HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!!!

Mom turns eighty seven today! She didn’t used to want people to know her age but now now she’s loud and proud! I guess she’s always been loud. Yesterday afternoon Mom and I got back from a quick trip down to Florida. We went to make up for her not...

Kitties and other wildlife in January

This was actually the end of December, when Mom was staying with us after being run over in the Kohl’s parking lot. We decided it’d be easier to care for her cat Hobbs if Hobbs was here with our crowd of kitties. Also, once you have half a dozen cats (plus...

Flying Back Home

Our flight home from NYC wasn’t til 3:30 in the afternoon on Friday Jan. 20th so we had plenty of time to do some final things before leaving. Well, plenty of time isn’t necessarily the right word. We had some time, anyway, and I really wanted to go to...

NYC in the Rain

Thursday, Jan.19th it rained on us most of the day in New York. Whenever I’m in NYC I spend too much time walking walking walking and when it’s raining the walking is not so enjoyable. But this time Randy and I did manage to stay dry and inside for quite a...

More from New York

Wed. Jan 18th, after spending quite a bit of time at the Statue of Liberty, Randy and I walked up to the 9/11 Memorial Pools. Just walking up to them makes me choke up. The new world trade center. We took the subway uptown a ways, stopping at the cool relatively new...

NYC Day Two

Wednesday January 18th – I’d been obsessively looking at the weather (I actually always obsessively check the weather) and knew it was going to rain on Thursday, our last full day in New York, so I wanted to cram as much outside stuff as possible into...

New York New York…

Our trip to NYC on January 17th started out on such a high note, with an easy drive to the St. Louis Airport and then the crazy only 40 people on the plane and exiting the airport and getting into a cab out of the newly-refurbished La Guardia Airport. When Mom and I...