Dec 5, 2023 | travel, Uncategorized
In November Kevin and I drove up to Starved Rock again – we went in 2021 and haven’t been anywhere together since then. How can this be rectified? Must find a cat-sitter willing to care for our herd of cats. They’re very nice cats, BTW, in case you...
Jan 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
After our lovely hike on Dec. 8th, we enjoyed dinner at the Starved Rock dining room. The giant fireplace was decorated for Xmas. I had…beef something, with mushrooms, and Kevin had pot roast. All was delicious, and once again hardly any others were in the...
Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
On December 8th we spent the night at Starved Rock State Park. Just one night, but it was incredible to get out of town, something we hadn’t done since our trip to Glacier in September of 2019. Yeah, a very long time. I’d booked the overnight to Starved...
Nov 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
and i’m tired. but my house is clean, one of those rare times when it looks pretty good and i wish it looked that way more often. the thing about cleaning is that you get it all done and then it just gets dirty/messy again. meanwhile… as i wrote last time,...
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...
May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
as i said, we didn’t intend to hike much on thursday because we were a little beat from wednesday. we drove over to the parking lot for st. louis canyon, so we didn’t have to hike over there. it looked like the canyon was right off the parking lot. but...
Apr 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
i hope you have fun weekend plans, and if you’re here in spfld, i hope they don’t involve any outdoor activities because it’s supposed to rain a lot. but of course you never really know about the weather until you’re actually right there in...