Aug 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Plus many other exciting things in July… On July 27th, my friend Gena and I were taking a walk through the lovely Lincoln Memorial Gardens, and we came upon a squirrel who ran way out on to the very tip of a branch on a tree. He looked like he surely was going...
Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
I’m sitting here on my couch realizing that I should be outside right now cause the weather is amazingly perfect. I mean, perfect. I just did some yoga out on the deck and disturbed Lovey, who likes to lie around out there. Oh well. Anyway, July…the sky...
Aug 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
I went for a run on the 4th and had to take a selfie next to this very tall corn, well past “knee high by the 4th of July.” Lately I’ve been pulling cobs of corn off the stalks and peeling them for the deer as I run by. The corn sure does look ready...
Aug 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Yesterday was Kevin’s birthday and we had a glorious celebration! We had lunch at the , Legacy Pointe Eatery which is quite delicious. Kevin’s birthday brings out the kid in him for sure. He quickly made a bow out of some tissue paper. Actually, any...
Jul 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Have you ever seen such an unusual and beautiful Canna Lily? I can’t remember where Randy says he bought it, but it’s amazing. Not only is the flower two-toned, but the leaves have wonderful stripes. Spectacular. Sweetie and Riley enjoying the screened...
Jul 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
…and I’m just too busy. Here’s little Sweetie, enjoying the round-a-round. This one used to belong to Mom’s cat Hobbs, and the kitties are in love with it. Somebody is usually sprawled on top of it. We had another one up in Pumpkin’s...
Jul 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Even though I don’t know when we’ll ever get to take another vacation, at least it’s very vacation-getaway-like around here. Here’s a pair of geese with their adolescent goslings at the end of June. Spot on my lap in the garage on June 24th....
Jun 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Time, it just keeps flying along. Spot is doing pretty well, thank goodness. His neck wound is still oozing a little blood but because his platelets are either low or gone altogether, so that’s to be expected. The vet called on Thursday to say that his wound was...
Jun 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Whew, Spot’s surgery was a success. Such a miracle. We took him in yesterday morning and the vet called to tell us that his white blood count and platelets were still dangerously low and the procedure would be high risk. She wanted to know if we wanted to...
Jun 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
I was reading my last entry and it seems so long ago, but only three days have passed. Whew. Here’s poor Spot at the vet on Monday morning. When he’d been to the vet before for minor injuries, he’d been very happy to just be inside and was a very...
Jun 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
So much for a calm start to the month. I feel I haven’t had time to catch my breath but I’m confident today will be a little less frantic. Spot seemed to be slowly improving but then yesterday Kevin realized his left front leg was more swollen and looked...
Jun 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
So much has happened. First, here’s a photo of maybe 30 goslings. Don’t think I’ve ever seen this many at once. On May 20th Spot and I sat down on the dock and then climbed aboard Kevin’s sailboat. He was very happy. I haven’t mentioned...
May 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Kevin and I went to see the movie “The Fall Guy” this afternoon and it was quite entertaining. We had no idea that it was pouring down rain outside and more rain and flooding is forecast. We’re cancelling the birthday dinner for tonight which is fine...
May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Or is it more accurate to say Garage Sale Frenzy? I wrote this on May 4th but then didn’t post it and now the mania has subsided. From May 4th: Randy has been talking about having a garage sale for a year, we were going to have one last year but it didn’t...
May 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
I know I spend too much time feeling bad for Pumpkin who lives all alone upstairs. I have been bringing him down for short periods of time, when everybody else is in the back of the house, and I do go up there three times a day and spend time with him. Kevin joins me...
Apr 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
We launched my boat on April 9th which seemed very early, but Mom looked it up in her journal and says that last year we put it in on April 10th. We didn’t go on the boat much last year, though, and things are going to be different this year. I tried looking up...
Apr 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Even though it’s suddenly chilly out there that’s OK because things are green and soon it’ll be warm. The other day when it was a little warmer but not too warm I did yoga out in the fenced yard which was very enjoyable. The ground is amazingly...
Apr 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
…and we’re already into April. How do I never have time to just sit at my laptop, typing in stuff? I must make more time for this. I don’t know how. Eventually, maybe, I’ll figure it out. Meanwhile…way back at the beginning of March we...
Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
How how how did it get to be the last week of March? It’s because no matter what, time keeps marching on. Here’s Les on Feb. 16th as a deer approaches the feeder. The next day the deer was right up at the feeder as Les looked on. On Feb 21st the snow was...
Mar 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
First of all, let me just say that right at this moment, 3:00 on a sunny and very windy March afternoon…it’s 72 degrees outside! So this’ll be quick because I need to go right out and enjoy the beautiful day. Anyway, many kitty photos in February,...
Feb 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
January – well, it’s over. We had some bitterly bitter cold and I ended up in the ER for a record-breaking third time. It was because of the high heart rate with Afib again, but then I got to see a new Electrophysiologist last week, is a heart doctor who...
Jan 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
First of all – the Sunday before Xmas Mom came down with a “cold.” She came to our house the Thurs. evening before Xmas and coughed a whole lot. On the 23rd, Kevin was suddenly sick with her “cold.” I did my best to keep my distance, and...
Jan 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Here’s a lamp I bought at the Union Square Christmas market. The seller claimed it’s made in Indonesia, and hopefully that’s true and it wasn’t made by Chines slave laborer children. Kevin took this beautiful sunrise picture while I was gone....
Dec 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Whew. Got back from NYC last evening and I’ve been dead-tired every since. But this is way back on November 19th, when we enjoyed the nice weather. This is about my favorite photo ever, featuring Kevin and Spot. We had a mellow, low-key Thanksgiving, including...
Dec 10, 2023 | travel, Uncategorized
The thing I didn’t mention in my previous post is that while we were hiking I suddenly realized I’d lost my hat. Kevin bought the hats before we went hiking in Wales and they have flaps and are very nice and I was very sad that I’d somehow lost it....
Dec 5, 2023 | travel, Uncategorized
In November Kevin and I drove up to Starved Rock again – we went in 2021 and haven’t been anywhere together since then. How can this be rectified? Must find a cat-sitter willing to care for our herd of cats. They’re very nice cats, BTW, in case you...
Nov 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
That about sums things up. No time, no free time to sit quietly and write here. Well, you could make time, Mrs. Hughes. Anyway, here’s darling little Sweetie back in September. Kevin made a little rock pathway from the yard to the driveway and Spot immediately...
Oct 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
The wonderful Gary update my site so that things work properly. Now if I was just working properly…I started feeling sick Sunday night and today the cough has started. I’m hoping it won’t continue and get out of control. This is the first time...
Oct 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
And whoosh go the days…here are a few photos from way back in August. This is the night of Aug. 30th, when we had a special blue super moon. We went out on the boat to see it, and Kevin and I don’t take a nighttime boat time, well, ever. It was magical. Of...
Sep 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
We went back to the fair on August 18th, and once again I spent a little time watching the horses. After that we got to see the high divers and it was nice to see them late in the day because I’d only ever viewed them when the sun was blazing down. They actually...
