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,...
Feb 17, 2025 | travel, Uncategorized
They had a special winter promotion at the lodge, a reduced rate plus a $15 dollar coupon for breakfast for breakfast both mornings, so that was nice. We started our day with a delicious lodge dining room breakfast. It’s good we had a hearty breakfast because we...
Feb 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Finally, finally, getting out of January – here’s sweet little Sweetie, enjoying a sunbeam. I finally hung the xmas lights around the perimeter of the garage, and they make me very happy, indeed. I’m sure the garage kitties are also thrilled. I think...
Feb 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Let’s get onto April already, or better yet, May! I’m realizing that there are too many photos to post right now, so this isn’t actually the last of the first month, it’s the second to last. In the middle of January this deer looked like it...
Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Although it’s supposed to be in the 60s today, whoo hoo for that! But it’s a one-day-only kind of thing. Oh well. We’ll take what we can get. Also I have a ridiculous amount of stuff to accomplish today so I don’t know how much I’ll get...
Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Here’s Riley on Jan. 4th. I feel like he hadn’t been sitting in so many funny positions before, or maybe I just never paid enough attention, which is always a good possibility with me since I frequently pay no attention to things in general. He looks so...
Jan 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Because that’s what I’m all about, aren’t I? A Complete Crazy Old Cat Lady. But there it is. Anyway, earlier in the month I suggested to Kevin that we see how it’d be if we gave Pumpkin to Mom. I’d suggested this a long time ago and he...
Jan 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
I can’t believe how much has happened since I posted here last, but right now here’s a great video that Kevin took this morning. He posted on his own site, which he doesn’t do so often, but they wouldn’t let him post a video unless he started...
Jan 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
We had nine inches of snow on Sunday, more than expected, and we might get another couple inches tonight/tomorrow. Oh well. I didn’t leave the house til yesterday and was delighted to find that all the major roads were perfectly clear and dry. I did have to...
Dec 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
As December marches on…here a few photos from when I went jogging on our last day in Chicago. This time I wanted to go on the Lake Shore trail, even though I didn’t have a lot of time to go very far. I was surprised that there were so very many people on...
Dec 15, 2024 | travel, Uncategorized
…But really, Christmas is creeping up in such an alarming rate… Anyway, on our second day in Chicago, way back in November, I got in 23,149 steps for the day. Too many steps, IMO. We started the morning at the fabulous buffet at the Riu Plaza and met our...
Dec 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Randy and I took the train up to Chicago on Nov. 7th. Not to see a show, just to go to Chicago. But first – occasionally, Spot lies inside the top little room near the top of the fabulous kitty tower. He’s loudly meowing at me right now, as a matter of...
Nov 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
So, Mrs. Hughes, are you going to start just posting here on every holiday? Like the movie “Holiday Inn,” with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, one of my favorites except that they do put on black face for a big dance number which seems racist right now....
