Mar 29, 2020 | Florida 2020
Real-time life update: Yesterday it got up to 71 degrees and kevin and i took a little walk through the fields which which had lots of standing water. it was great to get outside. After that i decided i needed to transplant a few tulips which had somehow come up in...
Mar 27, 2020 | Florida 2020
Life here in Springfield right now : warmer. still coughing. daffodils starting to come up, yay for that. Back in Florida, BCV: after they took away our beach chairs Mom and I found a picnic table to sit at at the end of the Clearwater Beach pier. here’s a...
Mar 26, 2020 | Florida 2020
Life update: same as yesterday, except we had some sunshine yesterday. Still spending most of my day on the couch, coughing continues. but it’s getting warmer and soon i’ll be sitting around outside. But before all this…we arrived at the Clearwater...
Mar 25, 2020 | Florida 2020
Life update – not as much coughing, plus the sun might actually come out today which would be fantastic. Back in Florida, before everything shut down: Sunday Feb. 23rd was warm and wonderful and i went for a good run. Here’s me in front of the door to our...
Mar 24, 2020 | Florida 2020
Statue update: it’s gray and rainy today. a little sunshine would go a long way around here. I continue to cough. Status quo. Meanwhile…Saturday mornin, Feb 22nd, Kevin sent me this photo of a boat on the lake. The reason we’d chosen to go to Tampa...
Mar 23, 2020 | Florida 2020
Ok, i want one of these fabulous planters. Here are more photos from the Plant Museum, which used to be the Tampa Bay Hotel a long time ago. This is the afternoon of Fri. Feb. 21st. I think that this odd-looking setttee/planter was something that the Plants claimed to...
Mar 22, 2020 | Florida 2020
life update: still coughing. last night i took some of amy’s codeine cough syrup after waking up and coughing for about an hour. and it totally worked! i have enough to last me 7-8 night, and hopefully the nighttime coughing will be gone? otherwise i’ll...
Mar 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
in one of my recent posts about mom and my trip to florida i made this statement: “Ok, so…i’ve had a cold with a horrible cough for over a week now. plus, the coronavirus …” what i meant to convey was that i’ve been feeling bad with...
Mar 21, 2020 | Florida 2020
First, my coughing report . *cough* *cough* Amy had a cough in January that lasted 10 weeks. I’m hoping I don’t beat her record. But back to sunny Florida, BCV – surely somebody has coined that phrase, Before Coronavirus, haven’t they?...
Mar 20, 2020 | Florida 2020
Ok, so…things don’t seem so great right now. i’ve had a cold with a horrible cough for over a week now. plus, of course, there’s the coronavirus spreading rapidly around the world…i feel that in order to maintain a bit of cheerfulness in...
Mar 16, 2020 | Florida 2020
We didn’t have to check out of our Air B&B until noon so i was able to go for one more great run. This time i spotted just one lone Ibis strolling around somebody’s yard. I saw so many of these bushes with either no leaves or just a couple of them in...
Mar 14, 2020 | Florida 2020
Wed. afternoon, Feb. 19th, we made it to the beach a half-hour earlier than the day before, at about ten til five. More time to relax/walk on the beach before the sun set. more ibis. Ibis plus a gull! Today I brought a big ziploc bag for picking up shells, plus...
Mar 13, 2020 | Florida 2020
Wednesday, Feb. 19th – The morning started out with another good run. i didn’t take as many photos, except i took a bunch of these birds when i first set out. Jim said they’re Ibis. Just hanging out in somebody’s yard. meanwhile, back at home...
Mar 12, 2020 | Florida 2020
I wanted to see the sun set over an actual beach so we chose the Pass-A-Grille Beach as our final destination on Tues. Feb. 18th. I’d read that it was uncrowded, very important to me, and i also found a site which listed good parking places; my goal was 8th...
Mar 11, 2020 | Florida 2020
I’m sitting here in my jammies on wednesday march 11th, down with yet another cold. jeesh, that’s two of them this winter, unless i had one even earlier and forgot about it. plus there’s the coronavirus, just declared a world-wide pandemic…so...
Mar 9, 2020 | Florida 2020
instead of culling and deleting and not posting all the photos from our trip to Florida, here’s a bunch from my second run, on Tuesday Feb.18th, 2020. Because i’d run (slowly jogged) down such a main thoroughfare on monday, i decided there had to be a...
Mar 7, 2020 | Florida 2020
I feel like we left the beach area in Gulfport after lunching and having an afternoon cocktail, but not sure what we did. we came back to the beach to see the sunset. Here’s the famous Don Cesar Hotel in the distance, over on St. Petersburg Beach. we had to look...
Mar 6, 2020 | Florida 2020
…and it was a very full day, indeed. i’ve broken it up into two parts so you won’t be burdened with trying to read/watch all of it at once. the day started out with a pretty good run. because i’d gotten to sleep pretty late the night before i...
Mar 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
I know i’ve just started posting about our latest journey to Florida, but i want to pause a moment to show you what Kevin has been up to. I went to Florida with mom because Kevin was busy rehearsing ballet! He did the sword fighting choreography and was in...
Mar 1, 2020 | Florida 2020
Finally i have time to sit down and post a few of the photos from our trip to sunny florida. Mom and i flew on southwest out of st. louis on sunday feb. 16th and it was a good flight, not like when we flew to NYC in december and had to hang around in the airport for...
