a chipmunk caper

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...

here in springfield,

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...

Turkey Run State Park

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...

something completely different for our anniversary…

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...

broke!

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...

craaack…

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...