Nov 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
our friend beverly ryan sent me the answer to the math problem, and it makes me feel EVEN MORE MATHEMATICALLY CHALLENGED, if that was even possible. i still don’t understand it. here’s the original problem, from mary patton, former math teacher: A MAN...
Nov 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
my brother david’s birthday is today, not exactly the prettiest day for a birthday but we’ll have a grand celebration tonight despite the weather! plans include dinner out plus KARAOKE; i doubt sincerely if any of us will actually sing, but we will gladly...
Nov 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
i promise i have more pictures than just of amy and jim…but they looked SO FUNNY! plus they kept dancing around like hillbillies, and amy kept talking with her hillbilly accent. here is darling Ruth, 91 years young, with her mask. she pushed her walker around...
Oct 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
photos photos photos. first, mollie, resting up for a night of constant begging. she got many, many treats throughout the evening, spending a lot of time lying on the dining room floor right below the salami. amy and jim outdid themselves, as usual. they’re...
Oct 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
hmm, the halloween party…well, i’m pretty sure people had a good time…but it was a little sad for me, because of the people who weren’t there. dad didn’t come to the party for the first time this year; he said he just doesn’t do so...
Oct 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
yeah yeah yeah i know you’re waiting for the halloween photos, but i haven’t done them yet. to keep you occupied, here is a math problem for you. mary patton came as an evil math witch; she had math problems pasted all over her black dress and hat. here is...
Oct 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
first, a picture kevin took the other day of winnie, always valiantly trying to relax. even though he’s traumatized by chester, who stalks him sometimes, he still manages to find a little kitty happiness now and then. this morning we took everybody out back, so...
Oct 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
DID YOU SEE THE GAME? it was UNBELIEVABLY EXCITING, one of the most historic ever, according to an article i just read. first, there were all kinds of crazy things – a ranger tripped into the base and really hurt his ankle, another guy leapt over another...
Oct 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
after being closed for repairs since july 5th, they’re opening up the historic vachel lindsey bridge at 10:15 on tuesday november 1st. the repairs cost 1.9 million dollars. so that’s enough for the salaries for two rookie baseball players, but it...
Oct 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
mom and her friend sharon got to go the 2nd game of the world series in st. louis last week. they look like they had fun, don’t they? here’s sharon with her white towel they gave out. and sharon wanted to go talk to one of the few rangers fans who were...
Oct 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
did you get invited to our halloween party? if you didn’t, i don’t know why not – today amy invited a couple more people, including her delightful 91 year-old friend ruth, plus stu, the manager of food fantasies. if you weren’t invited, i...
Oct 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
my friend beverly wrote to me and told me that chester looks like her cat, which is a tuxedo cat, with a white stomach and white paws. she described how a tuxedo cat has mixed-colored paws, so i quickly had to hunt down chester and look at the bottoms of his paws. ...
Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
yesterday we went to the cat show at the fairgrounds and there were all these very very sad, lovely kitties who needed to be adopted – older cats who didn’t have a great chance of somebody taking them home, and i wanted to take them ALL HOME, so bad…...
Oct 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
my darling aunt sandy brought us MANY MANY lou malanti’s delectable fabulous delicious pizzas down from chicago yesterday afternoon! many, many choices! i probably will never eat again. i have no photos right now of our new kitty, whose name is now CHESTER...
Oct 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
i just read this powerful thing by steve jobs, who reflected on mortality in a 2005 commencement speech at Stanford: Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost...
Oct 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
on sunday kevin laid the little baby squirrel under the giant hosta in the front, so he’d get the last bit of warmth of the day. he didn’t make it through the night. yesterday morning i drove in the driveway and a few squirrels were scampering near the...
Oct 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
yesterday afternoon i was busily bustling around doing all manner of things. i was happy because i’d heard kevin take les paul out for a walk in the backyard. the responsibility of walking this very busy kitty needs to be evenly distributed. mollie was out...
Oct 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
here is our adorable new kitty. i took these with my camera, so i don’t have any formal portraits yet. we can’t think of a name. any suggestions would be appreciated. meanwhile, i now realize why everybody was so intent and focused and barking the other...
Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
all day saturday i was whirling around like a dervish, racing to finish the one million things left for the party. i write so many detailed party-planning lists so i WON’T have to whirl like a dervish, but i always end up the same way. anyway, maybe a week ago,...
Sep 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
because we’re throwing a belated wedding reception for garrick and janice on saturday, and because garrick LOVES CHOCOLATE, probably about the same amount as i do, but he’s a more vocal person anyway so he’s definitely louder about it, i had the...
Sep 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
one thing i haven’t mentioned is that when we got back, jim told us that the busy beaver was back at work again. you may recall that he ate jim’s beautiful willow tree down by the water. clearly the delicious willow taste made him hungry for more. we...
Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? i have already shrunk the pictures of the first day of our trip, they’re ready to go, i’ve downloaded the RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF VIDEO that i shot, so that’s ready to go…BUT I JUST HAVEN’T DONE ANY OF IT. yesterday a...
Sep 9, 2011 | UK 2011
and you didn’t even know we were gone, did you? that’s because kevin said DON’T POST ON YOUR SITE WHEN WE’LL BE GONE. i guess because many people would be RUSHING OVER HERE TO STEAL THINGS. instead, we came home to a sparkling clean house. ...
Sep 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
luckily, it was a beautiful night for it. i like this picture because kevin’s gun is so perfectly in the middle of his face, plus the lead guy, sean, has a funny look on his face. garrick looks like he wants to kill me, doesn’t he? during the tomb...
Sep 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, my lovely sister!
Aug 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
our trip to the fair wasn’t JUST about bev’s multiple entries in various contests. we walked around and looked at stuff, too. this was the best thing – it’s the “world famous redwood log house.” you could go right inside, where it...
Aug 28, 2011 | UK 2011
“When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now…we can rent a cottage on the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear…” Do you remember that part of “When I’m 64?” i love that song, and when i was trying to plan for...
Aug 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
here are bev’s BLUE RIBBON BRAN MUFFINS. she entered many, many, MANY things in the fair again this year. these muffins are just that all-bran recipe, but they did look very perfect and symmetrical, which i’m sure counts for a whole lot. i think there...
Aug 27, 2011 | UK 2011
we were going to sail from Southampton on Monday, and on Saturday Kevin and I and Carol and Alan set off in their car, with the good dog Bob in the back. Their daughter Emma lives in Southampton, and they were going to spend two nights with her and her husband james...
Aug 26, 2011 | UK 2011
It was nice to wake up at our friends’ house, with no notices pasted on the walls at all, like the b&b in london. we started the day with porridge. when we went to scotland, we got great porridge every morning, but they didn’t serve it at our london...
