Oct 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
first, here are our costumes from the party we went to on friday night, where i ate and drank too much. mom took this picture of kevin and me, and here i’m telling her how to take the picture. she figured it out without me bossing her around. kevin, mom and me...
Oct 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
last night, i had crossed everything off my list of things to do, and kevin, mom and i went to our friend kevin’s halloween party. the plan was to stay an hour. we were tired to begin with, plus there are many things to do today. we stayed two hours, not a...
Oct 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
dang! tomorrow night is the party! i need some red food coloring. also some toothpicks. i bet amy doesn’t have any. usually if either of us is in DIRE NEED of something critical, like an egg or a cookie sheet, we can get it from the other RIGHT NEXT DOOR. i...
Oct 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
i woke up at seven. it was dark. and cold. dark and cold. gonna be pretty cold today. luckily i’ll have the distraction of doing many things so i won’t have to dwell on the approaching COLD WEATHER. at some point we have to drag many flowers and plants...
Oct 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
that’s being very optimistic of me, isn’t it? the thought that today will be a happy day, even though i’m sitting here BEFORE EIGHT A.M. but it already feels like a happy day. it was nice to wake up not all anxious and snarly. that’s no way...
Oct 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
today as i kept furiously cleaning my house i kept thinking BUT IT’S GOING TO BE SO DARK IN HERE THAT NOBODY WILL EVER SEE ALL THE REAL COBWEBS AND THE DUST EVERYWHERE… and yet i kept going, like some kind of lunatic. very very busy around here. sunday,...
Oct 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
my friend linda castor sent me this e-card. i haven’t been up so long and i was in NO MOOD to watch some dumb e-card, especially because it said “sound on please,” which just annoyed me a LOT. i’m easily annoyed in the morning before eight...
Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
friday, more driving, driving, driving, through the mountains of virginia. we were going to stop friday night somewhere in kentucky because kevin wanted to drive through big stone gap, VA, because he’d done some volunteering there with his church back in...
Oct 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
I thought that everybody had heard of the shenandaoh, but apparently not. i told a friend about going to skyline drive, and she said “what’s that?” the shenandoah national forest is the most widely-visited national park we have. it encompassed...
Oct 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
after camping out for two nights, we headed down to urbanna, virginia, to stay with kevin’s aunt marj. urbanna is a quaint little town on the banks of the Rappahannock River. Marj used to have a b&b called the white swan, and her house has all kinds of...
Oct 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
in my hurry to post many photos, i woefully neglected to mention how kevin did in the shooting competition! he shot in eight different categories, four different kinds of guns – the revolver, the rifled musket, smoothbore, and the carbine. he was going to...
Oct 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
here’s the rest of that same entry that i was working on last monday, when we drove down to the westmoreland state park in northern VA. we’d had dinner with kelly, rob, and their daughter katie on sunday night, and we left thad’s house around one on...
Oct 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
i wrote about mollie being VERY VERY UPSET that we left her alone with thad fwhen we went out to dinner , and was forced to be petted by him, plus she kept leaping to the window to see if we were coming, jumping up on his very fancy leather chair. thad doesn’t...
Oct 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
this was a continuation of the last two entries, written last monday when we were camping at the westmoreland state park in VA: Sunday, on to the Bull Run battlefield, where there were two different battles, one of them the very first battle of the war. It was a...
Oct 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
if you recall, i was sitting in a park typing on my computer, telling you about going on my friend jimm’ys yacht. here are just a few of the many many pictures i took that saturday: kevin and me on the balcony of the great restaurant we stopped at before...
Oct 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Tuesday, October 05, 2010 4:43 p.m. Right now I’m sitting in front of our campfire at the Westmoreland State Park on the banks of the Potomac river in ‘ol virginee. Kevin just finished making a very delicious dutch-oven apple cobbler, after washing up the lunch...
Oct 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Friday, October 1st it rained and rained and rained yesterday. kevin got back here about two o’clock, kinda tired and soggy. he only shot two of the eight categories, because they finally canceled the event because it was so windy that the targets kept blowing...
Oct 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2010 – 11:12 a.m. i’m sitting in a candlewood suites looking out at the rain. mollie has been sleeping in bed ever since kevin put her up there early this morning – she didn’t even want any breakfast. clearly, travel...
