Dec 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
decorating. i must stop. now. we are all decorated up around here; it was an exhausting weekend, and i still have a few more things i’d like to put up but it’s not necessary. i even put up a bunch of outside lights and decor on saturday because it was a...
Dec 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mom got an iphone! a big one, and she’s very please with it, and is doing a great job of figuring out how to make it work. lester scaling a stump on a november walk. another beautiful lake view. a bunny lives in the diminishing log pile, and les is always...
Dec 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
christmas. coming right up. here’s what i’ve done thus far, christmas-decorating-wise: i’ve gotten the new artificial tree out of the basement. yay, me. oh boy. it’s not that i don’t want to decorate, it’s just that i’ve...
Dec 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
we haven’t taken many trips recently, but on nov. 18th we drove up to davenport Iowato see Harry Potter in Concert. This is a worldwide phenomenon, where a live orchestra plays all the music from the score while the movie is projected. i can’t remember...
Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
on november 13th as les and i were walking i spotted this white pelican. there are lots of them this year. he appeared to be swimming over to join this gaggle of pelicans farther away. you can just barely see him, as he managed to get closer. meanwhile, les was...
Nov 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
last night before bed i read a thoughtful article in the wall street journal about how thanksgiving is good because it’s one of the rare times when a family sits down and shares a meal together, and about how rituals are so important to people, and we have so...
Nov 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
right, right, it’s black friday. didn’t make it out to the stores early this morning, because that’s not something i’m into. here’s my personal revelation i had last night…to me, and i know this is probably sacrilege to many, i...
Nov 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
today i was walking with les in the backyard and the wind was blowing and i thought, “i’m going inside and not going out again til may.” so that’s the kind of winter it’s going to be. next time when i take him for a walk i need to bundle...
Nov 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
this is from october 15th, capturing that magic moment when the sun lights up the other shore. hmm, that was taken at 6:12 p.m. last night i was sitting here looking out at the lake and was pretty dark over there, at 5:02 p.m. but before you know it the days will...
Nov 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
…i mean, i suppose it’s a countdown. it’s also a countdown to christmas, really, but the other day mom said I’VE SEEN PEOPLE WITH THEIR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS OUT ALREADY, and i pointed out that xmas isn’t so far off. meanwhile, i’m just...
Nov 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
things are good. i know it’s thursday cause kevin just told me it is – somehow it feels like friday, i don’t know why. kevin worked hard at removing our very old and broken hot tub. not only doesn’t it work, but the company is out of business...
Nov 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
was filled with running and kitties, mostly. here’s the corn row, which is now down. les, always enjoying the day. amy sent me this – i thought that she’d somehow managed to get zuri to pose like this, but nope, the doggie did it on her own. (is...
Nov 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
on the first day of october we took our first and only kayak trip of the year. maybe i’m wrong – maybe we went out in the spring? i don’t think so. it was a lovely morning and erica bought herself a new kayak so we went with her. here’s me in...
Nov 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
winnie, always darling. lester popping up from the vincas! this continues to be my favorite boat on the lake, and i’m confident that at some point they’ll stop by and take us for a ride. ok then, mrs. h.
Nov 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
whew, how is it that we’re so close to the end of the year? how did that happen? meanwhile, i realized i hadn’t posted all of my photos from september and was not going to do so, but mom and i went to a girl scout fundraiser which was cool so i had to...
Oct 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
on sunday kevin and i were sitting on the couch and he heard a ruckus, thinking it must be chester picking on winnie. but that wasn’t it; winnie was with us. he thought it could be lester and chester fighting, but no – it was les paul, scurrying away...
Oct 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
it feels like the end of october. brrrr, it’s cold and grey and rainy. yuck. we’re about to go see the new “blade runner,” to forget all about this weather. les paul refuses to give up this dangerous behavior. those cushions for the end of...
Oct 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
On sept. 18th kevin and i headed over to the fairgrounds to see this convoy of military vehicles. they were trekking all the way to california on route 66, and i’m hoping kevin will remember some of the details and tell you about it. here’s a pretty cool...
Oct 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Turkey Run State Park in Indiana is fantastic. We went there when i was a kid and did a little hiking, and maybe we stayed at the lodge. I know we went back there about 15 or so years ago, stayed at the lodge, did a little hiking but it had rained a lot and the...
Oct 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
our 11th anniversary, to be exact! September 16th, which fell on a saturday this year. so hard to believe that it’s been 11 years… after i’d seen herman’s hermits at the IL state fair in august, kevin revealed that he was a huge fan! so...
Oct 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
on monday afternoon, after I ‘d posted the stuff about falling in the road on saturday, the urgent care place called me to say that my nose was, indeed, fractured. this is the first time i’ve ever broken anything. i’m not scheduled to see an ear...
Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
that was the sound of my forehead hitting the asphalt on the road on saturday morning. not the best way to start the weekend. we’d been planning to visit kevin’s siblings in northern IL but kevin wasn’t feeling well, so when i set out for my run i...
Sep 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
we did this just a few hours ago, and i want to post this to show the dramatic difference in the water level between when we took the boat out for repair on august 18th, and today. there goes kevin again, after untying all the ropes so i could set sail. many of the...
Sep 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
i took this on august 15th, when we were taking the boat out of the water yet again for repairs. there’s kevin, walking up to the house to get in the van and drive over the bridge to pull the boat out. it’s funny, because today we took the boat out for...
Sep 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
trying to remember my excuse for being so lax in posting much in august, i looked at photos. i was pretty busy doing stuff outside. i power-washed the little dock, and wow, what a difference. lester approved. while i did that, kevin installed a portable toilet on the...
Sep 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
whew, i can’t say what happened to september, but i finally have a few photos and clips of the great and free show at the grandstand at the IL state fair. Bev wanted to see herman’s hermits and i figured, why not. we didn’t have a plan, really, and...
Sep 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
i don’t think i’ve been to the fair for a few years. i didn’t go last year, and we were on vacation the year before that, so that means it’s been at least since 2014. i love the fair, even though usually when i get there i immediately think...
Aug 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
On our walk yesterday afternoon, lester was really excited about a hole in the ground that he found. he never did find out what was down inside it, but he did enjoy himself thoroughly. when it was over he was content to find cicadas emerging from the ground,...
Aug 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
as i’ve written about, something is always going wrong with our pontoon boat. yes, it’s very old, but kevin replaced everything from the floor up several years ago, the pontoons are fine, in theory it is perfectly seaworthy. lakeworthy. the issue is...
Aug 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
did you see it? yesterday, at 1:18 p.m.? that’s when it happened here, anyway… i wasn’t that enthusiastic about the eclipse, really, but yesterday morning as i was driving home from work, my friend jill told me that she had eclipse glasses. i...
