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...
Jul 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
but meanwhile, i’ve been very very busy all week which is why i haven’t posted anything here. first – CAMPING. we left last friday morning, and mollie was very excited to go with us on our drive to wisconsin. i had obsessively researched everything...
Jul 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
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....
Jul 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
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.
Jul 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Jul 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s actually two videos now, because it was too long for youtube. isn’t there a way to get a longer video up here somehow? please let me know. anyway, please HURRY RIGHT UP and click on the videos over there on the right of the screen. BE SURE TO CLICK...
Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
i have this slick, cool, lightweight, fabulous new camcorder, that takes beautiful images, so please CLICK ON THE BUTTON THAT SAYS TO WATCH THEM IN HD. the picture is noticeably better.
Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
we took it in a couple weeks ago and they said it would be ready in three to five days, but they didn’t call and finally kevin called yesterday morning and IT WAS READY! we were so happy, and drove right over to pick it up. i looked at the work order and it...
Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
here are photos from the labor-intensive, crazy CRAZY time-consuming wedding-type birthday cake i made for randy. first, i made the four layers, filled and frosted them. i bought a new 16″ pan because for my wedding cake i had a 6, 9, 12, 14 inch pan, and the...
Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
i spent much of the day sitting here in front of the computer, fixing a couple of little glitches in the videos i made, then trying in vain to upload one of them to you tube. it WOULD NOT LET ME because the video was over 10 minutes. i don’t understand this,...
Jun 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
i now make a FULL AND COMPLETE APOLOGY for being so remiss in writing on here. there has been so much to write about, but i have been deeply entrenched in getting ready for RANDY’S 50TH BIRTHDAY PARTY. it was last night. somehow i survived it. i effortlessly...
Jun 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
sunday morning, lots and lots of geese and goslings in the yard. i went out at about 7:30. here are lots of photos, and then, later, i’ll post the video i took. noodle and numie, trapped inside the fence, not able to chase the geese. see numie in the hot tub...
Jun 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
this is only part of the LOTS OF PHOTOS i have to put up here. i’ll save many many photos of geese for later. i told mom i WOULD NOT POST this photo of her. i took it last saturday when we were visiting kevin when he was doing the encampment at the old state...
Jun 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
i just re-read this posting from february 13th, 2009. there was a spam comment attached to it so i had to go to the posting to see the comment, which was, indeed spam, but then i read the whole thing that was written that day – kevin was telling the story of...
