Aug 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
my, that title certainly rolls of the tongue, doesn’t it? anyway, our first day of biking, Sunday, July 12th – we biked to Doune Castle, a 10 mile, fairly easy ride, and spent a lot of time inside the castle. it rained a bit when we were inside, but then...
Aug 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
ok, i was going to conclude the first day’s cycling photos, but i haven’t done that quite yet, but i just got an e-mail from a lovely english woman named carol. kevin and i met carol and her friend mary when we were travelling home from scotland, and we...
Aug 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
many, many photos. there are so many photos from our first day of biking that i’m only putting half of them up right now. and, of course, this isn’t all the photos; i have attempted to be discriminating. we had a guide book with detailed directions...
Aug 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
saturday july 11th, a good day because we’d had 10 hours of sleep, plus it was sunny and nice in Glasgow. We had the morning to look around until taking a train and a bus to our first cycling town.we wanted to see some of charles renee mackintosh’s...
Aug 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
i just looked at the photos i posted and the nice thing about them is that i’m not wearing that yellow biking jacket and my bike helmet and all that biking stuff. there’s plenty of that to come, but it’s nice to remember NOT wearing the bike...
Aug 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
recently a friend sent me a whole bunch of photos of his vacation. it was one of those photo-sharing things, where you can just view all the photos. i think one time somebody suggested that i do that with my photos; it’d be so much easier. however, quite...
Aug 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
and every day i say to myself I MUST START POSTING SOME SCOTLAND PHOTOS! at least yesterday i started writing donw a list of the ones i want to post, plus ones i want to print out. the problem is that i want to print out WAY TOO MANY OF THEM. we’re running...
Aug 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
as i wrote yesterday, there was no time to prepare for kevin’s birthday. i had a two-hour window of opportunity on monday afternoon to go find him a present. why didn’t i buy him anything in scotland? why didn’t i even think about what to get him...
Aug 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
we got back from our very long vacation on sunday afternoon, but i was too tired to even think about the computer then. and yesterday was a flurry of cleaning and unpacking and lots and lots of laundry… i just looked at all 572 photos that kevin took and there...
Jul 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
yesterday morning i got up at 7:45, threw on my bike clothes and we were out the door by 8:16. i ate a chocolate crunch rice cake and some yogurt before we left. i didn’t think we’d go so far. we went 25.4 miles and got back around 10:30 or so. it got...
Jul 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
…just one small perfect piece, that’s all i want. randy gave me not one but two bars of godiva chocolate for my birthday. he forgot to give them to me for my actual birthday but then he finally gave them to me and they looked very delicious. i put them...
Jul 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
i almost never read the sports section. football, baseball, basketball, whatever, i just don’t care. but today the sports section is chock-full of interesting articles. first, the tour de france – the winner of the time trials yesterday did 9.6 miles in...
Jul 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
or perhaps i should have titled this post “red ball head.” because randy’s birthday was on tuesday, he had a performance of “the producers” that night and we couldn’t celebrate his party at night. so instead we had a birthday lunch...
Jun 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
this is the time that amy said we’re going to chicago. she and mom and i are going up today and we’re going to visit aunt sandy and have a belated birthday celebration for her and we’re going to see a musical tonight and we’re going to the art...
Jun 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
i just checked weather.com and it says it’s 91 degrees but feels like NINETY NINE. so we’ve been biking this week, in preparation for our trip. this morning we didn’t leave till 8:58 a.m. it was already very humid and sweltering. yesterday we went...
Jun 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
and things are winding right down. hmm, a nice cold glass of white wine would be perfect right now. since we don’t have any, i guess i’ll have to settle for a diet rasberry drink. not quite the same… so, the civil war ball on saturday night...
Jun 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
ok, not ALL the time…but a lot. i was personally involved in it this weekend. but here’s a couple photos from when kevin did the living history encampment down at the old state capitol. there weren’t gobs of guys from the 114th there, but kevin did...
Jun 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
for se reason i have LOTS AND LOTS OF ENERGY this morning. i got up and went for a FAST run and i’m going to be some major BUSH TRIMMING with the electric trimmers. i was going to do that yesterday but i had one mike’s hard lemonade at linda...
Jun 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
i realized it had been a long time since i’d written anything on here, so this morningi i sat down at kevin’s computer and started to write something but then i had to rush away so there’s a title dangling there on that computer, and i should shut...
Jun 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
…and not for a fun reason, but because he just had outpatient surgery today and i talked to him earlier this evening but then he called me back just now and wasn’t sure if we’d talked and i assured him we had plus i once again said AND YOU’RE...
Jun 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
every time i’m able to actually change the banner up there, i’m SO HAPPY because somehow by some miracle i managed to upload the new banner and put it in the right folders and IT’S THERE! very exciting, and it’s only the 2nd of june. my goal...
May 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
i actually had two burning questions, not one, but now i can only think of the one. this is what i’ve been pondering – a couple of weeks ago, the space shuttle atlantis landed, after fixing the hubble. they were waiting around for a couple of days to...
May 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
and the only reason i finally got out of bed is because i was lying there thinking about the INFINITE AMOUNT OF THINGS that need to be done around here. well, also, the dogs had to be fed. although the dogs and the cat were thoroughly enjoying sleeping next to me in...
May 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
my birthday night, when the lights on the umbrellas were lit, plus all the rope lights around the deck railings…it was quite nice. lovely. we had a grand time, including a boat ride. it seems that it’s rained quite a bit since then, though, and we...
May 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
amy said to me this morning, “you aren’t going to do too much today, are you?” “no,” replied me. we took a lovely walk/run this morning with all the dogs. then i went home and mopped the floors. i realize i probably could have found...
May 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
well, for one thing, it’s lovely and warm outside. also i don’t have to wrap any gifts. nor do i have to bake any xmas cookies. but aside from that…i think i’m way too tired for not even nine o’clock on a saturday night. kevin is in his...
May 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
there’s this noise that you hear in various action movies, “raiders of the lost ark” comes to mind, it’s that noise when somebody is pushing aside some huge stone tablet or door or something and it’s kind of a deep scraping noise and they...
May 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Question: when is it time to clean the pet fountain? whenever i fill up the pet fountain i try to avoid looking at it too closely because invariably there are things floating in it. the animals always manage to get bits of leaves and debris in it, and probably...
May 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
i’ve been sitting here on the screened porch since i got up, about eight o’clock. i went outside a few times to check on the pontoon boat progress…which is going very well, by the way. but now i’m very slighly alarmed that it’s already...
May 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
and we’re sitting out on the screened porch drinking wine and…well, i’m looking stuff online, but i’m about to stop that. kevin is reading a gun magazine. mollie is lying in a stupor because… well, mollie has been a bad dog. yet...
