FRIDAY MORNING

i found a website about poison ivy that’s worth reading.  You can link to it here:  EVERYTHING POISON IVY!, and it’s chock full of everything poison ivy.  let me say this – CHOCK FULL. there are different categories like “from the medicine...

the cute baby wren!

the wren that fell out of the house and kevin rescued has survived, and suddenly the wrens are out hopping and flying around. this is the first picture i took; it was hard to be quick enough to capture it before it zipped away. they’re just so cute and fuzzy....

gnawing off my arm

that’s mostly what i’ve felt like doing lately.  no, it’s not because i watched a few minutes of the bloody, f-word every two seconds for “shock” value, derogatory scenes of women being tied up and burned etc and a guy chewing a big hole...

Thursday afternoon

i haven’t been writing on here mostly because i’ve been obsessively editing editing editing my scotland videos.  i’m working on #5 right now, although i think it’s going to have to be 5 & 6 because it’s just so long.  i was trying to...

outside here at home

the other evening, around five o’clock, kevin said “grace, come out and see this…” there were two deer in the front yard, stopping by for a visit. they didn’t stay long… and they left, heading next door to make their way down the...

historical 4th of july rain

last year i had people over for holiday festivities and it rained all the livelong day.  we sat around in the screened porch and watched the rain, went down to look at the waterlogged boat, and finally drove over to the DAV to watch the fireworks.  it was so rainy and...

happy 4th of july to you!

whew.  we’re having some people over today for a cookout/boat ride to see fireworks, and i cleaned and cleaned and cleaned the filthy house yesterday and the day before.  today it didn’t seem that i had much to do – a sugar-free chocolate cake for...

saturday morning

it’s going to be a crazy holiday weekend.  last night we got home from muni and were sitting on the deck – tons of boats were going by, at 11:30.  i looked out at one and they were still out there. this morning before eight i was still in bed and a really...

MUNI DOGS IT IS!

kevin and i have to leave momentarily to go volunteer at muni.  all night, we’ll be slaving in the concession bldg, filling thousands of boxes of popcorn, wrapping hot dogs and pulled pork…but i get a DELICIOUS MUNI DOG! this morning i said to myself YOU...

lori ann, SCARY WITCH!

lori ann sent me this on her phone, and i tried to color-correct it as much as i could.  you get the idea…she’s going to be VERY VERY SCARY! ok then, friday grace.

the village people!

the village people…watch it for a few seconds and the picture will get brighter (because my sister amy cleverly turned on the lights!) i wonder if youtube will take this away because they’re playing ymca.  we’ll see. ok then, still friday afternoon...

don’t forget…WATCH THE FIRST CAKE VIDEO FIRST!

i wish there was a way to better order the lineup of videos here on my site.  hopefully now if you click on it, though, the first cake video will come up, instead of the second one.  they both look the same at the beginning, except one says “part one” and...