Best of Buffalo Awards

Nada. I attended the Artvoice Best of Buffalo Awards last night and ended up commiserating with my loser self and loser friends and their loser band at the…

Johnston’s Restaurant

Johnston’s Restaurant. Another country restaurant, this time Johnston’s out in the Ransomville. Hearty helpings! A bar full of snowmobilers taking a break from the cold and grabbing a…

Antiques and Collectables

And now the weekly installment of places I’ve been around the countryside of Niagara County. The Sanborn Old General Store. And the Ransomville Antique Co-op. While out I found…

Knead the Dough

Knead the Dough. While staying in the country this weekend “He Who Makes Me Smile” took me to the cutest gosh darn restaurant in Niagara County for breakfast…

Snow, Blood and Tacos

Snow, Blood and Tacos. First of all—what a FABULOUS winter day in the city of Buffalo for the FLURRIOUS FESTIVAL!Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!…

Coney Island Cockabilly Roadshow!

Last night, I found myself at Club Diablo for a Cockabilly Carnival of sorts. To think the original plan was Shakespeare in the Park to see the all…

Buffalo Spree Best of WNY Party!

2010 Buffalo Spree Best of WNY Party! I love a good Best of WNY Party. And Buffalo Spree does it right! I love Buffalo. I love winning awards….

Five Points Bakery

Oh, if only I could be the kind of person who bakes a loaf of bread every week. Someday. But not today. Today? I picked up my bread…

Where are you Prospero?

“…we need you more than ever now…” Every time I think of Prospero Restaurant, the Italian place behind Kleinhans Music Hall that I frequently, frequent) I get the…

All you can drink mimosa brunch!

Cheers! How odd that the six of us co-workers even like each other enough to hang out on a Sunday for brunch? Not odd at all if you…