May 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
early in the evening, when it was still light out, this raccoon appeared on the deck. look at his smile! if you inspect it closely you’ll see the bird seeds stuck to the end of his nose (I didn’t even see it, but Bev pointed it out to me). it looks like...
Jul 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
oh good lord. things are very crazy around here now. first – amy, jim, and kevin all left yesterday about noon; amy and jim to chicago to visit aunt sandy, and kevin off to wisconsin for another civil war shoot. yeah, that’s pretty much all he does all...
Jul 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
the weather is perfect; soon i will go plant some of the many flowers i bought for the newly-mulched area down by the dock. last night randy and i went to TWIRLS N SWIRLZ, or whatever the fabulous new yogurt place clear on the other side of town is called. I LOVE...
Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
sorry, no pictures of the CUTE CUTE CUTE baby raccoons… yesterday morning when kevin got up, he went out onto the screened porch and realized we had forgotten to close the glass door; only the screen door was closed. only it wasn’t because the raccoons had...
Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Sunday, July 10th, 2011 6:15 a.m. i was lying there in bed minding my own business, sleeping as well as could be expected considering that kevin and the animals were up and making a little bit of noise. then, mollie started BARKING LIKE CRAZY. oh boy, something in the...
Feb 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
here he is this morning, waddling all around the deck desperately trying to get enough to eat. ok then, mrs. holiday monday hughes.
Feb 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
friday early evening, the geese were hanging around. friday night, the moon rose and it was, as usual, magnificent. on saturday, the goose on the ground had to straaaiiiin to reach the feeder. it was so much easier when there was a huge mound of snow to stand on. it...
Feb 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
i don’t know if they like vegetarian lasagne. there was one piece of lasagne left in the fridge, lonely and forgotten and definitely not something anybody around here wanted to eat, so i cut it up and put it on the ledge where i have some piles of bird food. the...
Jan 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
when i got up this morning the swans were circling down by the dock. i put the popcorn into the microwave, as amy sent me a text – DON’T FEED THE SWANS FOR A WHILE, I JUST FED THEM. i stopped the microwave. she can’t find out how much you are...
Feb 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
…of the NOT GOING TO JURY DUTY LOTTERY!!!!! a couple months ago i got a notification for jury duty, and hoped that i wouldn’t actually be called. but then, i got the letter…today was my FIRST OFFICIAL JURY DUTY DAY. i had to go to the jury website...
Feb 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
it arrived yesterday afternoon at about 2:30 and i had just an hour and a half to figure it all out before my massage clients showed up at 4:00. i knew that by the time they left it’d be 6:00 and therefore dark so if i was going to take photos outside, i had to...
Feb 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
i couldn’t resist taking a few (dozen) more photos despite my messed-up camera. i put out some bread pieces and mr. raccoon seemed to like them a lot, but they were a little hard and he had to throw his head back to chomp on them. he was so close, i could see...
Feb 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
…but who’s to say that he’s a he? it could be a lady raccoon. i took gobs and gobs of pictures the night before last, and more last night. the night before last, valentine’s night, it was snowing like crazy. mollie slept so close to the...
Jan 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
and what a friday it’s been. another freezing cold day, but this one was filled with all kinds of excitement…way way way too much excitement… we took dad to the doctor yesterday and they told him that he’d be having surgery on both wrists. ...
Jan 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
this morning it is gone, the paper plate and everything. i’m thinking that the raccoon took it back to his tree to heat it up in the microwave. the plate might actually be out there on the deck, but i’m not going out there yet because it’s only ONE...
Jan 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
dinner, part one: ok, for the moment let’s just ignore the fact that it only got up to 14 today and right now it’s seven with a wind chill of minus four, and it looks like it’s going to be like that forever, except for sunday when we’re going...
