ok, it’s really, really time to stop

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...

wrapping up november…

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...

well….

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...

an excursion!

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...