monday morning,

and things are ok.  trying to wake up this morning.  it’s harder to get out of bed when it’s chillier outside; how will i ever manage when it gets truly cold? let’s not worry about that right now.  one moment at a time. here’s mincy and numie;...

October…it was bound to happen, i know, but

DANG it got here in a hurry.  and here i am sitting on my couch, and it’s not even 50 degrees outside… and once again, i’m trying to remember what, exactly i was so very busy doing all last month. well, first and foremost, i had to take many pictures...

Wales Day 3 – all day in NYC

As I’ve been looking through my photos from this day, i keep thinking LET’S GET TO WALES ALREADY! patience has never been one of my virtues.  we did have a pretty interesting day in new york, even though we weren’t yet HIKING IN WALES. we were busy...

happy belated birthday, gary! plus many other things…

gary, the great guy who has updated my site, had a birthday yesterday there in the U.K.  i hope it was wonderful! my friend jill tried to tell me this morning that there’s NO BANNER AT ALL on my site on her computer, but i don’t know how this is possible. ...

Wales Day 2 – Sunday, 2 Aug, 2015

this day was mostly about the train ride, which was nice and relaxing.  kevin spent a lot of time reading; he brought a few books with him, and got through at least two by the time our train trip was done.  what was he going to read the rest of the trip? i, too,...

Wales Day 1- Saturday, August 1, 2015

it’s convenient that the first day of our trip coincided with the first day of the month. we got up early cause the train was going to leave at 9:30 SHARP. First, we had to pet the kitties a little more.  so sad to be leaving them for five weeks!  but at least...

STUFF IS HAPPENING AROUND HERE!

gary TECH GURU EXTRAORDINAIRE,  has been hard at work, making my site better and better – i just woke up and noticed a couple things, and e-mailed him and he hasn’t even replied yet, but BOOM they are taken care of! soon, very soon, maybe even later today,...

GETTING FANCIER BY THE MINUTE!

gary gary gary what a GREAT GUY you are!  my site is getting more and more modern and fancy, and soon i’ll be able to post many many things – and not just photos of Lester!  but i know that if you’re a huge lester fan, you’ll be missing him...

can you hear the hammers and saws??!!!

because we’re STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION AROUND HERE! well, you probably can’t hear them because all the work is being done over in England, by Gary, who is bearing all the stress of trying to somehow pull and push and hoist the site up out of the ancient...

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

soon i’m going to be UNDER CONSTRUCTION! i have no idea how long it’ll take, but i’m fairly confident that when it’s over, the SITE WILL BE GREAT.  because as you know, as i’ve complained for years and years, it’s very outdated...

blistering excitement around here!

and it’s actual, real excitement, not just the excitement of imminently getting an updated site! – plus i changed the banner this morning, which i haven’t done in two years.  i still miss our sweet mollie a lot, but i’m trying to climb outta...

completing the thought from this morning…

sometime during my much too busy day, i realized that i didn’t tell you the critical WHY you shouldn’t panic about me getting an UPDATED SITE. it’s cause changes are going to be made, so maybe you’ll be reading something here and then THINGS...

don’t panic. DON’T PANIC!

ok, that’s my advice to you, but mostly to me. first – we went to the opthalmologist yesterday and kevin’s left eye isn’t nearly as bad as the right one was last year – last year, the nurse had to hold up a giant “E” in front...

and things change…

first, i’ve added a link to KEVIN’S NEW BLOG, over there on the right side.  check it out!  except then you’ll hear all about our trip from him first, probably, because he’s also posting the thousands of photos he took.  but on the other hand,...

WE’RE BAAAAACK….

and we’ve been gone for FIVE WHOLE WEEKS.  yes, on vacation for FIVE WEEKS. i guess i feel a little…in shock.  we got back saturday night, and i’ve had to do a few too many things, plus i’ve been kind of walking around in a daze, a little on...

FIRST DAY OF AUGUST,

as the summer FLIES BY… no time, no time, no time… here is the entire month of july, in not really that many pictures, considering it was a whole month! a lovely goldfinch on one of our walks. what a darling photo!  sweet pea, numie, noodle, all lined up,...

last week in july!

and it’s going to be a crazy-busy one.  again.  i’m enjoying a few minutes of sitting down right now, but soon i will be a little too busy fora monday. meanwhile…here’s the rest of june, which was also kinda crazy. amy and jim adopted a...

WHERE IS JULY GOING???!!!!

hmm, i can’t say.  i am taking a little bit of time off this morning; we’ve been taking very long walks, but my ankle feels a little bit funny, so i’m just sitting here on the couch, instead.  i should be outside, because for once it’s lovely...

a grey and rainy thursday…

it’s been a weird summer thus far.  rain rain rain, and then a couple hot days, then more rain…i haven’t had to water the plants much, which is a good thing! wow, i forgot all about these beautiful peonies that i picked in may…they bloomed like...

second time in one day!!!…geese and kitties.

photos from may, which seems approximately one bazillion years ago: first – there were SO MANY TINY GOSLINGS way back in may!  here they are in my neighbors’ yard.  i counted 30 of them at one point!  how is this possible; did they adopt some of them???...

JULY

yeah, the year is a little more than half over, and i’m way way way behind in posting photos, per usualmente. however, here are three photos taken JUST THIS MORNING, by kevin. dang, that lake is beautiful, and DANG, i wish i’d get up early enough to see it...

mondaymondaymonday…

and now i feel that i was wrong, maybe i won’t have so much free time.  but then again, you never know. but WHAT ABOUT LESTER?  it’s been a while since i’ve posted anything about the darling little kitty, so here’s a very cute photo of him and...

COUNTING DOWN TO THE END OF JUNE!!!

and YES i have SO MANY PHOTOS from may, and now june is almost over and the summer is SPINNING OUTTA CONTROL!!! SLOW DOOOOOWN!!! But it’s ok.  everything is good.  it’s raining right now, as it has been most of the summer. once again, i only have this one...

OUTRAGEOUS!

that’s what it is, the fact that there have been no new pictures of lester up here, nor photos from MAY, and now we’re heading into the final stretch of JUNE, and the summer is whooshing by as usual, and i just needs to slooooow down a little… i have...

CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP chomp gnash crunch crunch

so i’m sitting here tonight trying to decompress after a week that has been just a bit too busy for my liking, and i heard les come in the back door, and pretty soon i realized he was sitting on the rug chomping away at something.  so i got up to see; it looked...

june june WAY INTO JUNE ALREADY!

did the winter go by this quickly? NO IT DID NOT. my friend wanda suggested that maybe those photos that i managed to permanently delete might be “in the cloud.”  this sounded FANTASTIC, and i just now checked the cloud on my phone, but no cloudiness there...

SMASH! BANG! CRASH!

DESTRUCTOR!  that is me. instead of naming me grace, my parents should have named me DESTRUCTOR. first – we put the boat in the water at the beginning of may, went on three boat rides, and at the end of the last one the motor started going BEEP!  BEEP!  BEEP! ...

thursday!

as i see may continuing to whoooosh righton by… i did accomplish my power washing; it took two days, but now the deck looks dazzling!  plus i did a lot of weeding and trimming and mulching down by the dock, but i’m still not done there.  and then i was...

whoooooosh…

…is how the month is going.  may 15th??!!!  already??!!!  it’s been busy, and i don’t see it letting up anytime soon. two days ago i went out to buy flowers for JUST TWO PLANTERS, and ended up with a huge, HUGE amount of lovely flowers.  but then i...