Oct 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
And whoosh go the days…here are a few photos from way back in August. This is the night of Aug. 30th, when we had a special blue super moon. We went out on the boat to see it, and Kevin and I don’t take a nighttime boat time, well, ever. It was magical. Of...
Oct 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Kevin took this photo of Spot in our attached garage. When I first glanced at the picture, I thought, “where on earth is that messy place?” And was chagrined to realize that it’s our garage. Soooo much stuff…but maybe a lot of it is just empty...
Sep 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
September, really? It was almost fall-like for a few days but now it’s hot again, but not into the triple digits at least. Way back in August, Riley kept trying to relax. Ditto Lester. He’s lying on the case for our giant inflatable swan that we pull...
Nov 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
the white pelicans are back and as usual i keep trying to get a good close-up. this one on october 16th wasn’t too bad. the problem is that when i walk down to the water they start to quietly glide away. Kevin bought and assembled another component for our kitty...
Oct 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
i can’t say why i’ve been so productive lately. On Friday it was, indeed, really warm outside and I dug up most of my gerbera daisies but when i was done putting them in pots i realized i’d missed a small one and decided that enough was enough, and...
Oct 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
it’s chilly and rainy today so i’m taking a break from painting the old entrance to the house. i started the project yesterday and spent two hours taping all the glass that needed to be taped and then another couple hours applying primer but i got so tired...
Sep 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
On sunday August 2nd I took a little video of an ant carrying around a gigantic bug. He was working so hard… I thought it was interesting to think of this ant’s struggle and wondering if it was successful in getting to its final destination. there were...
Aug 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
On Saturday, July 27th, we went over to the Yacht Club for a fundraiser. It was a beautiful night and awesome to sit out and watch the boats going by on the lake. i know i’m lucky enough to sit outside and watch boats go by all the time, but this was great...
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 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
this is one of my favorite pelican photos (and I took approximately one million of them during the summer/fall). we went out on the boat on October 20th, and I went out again on the 22nd. kevin didn’t want to go with me, so I went by myself and had a...
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...
Jul 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
glenn helped kevin launch his sailboat at the beginning of the month. kevin lowered the boat into the water, and glenn motored back to shore…except the motor died, a constant theme in the hughes household up til recently. luckily we have the new pontoon boat...
Sep 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
my phone being fine after having an overnight at the bottom of the lake was only a temporary thing, which is really ok since i was able to back it up to my computer and all my very very important notes that i’d stored are now safely on amy’s old phone for...
Nov 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
i woke up before seven, i don’t know why. it wasn’t even light out yet! i really don’t know how kevin does that, mostly waking up before the sun has risen. it’s like getting up in the middle of the night. but here we are, and i’m...
Sep 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
and i’ve been busily photoshopping many, many photos, and guess what – they’re mostly photos of lester! such a surprise! taking pictures of les when we’re on our walks is always a lot of fun, though. plus i can’t help it because...
May 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
i did spectacularly break a butter dish last night, with no effort at all. i was trying to get a can of diet root beer out of the pantry and somehow managed to CRASH the glass butter dish to the floor, with many, many little shards of glass everywhere. nothing broken...
Apr 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
yes, it’s almost the very middle of april and we’re SUPPOSED TO GET SNOW LATER TODAY. a very, very unfortunate state of affairs. as i’ve already written here, we bought 22 bags of mulch last thursday, plus a new front door. on friday we went back to...
Oct 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
ok, the end of october looms menacingly at me… many, many sailboat pictures. first, the day, sometime in september, when kevin was so dying to get out on the sailboat that he went out on the lake with just the little sail, the jib, right? the little sail in the...
Oct 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
i spent the last two days furiously cleaning the hot tub room (it was filthy), getting it ready for the huge influx of flowers, then moving the flowers, and digging up some that were in non-moveable planters, and carrying so much stuff around that i wore myself out...
Oct 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
this is the september day when we launched the sailboat. and “we” is used very loosely, because you’ll see that really, kevin did all the work. here he is, seeing how far down the water is. now, backing the boat into the water. well, this is my job...
Oct 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
and september is already gone and i throw up my hands at ever getting all the photos up here from things that happened in september, besides our darling dog dying, which has made me too sad to do most anything. but life does go on, and the sailboat has been launched...
Sep 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
so…mollie wasn’t feeling good yesterday morning. she was shaking, which seemed very bad. i called the U of I, and one of the oncology vets who was on-call called me right back. she suggested i see how mollie was doing in a couple of hours, and that we...
Aug 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
yeah, i know, unprecedented for a really long time, me writing on here two days in a row. kevin’s sailboat excitement continues. he said he woke up extra early this morning cause he was so excited about the boat. he couldn’t start working on it cause it...
Aug 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
we hurried over to the lake christian camp place to buy the boat. i told mom that she MUST NOT USE THE F WORD around the nice christian fella selling us the boat, and if she did, we’d make her pay the extra cost he’d inevitably charge us! here’s one...
Jul 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
yes, it’s definitely tuesday. yoga this morning. so, the super duper class at the fit club isn’t going so great. it’s called “dynamic training,” and so far i’ve been two times. the first time was friday, and there were four of...
Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
the other evening, around five o’clock, kevin said “grace, come out and see this…” there were two deer in the front yard, stopping by for a visit. they didn’t stay long… and they left, heading next door to make their way down the...
