Nov 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
so many halloween pictures…here’s mollie yesterday afternoon, resting up for the festivities. aunt sandy, jim and bev. jim is wearing erica’s waitress uniform – it’s the one i wore in a state fair commercial. it looks better on him than...
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. ...
Sep 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
do you know who he is? have you ever heard his stuff? have you ever SEEN HIM IN CONCERT? he’s a guitarist. he’s not just a guitarist, he’s the MOST AMAZING GUITARIST EVER. do you scoff? if so, you CLEARLY HAVEN’T HEARD/SEEN HIM. and...
Sep 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
whew, what a week. not sure how it got to be sunday already. yesterday was especially crazy, culminating in going to the hospital to see randy and his mom…she was taken to emergency yesterday morning and she’s going to have to have gallbladder surgery...
Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
yesterday ended up very badly. things were going so well, then yesterday afternoon i was making chinese food for dinner and was rushing around and realized shadow had thrown up yet again. that was…four days in a row. i called the vet, assuming she...
Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
…and we took the bus. recap of the past five days: day one : 22 miles roundtrip to castle doune plus extra miles when we were lost. day two : 20 wet hilly miles to loch katrine and back. day three : 25 very hilly miles from Callander to Killin. day four: ...
Sep 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
yesterday morning i gave shadow a little more pain medication. today he seems completely fine, and we’re pretty sure that’s why. he ate quite a bit of food…but will he keep it down? because i can tell he’s lost some weight, and when you only...
Sep 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
i was sure that Shadow wasn’t going to live through the night. at some time around four he was finally lying down on the bedroom floor and i picked him up and carried him into bed with us. he was just lying there between us, and kevin pet him and i kept...
Sep 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
shadow didn’t have a very good day yesterday. when i woke up, kevin had had a terrible time trying to get shadow to take his big blue pill. he finally coerced him into taking it, but then he just didn’t want any food. kevin fixed him hamburger and eggs...
Sep 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
and it’s about time, i realize, to post more scotland photos. to recap: day one of biking: not that hard until we got lost. no rain while we biked. A circular route from Callander then back again. day two of biking: much harder, more hilly, gravelly bike...
Sep 15, 2009 | Anniversary!
unless you’re staying up later than me (highly likely), or you’re in another time zone and therefore definitely staying up later than me…unless it’s a later time zone…by now when you are reading this it will be september 16th, the THREE...
Sep 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
first of all, i heard shadow walking around so i got up to give him his blue pill, which he needs every morning an hour before he eats. went back to bed, and winston came in the doggie door. but something seemed a little odd. i said to kevin, “is he...
Sep 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
the vet called this afternoon. shadow has kidney failure. all the levels are bad – she explained about them being up, or down, but whatever, they’re just bad. so we took him in and learned how to give him subcutaneous fluids. we’re doing this...
Sep 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
even though shadow isn’t amy and jim’s dog anymore because they gave him to us for safekeeping a while ago, i feel like he still belongs to all of us. last month kevin took him to the vet and Shadow had some enlarged lymph nodes and he’d lost some...
Sep 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
the other day kevin brown asked me when i was going to post more photos of our trip. i felt like i’d been doing a very good job of posting them, but now i realize it’s been a while. i have a great deal of difficulty these days KEEPING UP with everything,...
Aug 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
(it’s only 61 degrees here now and it seems chilly and i had some hot chocolate and i’m still cold). i just wrote to the owner of the bike touring company, “Hooked on Cycling,” in charge of our scotland trip. i told him that we had a great...
Aug 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
day one of biking: not that hard until we got lost. no rain while we biked. day two of biking: much harder, more hilly, gravelly bike trail. hard rain on and off. and now, day three of biking. this day, tuesday, instead of looping back to Callander, we were headed...
Aug 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
because my new full-time job is editing and posting photos of our trip, i forgot to mention that kevin is going BACK TO SCHOOL! he started his first day of piano class last monday and Lincoln Land. i kept telling him we needed to go out and buy him some new school...
Aug 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
i guess because i waited a few days between posting the first and second parts of our day one biking, kevin forgot that i’d written all about “monty python and the holy grail” being filmed at doune castle, which we visited. he commented about it on...
