Jun 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
a belated happy birthday, that is. for jim’s birthday we had german chocolate cake. it was quite delicious and of course i kept eating it after i’d finished my piece – i was sitting right next to the cake and kept cutting little slivers off with my...
Jun 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
last night we went to the sangamon auditorium, a mere five minutes away, and listened to the amazing band BEAUSOLEIL. they’re a cajun band and they’ve been around a long long time – since 1975 – and they’re world-renown. i hadn’t...
Jun 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s almost ten on saturday morning, and i’ve mostly just been sitting on the couch ever since i got up at 7:30. kevin and i did concessions at the opening night of “seussical” last night, filling lots of popcorn boxes, wrapping hot dogs,...
Jun 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
not by me, of course. i went with kevin to the shooting range so he could try out his new flintlock rifle that a guy in the 114th custom-made for him. it looks very fancy, and very authentic. this is the flint part of the gun. you pour the…powder…down...
Jun 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
as i figured, i started thinking about at least two VERY VERY CRITICAL THINGS when i got back into bed early this morning. i can’t remember the one, but the other thing is that the mosquitoes have been feasting, FEASTING on my legs, my arms, i even got a...
Jun 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
on sunday some guy who was at one of the many HS graduation things that i attended all weekend long was going on about how beautiful it had been at 5:30 that morning when he’d woken up and he had to go outside because of all the beauty and he just stayed out and...
Jun 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
the other day i shot two videos of feeding the geese in the water, and i spent a ridiculous amount of the day today trying to upload one of them onto youtube and it DID NOT WORK, over and over again, no matter what i tried. so here’s the second video. ...
Jun 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
our neighbor rich is 82 years old. well, not quite – he’s going to be 82 on July 6th. he was born in 1928. he’s tall – six feet one – and thin – 175 pounds. his middle name is Charles. he isn’t on any medication, for...
May 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
i’m sitting here out on the deck and there aren’t so many boats going by anymore and it’s calm and peaceful and absolutely perfect outside. just think if it could be like this all year round… the great thing is that it feels like the middle of...
May 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
last night at about 9:30 kevin and i were sitting on the couch watching tv. we do this too much and must go out and seek more exciting things to do, but on the other hand it’s nice to sit after a day of standing. kevin, though, was falling asleep in a big...
May 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
we had TORRENTIAL RAIN and a HUGE FLOOD yesterday afternoon. streets were like lakes, traffic was a snarled mess, cars were floating away, raw sewage was bubbling up out of the sinks at the local tv station (they kept playing that footage over and over)…and we...
May 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
kevin replaced the fuel pump on the boat and it appeared to be working… but actually, it’s still not working right. he then replaced the fuel line and still no dice. i asked him what his motor-fixing plan is now and he’s says it’s pricing new...
May 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
i’ve had three of them thus far. they’re not the regular kind you get at the store, the kind in the little milk cartons; these are from pease’s candy, and they have an ultra-thick delicious chocolate coating and they’re pretty much the perfect...
May 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
for some reason i didn’t want to write that. i don’t know why. i’m just like that sometimes. so far mom has taken me to get a pedicure and i told the nail woman that it was my birthday so she painted little diamond flowers on both big toes. my big...
May 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
last night i went to patrick and gina’s lovely wedding, and there were many, many people at the reception and i even talked to some of them. i chatted with phil funkenbusch for a while – i’ve written about my friend phil before; he’s the...
May 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
plus here’s a picture of kevin at the shooting place in his civil war duds. i’ve decided that instead of apologizing for having so many geese photos, i should just go ahead and EMBRACE THE GEESE. not literally of course because they wouldn’t like...
May 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
whew, i can sleep easy now. i heard a noise and clicked onto the screen just as the loon was struggling back up on the nesting platform. it turned one of the eggs over and snuggled in for the night. funny, but while i was watching the loon, winnie was sitting here...
May 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s 11:04 p.m., i should definitely be in bed, but i can’t stop watching the loon cam. a while ago it was just showing this clump of vegetation, and it didn’t look quite right somehow. there was no loon in sight. i was doing other things online...
May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
do you ever think about sleep, and how weird it is, that you’re just lying there for (hopefully) hours on end, and it’s such a nice thing, but you’re unconscious? as you can see i’m feeling extremely profound this morning. at about five, winnie...
May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
winnie is here next to me fast asleep…mollie is snoring gently in her bed on the floor…and i CANNOT SEEM TO SHUT THE STUPID COMPUTER. i’m annoying myself now. kevin made it almost to FORT SHENANDOAH; he called throughout the day, and finally called...
May 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
on monday, kevin was throwing pieces of bread out to the geese and they were getting pretty close to him in order to eat the bread. when i went out and made feeble and very lame attempts to throw the bread, it landed just a few feet from me and the geese scooted on...
May 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
i’m sitting here in the living room and it’s cloudy and looks like it’s gonna rain and it’s in the 60’s. not bad weather…but i just obsessively checked the forecast and it’s supposed to be NINE TWO on sunday! isn’t...
May 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
no, i take that back – i think monday morning is worse. at least this monday morning. in the middle of the night the power went out and i lied there in bed listening to it rain…and rain…and rain…and rain. i spent my time worrying about...
May 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
ok, i spent the extra five minutes to find an article about what is happening in iceland with all that ash all over the place. it’s not good. but it’s a very interesting story. here it is, from a website called helium: Risks of fluoride poisoning from...
May 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
i wanted to read more about the iceland volcano that keeps erupting, but mostly all i could find were stories about all the closings of airports. yes, of course it is impacting so many people all over the place, but i want to hear more about the volcano itself. i...
May 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
ok, it’s not EXACTLY like winter…it’s 63 degrees, kinda windy, dark, raining. it feels like winter in here. chilly. kevin started the fireplace to take the chill off. he went cowboy shooting this morning, and i sat on the couch doing computer...
May 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
ok, on thursday morning i was going to go running. it was cloudy outside and i looked at weather.com and it said there was a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CHANCE of rain at nine o’clock. and then a much less chance at 10. so i decided to wait til ten. but as i kept...
May 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
i have made it easier for you; i just added it to the blog roll over there on the right. right now there are 179 viewers, and i’m sure there will be a lot more after eight, when people get to work. i hope you have a successful wednesday. ok then, grace barely...
May 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
christine wrote to me about how she’s going to try to fix the issue with the photos. it shouldn’t be that difficult, in my opinion. but it is. but i can’t worry about that right now. i’m not really worried about anything, for once. except...
May 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
i hope you have exciting mother’s day plans. i’m giving my mom a massage for mother’s day. here are photos from dad’s birthday celebration. this is my favorite photo of the night. wouldn’t you say dad wasn’t so crazy about...
