Jan 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
and then, more snow. that is what we have right now. it is the best reason to stay inside where it is warm, and the kitty can’t bring in any more random tiny animal organs, because everything is too covered in snow. she doesn’t like to go out in the snow. nor do i....
Jan 30, 2008 | Danube Biking 2007
animal parts, that is. i got home tonight and cleaned up something that looked like a little red sploch of maybe jam on the floor. entrails. some kind of bloody entrails. where’s the rest of the animal? eaten, i hope. tomorrow afternoon we’re supposed to have 5-7...
Jan 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
the temperature has dropped to 12, with a wind chill of -11. brrrr. i just want to stay inside from now until it gets warmer. i don’t want to go outside at all tomorrow, except i have to go out at least a few times. brrrr. ok then, hunkering down...
Jan 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
at noon, mollie and i went running and it was glorious. i wore my shorts and a long-sleeved t-shirt, but i could have worn a short-sleeved one. it was sixty one degrees. it was sunny when we started, but then we had a downpour for a while and mollie wasn’t crazy about...
Jan 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
here is a great article by a fox news reporter. The Power of Political Endorsements Monday , January 28, 2008 By Neil Cavuto Fox News More than Oprah. More than Ted. More than John. When all is said and done on this issue of the power of endorsements, I suspect few...
Jan 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
you might like him, you might hate him, you might feel indifferent about him. but there’s one irrefutable fact about the senator. he’s a white man. and today he announced his support of barack obama. a white man. in case you might have been listening to any clintons...
Jan 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
bill clinton, that is. of course, it’s not just bill, it’s bill and hillary. the machine, trying to steamroller their way back into the white house.. before yesterday, i read in the paper that if obama didn’t win in the double digits in south carolina, he could be in...
Jan 26, 2008 | Danube Biking 2007
friday, september 21st, our last day of sightseeing in vienna. there was still so much to see and not enough time to see it all. we decided to start the day at the schonbrunn palace. after poring over the various maps, i figured that we could easily get there on a...
Jan 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
we’re going to VOTE EARLY for barack obama. lots of early votes for him would be a good thing. so you should do that too, if you’re not too busy.
Jan 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
GO SEE IT!!! IT’S AWESOME!!! we haven’t been to a movie in a long time. weeks, months, years, even. ok maybe not quite that long. but a long time. tonight we went out into the seven-degree night to see “juno” and i thought maybe i’d like it but it was so...
Jan 23, 2008 | Danube Biking 2007
i woke up this morning feeling very energized and wanting to GET STUFF DONE. i even made a list of things. but so far it’s ALMOST NOON and i haven’t made any headway on any of the many things. but i’m working on it. i promise. kevin went out in the van all by himself...
Jan 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
i told randy that i’d bring the fascinating photos of kevin’s knees to show him tomorrow. he said “i don’t wanna see them.” “but they’re not bloody or anything!” i said. they’re actually kind of interesting… “no. nope. i don’t wanna...
Jan 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
and it’s going to be a bitterly cold weekend. my plan is to not go outside at all. kevin has pain, pain and more pain. we went to the orthopaedic surgeon yesterday and got a cool photo of the inside of his knee. i’m going to scan it and put it up here. the torn...
Jan 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
i was on hold for ONE AND A HALF HOURS, getting madder and madder by the minute. i finally said to kevin, who is busily thumbing through a Tandy leather-tooling magazine and wants to make me a purse, I’M GOING TO HANG UP NOW. he said “why don’t you give them 10...
Jan 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
so you might not see my website. but i guess if they shut me down you won’t know that because you won’t be able to see me. that is, you WILL know that i’ve been shut down, but you won’t know why. it’s very frustrating. my server sent me an e-mail today telling me that...
Jan 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s the name of the magazine kevin was reading today. he showed me a holster that’s somewhat fancier than the one he made, in the magazine’s online catalog. here it is. guess how much it costs. no, you’ll NEVER GUESS. it’s (on sale) for $3,975.00. yes, you can...
Jan 14, 2008 | Danube Biking 2007
my phone conversation with randy yesterday: RANDY: so i guess you’re just writing on your site every tuesday now, huh? ME: yeah. so THERE, mr. dunham, MONDAY! things have been busy, in a very not obvious way. coughing, mostly, plus kevin had knee surgery on friday. i...
Jan 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
and i’ve spent much of it sitting on the couch watching the local weather channel with the sound muted. i’m starting to run out of some flavors of tea. the good thing: soon – well at least sometime in the next year, i’ll have an ALL NEW FORMAT for the website!...
Jan 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
i plan to spend the day sitting on the couch watching the NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARIES. i have a good feeling that barack obama is going to walk away with the whole thing. if you just listen to him talk, you have to realize that he is different from everybody else, he’s...
Jan 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
the people at the web hosting place aren’t writing back to me now. not a good sign. according to their latest statistics, nobody at all looked at my web site in the past couple of days. i wrote to them about this, but will they respond? i don’t know. they didn’t...
Jan 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
kevin has been lolling on the couch all day after sleeping for a long time. lots of man-type shows involving shooting and outdoors activities and storms and motorcross racing. now he’s flipping the channels and am i the only person who is sick of only hearing about...
Jan 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s how it’s been around here tonight. today i’ve been…what have i been doing? i feel like maybe nothing. and yet i’m exhausted. kevin had to go do a bunch of things and by the time he got home he, too, was exhausted. neither of us can talk much because of...
Jan 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
weird things continue to happen with this site. what happened to my recent postings? in converting it to a new platform, there are some problems. i’ll have to write to the guy at the company again. at least he e-mailed me, because when i tried to call them, i was put...
Jan 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, i have to say it wasn’t the best new year’s eve i’ve ever had. the milk barn was COLD. the band sounded good, but it was hard to hear them because the crowd was loud. plus it was COLD. it was really nice, though, to kiss my husband when the clock struck...
Jan 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
and it’s cold, damn cold. 18 degrees, but a wind chill of ONE. brrr. i could sit here huddled in my blanket and complain about the weather, but that would be a lousy way to start the new year, wouldn’t it? instead, here are some happy photos from xmas. i figured i’d...