Aug 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
did you see it? yesterday, at 1:18 p.m.? that’s when it happened here, anyway… i wasn’t that enthusiastic about the eclipse, really, but yesterday morning as i was driving home from work, my friend jill told me that she had eclipse glasses. i...
Aug 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
how is that possible, anyway? why does time speed by so much more quickly as i get older? how is it that the fair is starting on thursday? it’s a strange day today; it’s usually hot and humid at the start of august but instead it’s cloudy and cool...
Feb 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
final random photos from january… chester, who should clearly be a planter mixed nuts spokescat. a hawk landed on the fence outside the window. the other birds freaked out, but no one was injured. four of amy’s five darling IGs – they, too, should...
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...
Jul 31, 2016 | Wales 2015
the nice thing about disembarking from the Queen Mary is that it’s fast and efficient. we walked to our assigned place for disembarking…it was the Winter Garden again. Our scheduled departure was 9:50, but when we got that at 9:30, they started herding...
Apr 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
it’s that time of year again – it’s a little warmer than usual, we had six big scoops of mulch delivered to our driveway, there’s so much to do outside…that’s how i spent most of my weekend, starting on friday morning. i’m a...
Jan 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
i’ll get caught up before the end of the year! hopefully. only a couple more days… ok, i wrote the above a few days ago, and now it’s a whole nother year… i have high hopes for this year! i’ve been thinking about resolutions, and...
Dec 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
yeah, i’m not even quite sure how that happened. whoosh, and it’s over. the day after christmas i got up and thought that i really wanted to take down all the decorations, but since i’d put the very final ones up on xmas morning, i decided i should...
Dec 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
i hope you’re happy and not having any holiday depression, i hope you’re not already drunk before 8 a.m.! but if you are, i hope i makes you feel better. here at the hughes house…things are quiet, except, of course, for a little chester-winnie...
Dec 18, 2015 | Wales 2015
which, as i mentioned in the previous post, didn’t involve walking at all! well, not walking on the pembrokshire coast path, but we did hike around the area around Martin’s Haven, where we took a boat ride out to Skomer Island. we had gotten to...
Dec 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
i’ve been struggling to add posts about our trip, much too busy these days working and stuff, but here are some photos of our kitties who are feeling very neglected at not being represented here. les, enjoying the dock. sometimes kevin chases him around...
Oct 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
i called bev on saturday; she’d called me during the week and i’d been too busy and forgot to call her back. from now on i must call her back right away, no matter what…because she’d spent the week in a state of fervent agitation and general...
Oct 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
winnie seems to be handling his diabetes diagnosis pretty well. i can give him a shot now without freaking him out, and of course kevin has been an expert at it for a very long time. i took this picture as winnie dozed with his head on kevin’s comfy keyboard,...
Oct 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
and things are ok. trying to wake up this morning. it’s harder to get out of bed when it’s chillier outside; how will i ever manage when it gets truly cold? let’s not worry about that right now. one moment at a time. here’s mincy and numie;...
Sep 22, 2015 | Wales 2015
it’s convenient that the first day of our trip coincided with the first day of the month. we got up early cause the train was going to leave at 9:30 SHARP. First, we had to pet the kitties a little more. so sad to be leaving them for five weeks! but at least...
Jul 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
it’s been a weird summer thus far. rain rain rain, and then a couple hot days, then more rain…i haven’t had to water the plants much, which is a good thing! wow, i forgot all about these beautiful peonies that i picked in may…they bloomed like...
Apr 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
and kevin got up at FOUR THIRTY this morning. which just makes me sad. but he seems quite happy that he got up hours ago already. so…i’ve been rushing to put up all the photos from april, and i’m pretty sure this will be pretty historic, if i...
Apr 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
i started this post on wednesday, blinked, and now it’s friday already!!! no exciting BILLY BOY THORNTON or even boat ride photos today; this morning, it’s all about the cats, all about the cats, all about the cats… chester, hidden kitty in the photo...
Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
mom and i went to see KINKY BOOTS last night at the fox theater in st. louis, and i love that show! i’m going to go out and buy myself a pair of tall red boots! or maybe, a pair of tall red pumps, even better! they had these funny cardboard standups around for...
Mar 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
oh, the snow. oh, the snow. the snow. the snow. the snow. it started about four in the afternoon yesterday, and it just kept a goin. we had plans to have a cast party at the hilton last night, but as the show went on, we kept seeing the snow falling…and...
Jan 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
and things are good. here are the final, final photos from 2014. let’s be done with it already! just a few xmas photos – i’ve noticed that many, many people still have their xmas decorations up still. get over it, people! here’s a happy xmas...
Dec 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
yes, i have quite a few things to do, but not so many, not gonna get all stressed about it. now, if the sun would just come out. it’s been more than 10 days since the sun has shone. a little bit yesterday, but come on, already. winnie, on the seat cushion...
Dec 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
i woke up at 6:30, decided to stay in bed and pet poor tiny lester til 7:00. why get up before it’s light outside, anyway? well, there’s yesterday morning, when i got up at FIVE THIRTY. ridiculous. RIDICULOUS. kevin had gotten up at 5:00. this morning,...
Nov 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
i read that last post of mine from last week; that day we did get soooo many things done, but we only got the pontoon boat ready for winter. but the cadillac is back in the garage. yesterday it was also warm, so we did many more outside things, including getting the...
Nov 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
this morning i’m trying to focus on the positive, instead of all the election results. the positive, of course, is the cats. plus, i bet this is the last day this year that the temperatures are going to climb into the 60s. we have a bevy of outdoor stuff to do...
Oct 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
and it’s early around here! last night i asked kevin to please wake me up by 7:30, so he woke up at five because he was afraid he’d oversleep. and then, of course, i was up by seven. so we’re all up. but i, for one, won’t be fully awake for...
Oct 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
it’s only fall, but the sky looks like winter, bleak and gray and where is the sun? it will surely return again someday. meanwhile…soon i have to go to randy’s house to check on sweet little rupee, but first, i have a big melange of all the photos...
Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
we came so close to going someplace, so close to putting up some photos that weren’t just adorable pictures of our kitties…we were going to go up to northern illinois to visit kevin’s family, but he got sick, so we didn’t go. and...
Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
i feel that i should change the name of this site to “les paul.” or “les paul plus occasionally chester and winnie.” also i should probably get out more, for no other reason than to take pictures of something besides the cats. but i like to be...
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...
