on the first day of may, wrapping up march…

May 1, 2020

Yeah, pretty lame that i’m just doing this now. same excuse as before; it’s now 11:30 on this sunny friday morning and at least i’m out of my jammies, but only just. lots of time spent reading reading reading about the coronavirus; the latest news is that it could be here for 18 months to […]

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good monday morning…

April 20, 2020

and i know that “good” is pushing it a bit. but it’s good because it’s a dazzlingly sunny day and the weather is warming up and we’re all healthy and safe. every day i try to accomplish something. some days i don’t get anything at all done. I’ve been exercising a lot, but that’s partly […]

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an adorable turtle on youtube!

April 14, 2020

Trying to find happy things, i came across this on you tube and you have to watch it. soooo cute! today my plan was to post some photos/videos from march, but then other things have come up. so this is a perfect thing to share with you on this tuesday morning. i hope you’re hanging […]

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A stormy April evening

April 13, 2020

Last Wednesday, April 8th, there were thunderstorm warnings and big hail coming down not too far north of town. So of course I ran down to the water to take a look. This is the sky a little before 5:00 p.m. That’s kevin over there on the left, talking to his friend Glenn about the […]

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Sunday Kitty Fun

April 6, 2020

I have things to post from march, but right now i’m posting this because it’s so funny and cute. first – Lovey the outside cat is transitioning to inside, and kevin was upstairs where she’s quarantined for now. I was going to join them, but sweet Sweetie was lying in the massage room so i […]

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Final shots of Tampa

April 5, 2020

Update on life: Whew. Every single day, whew. I almost always end the day talking to bev and we share with each other things the other one might have missed, all the horrible stuff happening everywhere. We always end up giving a handful of heavy sighs, and then we laugh about the sighing because otherwise […]

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Final Florida sunset…

April 2, 2020

Life update on April 2nd: many daffodils are blooming, the grass is green, buds are coming all over the place. spring is starting to spring, which is all good. but of course there’s so much worry and uncertainty now that life is different. every day i furiously read about more cases of coronavirus, more dire […]

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Once more to Pass-A-Grille Beach

March 29, 2020

Real-time life update: Yesterday it got up to 71 degrees and kevin and i took a little walk through the fields which which had lots of standing water. it was great to get outside. After that i decided i needed to transplant a few tulips which had somehow come up in the front. i though […]

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Sunset on Clearwater Beach

March 27, 2020

Life here in Springfield right now : warmer. still coughing. daffodils starting to come up, yay for that. Back in Florida, BCV: after they took away our beach chairs Mom and I found a picnic table to sit at at the end of the Clearwater Beach pier. here’s a pretty terrible panorama, but you an […]

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Clearwater Beach

March 26, 2020

Life update: same as yesterday, except we had some sunshine yesterday. Still spending most of my day on the couch, coughing continues. but it’s getting warmer and soon i’ll be sitting around outside. But before all this…we arrived at the Clearwater Beach dock on the afternoon of Sun. Feb. 23rd and quite a few people […]

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