Nov 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
the sunday morning of the shoot, it was COLD. brrrr. they were going to have an opening ceremony for this last day of shooting, so i hustled down to watch. the guys were all lined up, and then…what did they do? i feel that they played some confederate anthem,...
Nov 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
last friday, kevin got through his first afternoon of shooting at the nathan bedford forrest state park in Eva, Tennessee, and on saturday he was just going to do one more individual shoot in the morning, and then had some team competitions in the afternoon....
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
last night kevin went to barbra’s website and found the tweet about randy winning the contest, but i only looked at it just now. here it is: Congratulations to RANDY DUNHAM who has just won 2 tickets to the taping of Barbra’s interview with OPRAH! Thanks...
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
randy finally sent me a text from the train; he didn’t get to meet babs, but he was EIGHT FEET from her, oprah, and robert redford! i wonder what he was doing there? i texted randy that he shoulda jumped the stage. i mean, yeah, he’d have been thrown...
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
what is white on rice, anyway? that was my aunt sandy’s guess as to what randy was for halloween. kelly guessed that he was a slug. randy was… A SALT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON. i think he had the idea for a long time, and he got sidetracked briefly when bev...
Nov 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
i have been camping. i have been camping in tennessee. i have been camping in our popup camper at the nathan bedford forrest state park. i find that a little confusing; it’s not a FOREST, it’s a state park,but the guy’s last name is forrest. we...
Nov 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
amy and jeem! such a cute couple! ditto about that for mom and dad! jim patton is receiving his SPECIAL CHICKEN AWARD – you get it if you put the least amount of thought and effort into a costume. maybe next year we should give it to somebody who is actually...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
FINALLY…a picture of dad! he was a rhinestone cowboy. he created the jacket when he was in “best little whorehouse in texas.” he looked very dapper on halloween. and also finally, JIM! a very scary zombie. we wanted a picture of mom, amy and...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
today is my brother david’s 50th birthday. gee, the 50th birthdays just keep coming, don’t they? i’ve already told him i’m not making him a giant, multi-tiered wedding-type cake like i did for randy’s recent 50th, and david is, of...
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
we keep meaning to send christmas cards every year but we never get around to it. i think we should definitely send them out this christmas, and this can be on the front. notice how kevin clearly has no beard. how did i not observe this, especially since he was...
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...
Sep 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
mollie is sleeping really loudly over on the other side of the couch. winnie is curled up next to me – he’d rather be in my lap, but the computer is here, so he’s content to sleep alongside. yesterday was a little bit too busy and i have many things...
Sep 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
i woke up around sixish this morning, petted mollie, petted winnie, both of whom were sleeping nicely nearby. after a while, though, i figured i might as well just get up. up before kevin! a historical moment. this has happened maybe three times in our lives...
