Dec 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Well…so much snow since I was last here. It was about a foot. It warmed up enough so it’s pretty much gone except for the giant piles in parking lots, but there’s more snow expected late afternoon/tonight as well as Saturday. Kevin said to me,...
Nov 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
I hope yours is going well, or maybe it’s all done…I’m in charge of turkey breast, whole wheat rolls, pumpkin pies, plus I just made a salad for Kevin because he doesn’t like green bean casserole. The turkey breast is in the oven and it’s...
Nov 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
as calendar preparations loom. I’ve been working on them and have made ok progress so that’s good. But I haven’t actually put together any calendars; rather, I’ve sorted through the many many photos from the year. So many photos…But I...
Nov 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Twenty five MPH winds today, c’mon. It’s in the 30s but feels like it’s in the 20s plus I almost fell over when outside. I’d rather be inside, thank you very much, and hope to remain so for the remainder of the day. I took the pillows outside...
Nov 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Spot! Always so happy when I’m in the garage with him. Actually, every night I sit with the garage kitties for a while after Kevin goes to bed, and every single time Spot starts loudly meowing the minute I leave. But last night I spent 15 minutes, mostly...
Nov 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
…now that November is already here. Here’s a beautiful moon photo from Sept. 8th. September 9th, the night before my surgery. It was a lovely night and the sun lit up the trees in a most spectacular fashion. Gee, the sky is so very big and gorgeous from...
Oct 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Whew. End of October, that sure was quick. Last week I was cleared by my surgeon so I can lug 10-pound weights around, or any of our cats. Except Lemon Drop, who hates being picked up. Anywho…here’s a little bit of September. Waaaay back in...
Oct 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Spot, out for a regal walk at the end of August. I can’t take him for a walk until I can lift over 10 lbs, because he’s 17. Kevin did take him for one walk and I’m hoping that’ll happen again soon. Spot loves a walk. Also the end of August the...
Sep 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
So…things are all right. I opened up my laptop again after a hiatus, so that’s something. Plus I’m cancer-free! So that’s something else. Almost three weeks of not doing much of anything. Kevin and i did take a couple of short walks on Friday...
Sep 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Issues, issues, issues, always and perpetually issues. The thing is that I have no business whatsoever sitting down right now. I wrote that a while ago. Can’t say for sure when it was, but it was pre-surgery. Back when I was racing around all over the place all...
Aug 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Tim was going to set up my new computer and transfer the thousands of photos plus other stuff from old computer to new, and he assured me that it’d be an OK job and wouldn’t take long…but then, it took approximately forever. After four hours...
Aug 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
It hasn’t been the worst summer, I supposed, but not so great. The good news is that I’m now covered by health insurance again, but it’s a fairly rotten policy with an obscene deductible. Plus of course all the other stuff happening this...
Jul 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Yeah, I continue to count the days till I’m insured, and it’s now THREE MORE DAYS including today. So hopefully things’ll be OK. My new (Aetna) insurance through the Affordable Care Act is kind of pricey and not great. But at least I’ll be...
Jul 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
First, June, my brother David died. June was kind of a rough month. Then, July…as I pulled into the Aldi parking lot on July 1st I got a call from one of my doctor’s offices, saying they’d called my insurance to get approval for an MRI later in July....
Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’ve been looking and looking through the thousands of photos on my computer for pictures of David, and somehow I found this fabulous one. We were all at Shaw’s Garden in St. Louis. He looked so happy, didn’t he? Ok then,...
Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Vancil Funeral Home published David’s obituary online on Monday and I burst into tears upon reading it. It just made it so real. It was a rough couple of days after that. Today it was published in the paper. Here it is. David’s Obituary. Because I was...
Jun 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
My brother David died yesterday. We was 64. On May 14th he’d been hit by a car while riding his little motorcycle and broke his leg. They put in two rods and some pins and told him to rest up for two weeks. He did the opposite of that, doing many many things; I...
May 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
There are many other things I want so say about this month of May which is shortly coming to an end, but this run (slow jog) in particular is what I want to write about tonight. I’m going on a brief two-night trip, leaving in the morning, so of course tonight...
May 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hmm, as usual the month seems to be slipping away. While I was trying to clean up the hot tub room at the beginning of the month, Les felt that the mos comfortable place to lie down was on top of this tub lid full of dirt. We had more lilies of the valley than ever...
May 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Gee, that makes me feel incredibly efficient. Here’s me, enjoying a mock mojito at the delicious restaurant Loukenin’s on the first of May. We went there because the restaurant was shutting down on May 3rd. I was glad to have one last meal there. I was...
May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Kevin dedicates a good portion of his time to keeping the cats in their respective outside areas. He finally thwarted Lester from escaping the fenced yard (but probably only temporarily), and somehow Spot managed to escape from his private (shared with lemon Drop)...
May 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Gee, I’m really on a roll with getting stuff up here for a change. Or course that can and probably will come screeching to a halt again because that’s how I roll. Rolling, but only occasionally and sporadically, and then skidding to a halt. Anyway,...
May 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Sometimes Kevin and I go to Mom’s house to watch TV, but mostly to hang out with Pumpkin who loves Kevin best of all. We celebrated Mom’s birthday in March and she got these two mugs, among many other lovely gifts. Such a sweet kitty, aptly named. Riley,...
May 3, 2025 | Florida 2025, Kitties
But first, MAY!!! How have I not had any free time, as usual? Anyway, here’s the short tale of Les Paul while Mom and I were in Florida way, way back in February. We left on Feb. 24th and arrived in Florida that evening. The next morning at 8:33 a.m., I got a...
Apr 18, 2025 | Florida 2025
I got up even earlier to go for one last run on Saturday March 1st. I was out the door at the crack of 9 a.m. Pelicans were lined up along the seawall while across the way workers worked on continuing to fix the place up after the hurricane. I ran all the way to the...
Apr 14, 2025 | Florida 2025
Friday evening, Feb. 28th, we’d left the beach for a bit to cruise the shopping in Venice one more time, and afterwards drove down to the end of our beach for a different vantage point. Plenty of people were parked in the lot across the street and clearly they...
Apr 9, 2025 | Florida 2025
On our last full day in Venice, I got up at a reasonable hour and sat on the porch drinking my tea before going out. Great way to start the day. As I got ready to go to the beach to run, I found this kernel of corn in my big fanny pack. It made me smile, because this...
Apr 6, 2025 | Florida 2025
I was excited to do yoga on Venice beach, but Mom was still feeling the effects of the strong drink she’d had at the Tiki Bar. Drunk Beach Yoga, I think that should be a thing. Except of course that it totally goes against the whole point of yoga. But hey, we...
Apr 2, 2025 | Florida 2025
On the afternoon of the 27th We drove up Casey Key, which is just up the road from our place and right on the beach. It reminded me of Captiva Island, which had huge mansions lining the drive. But on Captiva, many of the homes were surrounded by tall walls or...
Apr 1, 2025 | Florida 2025
I went running on the beach again on the 27th. I was going to only run every other day because I’d hurt my leg a few weeks before, but then I decided I’d be fine, running on the soft sand. This time I headed south, towards a jetty. A pelican was perched...
