Dec 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
After breakfast at the lovely Current Iowa hotel, we walked down the block to a shop called Chocolate Manor. we’ve been in the Quad Cities a few times and i’ve always looked up things to do and Chocolate Manor always beckoned me, but there was never time...
Dec 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
on the first week of december kevin told me he’d had a call from the guy at ted’s boatarama where we bought our new pontoon boat during the summer. he said the guy invited us to a holiday dinner, and i said, well, that’s in the quad cities and he...
Dec 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
…I’m just saying. not a huge amount of time for getting ready. not huge. some might say, not much time at all. i’m not one of those people. I guess i don’t have that much to do, not very many people to buy gifts for, i guess i’m done with...
Dec 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
now the icon for internet explorer is down on the bar on the bottom of the screen and a billion pages of it were opened, but somehow they didn’t show up til now. plus, the most important thing is that Christmas is in just over a couple of weeks. ready? of...
Dec 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
oh boy. head about to explode, late on a sunday night. first – new wordpress update and i can’t really figure it out. i know that when i did the update there was some kind of choice about doing it the old way, instead, but now of course i can’t...
Dec 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
first, happy belated birthday, bev! here she is with a group of friends vigorously celebrating her special day. one of her friends bought bev the Barbie seen there in front of the pig, and they carried the Barbie around with them all day, photographing it in all...
Dec 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
down at the dock on sunday, November 4th – I was looking at the pelicans, and suddenly there was a rainbow. the sun lit up a spot across the lake. I turned around to see the sun setting. don’t see a sunset very often from the house. the pelicans were so...
Nov 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
…well, riley and les paul, anyway…Winnie isn’t in the mood so much these days to get his picture taken. he’s still purring and eating and everything at least. riley and les being loving before the fighting starts. that thing on the right is a...
Nov 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
it was relatively warm, the grass was green, the red maples were dazzling… I took this for bev because she loves squirrels. this one was clearly posing for me. wow, the field was so green. I went running yesterday, the first time in two months cause...
Nov 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
after glenn helped us get out sailboat out of the water, we helped him get his out. this was Tuesday, October 30th – we all drove over to the yacht club in kevin’s big truck and attached glenn’s trailer. glenn climbed aboard, and I was excited to...
Nov 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
this is one of my favorite pelican photos (and I took approximately one million of them during the summer/fall). we went out on the boat on October 20th, and I went out again on the 22nd. kevin didn’t want to go with me, so I went by myself and had a...
Nov 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
and the thing is it seems like deep winter all of a sudden. fall passed in the blink of an eye – it got deeply cold yesterday and snowed. ugh. to early. let’s go back to mid-October when we had that little flash of autumn. Winnie enjoyed lying in a new...
Nov 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
kevin saw these two cute wooly worms. a mother and a baby?! I’ve never seen that before. these were taken the day after our exciting Friday morning of towing our neighbor’s boat out of the water. we got to starved rock too late on Friday for hiking, but...
Nov 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
hmm, once again, time whooshes by and I haven’t posted for a good long while, but at least I updated my banner on this rainy, windy sunday morning. I have to do one million things now, but will hopefully get back here today… ok then, mrs. sunday end of...
Oct 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
this is the latest we’ve ever had the boat out…actually, every year since we had our old boat, it broke down sometime mid-summer. this year the water has been really high, plus new boat… it was a beautiful day for it, and I wanted to see if the white...
Oct 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
a tale of a fateful trip…” *Gilligan’s island opening* I haven’t finished with my photos of September, but here’s the story of the boat shenanigans from last Friday, October 5th. kevin and I were going up to Starved Rock on Friday;...
Oct 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
well, this isn’t all the animals at the zoo, but here are a few that we saw. by this time it was about an hour before closing so we were walking very quickly in order to see more animals. the polar bear was hanging out, but since it was such a warm day...
Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
after thoroughly enjoying the Humboldt penguins outside, we went into the chilly penguin palace. these are king penguins, native to Antarctica. they’re the second-largest penguin type, at about 33 pounds. and so cute. at one point they all started making a...
Sep 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
In my last post I forgot to post these two pictures of the bears, just hanging out… and then, the penguins! I think I liked them so much because they were so very funny and seemed perfectly content to waddle around and swim and gather nesting material. these...
Sep 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
such a big kitty! zebra and baby zebra…it doesn’t look comfortable that they’re standing around on pebbles, but maybe they don’t mind. puma! here’s interesting thinsg about this next animal, a speke’s gazelle – the amazing...
Sep 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
on sept. 11th, randy and I went down to the st. louis zoo. he’d never been to any zoo anywhere his entire life, and I had to pick up my friend Toun at the airport, so I thought we’d make a day of it. I can’t remember the last time i’d been to...
Sep 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
to us! yesterday was kevin and my 12th anniversary. it’s astounding to realize that twelve years have flown by. kevin bought me these gorgeous roses… …and we took a nice boat ride early in the day, before it got too hot. lots of gulls followed us....
Sep 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
first, a couple of darling kitty photos. this was sunday, august 26th. les had to rest his weary head on top of a sock, on top of a cushion, on top of a rug…and yet his usual favored sleeping position is resting against some cold piece of metal. Winnie is...
Sep 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
here are two more videos of Mund Enterprises taking down our trees, plus some photos. Something I didn’t get on tape was when a giant branch smacked into the bucket where the guy was – a part of the bucket fell off, but not an important one. luckily it...
Sep 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
taking down the silver maple took up most of the day on Wednesday, august 22nd. after making quick work of the tall locust tree, they started in. I have some photos, but I think the videos are more interesting. here’s the first giant branch coming down. the...
Aug 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
I took many photos and a completely berserk amount of video of the huge team of guys felling our trees. i’m still pretty sad about the whole thing even thought it was all my idea. I am grateful that the giant tree won’t smash through the bedroom roof and...
Aug 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
first, there was kevin’s birthday. I attempted to make a healthier version of a black forest cake and it ended up taking a very very long time and there was lots of oozing of cherries and it was sort of a big mess…but he seemed to like it. kevin took this...
Aug 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
i’m sitting in my living room trying to avoid the blistering heat-n-humidity that has been plaguing us for the past couple of days, and will continue this week. just now I finally decided to quit playing mindless games on my ipad and started to download one of...
Aug 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
a while back, randy and I got tix to see boy George & the culture club at the fair. I remember when we went to the empty fairgrounds to buy them, thinking that the concert was such a long way away…but then it snuck up on me, suddenly it was august the 10th,...
Aug 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
when we were out on the boat on july 23rd, we saw this tree that had crashed onto this boathouse. ouch. at least it didn’t crash through and destroy the fancy boat moored there. amy and jim’s dogs love to sunbathe. I believe they’re on a pad and...
