saturday, and snow is a comin….

and DANG about that – it’s supposed to start snowing in a few hours and then snow and snow and SNOW til sometime tomorrow.  this is terrible for our show, terrible for the cast party that jill was going to host at the hilton! DANG. i photoshopped this...

the end of january…

here are the last photos of the end of january, as we’re running right up to the FRIGID end to february – right now it’s -5, which just seems silly. here were all the geese out on the lake at the end of january, when we could still see the ground. ...

later on thursday…

i always think i need to change my banner up there at the top, but i just can’t bring myself to do it.  i was putting up a new banner every month, but that one has been there since mollie died, and i hope i do change it someday. or not. kevin just brought up a...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!

if you’re reading this  and you know mom and you have her number, CALL AND SING TO HER TODAYY!  this would make her so happy, delighted  and surprised! definitely surprised, cause she never reads my site anymore, but i don’t take it personally cause she...

BIRDMAN???!!!

i was just bitterly disappointed to find out that birdman won best picture and best director.  BLEGH is all i gotta say.  did you SEE it?  it was so jarring, with that erratic jazz drumbeat underscore throughout, that when i got home from seeing it i had to have a big...

OPENING NIGHT!!!

TONIGHT IS OPENING NIGHT! it kinda feels like this can’t possibly be the actual night.  but i’m pretty sure it is. as i was rushing across the street to get to weightlifting class this morning, i dropped my big water bottle and all the water spilled out...

good morning!

so i’m sitting here in my jammies on this frigid thursday morning, and it’s four degrees outside with a wind chill of -10, and it’s just gonna be cold, cold, cold for a while now.  but hey, spring is in sight!  well, not exactly in sight, i...

ft. myers, the last day of waking up to warm weather…

we woke up on our last day of the trip, jan. 7th, and it was chilly!  not chilly enough to drag out the little space heater that we’d brought, but chilly enough. of course it’s all relative.  right now here in lovely spfld it’s seven degrees with a...

leaving captiva…

this was day tuesday, january 6th, day 7 in fort myers, our last morning on captiva island.  we got up to see the sun rise again, and it was a little bit chilly and the water was whipping the waves around a bit. i hadn’t thought it would be cold, so i had no...

captiva! day 6, finally the rest of the photos…

after returning from our walk down to the beach with our giant piece of delicious orange crunch cake, we…went back to the beach!  to see the sun set, of course.  i don’t often to get the sun rise and set in one day. looking through the photos, i realize...

CAPTIVA! day 6 continued…

we saw the sun rise, we watched manatees, we sat on the beach, went to the bubble room fabulous fun restaurant…and then we went back to the bubble room to get a giant delicious piece of orange crunch cake. we walked all the way up to the north side of the...

Ft. Myers day 6 – captiva captiva captiva!

This was Monday, January 5th – one whole full glorious day on captiva island, sunup to sundown. which meant we had to get up early to see the sunrise.  not THAT early, because the sun was scheduled to rise at, hmm, something like 7:16.  i got up right before 7,...

day 5, part two…captiva island, i love you

part 2 of sunday, january 4th – as i wrote yesterday, we got to check in to our hotel an hour early.  we drove over to jensen’s marina to check in – the jensen brothers have two properties, the marina with their twin palm cottages,  and...

day FIVE in florida, and how the time flew…

this was sunday, January 4th, and i, personally, was very VERY excited because we were going to captiva island to stay at his wonderful place!  a hotel, but our own little cottage! it was a busy day, and we took such a ridiculous amount of photos that i must divide...