Dec 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
i was looking up my site again, and there are lots and lots of my photos floating around out there on different websites. there’s a photo i took at the hollywood bowl, there’s one of me at the huntington garden in pasadena, there’s one that kevin took of me in hawaii....
Dec 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
it doesn’t get better than this. we’re sitting here in the lobby of the holiday inn, about to go have some dinner. kevin and the band are setting up in the milk barn down near hamel, illinois (i’d never heard of hamel illinois) but they’re having sound issues so it’s...
Dec 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
that perfectly sums up the result of yesterday. i started at 11. a.m. by 6:10 we had the stuff packed in the car. thousands of cheese puffs, trays of crostini with two kinds of dips (bruschetta and a delicious olive/artichoke dip), spanikopeta, sausage/cheese/olives...
Dec 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’m happy to report that this chinese person feels that we have a lovely and sustainable garden. here’s the translated page. translated page!
Dec 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
i was looking around at my statistics again and i found a very very odd thing. there’s a line from my website about my garden, with a photo of the garden. it’s on an asian website, and i’m dying to know what the person wrote about my garden, and they have a link to my...
Dec 26, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
which will be filled with much activity. today, though, i’m pretty sure i’m not getting far from the new red leather chair. i did take mollie for a walk, and she was sufficiently delighted. ok, like i promised, more photos of our austria bike trip. the last time i...
Dec 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
all of them. of course. ok, i haven’t eaten all of them. yet. i’ve been surrounded by all these cookies that i made, plus the xmas chocolate candies that i used for decorating the table, and the boxes of chocolates i received from people at work…but then dad...
Dec 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
whew. last night, lots of food. lots of food. a few gifts. this morning, more food. more food. many many many more gifts. we finally came home and set up our two BEAUTIFUL NEW RED LEATHER CHAIRS that kevin bought me and then we tried to take a nap but i couldn’t sleep...
Dec 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’m sitting in randy’s office now, where the stereo is, and because the speakers are in here, it’s VERY VERY LOUD in this room. i cannot even hear my thoughts at all, so you can imagine how difficult it is to try to type coherently. the party is going well, but i...
Dec 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
it’s three a.m. on saturday night. the wind has been howling outside for the past hour and a half. or at least that’s how long i’ve been awake listening to it. it was so loud that i was sure it was going to blow all the siding off the house, as well as major chunks of...
Dec 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’ve reached my saturation point. tonight i was close to tears because i bought this one neat present that comes in a clear plastic case and i took it out of the case and now I CANNOT FIND THE CASE ANYWHERE and i kept looking and looking, around and around the house,...
Dec 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’ve almost reached the point where i CANNOT SHOP ANYMORE. last night i told randy that i’d be happy to go xmas shopping with him, because i’m just about done with my own shopping, plus i’ve pretty much stopped baking cookies except i did mix up some sugar cookies...
Dec 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
am i the only person who has never heard this very very funny and cute song? here’s a link to one of the many videos of the song on you tube. i’m glad i don’t watch you tube because i feel that if i did, that’s probably about all i’d do. YOU MUST CLICK ON THIS LINK! I...
Dec 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
this has been the warning ever since last thursday. tonight randy says that on the news they declared that there will be a HALF INCH OF ICE by tomorrow morning and it will be VERY VERY BAD out there. right now it’s 34 degrees and seems to be getting warmer and i feel...
Dec 8, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
on thursday at 4:00 p.m., i left work and there were two giant trucks in the gas station parking lot, both loaded to the top with mounds of salt, both with lights on and MOTORS RUNNING. they were READY FOR THE SNOW. it didn’t start until six, and i keep wondering if...
Dec 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
it was the call you never want to get. after seeing the bee movie on friday night, we came home and this was the message on my phone (which i’d left at home, which i never do) “hi, grace, this is mom. we’re at the emergency room, because we think dad had a heart...
Nov 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
soooo tired. such a very busy week of massaging this week. i was going to get up and DO WEIGHTS at the fit club this morning, but it just didn’t happen. i don’t care. perhaps i’ll take mollie for a short walk b4 giving a long massage this afternoon, but NO RUNNING....
Nov 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
have you heard of this man? tonight i finally got to some actual content in oprah magazine, and there, on the very very last page, was oprah’s back page column, and she mentioned Dr. Randy Pausch, “the Carnegie Meloon professor who was diagnosed with pancreatic...
Nov 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
the cat honey sleeping next to me reminded me of last week’s roofing debacle. here are some of the photos i took in the morning, before the fatigue caught up to me and i was ready to weep from fatigue and hunger. ok, see that peak of the roof? mom and randy had to rip...
Nov 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
ok, well one thing, anyway. ok, i called erica. i mean, this was actually something on my list of THINGS TO GET DONE. but i was going to save calling erica till i had done other things that i didn’t particularly want to do. so actually, then, calling erica was...
Nov 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
my great big pink jammies, to be exact. i bought them last year at kohl’s and they’re very very soft and fuzzy and comfy and they’re extra-large so they’re really really huge and i love them. yesterday during the day i was thinking that there are many many things i...
Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
here are a few more photos of mom’s trip to europe back in the 50’s. i know that the people out there who don’t read this but just look at the photos will be very confused about these pictures because sometimes people seem to think that we’re STILL on our bike trip in...
Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
after the requisite gobs of turkeystuffingcranberrysaucemashedpotatoessweetpotatoescorncasserolegreenbeansalad dessertsgaloreincludingagermanchocolatepecanpiethatwassosweetitwasalmosttoosweetforme andyouknowthat’sreallysweet, it was time for the highlight of the...
Nov 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
here’s mom in vienna, on the square in front of st. mark’s cathedral. and this is the danube river, taken from somewhere in vienna. this is mom with some man named johann emmerstorfer. i have no idea who he is, but i’ll find out today when we show the slides. now that...
Nov 22, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
i haven’t written in a whole week because i’ve been very busy scanning, going to missouri, and roofing. yes, that’s right, roofing. i can add that to my resume of very valuable skills. when we were in missouri over the weekend (it was beautiful, by the way, and we did...
Nov 15, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
i’m not sure how it got to be thursday already. there continues to be many things i want to do, but suddenly it’s thursday and i haven’t accomplished any of them. currently i’m obsessed with scanning. we bought a scanner and i’ve been scanning slides from a trip my...
Nov 12, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
so it’s only taken me almost two months to get to the photos in our bike trip that were taken at the town where we spend the night on sunday, sept. 16th. we had just coasted over a very long bridge over the river and into the tiny town of emmersdorf. our hotel, the...
Nov 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
our cat’s name is honey, she’s the killer cat who brings dead or alive birds into the house. she’s a terror, but she’s very sweet when she wants to be. honey was also the name of kevin’s parents’ dog. a sweet golden retriever who i didn’t get to spend much time with,...
Nov 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
the plan: my friend gil arranges bus trips to see different shows. we were to spend saturday night taking a bus down to st. louis to see the musical comedy “the drowsy chaperone,” which looked very funny. the reality: we were supposed to be at the JC...
Nov 8, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
I can’t stop, i’m on a roll, there are only a few more abbey photos and i feel i must post them in order to have closure on this day. this was a special grove of REALLY REALLY OLD TREES. i can’t remember how old, but i do remember that they were endangered so there...
