More fun in Davenport

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...

ted’s boatarama!

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...

TWO days til xmas…

…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...

p.s.

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...

wrapping up November…

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...

all kinds of stuff in november

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...

november rainbow

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...