Feb 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
here are the pieces of red that i painted…and painted…and painted. it didn’t seem that they’d take that long, but it took longer and longer. first they had to be painted with the gray primer, and then the red…and more red. Floorboards,...
Feb 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
they look so cool out there on the lake that i just want to keep taking pictures. there they are, way out in the middle. for some reason they prefer that far shoreline to this one. it’s so cool and is such a loud sound when they take off, so i tried to capture...
Feb 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
i called her yesterday morning and sang “happy day before your birthday to you” to get a headstart on the celebrations. we’re not officially doing anything for her birthday till sunday, when amy is graciously fixing a fabulous birthday meal. on...
Feb 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
i checked the jury website this morning at 11:15 – no jury service this afternoon! i just checked again for tomorrow and the announcement just said YOUR JURY SERVICE IS COMPLETE. YOU ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO PHONE IN OR CHECK THIS WEBSITE. nice. if only...
Feb 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
…of the NOT GOING TO JURY DUTY LOTTERY!!!!! a couple months ago i got a notification for jury duty, and hoped that i wouldn’t actually be called. but then, i got the letter…today was my FIRST OFFICIAL JURY DUTY DAY. i had to go to the jury website...
Feb 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
well…it was long. a very long movie. very long. i was prepared, though – i didn’t drink ANYTHING for a few hours beforehand. didn’t have to go to the bathroom for the whole three hours. the blue people didn’t annoy me nearly as much as...
Feb 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
i was going to wait till the bathroom was all done to post some photos, but i just can’t wait. i’ve posted a couple of photos, but here’s what the bathroom looked like after kevin took down the big mirror and was dismantling the sink. note the...
Feb 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
we were supposed to have snow last night, but instead it was warm. today it reached somewhere in the 40’s, which made everybody happy. me? i just can’t stop taking pictures. mr. woodpecker has an extremely flexible neck. i took some pictures of the geese...
Feb 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
yesterday, what with the new window installation and the report of the norwegian cross-country skiier’s HUGE, CONCRETE-LIKE THIGHS, i found myself with no free time to post the pictures i took yesterday morning, which seems like a very long time ago now. first,...
Feb 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
there is a large hole in our bathroom wall. time is running out. there’s a 70 percent chance of rain at 5:00 today. kevin decided to go ahead and replace the bathroom window today before putting in the new sink, because the sink goes right under the window and...
Feb 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Norway’s marit bjoergen just won her second cross-country gold medal…but not before, during the race, the tv announcer said MARIT’S HUGE, CONCRETE-LIKE THIGHS are powering her up the hill… i can only hope marit’s english isn’t so...
Feb 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
my friend gary made an awesome duck cake and sent me a photo…he sent me the photo in JANUARY, and what, exactly have i been so busy with that i didn’t even have time to open the photo? what, i ask you? playing freerice.com? breaking the old one then...
Feb 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
it arrived yesterday afternoon at about 2:30 and i had just an hour and a half to figure it all out before my massage clients showed up at 4:00. i knew that by the time they left it’d be 6:00 and therefore dark so if i was going to take photos outside, i had to...
Feb 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
i was awake at 2:00 a.m., for a while, and among the other thoughts swirling around in my head suddenly was this one – I DIDN’T POST THAT CUTE PHOTO OF MOLLIE! how did i even think of that? i’ve been posting so many photos lately, so what made me...
Feb 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
i couldn’t resist taking a few (dozen) more photos despite my messed-up camera. i put out some bread pieces and mr. raccoon seemed to like them a lot, but they were a little hard and he had to throw his head back to chomp on them. he was so close, i could see...
Feb 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
…but who’s to say that he’s a he? it could be a lady raccoon. i took gobs and gobs of pictures the night before last, and more last night. the night before last, valentine’s night, it was snowing like crazy. mollie slept so close to the...
Feb 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
…when it comes to chocolate. because it’s just my nature, that’s why. the core of my being. i resisted on valentine’s day, then yesterday i ate a couple of little piece of chocolate lying around at randy’s house but i only ate one piece...
Feb 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
FINALLY, they published my comment on the southwest blog! yea for me! i don’t think anybody commented on my comment because they’re really MUCH TOO WOUND UP ABOUT THE WHOLE THING right now. here’s a copy of my very own comment: Comments...
Feb 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
have you read about it? i bet you have – kevin smith got on a southwest flight and tried to fly standby but he normally books two seats on a flight, but he couldn’t do that on standby, and some bonehead southwest person made the poor judgment call to make...
Feb 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
the beautiful flowers from kevin.. in anticipating of eating all of the chocolates that kevin gave me, plus any more i might receive from randy, i took mollie running yesterday morning even though the snow was pretty darn deep. i took some pictures but most of them...
Feb 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
i look forward to getting up in the morning and sitting down drinking my tea and looking out at the birds while reading the comics online. but this morning i got up and there were valentine packages on the dining room table, so i said LET’S OPEN OUR GIFTS NOW! ...
Feb 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
yesterday amy and jim went to see jim’s nephew takil in a wresting match – he won, and now he’s going to state! whoo, takil! so i babysat numie and noodle, who were very good and extremely EXTREMELY excited about coming over. numie was so excited...
Feb 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
while watching the olympic opening ceremony last night i wondered what countries might have red, yellow and blue flags. because those are my new bathroom colors i figured that they must be the colors of some damn team, but then i figured they had to also be the...
Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
this morning at the last minute i decided to walk with mollie on the path we normally run, to meet up with kevin who would be coming home from class. i figured i’d bring the phone and take a couple of pictures… here’s the little stretch of road that...
Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
i haven’t been so pleased with this system, taking pictures one day and posting them the next. it feels like too much happens between one day and the next, and with my ever-shrinking memory it’s sometimes hard to remember exactly how things were JUST THE...
Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
my friend thad who live in D.C. just sent me a few photos of all that snow. this is what he had to say… Well… 30-35” of snowfall over the weekend and we still don’t have a call yet on how many inches hit us yesterday and today…still falling. However, we have now...
Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
yesterday afternoon i looked out the window and all the birds flew away, per usual. but one poor little bird remained. it was crouched over in the corner of the food tub. was it sick? injured? were we going to have to bring it in inside and feed it morsels of...
Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
the snow that fell on monday night was sparkly; it looked hollywood fancy sparkly movie snow. there was quite a bit of it. nothing like the mountains of snow out east – i can’t imagine actually going outside there. here, the birds were feasting as the snow...
Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
i woke up at one and laid there for a while. winnie jumped up on the bed and slept on my shoulder until i couldn’t stand the weight anymore, and then he slept next to me. at two i finally got up because i just wasn’t sleepy. i started obsessing about...
Feb 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
here’s mollie, after our run yesterday. we didn’t have to run today because it did start snowing last night, and then it snowed some more today. not as much as they predicted, but there were at about four or five inches on the ground, plus it was very...
