more photos of june

i was walking down to the water late in the day when i’d spotted the fawn.  it was still curled up, and didn’t move even though i got pretty darn close. paradise.  every day i think about how lucky i am to get to be here. chester and les don’t think...

ok ok ok, on a gray and gloomy thursday morning…

well, the bad news is that i went running on saturday and felt so good that i ran for 45 minutes instead of 30 minutes, and i hadn’t run in maybe a month, but really, that shouldn’t have caused ALL THIS PAIN.  my foot is kind of swollen and it’s...

WEDNESDAY,

and randy, i’m happy to say, is safe and sound. on sunday he traveled to Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, to go to a destination wedding.  well, on sunday he was supposed to fly out of springfield to chicago, and then his charter plane left ridiculously...

two days after my birthday…

and the highlight of my day was eating a chocolate chip off the dining room floor. well, there were some other good things about the day, but usually if there’s something on the dining room floor, it’s a piece of dry cat food, not a delicious,...

a better day…

yesterday, a little rocky, but today promises to be better. for one thing, kevin is coming home. he’s been gone since wednesday, at the North South Skirmish Association spring national civil war shooting competion in winchester, VA. or the soggy excuse for it...

fat assing it plus LYLE LOVETT!

saturday was a very big day. first, the Fat Ass 5k, which was actually pretty fun.  the race started at the very civilized hour of 10 a.m. here’s kevin, dressed in his civil war garb, so that he could fire the opening shot of the race and then sprint along in...

yeah, november.

oh boy. at the end of september, kevin and garrick drove the very very long drive to winchester, virginia, where they worked at the NSSA, that is to say, north south skirmish association, their big twice-yearly national shooting competition.  the different units take...

tuesday, and all is kinda well

except for being sick, but i’m almost better, but i’ve had a horrible cold that turned into an achy, drained, awful awfulness that went on waaaay too long. it has made my brain feel really slow, too, which is pretty bad because it hasn’t been exactly...

happy labor day!

well, first of all, kevin was on the news YET AGAIN, but i didn’t put it up yet because, as previously mentioned, i’m VERY VERY BAD. so here it is – not quite as exciting, in my opinion, as the fencing video because kevin wasn’t the sole focus...

sunday afternoon

whew.  no raccoons at all today; instead, i thoroughly cleaned the screened porch.  let me just say this – i never knew what raccoon pee smelled like.  I WILL NOW REMEMBER IT FOREVER.  IT IS A VERY VERY BAD SMELL. this is the picture i took with my phone friday...

happy holiday, everybody…

kevin found our red white and blue lighted flag decoration, which i’m about to go put down by the dock.  there are plenty of boats out today, even though it must be kind of toasty out there.  i also have to clean the boat seats, and i’m afraid i’m...

grand champeen!

kevin just sent me these photos; he got FIRST PLACE in the smoothbore individual competition; he was shooting with the “A” shooters, the best of the best.  good job, honey!  he was also on the A team for the smoothbore team shoot and they won first place! ...

the international sailing regatta…

which happened last week…many things have happened since then.  but first, a photo of the very first tomb ceremony, last tuesday night.  i wonder if they’ll be out there in the rain tonight?  maybe it won’t be raining, but it’ll be mighty soggy...

the rendezvous! part two…

on saturday we only stayed at fort de chartres for a few hours, then we were off to Ste. genevieve, MO, to our B&B.  i’d booked it because it was a short drive and ferry ride to ste. genevieve – only 15 minutes. but then we found out that ferry...

the rendezvous! Part One

over the weekend, Kevin and i went to the 41st annual Fort De Chartres Rendezvous, just outside of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois.  it’s about two and a half hours south of springfield. “Rendezvous is a re-creation of the traditional Frech fur trapper’s...

memorial day…

memorial day, kevin took part in three different memorial events involving warm woolen pants and jackets and all that stuff…the first one was at Lincoln’s Tomb, the second one was at Oak Ridge Cemetery, and i went to watch the third one, at Camp Butler....

happy birthday, mr. dylan…

bob dylan and i have the same birthday, which i’m sure i’ve posted here before but i bet you don’t remember. kevin shares barack obama’s birthday. i am celebrating today with…a new case of poison ivy.  last year when i got it so bad and...

hey, we’re all still here!

whew, that’s a relief!  the world didn’t end yesterday, and we only have one more show this afternoon!  i hoped you had a chance to see it, or i hope you’ll be there this afternoon.  we haven’t had big crowds, but they’ve been...

happy st. patrick’s day!

first, on wednesday we babysat numie and noodle and amy texted me, wanting to know if they were being good.  they’re ALWAYS good, i wrote back, including this picture. of course, prior to and directly after this they were running around like maniacs, but...

freedom freedom freedom…

mubarak has left office! it’s an amazing, extraordinary, historic day, one that will be remembered forever. on the news, young people were talking about the fact that they’ve never known freedom in their lifetime. a sobering thought. meanwhile, here in...

Abraham Lincoln’s Portable Writing Desk!

Sunday night we went to the 114th’s annual dinner.  last year we had dinner, fine, drinks, fine, but then, BUT THEN…the most boring speaker on the face of the earth.  she started droning on and on AND ON about medical stuff in the civil war; i can’t...

final day of shooting…

the sunday morning of the shoot, it was COLD.  brrrr. they were going to have an opening ceremony for this last day of shooting, so i hustled down to watch.  the guys were all lined up, and then…what did they do?  i feel that they played some confederate anthem,...

RANDY UPDATE! plus camping…

randy finally sent me a text from the train; he didn’t get to meet babs, but he was EIGHT FEET from her, oprah, and robert redford!  i wonder what he was doing there?  i texted randy that he shoulda jumped the stage.  i mean, yeah, he’d have been thrown...

OK OK OK…

i have been camping.  i have been camping in tennessee.  i have been camping in our popup camper at the nathan bedford forrest state park.  i find that a little confusing; it’s not a FOREST, it’s a state park,but the guy’s last name is forrest.  we...

A REALLY IMPORTANT VA vacation addition!

in my hurry to post many photos, i woefully neglected to mention how kevin did in the shooting competition!  he shot in eight different categories, four different kinds of guns – the revolver, the rifled musket, smoothbore, and the carbine.  he was going to...