Dec 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
I feel like i’m done with Christmas now, tired of all the stuff that I put up everywhere. When Amy and Jim came over for Christmas dinner they seemed stupefied by the amount of stuff I had out, but I felt it wasn’t really over the top, and not more than...
Dec 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
yeah, it was a blur. too much waiting til the last minute, too much “this won’t take long” and so Christmas eve day and Christmas were nonstop cleaning/cooking/wrapping/other crazy xmas stuff. Yesterday I barely, just barely even got off the couch at...
Dec 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
I was startled to see that i’d last posted on the 13th; how is it possible six days have whooshed by? And even more alarming is that Christmas is in six days! I mean, in perspective it’s not really alarming. All the sadness and death from the coronavirus...
Dec 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s the beginning of the middle of December, really? Already? At least i’ve updated my banner. Here’s the loveliest picture I feel i’ve taken in a long while. December 2nd, when the clouds were glorious. and here’s a great, up close and...
Nov 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Kevin and I went on a great bike ride on the Sangamon Valley Trail on Sept. 16th, our 14th anniversary. It’s a lovely, flat path, and 23 miles round-trip. We decided to hit the trail again on November 6th and I was looking forward to the ride because it was a...
Nov 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m pretty sure that every year i post photos of the dazzling red trees over by the university. but that’s not going to stop me from doing it again. here they are on October 25th. Here are a couple from November 4th when they hadn’t changed much. But...
Nov 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Friday October 30th, mom and i walked at Lincoln Memorial Gardens and it was mighty chilly and windy, but the trees were beautiful. We’d put on our masks whenever people passed by but they were actually good for protection from the wind. Sat. Oct. 30th, I took...
Nov 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
kevin and i have been doing all kinds of projects outside because indian summer is coming to an end later in the day. it’s been in the 70s and i’ve gone running for the the past couple of mornings in shorts and a t-shirt. yesterday afternoon i power-washed...
Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
first of all, Kevin replaced the second bearing on his truck yesterday. the first replacement took a day and a half and the second only four hours. soon he’ll be replacing the mysterious bearings all over the place. On my October 25th jog I decided to run out on...
Nov 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
the white pelicans are back and as usual i keep trying to get a good close-up. this one on october 16th wasn’t too bad. the problem is that when i walk down to the water they start to quietly glide away. Kevin bought and assembled another component for our kitty...
Oct 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
First, to clarify – my last post had a photo of Kevin on the sailboat wearing a lovely lavender t-shirt from bev and wrote that she got it for bowling. yesterday she informed me that she’d bought a bunch of them for a line-dancing performance she did last...
Oct 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
i can’t say why i’ve been so productive lately. On Friday it was, indeed, really warm outside and I dug up most of my gerbera daisies but when i was done putting them in pots i realized i’d missed a small one and decided that enough was enough, and...
Oct 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
this might be the last warm day of the year; it’s already 63 and it’s supposed to get up to 81. tomorrow the temperature is going to plunge throughout the day and rain is in store, so if i’m going to get stuff done today i need to get going. but here...
Oct 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
I have plenty of photos for October but right now i just have time to show you this incredibly funny photo of Riley. Kevin took him for a walk in the back yard on Sat. October 10th and Riley bounced in such a comical way… it’s now the crack of 11:23 in the...
Oct 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Mom, Kevin and I had a lovely weenie roast on Friday Sept. 25th. We’ve been having them every friday night since then, and it’s a fine tradition. Kevin goes down to the dock about an hour early and starts a fabulous fire – fires are one of...
Oct 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
now that it’s the ides of october… i finished painting the front porch and i realize i didn’t take a photo. i’ll have to do that sometime. in september i also decided to tackle cleaning the walls of the screened porch. they walls are siding,...
Oct 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
…are a few photos from september. I love this picture so much, Lovey sitting in front of my pelican/goose collection. Shortly after that she sprawled out on the floor so relaxed, at least for a moment. And then totally content! it didn’t last long, but she...
Oct 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
it’s chilly and rainy today so i’m taking a break from painting the old entrance to the house. i started the project yesterday and spent two hours taping all the glass that needed to be taped and then another couple hours applying primer but i got so tired...
Sep 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
On sunday August 2nd I took a little video of an ant carrying around a gigantic bug. He was working so hard… I thought it was interesting to think of this ant’s struggle and wondering if it was successful in getting to its final destination. there were...
Sep 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
We didn’t put it in the water til Friday August 14th, but it’s awesome that he got it shipshape and in the water this year. for some reason it didn’t happen last year. We realized that Kevin has had the boat for ten years now, hard to believe. In...
Sep 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
i thought i’d just slap a couple photos from august up here and get right on to september but then i thought, why not post as many as you want? I love this photo from the beginning of the month, with my wonderful giant rooster and the hydrangea that were so...
Sep 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
fall already. i feel like there are about a million things i want to accomplish today but i focused on getting a new banner up there that says fall instead of summer. i’d like to write another post, but no time, no time right now… yesterday as i walked up...
Sep 16, 2020 | Anniversary!
Today is our wedding anniversary. kevin and i went on a bike ride a couple of days ago and we agreed that it would be awesome to go for a bike ride today to celebrate. “we can go 16 miles to commemorate 16 years,” he said. “That’s a great idea,...
Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
We went out on the boat yet again on July 16th and went farther into the infamous “hot ditch” next to the power plant than i’d ever been. usually there are plenty of fishing boats because the water is so warm there but since it was a week day, nobody...
Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
As I mentioned here just yesterday, Kevin bought me a fabulous giant swan float to tow behind the boat. It wasn’t a birthday present, just an awesome gift from a terrific guy. Even though we’ve had this boat for two years now we hadn’t tried towing...
Sep 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
still kitties…here’s sweetie, the happiest kitty ever who gets to spend quality time in the fenced yard. Riley loves it too, but he doesn’t have the exuberance of sweetie, who was finding that cement block to be the most comfortable spot to curl up...
Sep 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
my plan today (and i had a plan today, yay for me!) was to go through my july and august photos and choose a very small selection to post here. which of course i didn’t manage to do. instead, here’s just a part of the photos from july that i want to share...
Sep 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
amy’s birthday was on Tuesday, and we had a lovely indian meal. she’d made me a lavishly delicious Indian feast for my birthday and I hoped that she’d be open to me reciprocating. She was! I’ve been making Indian food for years, i realize. So...
Aug 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
my plan was to hurry up and slap just a few photos of July up here, and so far i’m only up to July 3rd. On the 4th we roared over in the boat to the other side of the lake to watch the fireworks at the marina. They were less than spectacular. But there were no...
Aug 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
So, July…well, here’s a few photos from the beginning of the month. First, Riley. in June I posted a photo of Riley in my re-purposed my clothes basket , which was so long ago…Riley still enjoys climbing inside sometimes. Sweetie just likes to...
