Happy Birthday Mom!

I bet it’s the warmest February 26th we’ve had in a long time. A great day for Mom’s Covid birthday! We will celebrate with a family dinner tonight, but before that there will hopefully be much birthday merriment. No involving going into any places,...

Geese on the frozen lake plus deer in the snow

Here’s a short video from February 8th, geese out on the lake. Yet another snowfall on Feb. 15th. I looked out the front bedroom window and there was a deer eating bird food. 3 It looked like it was trying to catch snowflakes. Then she looked at me, but wasn’t worried...

Valentines in Times of Covid

Bev sent me this cute photo on Valentine’s Day – she’d been going through a box she’d taken home from work when she retired five years ago, and came across this card I’d given her. Funny, I have no memory of the card. Because the...

Valentine’s Eve Merriment

On Saturday February 13th Kevin had turned on the bathroom faucets so they’d drip through the night and our old pipes wouldn’t freeze. Les Paul jumped up on the sink and took great delight in playing in the water. It’s been really really cold and now...

the last of January, from here in February

The bitter cold has settled in, with temperatures maybe climbing into the teens, and it’s just going to get worse this weekend. It’s 16 right now but feels like 2 degrees, and over the weekend the high temperature will be 8 and three on saturday and...

Happy Saturday morning!

The sun is shining, always a nice thing, but the temperature is going to start plunging tonight and it’ll be super duper cold for at least the week. Last night Kevin turned on the faucets in the bathrooms and opened the doors underneath so the pipes...

mostly kitties in January

Early in the month as I packed up decorations, Les found this outdoor mat to be the most comfy place to lie down on. A couple of times Riley jumped up and sat on him and then they got into a little tussle, but mostly Lester just enjoyed the scratchy mat. Another...