Jul 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
as i ran between the corn rows at the end of may, i thought it’d be interesting to take pictures of it as it grew. corn grows mighty fast around here. may 25th: June 2nd, just eight days later: June 8th, just six days after that! June 17th, a mere nine days...
Jul 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
the addition of the giant window was fantastic, but i’m in love with my new giant chicken. lester, however, was nonplussed. here’s the view of the chicken from out new giant window. yeah, technically it is a rooster, but i like saying “giant...
Jul 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
instead of taking a long trip this year, we installed new windows in the living room. this is what the big window used to look like…there’s a beautiful view of the lake, except for the big panel in the middle where there was a mirror. plus the seal on the...
Jul 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
I woke up this morning to see that the lovely Tanja, from the site The Red Phone Box Travels, had posted my guest blog on her site! Here it is. Tanja is from Croatia, and writes about the wonderful places she’s visited; she is especially enamored of London,...
Jul 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
here are three photos from the very beginning of july, such a very long time ago, it feels like. les, always stalking something down by the water. this is a beautiful new tiny tree i bought on impulse. it’s called a Duranta, and i just read on wikipedia that...
Jul 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
whoops, i forgot about these photos. here’s a snapchat photo, which i took the morning of the 20th anniversary of harry potter. how is it that 20 years have passed since the first novel was written? i had to take this photo of the fridge because it’s...
Jul 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
so, ta da, the final photos of june as july zooms right along. here’s bev, giddy with excitement when she spent the night a few weeks ago – she had a procedure done at the hospital and they told her she shouldn’t be alone for 24 hours in case...
Jul 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
yesterday, thursday morning,kevin drove the van over to the boat dock as i slowly left the shore on the boat. i noticed that kevin had installed a nifty new black lamp post at the end of the dock! cool. the water was still, no other boats around, and the breeze felt...
Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
a week ago i wrote that the pontoon boat was running great this summer, which is probably the first summer it’s done that since we’ve had it. and i said “i don’t want to jinx it.” which of course i did. kevin and i took a lovely boat...
Jul 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
a fawn appeared at the side of the fenced yard one day. can you see it, there in the middle? it saw me, and hid down in the weeds. it hung out at our house for a while, but amy and jim also saw it next door. here it is, nestled outside their fence as their blind...
Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
boat ride! so far the pontoon boat has been running great; i think this is the first year since we’ve had it that it has managed to keep running this long into the summer. hmm, better not jinx it. the water was really high in june, and the yuccas were in...
Jul 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
soon it will be time for the Il state fair! it’s remarkable how quickly the summer is going by. funny that in april it did nothing but rain rain rain, and now things are dry and i spent a great deal of time watering my flowers. here’s a panorama of my...
