Dec 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
yeah, i’m not even quite sure how that happened. whoosh, and it’s over. the day after christmas i got up and thought that i really wanted to take down all the decorations, but since i’d put the very final ones up on xmas morning, i decided i should...
Dec 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
i hope you’re happy and not having any holiday depression, i hope you’re not already drunk before 8 a.m.! but if you are, i hope i makes you feel better. here at the hughes house…things are quiet, except, of course, for a little chester-winnie...
Dec 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
in case you weren’t aware of its imminentness. good grief. somehow, somehow, things have gotten away from me this year. i’ve spent a good part of the afternoon baking cookies, a good thing, because i wanted to bake 8-9 kinds and after today i have four...
Dec 18, 2015 | Wales 2015
which, as i mentioned in the previous post, didn’t involve walking at all! well, not walking on the pembrokshire coast path, but we did hike around the area around Martin’s Haven, where we took a boat ride out to Skomer Island. we had gotten to...
Dec 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
i’ve been struggling to add posts about our trip, much too busy these days working and stuff, but here are some photos of our kitties who are feeling very neglected at not being represented here. les, enjoying the dock. sometimes kevin chases him around...
Dec 11, 2015 | Wales 2015
it’s totally crazy, but on the second day of our walk in wales, we took a break from walking! i don’t know why they scheduled the walk like that, but they did. i guess they figured that after 11 or 12 miles, we’d need a break right away? it was...
Dec 8, 2015 | Wales 2015
so that’s all the christmas present i need, an extra hour today when i was supposed to be working but i’m not! i got up early and cut together this video of our first day of walking; it appears i’ve gotten better about shooting the video so i...
Dec 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
is that it’s really not so much about laziness, except i have gotten kinda addicted to one of the most dumb online games ever, but the thing is, that before i can post more photos of our trip, i have to edit together the video i shot that first day, and...
Dec 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
is anybody out there? hello? too busy, that’s where i’ve been, much, much too busy for my liking. will i ever finish posting the beautiful photos of our lovely trip, and what about lester, who right now is vigorously attacking the bottom of the coffee...
Nov 24, 2015 | Wales 2015
now that’s a wordy title! it was a very, very busy day. We hiked all around the Dale Peninsula, which may have only been 5 1/2 miles, but maybe it was more than that – however far it was, it took a very long time, as i’ve said. we’d made the...
Nov 18, 2015 | Wales 2015
At the crack of 10 a.m. on wednesday, august 12th, we finally made it to the first gate onto the coast path. This was the path along the Dale Peninsula; as I’ve probably mentioned, Dale is such a tiny town that people I talked to in Wales who lived in Wales...
Nov 14, 2015 | Wales 2015
finally, we began our Wales Walk! it was supposed to be 11 or 12 miles, around the peninsula in Dale, and then up the coast a bit to the little town of Marloes, where we’d spend the night on Wednesday. our two suitcases had to be downstairs and ready to go by...
Nov 11, 2015 | Wales 2015
here’s a little video of our car ride to dale, and our lovely room at the Allenbrook b&B. editing the video, i noticed that when we were “20 minutes” outside of Dale, there was still a middle line down the road, plus lines on either side. it...
Nov 8, 2015 | Wales 2015
what a day! we finally arrived safely in the small town of Dale, checked into our B&B, and walked out the door to find some dinner. but first…the owner had three old and fabulous cars in his driveway. this one was under a canopy, and the others were in the...
Nov 7, 2015 | Wales 2015
in my previous post, i wrote about our good morning – slept in, watched the activity at the pier, leisurely breakfast, got off the ship and into our cute little rental car. everything was good on Tuesday, August 11th, until about 10:30 or so in the morning. we...
Nov 4, 2015 | Wales 2015
yaaaay, we made it! Tuesday, August 11th, we arrived at the Southampton Port. I got up at 4:20 and looked out to see land! very exciting! and in 20 short minutes, there we were! luckily, i went back to sleep until a more civilized hour. when i got up around seven,...
Nov 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
because it was sunny and in the 70s and a truly beautiful day, kevin and i decided to hike at Site M, the Jim Edgar Panther Creek Wildlife Area yesterday. We didn’t get there til about 2:00 in the afternoon. we started off and it was almost too warm, but really...
Oct 31, 2015 | Wales 2015
finally, i didn’t feel the need to eat such a huge breakfast on this second-to-last breakfast on board. another ship! closer and closer to southampton… we did go to an interesting lecture, by a journalist who had travelled with the queen in her...
Oct 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
since les has a long history of escaping over the fence (he’s not able to do that anymore, finally), and then being gone for hours if we let him roam free, we’ve been limiting his going-out time. kevin lets him out in the early morning and he comes right...
Oct 29, 2015 | Wales 2015
…as we got closer and closer to southampton! still pretty far out. this was always my favorite channel on the TV, because it listed the temperature outside, the water temperature, all the weather stuff, plus it pinpointed where we were out in the middle of the...
Oct 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
i called bev on saturday; she’d called me during the week and i’d been too busy and forgot to call her back. from now on i must call her back right away, no matter what…because she’d spent the week in a state of fervent agitation and general...
Oct 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
amy and jim’s darling beagle noodle passed away last week. he was a sweet and good boy, and we’ll all miss him terribly, but nobody will miss him as much as amy. and jim. well, that’s not entirely true…poor little numie also misses him...
Oct 25, 2015 | Wales 2015
another busy day at sea! saturday, august 8th. we got up so late, at 9:30, because they set the clocks ahead for the third time. we went to the very interesting 3rd lecture about the magna carta in the morning, and then, LUNCH! i loved having a delicious salad...
Oct 21, 2015 | Wales 2015
Thursday the 6th and friday the 7th of August, we were pretty busy at sea. looking at my pictures, though, it’s so much all about the food. well, one reason, like i’ve mentioned, is because amy wanted to see photos of food! also, there were many...
Oct 19, 2015 | Wales 2015
our first full day at sea, which was wednesday, august 5th. it wasn’t a day that was all about food, but i realize that most of these photos are, indeed, all about the food…i’m trying to not post so many photos of our crossing because i want to get...
Oct 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
winnie seems to be handling his diabetes diagnosis pretty well. i can give him a shot now without freaking him out, and of course kevin has been an expert at it for a very long time. i took this picture as winnie dozed with his head on kevin’s comfy keyboard,...
Oct 14, 2015 | Wales 2015
yaay, here’s my very first video of our trip; i didn’t bother to do any videotaping before we got on the ship, and this one is nice and short.
Oct 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
i think i name the posts by the day of the week in order to remember what day it is. it’s especially confusing this week because monday was a holiday, and on sunday we went up to northern illinois to visit kevin’s family and got back on monday, which felt...
Oct 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
and i woke up very early for me. sometime around 6:00, winnie started meowing at kevin, crawling around on him, lying on top of his head. how can kevin sleep through all that? winnie would stop and purr for a bit, then commence with the meowing and tromping all...
Oct 5, 2015 | Wales 2015
such a big day! when can a person say that they’re celebrating their birthday by setting sail on the Queen Mary 2, headed across the Atlantic Ocean? not many people. have i mentioned that we had way too much luggage? we had printed out four luggage tags well...
