Schoeneck Mansion

Schoeneck Mansion, originally uploaded by Melsky.

I used to walk by this place a lot - it's a beautifully restored Victorian with a lot of attention to detail. I recently discovered that it was built by one of the founders of a large Syracuse law firm which is still in existence today, Bond, Schoeneck and King. Now it's medical offices.

Today we ate at Steve's Mexican Cantina, also known as Beans, the secret hidden Mexican restaurant in Tipp Hill. I'll be writing a review later. It was great though.

Mostly I am busy, busy, busy at work to the point where I feel guilty all the time if I'm not working! I have a lot of phone calls to return.

We are down on inventory too, as far as apartments go. A lot of stuff has been rented and people are calling and looking for stuff we don't have right now. Very frustrating.

A few more shots from Taste of Syracuse

These are random crowd shots from Friday Afternoon. Keep in mind that it gets much, much more crowded Friday night and on Saturday. We did stop by on Friday night but it was too crowded so we ate at Smorals, a great neighborhood restaurant in the Tipp Hill - Solvay area that I will have to review some time.

A short walk through my neighborhood

This is Whittier Avenue, the street I live on in Tipp Hill. It's a pretty quiet street, with mostly single family homes and a few duplexes.



The next photo is the Pass Arboretum. It's a park with many varieties of trees.







Then we walked by the Myrtle Hill Cemetery but didn't go in.

Family of Cats

This is Mocha and her kittens Imp and Luna. Imp is the orange one!

Flowers from my garden

These are all in my garden. The house I bought has a garden already, with perennials and self seeding annuals. I don't really have to do anything except weed. The bad thing is there's no room for planing anything else unless I dig up more areas, which I haven't been motivated to do. I probably would have preferred a house where the gardens had some room for annuals though.

Roji Tea House in Syracuse, NY

Roji Tea House in Syracuse, NY, originally uploaded by Melsky.

Roji Tea House is right in Downtown Syraucuse. I went here on my first ever trip to Syracuse and the business was pretty new then. I'm glad it's still here, three years later. This is chai milk tea with honey on the side and green tea cookies.

http://www.roji-tealounge.com/