Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
This photo was on the Cleveland Clinic website and I think it’s a good one.
Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
The fun things in August were Kevin’s birthday celebration, including an awesome kayak down Long Bay, plus a festive birthday dinner. And then the fair with Bev was also enjoyable. But after the birthday and before the fair, on August 8th, I had to take Lester...
Sep 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
Incidentally, have you seen that movie? It’s one of my favorites for sure. But that’s not what I’m writing about today; many things have happened and many photos, and I was trying to find a “before” photo of Mom’s house because she...
Sep 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
Way back in August, Monday Aug. 17th to be exact, after leaving Conservation World Bev and I headed over to see the Butter Cow. I’m looking kind of bedraggled here; I think that’s just how you get after walking around the fair. We then went to the Hobbies...
Aug 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
Bev and I went to the fair on Monday, August 17th, Senior Day, and had a grand time. We hurried to get there because Bev wanted to see her former tapper group perform; they were scheduled for 9:45. We arrived with time to spare, but then had even more time because the...
Aug 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
Kevin’s birthday was yesterday, August 4th, and a good time was had by all. We started out with a kayak (first time this year for me) over to Long Bay. Delightful! This is the end of Long Bay. The big fluffy tree on the right is a Cypress. Earlier in the year...
Jul 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
which I’m reading is actually a political term, whereby someone does a whole bunch of different things in all directions in order to cause confusion. Well, that’s not what flooding the zone means to me. For me, it was a literal flood. Confusion, yes, but...
Jul 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
That’s what was going through my mind on Sunday morning. Actually, my first thought was “Are you f***king KIDDING me?” Because after all the stuff with Mom’s surgery, and she’s doing great, BTW, I felt like life was a whirl of crazy...
Jun 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Yeah, where have I been? Well, for one thing, Mom and I got back from an impromptu trip to NYC, and we just got back on Tuesday. That’s the Tuesday that we just had, June 23rd. We left for NYC on Thursday June 18th and saw some plays and did some stuff and many...
May 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
Whew, time continues to fly by, and now we’re in May, although it feels a little bit like late March because suddenly it’s a little bit chilly. A real roller coaster of weather we’ve been having this spring. So…way back in march a huge flotilla...
Apr 10, 2026 | Florida 2026, Uncategorized
It was chilly and windy on Monday in Florida, as expected. We had a leisurely morning enjoying the lanai overlooking the pool. And we finally managed to get into the car to go to the beach at the crack of 1:23. We headed to the Englewood beach, which was completely...
Feb 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Today is Mom’s BIG DAY!!! Whoo hoo, she’s doing so awesome as she starts her 9th decade. Much, much merriment, including a delicious fish dinner that Kevin prepared last night (a very historic event, indeed); we took the food over and ate at Mom’s...
Feb 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
I haven’t had the mental fortitude to start looking through the many photos I took on our trip to Florida at the end of last month, so here are a few non-Florida pictures. First, maybe I’ve mentioned that we’ve been worried about Lester for several...
Jan 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
It seems like we’ve already had lots more snow this winter than years in the recent past. Here’s the snowdrift on top of the grill way back at the beginning of December. You can just see the eyes of the cute little snail. And for a while, late at night...
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...
