sunday

yesterday i figured that i was already out of things to take pictures of, but then i looked out the window and there were a bunch of geese in the yard. when mollie and i went outside the geese started to saunter towards the lake, of course.  that’s why all their...

the perils of reading

i’ve been in a pretty good mood lately, nothing to worry about, and more importantly, nothing crazy in my head making me worry for no good reason.  i’d even be so bold as to venture that my mood has actually been full-on good, not just pretty good. but...

painting cures all

i FINISHED THE PAINTING the bathroom. except, of course, i really didn’t.  i thought i did, but then i looked at the room for the 100th time and realized that i forgot one side of one of the doors.  but it’s mostly done; the main parts are done.  done. i...

friday

here’s what it looked like out the window on friday morning: the woodpecker clearly wasn’t intimidated by the projected HUGE SNOWSTORM.  he didn’t mind a little rain. i ventured outside when the rain stopped.  it was windy, but not that bad. this is...

not so much snow…

there was a 100 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW!  i mean, wouldn’t you agree that’s a pretty high percentage?  but instead of snow, last night it rained, all night long. and this morning, more rain, then a short period of freezing rain which looked bad, but it...

NOT GULLS, YOU MORON!!!

some nice person named darla left me a comment saying that all those white geese weren’t gulls, they’re SNOW GEESE.  i thought it was very nice of her to point this out to me, but since i don’t know darla i decided i’d better verify it with...

BUNNIES!

we took these photos with my phone on saturday night and i forgot to post them.  we went to dinner at tim and gena’s, and they have three amazingly soft bunnies in addition to their lovely sparkly-teethed sweet and entertaining dog Shiloh. they let us hold the...

many many gulls

yesterday, furiously painting the bathroom, i came into the living room on my way to the basement to find a paint container.  i looked out the window, and all the gulls in the world appeared to have landed on the lake.  here’s what they looked like from the...

yesterday

it was gray yesterday, but today the sun is out.  there are still gobs of geese out on the lake right in front of the house, and down the way, but i’m not going to take any more pictures because we’re in the process of remodeling the bathroom and right...

the orange of the lake…

someday, when we’re very very old, there will be a huge orange tree growing right out of the lake not too far off our shoreline.  people will drive up in their fishing boats and their power boats and their pontoons and canoes and waverunners, plus in whatever...

broken bones everywhere…

if you’re a smith, BE CAREFUL!  i’m talking to you, aunt sandy! as you may recall, dad fell and broke both wrists on dec. 30th.  he had plates put in both wrists and now one of them is healing better than the other one.  he’ll be in casts till late...