Feb 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
The sun is shining, always a nice thing, but the temperature is going to start plunging tonight and it’ll be super duper cold for at least the week. Last night Kevin turned on the faucets in the bathrooms and opened the doors underneath so the pipes...
Feb 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Early in the month as I packed up decorations, Les found this outdoor mat to be the most comfy place to lie down on. A couple of times Riley jumped up and sat on him and then they got into a little tussle, but mostly Lester just enjoyed the scratchy mat. Another...
Jan 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Here’s the front walk on Saturday January 3rd at 11 o’clock at night. Snow had been threatened in the forecast and it finally started coming down. On Sunday we woke up to dazzling sunny skies. Everything was covered in snow and on top of that was a layer...
Dec 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s the beginning of the middle of December, really? Already? At least i’ve updated my banner. Here’s the loveliest picture I feel i’ve taken in a long while. December 2nd, when the clouds were glorious. and here’s a great, up close and...
May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
whew. Xmas is now ridiculously close and i still have a whole bunch of stuff to do. I think i’m still a little tired from all the traveling. I just transferred my 2.3 millions photos from phone to computer and i can’t think about them right now, even...
Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
I feel i’ve been woefully lacking in my posting of les paul photos, so here are some from the beginning of November. we were having a lovely walk…and then Les decided to climb right up the oak tree that’s leaning way over in the lake. he didn’t...
Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
gee, i can’t believe it’s already the last month of the year…my goal is to get everything from this year posted in this year. not a huge goal, so hopefully it’s attainable. first – when i jog on the lake road i pass a house that has a...
Nov 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
whew, plenty has been going on around here since we got back to spfld at the end of September…like, for example, it’s almost thanksgiving! two more days. must get on it. but backtracking, highlights of this fall: on Monday Sept. 20th we drove up to...
Aug 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
i haven’t been on the water enough this year, but i feel that i feel that way every year. but it’s not too late… driving home from the fair on Wed. Aug. 14th, i said to mom, “let’s go for a boat ride tonight.” she called her friend...
Aug 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
today, saturday august 24th, is an amazingly beautiful day. it’s crazy windy, so windy that our friend glenn can’t take his big sailboat out. winds were 15 MPH, now they’re down to 13. Anyway, august…first, just another beautiful evening boat...
Aug 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
i started the month working on the back windows/door. It had been on my to-do list last summer and it never happened; it seemed kind of overwhelming. i did scrape the windows a little, but that’s it. So on August 1st, here’s how the windows looked when i...
Jul 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
last wednesday, the 17th, the sky got dark and i ran down to the dock to take pictures. actually, first i ran to the dock to look up at the sky, hoping for rain. because it had been so hot i was desperate for rain so i wouldn’t have to water. but when i got down...
Jul 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
the summer whizzes past. yesterday i spent about five hours working out in the yard. i weeded for an hour and kevin had tilled up some of the grass to make an areain the fenced yard to plant hostas, so I spent time moving my paver bricks to create a new border. then...
Feb 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
at least we’re having a little break from the bitterly cold weather; last week was record-breaking cold temperatures and even though it’s 58 degrees right now, the lake is still mostly frozen. but hey, it’s february, it’s possible to squint...
Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
on tuesday i was scrounging around in a cabinet, looking for frames to put some of winnie’s photos in, and i found yet another big stack of pictures. here’s the very first picture i took of winnie! i was ridiculously happy that i found it. he’s...
Dec 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
oh boy. head about to explode, late on a sunday night. first – new wordpress update and i can’t really figure it out. i know that when i did the update there was some kind of choice about doing it the old way, instead, but now of course i can’t...
Dec 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
first, happy belated birthday, bev! here she is with a group of friends vigorously celebrating her special day. one of her friends bought bev the Barbie seen there in front of the pig, and they carried the Barbie around with them all day, photographing it in all...
Dec 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
down at the dock on sunday, November 4th – I was looking at the pelicans, and suddenly there was a rainbow. the sun lit up a spot across the lake. I turned around to see the sun setting. don’t see a sunset very often from the house. the pelicans were so...
Nov 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
after glenn helped us get out sailboat out of the water, we helped him get his out. this was Tuesday, October 30th – we all drove over to the yacht club in kevin’s big truck and attached glenn’s trailer. glenn climbed aboard, and I was excited to...
Nov 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
and the thing is it seems like deep winter all of a sudden. fall passed in the blink of an eye – it got deeply cold yesterday and snowed. ugh. to early. let’s go back to mid-October when we had that little flash of autumn. Winnie enjoyed lying in a new...
Oct 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
this is the latest we’ve ever had the boat out…actually, every year since we had our old boat, it broke down sometime mid-summer. this year the water has been really high, plus new boat… it was a beautiful day for it, and I wanted to see if the white...
Sep 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
to us! yesterday was kevin and my 12th anniversary. it’s astounding to realize that twelve years have flown by. kevin bought me these gorgeous roses… …and we took a nice boat ride early in the day, before it got too hot. lots of gulls followed us....
Sep 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
first, a couple of darling kitty photos. this was sunday, august 26th. les had to rest his weary head on top of a sock, on top of a cushion, on top of a rug…and yet his usual favored sleeping position is resting against some cold piece of metal. Winnie is...
Aug 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
I took many photos and a completely berserk amount of video of the huge team of guys felling our trees. i’m still pretty sad about the whole thing even thought it was all my idea. I am grateful that the giant tree won’t smash through the bedroom roof and...
Aug 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
first, there was kevin’s birthday. I attempted to make a healthier version of a black forest cake and it ended up taking a very very long time and there was lots of oozing of cherries and it was sort of a big mess…but he seemed to like it. kevin took this...
Aug 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
when we were out on the boat on july 23rd, we saw this tree that had crashed onto this boathouse. ouch. at least it didn’t crash through and destroy the fancy boat moored there. amy and jim’s dogs love to sunbathe. I believe they’re on a pad and...
Aug 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
the summer roars by, nothing to stop it…we had a lovely reprieve from the hot heat, but it’s back to feeling like august again, but at least it’s happening now in the correct month, not like the sweltering time we had in june… so many boats continue...
Jul 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
right now the weather is extraordinarily fantastic, so yay for that! 79 degrees right now, we might as well be in wales. even though we’re staying home this summer, things are mighty fine. just ask les and riley… here’s the first tiny start of a...
Jul 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
this was the morning of june 28th, when the awesome jeff smith from his company JLS Marine boated over and installed our new boat lift. it was quite an exciting morning, and remarkable at how quickly he and his worker, Fred, were able to secure the lift. fred is the...
