Feb 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
here’s what it looked like out the window on friday morning: the woodpecker clearly wasn’t intimidated by the projected HUGE SNOWSTORM. he didn’t mind a little rain. i ventured outside when the rain stopped. it was windy, but not that bad. this is...
Feb 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
there was a 100 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW! i mean, wouldn’t you agree that’s a pretty high percentage? but instead of snow, last night it rained, all night long. and this morning, more rain, then a short period of freezing rain which looked bad, but it...
Feb 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
some nice person named darla left me a comment saying that all those white geese weren’t gulls, they’re SNOW GEESE. i thought it was very nice of her to point this out to me, but since i don’t know darla i decided i’d better verify it with...
Feb 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
we took these photos with my phone on saturday night and i forgot to post them. we went to dinner at tim and gena’s, and they have three amazingly soft bunnies in addition to their lovely sparkly-teethed sweet and entertaining dog Shiloh. they let us hold the...
Feb 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
yesterday, furiously painting the bathroom, i came into the living room on my way to the basement to find a paint container. i looked out the window, and all the gulls in the world appeared to have landed on the lake. here’s what they looked like from the...
Feb 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
it was gray yesterday, but today the sun is out. there are still gobs of geese out on the lake right in front of the house, and down the way, but i’m not going to take any more pictures because we’re in the process of remodeling the bathroom and right...
Feb 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
someday, when we’re very very old, there will be a huge orange tree growing right out of the lake not too far off our shoreline. people will drive up in their fishing boats and their power boats and their pontoons and canoes and waverunners, plus in whatever...
Feb 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
if you’re a smith, BE CAREFUL! i’m talking to you, aunt sandy! as you may recall, dad fell and broke both wrists on dec. 30th. he had plates put in both wrists and now one of them is healing better than the other one. he’ll be in casts till late...
Jan 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
that exclamation point shouldn’t be necessary; since they snarfed down the cold vegetable pot pie lickety split, wouldn’t you think that of course starlings would eat blueberries? but here’s the thing – wouldn’t you assume that ALL birds...
Jan 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
and i’ve been up for about an hour and a half. it’s sunny today at least, although ridiculously cold – about 13, but i’m sure because it’s so windy it must feel like zero. yesterday, also cold plus cloudy, kevin walked to his music...
Jan 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
i just wanted to put a new, summer-themed banner up there. since i put up new banners less than once a month, i can get a little fuzzy on how exactly to upload a new one. i know that i need to upload a new one TWO TIMES somewhere in all the mass of files in my file...
Jan 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
luckily i didn’t decide to DEFINITELY START DIETING yesterday. because last night kevin and i attended a cooking class, ALL ABOUT TAPAS. the official title of the class was SPANISH TAPAS TONIGHT! it should have had a sub-heading – TONIGHT YOU WILL EAT...
Jan 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
that’s my problem. i should be MUCH MORE PESSIMISTIC, then i wouldn’t get my hopes up. because many times my hopes are DASHED upon the rocks. i got to the endodontist’s office by eight a.m. SHARP, a tooth assistant girl was just getting out of her...
Jan 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s going to be very early. if i had gotten some exercise today, maybe that would help me sleep, but the most exercise i got was taking gizmo for a 10-minute walk which mostly consisted of either standing around while he stood there and thought his deep gizmo...
Jan 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
i know it’s a very weird thing, but i’m looking forward to getting a root canal tomorrow morning at EIGHT A.M. this weekend i’ve been staying up very late reading, and then sleeping really late, so getting up at seven tomorrow to get to the root...
Jan 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
that’s all i’m going for here. haiti haiti haiti, then that guy wins in massachusetts…why doesn’t the media ever have big stories about how people have been trying to get health care passed since about 1912? literally? so, something to get...
Jan 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
maybe these guys should be in charge of the relief effort in haiti. i just watched a video clip of anderson pulling a bleeding kid away from a crowd of looters who were THROWING BRICKS DOWN ON PEOPLE. i can’t imagine the horror of having everything around you...
Jan 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
and what a friday it’s been. another freezing cold day, but this one was filled with all kinds of excitement…way way way too much excitement… we took dad to the doctor yesterday and they told him that he’d be having surgery on both wrists. ...
Jan 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
this morning it is gone, the paper plate and everything. i’m thinking that the raccoon took it back to his tree to heat it up in the microwave. the plate might actually be out there on the deck, but i’m not going out there yet because it’s only ONE...
Jan 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
dinner, part one: ok, for the moment let’s just ignore the fact that it only got up to 14 today and right now it’s seven with a wind chill of minus four, and it looks like it’s going to be like that forever, except for sunday when we’re going...
Jan 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
that’s how many times kevin watched “star wars” – IN THE MOVIE THEATERS (the very first movie)! He announced this amazing fact to me last night when we were watching it on a digitally remastered DVD that he got for christmas. randy gave him a...
