Jan 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
i got my computer back yesterday from best buy and they fixed it. because it wasn’t under warranty, the guy said that the part they replaced was legally mine, and he held out a baggy with the broken cable. i declined it. so it’s a happy day now....
Jan 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
yesterday we took mollie for a walk through the soccer feld and she always stops to sniff, eat bad things, or contemplate the meaning of life. yesterday, though, she stayed eating on something for a very long time. we walked over to see – it was and entired...
Jan 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
last night kevin was at a meeting and i was very focused on playing bejeweled on his computer. because there is something wrong with his computer, not only does it not connect to the internet, it also randomly restarts every once in a while. this was slightly...
Jan 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
that’s HOW MUCH MITT ROMNEY OWES IN TAXES. newt gingrich’s wife, callista, is FORTY FIVE YEARS OLD. he is an ugly 68. and you know, of course, that he had a SIX YEAR affair with her, and finally divorced his second wife. before that he was cheating on...
Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
today i had hoped to GET THINGS DONE. namely, i desperately want to make it easy to navigate through my many england photos and videos, plus i want to continue posting them. my plan was to have nested pages; you’d click on the “england” link up...
Jan 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
there was a picture of a cow, its dirty head sticking out of some huge machine. the caption read “A cow is weighed and inspected using an ultrasound machine to assess fat content and marbling at a Maple Park, Ill, feedlot.” the article was all about high...
Jan 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
and he enjoyed himself thoroughly. it was late monday afternoon, a beatiful, sunny, warm january day. mollie went with us, of course, and the first thing she did is run after the geese in the yard, who flew into the water. les wanted to go right down to the dock to...
Jan 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
way back on the 14th was the first time this winter we’ve seen a gaggle of deer at the feeder. they’ve been in abundance whenever we’ve been on walks through the university soccer fields, though. yesterday mollie chased a couple, which is always...
Jan 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
i am able to use her computer til mine is fixed! yay, amy! just one little photo here of the darling kitties. last night before going to bed, i realized that lester wasn’t around – he’s usually sleeping on the couch, invading mollie’s space. ...
Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
first, the REALLY REALLY BAD…my computer BROKE. saturday night, we had mom and dad over, and were watching many flashmobs on youtube because they’re dad’s favorite thing. afterwards, my screen was FULL OF STATIC. uh oh. i thought it was a...
Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
yesterday evening at dusk i took les out for a walk. kevin had walked with mollie yesterday morning and i took her for another walk later in the afternoon because i figured she needed all the exercise she could get, because i wasn’t going to go walking when the...
Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
i will have plenty of time now to post many photos since i’m NOT GOING OUTSIDE TIL MARCH. ALL the pictures aren’t of les paul, just most of them. he’s the one who is so very busy all the time, so it’s hard to not want to take pictures. here he...
Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
2. yuck. i decided to see what the kitties would do if i opened the back door for them. lester, naturally, leapt right out. see that little space where the snow fell through the cracks? he played with that for a while, then bounded out. chester, meanwhile, really...
Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon; the little dog laughed to see such a sport, and the cat ran away with my eyeliner. after an exhaustive and ultimately fruitless search for the eyeliner, that rhyme popped into my head. that’s really all i...
Jan 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
walking way out to the end of the driveway to get the mail, wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt and eating a bowl of ice cream. BECAUSE IT WAS 60 DEGREES. and yes, that was me, running through the field with mollie, wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt (me, not mollie), with a...
Jan 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
i usually don’t even click on links that people send me to various things, but regan smith sent this to me, with a happy new year greeting. i watched it and it’s just so beautiful, so here it is. It’s from the BBC, and David Attenborough is reading...
Jan 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
here are more pictures i took a couple of days ago, an historic getting up to see the sunrise day. i wasn’t able to capture the sky when i first woke up; there were big fluffy pink clouds all across the sky, and it was truly a sight. at least i got some a few...
