Jun 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
Dec 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
Jun 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
May 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
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,...
May 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
May 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
Nov 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
Sep 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
Sep 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
Jun 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
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! ...
Jun 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
Jun 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
Jun 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
Jun 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
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....
May 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
May 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
May 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
i had this big one pound bag of loose lapsang souchong that made me look forward to getting up in the morning, but somehow i managed to scrape out every last leaf out of the mottom of the bag before i ordered more. this morning i’m drinking mint tea which is...
Apr 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
kevin got home last night and we were very happy to see him, and he brought me a CIVIL WAR DRESS from his mom, which she’d had made at some point for some living history thing. he had stopped to see his parents after his shooting competition. she also included...
Mar 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
Feb 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
this is at the depot before the reading started. here’s mary greeting her fans. what a funny expression on abe’s face. kevin, always keeping watch in the background, as mary continues to greet her public. i wonder what he was thinking there – maybe...
Feb 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
Jan 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
Nov 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
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,...
Nov 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
last friday, kevin got through his first afternoon of shooting at the nathan bedford forrest state park in Eva, Tennessee, and on saturday he was just going to do one more individual shoot in the morning, and then had some team competitions in the afternoon....
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Nov 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Oct 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Oct 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
here’s the rest of that same entry that i was working on last monday, when we drove down to the westmoreland state park in northern VA. we’d had dinner with kelly, rob, and their daughter katie on sunday night, and we left thad’s house around one on...