Oct 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
yesterday when my MIL Nancy called, we talked a little bit about Honey, who was famous for brining in live and dead animals and birds. Winnie must have been listening. this morning when i got up, the first thing i saw was a dead mouse on the bedroom rug. Clearly, he...
Oct 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
my mother-in-law just called me to express her condolences about our loss of Shadow. that was really nice of her. i just feel like my heart is heavy. today in weightlifting class i was thinking that i was the only person to miss the sweet little guy, and that made...
Oct 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
this morning we finally had to put him to sleep. he’d been getting worse and worse for the past week, and last night he kept pacing around and around the house, finally climbing the steps up to the bed, where he just stood there and looked at me. i finally put...
Oct 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
there is NO WAY that i can post the rest of the photos from scotland before halloween. HALLOWEEN IS IN ONE WEEK. i hadn’t even gone through all the photos to see which ones i want to post, and i just did that (yes, another exciting saturday night!), and there...
Oct 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
ok, it’s been too long now since we’ve been to scotland. where has the time gone? what have i been doing? the last time i posted, we’d finished biking and spent a day in pitlochry and saw blair castle, then traveled to st. andrews, the home of...
Oct 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
and i got up relatively early to get to work on my list of stuff to do before our party next week. but so far i’ve mostly been sitting down. this morning i was kind of annoyed because all my e-mail messages were missing from my inbox. turns out they all...
Oct 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
the party went on and on…during dinner, i gave a root beer toast. here’s the story: on the evening of Friday October 9th, 1959, mom and dad got married in Brooklyn. They met at the University of Illinois; both were painting majors. After graduating in...
Oct 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
over there on the right, under the “video” heading is the NEW VIDEO! after much gnashing of teeth, i finally figured out how to put up another video. aunt sandy wrote this, and together we created her comment on Modern Art. I’m pleased with the way...
Oct 20, 2009 | More Videos
This is a Comment on Contemporary Art, written by my Aunt Sandy for mom and dad’s ‘ 50th wedding anniversary.
Oct 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
the major reason i haven’t posted much of anything in such a long time is because we’ve been planning a BIG SURPRISE PARTY for mom and dad’s 50th wedding anniversary. i was so busy planning that i forgot to post HAPPY 50TH ANNIVERSARY, MOM AND DAD! ...
Oct 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
i remember that i was going to be so diligent about posting my scotland photos…and here it is october already. i’m trying to be a better person, but it’s just so much work… anyway, we biked for five days and then spent our last biking day...
Oct 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
we took the boat out of the water earlier this evening. even though it’s just barely running, we managed to putt-putt-putt over to the boat dock to get it out. shadow and mollie came with us, and they enjoyed it thoroughly. shadow continues to hang in there. ...
