Jul 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
the other night winnie was playing – winnie doesn’t usually play so much, he mostly looks very upset about things. but he was chasing something all around the floor, skidding in back of the couch – we went to investigate, and it was a green bean. a...
Jul 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
good god. well, to begin with, last sunday, not the one we just had, but the sunday before that, kevin was playing an online game on my computer and it just died died died. i assumed that his friend wayne woiuld be able to fix it, but wayne looked at it and no, it...
Jul 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
and last night the weather man kept saying that we’re having “weather like october,” which seems like a slight exaggeration to me. but it’s been lovely and cool and we’re lucky that we’ve been having such a nice summer so far. gus...
Jun 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
i wrote about the goose, who is now our goose and kevin named him Gus, on may 28th. he had a family, with a wife and four little goslings, and he had a horrible limp. since then, the wife and babies haven’t been around so much, but gus continues to show up...
Jun 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
and randy, i’m happy to say, is safe and sound. on sunday he traveled to Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, to go to a destination wedding. well, on sunday he was supposed to fly out of springfield to chicago, and then his charter plane left ridiculously...
Jun 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
last night we had some people over for dinner, and it was a lovely time, but people were telling pet stories, and kevin started a story with “we had a dog named mollie.” it was a funny story, about the fact that mollie always barked when anybody came...
May 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
yesterday i told kevin that maybe we should clean the gutters today since it’s supposed to rain tonight, and all the gutters have little trees growing out of them because of the one hundred million spinners. so this morning he said i could help him, and he got...
May 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
and the highlight of my day was eating a chocolate chip off the dining room floor. well, there were some other good things about the day, but usually if there’s something on the dining room floor, it’s a piece of dry cat food, not a delicious,...
May 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
last night i overdid it a little with the yard work, and we went to be before 10! this morning i got up a little after six, so clearly i’m turning into an old lady who gets up at the crack of dawn. well, i’m not entirely sure what time the sun rises, so i...
May 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
…and it feels like spring again. it was finally warm enough to be outside yesterday, very nice. here’s mom working on the stone we made to put over dad’s ashes under the peach trees down by the lake. we had marked the spot with a shell, and we...
May 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
yesterday, a little rocky, but today promises to be better. for one thing, kevin is coming home. he’s been gone since wednesday, at the North South Skirmish Association spring national civil war shooting competion in winchester, VA. or the soggy excuse for it...
May 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
after 15 unbelievably horrific days in the hospital, dad had a “miraculous recovery,” and the doctor came in and talked about moving him home after the weekend, and dad was so happy and felt good and joyfully drank a chocolate shake. and a year ago today,...
May 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
yesterday i went to the grocery store with randy and a bottle of wine leapt out of our cart and dramatically CRASHED to the floor, shattering all over the place, and it was red wine, so a huge red pool oozed all over the place. but it was in no way my fault! so,...
May 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
i did spectacularly break a butter dish last night, with no effort at all. i was trying to get a can of diet root beer out of the pantry and somehow managed to CRASH the glass butter dish to the floor, with many, many little shards of glass everywhere. nothing broken...
May 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
in between feeling bad about my dad, and about mollie, and about stuff that i feel bad about here in this month of may, i have been creating wide swaths of mayhem and destruction. not intentionally. first, the power washer – i was so looking forward to cleaning...
May 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
saturday was a very big day. first, the Fat Ass 5k, which was actually pretty fun. the race started at the very civilized hour of 10 a.m. here’s kevin, dressed in his civil war garb, so that he could fire the opening shot of the race and then sprint along in...
May 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
so if i have any readers out there still, just so you know, they suspended my site cause i had malware, and i had to pay to have some service delete the malware, but it’s some site that charges per year, so now i’m covered for a year but they sent me a...
Apr 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
whew. i guess that sums up my general attitude about most things in life at the moment. just whew. last night there was yet another ad on the tv about some new cell phone. they’re always so much BETTER and MORE ADVANCED and FABULOUS and SPECTACULAR. do you...
Apr 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Apr 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
yes, it’s almost the very middle of april and we’re SUPPOSED TO GET SNOW LATER TODAY. a very, very unfortunate state of affairs. as i’ve already written here, we bought 22 bags of mulch last thursday, plus a new front door. on friday we went back to...
Apr 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Apr 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
here’s the kitty condo, which les immediately had to check out. this isn’t such a great photo, but it’s a rare one, since both chester and les were in it. i think winnie has gotten in once. erica sent me this photo of her sweet kittie heidi, who was...
Apr 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
yester we bought 22 bags of mulch, and i put 18 of them down. before that i had to rake approximately one million leaves. needless to say, i overdid it and i’m sore today. but it’s warm! which is incredibly fantastic. yesterday i saw the first flower...
Apr 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
it’s been quite a week. the grass is getting pretty green, at least, even though it’s cold and windy outside. luckily i only have to leave the house a couple of times. in february, we had a wide array of weather. amy and jim escaped to austin with...
Mar 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
where your teeth fall out? mom said she used to have the dream when she was younger; she’d be brushing her teeth and they’d all fall out. but i still have the dream, and it’s not about brushing my teeth, it’s just about my teeth crumbling and...
Mar 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
mid-february, , lots of snow had fallen yet again, so i decided to go down to the dock and take a look at the frozen lake. les was CRAZY to get out as usual, so i let him out the back door, thinking that he’d surely stay up on the deck because the snow was...
Mar 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
because this morning i woke up to SNOW ON THE GROUND. luckily it wasn’t that much snow, and it’s mostly gone now, but it’s a chilly 30 degrees with a wind chill of 16, which makes me just wanna forget about going outside at all. meanwhile..i hope...
Mar 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
and yeah, of course it’s cold again, and there’s a chance of SNOW tomorrow…but this morning things are ok; i don’t really have to go out of the house at all till tonight, when randy and i are going to see “H.M.S Pinafore” at the...
Mar 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
it’s gray and dreary and windy and WE WANT SPRING ALREADY! here are my last few photos from our trip to florida…it seems so long ago, but also, it seems that it SHOULD BE WARM HERE NOW! the sunset on our last night. we drove across the road to the state...
Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
it was 73 yesterday, an amazing thing! we were supposed to get 2 to 4 inches of snow last night, but luckily instead there was only a dusting, a trifle of snow, plus first it rained for a very long time, which will help all that grass grow. c’mon spring! ok,...
