Dec 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
i’m over christmas now. i’m sitting here on the couch and they’re re-playing the christmas in rockefeller center special. LeAnn Rimes was singing “i want a hippopotamus for christmas.” didn’t she used to be a country singer? she...
Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
i made more cookies today. because i’m a crazy person. lester is bouncing all over the place, clearly even more energized than me. here’s the tree a few days ago. i hope your christmas day is a good one. ok then, mrs. christmas eve...
Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
i hope you’re not crazy with last-minute stuff today, but you probably are. so here’s something soooo cute and funny to make you smile in between the wrapping and cooking and hopefully not still shopping… a few gifts were under the tree the other...
Dec 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
i was lying in bed at 6, thinking about all the stuff i need to do today, finally getting up at 6:18, because i clearly wasn’t sleeping anymore. but then when i staggered out into the living room, kevin was up. well, he’s 99% of the time up before me, but...
Dec 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
yes, i have quite a few things to do, but not so many, not gonna get all stressed about it. now, if the sun would just come out. it’s been more than 10 days since the sun has shone. a little bit yesterday, but come on, already. winnie, on the seat cushion...
Dec 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
i woke up at 6:30, decided to stay in bed and pet poor tiny lester til 7:00. why get up before it’s light outside, anyway? well, there’s yesterday morning, when i got up at FIVE THIRTY. ridiculous. RIDICULOUS. kevin had gotten up at 5:00. this morning,...
Dec 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
well, the bad news is that i went running on saturday and felt so good that i ran for 45 minutes instead of 30 minutes, and i hadn’t run in maybe a month, but really, that shouldn’t have caused ALL THIS PAIN. my foot is kind of swollen and it’s...
Nov 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
i woke up before seven, i don’t know why. it wasn’t even light out yet! i really don’t know how kevin does that, mostly waking up before the sun has risen. it’s like getting up in the middle of the night. but here we are, and i’m...
Nov 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
i read that last post of mine from last week; that day we did get soooo many things done, but we only got the pontoon boat ready for winter. but the cadillac is back in the garage. yesterday it was also warm, so we did many more outside things, including getting the...
Nov 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
this morning i’m trying to focus on the positive, instead of all the election results. the positive, of course, is the cats. plus, i bet this is the last day this year that the temperatures are going to climb into the 60s. we have a bevy of outdoor stuff to do...
Nov 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
last night, about 10, i was shuffling around the kitchen, wandering into the dining room, muttering WHERE’S THE REST OF THE HALLOWEEN CANDY? gone, of course. luckily we had no trick-or-treaters because i ate almost all of it before we went to go see...
Oct 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
was buying a bag of halloween chocolates on tuesday. i was going to wait til today to buy them, but then i figured that i’d be ok, it wasn’t that many days til halloween, plus i just wouldn’t open them. my second big mistake was opening them. i...
Oct 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
and it’s early around here! last night i asked kevin to please wake me up by 7:30, so he woke up at five because he was afraid he’d oversleep. and then, of course, i was up by seven. so we’re all up. but i, for one, won’t be fully awake for...
Oct 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
it’s only fall, but the sky looks like winter, bleak and gray and where is the sun? it will surely return again someday. meanwhile…soon i have to go to randy’s house to check on sweet little rupee, but first, i have a big melange of all the photos...
Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
i went running, and it was overcast and sprinkling a little bit, but then it stopped, and i felt good, and decided to run all the way to the start of the vachel lindsay bridge…but when i got there i decided i might as well run over it, and then i figured that...
Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
we came so close to going someplace, so close to putting up some photos that weren’t just adorable pictures of our kitties…we were going to go up to northern illinois to visit kevin’s family, but he got sick, so we didn’t go. and...
Oct 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
and it’s very fall-like today. well, a yucky fall day – very cloudy. the only good thing about the cloudiness is that i had to take kevin to the cataract guy at EIGHT AM, and they dilated his eyes, and the ride home wasn’t all sunny and blinding...
Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
i feel that i should change the name of this site to “les paul.” or “les paul plus occasionally chester and winnie.” also i should probably get out more, for no other reason than to take pictures of something besides the cats. but i like to be...
Sep 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
before kevin and i went to see richard linklater’s new film, “boyhood” yesterday, i knew three things about it: 1. linklater had a fantastic, brilliant idea to create a piece of fiction about a boy growing up using the same actor. so when the...
Sep 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
and i’ve been busily photoshopping many, many photos, and guess what – they’re mostly photos of lester! such a surprise! taking pictures of les when we’re on our walks is always a lot of fun, though. plus i can’t help it because...
Sep 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
i just can’t say. i was about to edit some photos from august, which is GONE NOW, and i realized that i still have photos from july. just can’t seem to catch up. today is going to be the last hot day of summer, i think. i hope i have time to go jump in...
Sep 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
it rained a lot last night, and this morning it’s cool. we’re going to have a couple more hottish days, and then cooler, fall-like weather. weather forecast in a nutshell. gus the goose continues to come back, almost every day, and i bought a 40-lb. bag...
Aug 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
and it’s HOT HOT HOT. craaaaazy hot. but at least it’s only supposed to last a few more days, as opposed to a couple of years ago when it was hot all summer long. luckily, last sunday, the 17th, was cloudy and relatively cool. a perfect morning for...
Aug 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
here’s erica on the sky glider at the fair on sunday. we had a lovely time; we had just finished Abe’s Amble the 10k that left from the fairgrounds. more about that later. but the yellow jacket update: here’s kevin on saturday morning, as he got...
Aug 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Here’s a picture of one of the dozens of Yellowjackets that swarmed me! Damn wasp. The swelling has gone down enough so that now I can see the individual stings. I think there are maybe 30 to 40 of them. good grief. ok then, mrs. Wednesday...
Aug 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
erica suggested that i have my own TV show with the above title. sunday morning, i went to amy’s two workout classes, weightlifting and “cardio jam” which is like zumba only it’s better, with amy’s own choreography. the classes started...
Aug 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
and we’ve finished season 4 of downton abbey! so whew, now what will we do? for one thing, les always need a walk…he usually marches right down the back steps of the deck, but one afternoon he jumped down over the side because he needed to explore under...
Aug 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
a half an hour ago, at his usual time of 4:30 a.m., chester marched into the bedroom and started his plaintive meowing. i tried to ignore him, deciding that i wasn’t going to succumb to his sorrowful cries, but i finally staggered out of bed and shut the door...
Aug 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
last night amy and i were on veteran’s parkway, almost to fit club west, where amy was teaching a 6:30 class and i was gonna participate, although i wasn’t super excited about going and would have rather sat at home and watched the rest of the final...
Jul 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
My computer is fixed and back home now, so now i’ll be posting all the time… well, as all the time as i can. you might remember my last post about Gus the Goose – he had an injured leg, right where the leg and his foot met. He seemed to be getting...
