Aug 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
what a busy weekend! not a moment that wasn’t a flurry of activity! ok, maybe i did have time for a (very short) nap saturday afternoon, but it was pretty busy nonetheless. saturday morning kevin was going to lincoln’s home, where they were going to...
Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
in between running around all day long today, i uploaded six videos of the tomb ceremony. watched in sequence, this covers most of the stuff that happens during the 20-minute ceremony every tuesday night at lincoln’s tomb – and as i mentioned, next...
Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
i was about to close the computer, briefly checking my e-mail for anything of note, and i got an E-MAIL FROM DAD! dad used to send me the occasional letter when i lived far away; mom’s letters were also enjoyable but she wrote lots of them, like i did, so it...
Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
and i just can’t wake up. soon mollie and i will burst out the door and go running, but for now i’m wishing i’d tried to sleep another half hour. last nightwe stayed up very late for us, til midnight, watching “the madness of king...
Aug 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
besides carefully perusing all of bev’s AWARD-WINNING ENTRIES, kevin and i spent a lot of time looking at other stuff at the fair, too. first, the butter cow. why, i ask you, did kevin figure that this was a view of the cow that ANYONE WOULD EVER WANT TO...
Aug 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
first, i must show you bev’s AWARD-WINNING FAIR ENTRIES. second place whole wheat bread. the funny thing is, i think the night before she was going to bake the bread, she asked me if i had a good whole wheat bread recipe. THE NIGHT BEFORE SHE WAS GOING TO...
Aug 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
and i’m having trouble getting motivated. kevin went off to the shooting range bright and early, and i’m still sitting on the screened porch in my nightgown. i walked down to the dock, which took a lot of effort. the president of the gun club where they...
Aug 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
i keep taking pictures, but then i don’t sit down long enough to put them up here, so i’m trying to KEEP UP. here’s winnie, constantly trying his best to chill out. the lake was just so sparkly and glistening and beautiful on sunday morning. and here...
Aug 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today is my friend Erica’s birthday. she’s working at the fair, at the St. Johns booth in the Illinois building, so if you happen to be in the Illinois building buying honey ice cream, stop by and wish her a happy birthday! she’ll be the one with...
Aug 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
one count. the jury only found blago guilty on one count. it was nauseating to hear him blather afterwards about he isn’t guilty, justice will prevail, etc etc etc. we’ll just have to grit our teeth and wait. they will get him, but it’ll take...
Aug 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
you may or may not recall that my friend bev is crazy about entering stuff in the state fair. she used to stick to baked goods and other foodstuffs, but then she branched out into other things, like collections of…i can’t remember the collections she says...
Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
here’s kevin’s reply to my crazy middle of the night but actually very early morning rant: boat covered – check daylillies watered – check ducks fed – check goose fed – check mollie fed – check winnie fed – check coffee drunk – check garbage out – check...
Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
i finally got out of bed after lying there since four. i groped around in the dark looking for my earplugs because both mollie and kevin were snoring, and then i finally broke down and turned on the light but all i found were THOUSANDS OF KLEENEXES under the head of...
Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
on sunday we went to the mackinaw winery, which is between bloomington and peoria. i’d never heard about this winery. kevin wanted to go as part of his ongoing BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. some people from the 10th IL cavalry were there, “performing.” it...
Aug 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
a boat just zoomed by. wait, now i think i hear another one, or maybe it’s the same one, running in circles. so that guy, or those guys, got up earlier than me, and theoretically they did it because they wanted to. i wonder if they’ll take a nap later...
Aug 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
since it’s now 3:59 a.m., i guess it’s maybe technically more like really really early morning. i know that there are crazy people out there who get up at four a.m. i thought i saw the lights of a boat going by about 15 minutes ago, so i got up to see,...
Aug 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
i thought i’d captured footage of the dogs barking like crazy and crawling all over randy, but alas, i finally actually looked at the video and there was nothing exciting in it. i said a couple times in the video “here’s some birthday mayhem”...
Aug 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
so in between playing YOU DON’T KNOW JACK and getting ice cream, kevin and i did go down to the dock at least once. a storm was rolling in… what a great tie-dyed t-shirt, huh? i bought it for kevin at the fancy farmers’ market in kenosha when...
Aug 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
i know you’ve been clicking here obsessively, hoping to see pictures of kevin’s big birthday celebration. there are some photos, plus a video, but i only have time for the very first one right now. we started the evening at la fiesta, where the guys...
Aug 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
happy birthday to you! this is kevin, after he shaved off his goatee. i got the feeling he wasn’t so crazy about doing that. but it was for a good cause – he, randy, david, and our friend rick got to do a photo shoot for some political campaign. david...
