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....
Oct 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Happy Halloween! Gee, I took so very many photos in August. Enough already, as the leaves are already turning colors and falling off the trees and November starts tomorrow. But what about the kitties? It’s mostly been about the State Fair, I feel. Spot and Lemon...
Oct 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
After watching Randy’s brother perform a few Elvis songs, we stopped by the coliseum but once again, no horse show. I did see this one horse in a stall anyway. Our last stop was the Exhibition Building. It was filled with the usual random collection of junk for...
Oct 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
When Randy and I went to the fair on Sun. Aug. 11th, after looking at the goats, he went to see if his brother Ricky (“Elvis Himselvis”) needed any help before performing at the Miller tent. I took the opportunity to go into the grandstand where there were...
Oct 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
I don’t know why I love goats so much. I haven’t ever actually known a goat personally, and they say that goats can be mean. But there’s just so cute. When Randy and I went to the fair on Aug. 11th we got to spend some time looking at the many, many...
Oct 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Somehow I missed this final photo of Mom and my day at the fair. As we were leaving the fair I decided to climb up up up the many steps of the Giant Slide. I love the Giant Slide. Except… It was me and these three little girls. But I wasn’t gaining any...
Oct 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
After the excitement at the Hobbies, Arts & Crafts building Mom and I wandered around a bit. We stopped at the Dairy building, of course, to get a picture of the butter cow. A high-diving show was about to start so we sat down to watch, and it’s the first...
Oct 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
As Mom and I worked our way through the HA &C building on Friday August 9th, I didn’t stop to catalog everything quite as thoroughly. I thought this prize-winning pillow was very cute with the big yellow boots.. The bottle on the right is from the United...
Sep 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
The good news – I read online that the bow hunting isn’t going on continuously til the end of the year; there’s a break from Nov. 16 – Dec. 16th. The bad news – everybody who lives near the hunting areas was sent a color printout of the...
Sep 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
I know you’re sitting on the edge of your seat, anticipating the exciting conclusion to our fun at the Hobbies, Arts and Crafts building at the Il State Fair, but I have to interrupt my tale. I was lost in the woods this morning. There’s a trail in the...
Sep 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
After Mom and I left the Illinois building on the first Friday of the fair we headed over to the Hobbies, Arts & Crafts building. But first we stopped off at the Village of Cultures, formerly the Ethnic Village, for a Saganaki. Last year the Saganaki was...
Sep 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Mom and I went to the fair on the first Friday,August 9th, something I can’t recall doing before. It was a beautifully not too hot day, which is rare and fabulous. We started off at the Illinois Building, where they’ve moved the flower arrangements. Ok,...
Sep 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
One evening in early August, Amy texted me to say that a deer was heading over to our front flowers. I looked out and there she was. I’ve done a decent job this year of keeping them from chomping the flowers out front because they’re covered in netting. I...
Sep 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
That’s right, Kevin was the First Place winner! in three different categories at the 74th IL Secretary of State Vehicle show last Saturday, Sept. 7th. We’d entered it once before a couple of years ago and Kevin won 3rd place with his 1992 Cadillac that had...
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...
