Sep 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
fall already. i feel like there are about a million things i want to accomplish today but i focused on getting a new banner up there that says fall instead of summer. i’d like to write another post, but no time, no time right now… yesterday as i walked up...
Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
We went out on the boat yet again on July 16th and went farther into the infamous “hot ditch” next to the power plant than i’d ever been. usually there are plenty of fishing boats because the water is so warm there but since it was a week day, nobody...
Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
As I mentioned here just yesterday, Kevin bought me a fabulous giant swan float to tow behind the boat. It wasn’t a birthday present, just an awesome gift from a terrific guy. Even though we’ve had this boat for two years now we hadn’t tried towing...
Sep 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
still kitties…here’s sweetie, the happiest kitty ever who gets to spend quality time in the fenced yard. Riley loves it too, but he doesn’t have the exuberance of sweetie, who was finding that cement block to be the most comfortable spot to curl up...
Sep 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
my plan today (and i had a plan today, yay for me!) was to go through my july and august photos and choose a very small selection to post here. which of course i didn’t manage to do. instead, here’s just a part of the photos from july that i want to share...
Sep 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
amy’s birthday was on Tuesday, and we had a lovely indian meal. she’d made me a lavishly delicious Indian feast for my birthday and I hoped that she’d be open to me reciprocating. She was! I’ve been making Indian food for years, i realize. So...
Aug 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
my plan was to hurry up and slap just a few photos of July up here, and so far i’m only up to July 3rd. On the 4th we roared over in the boat to the other side of the lake to watch the fireworks at the marina. They were less than spectacular. But there were no...
Aug 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
So, July…well, here’s a few photos from the beginning of the month. First, Riley. in June I posted a photo of Riley in my re-purposed my clothes basket , which was so long ago…Riley still enjoys climbing inside sometimes. Sweetie just likes to...
Aug 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
today is kevin’s birthday, and so far he’s spent it competing in our group competition in the game that amy, mom, kevin and i play, June’s Journey. It was an intense time and our group didn’t do so great but individually at least we did well....
Jul 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
June 19th, and this happened…Amy was rollerblading at Southwind Park and she purposefully swerved into the grass so she wouldn’t encounter a person coming towards her. But it wasn’t grass, as much as bumpy hard ground and rocks and so she fell. She...
Jul 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Les and Riley, always happy to hang out in the fenced yard. Lilies! All transplanted last year from different place in the yard. Now i kind of wish i’d planted them someplace where we could see them more often, but I think this is where they’ll stay. Can...
Jul 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
at the beginning of june, in between throwing barge-fulls of giant rocks up onto the shore, kevin resurfaced the driveway, coating it with a new coat of black sealant. it was pretty hot then, but not as hot as when he was putting shingles on the roof later in the...
Jul 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
I didn’t think about the turkeys when going to bed on Tuesday, I didn’t dream about the turkeys, i’d forgotten all about them when i first woke up on Wednesday morning. But then i got a text from amy’s sister-in-law saying that unfortunately...
Jul 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Kevin has been re-shingling the roof on the old part of the house. He’s been feverishly working in the blistering heat and ridiculous humidity for several days now. More on that later, this is about a whole different deal… Late afternoon on Tuesday July...
Jul 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
almost a couple of weeks ago I wrote about how kevin and i (mostly kevin) threw our second barge-full of riprap up on the shore. kevin just gave me photos from the first barge, the Flinstones-sized rocks. Here, the barge is on the right side of the dock. Glenn came...
Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
a bunch of random images at the end of may…first, Riley and Les Paul trying to relax on the screened porch on May 24th. May 25th, Memorial Day, Kevin relaxed down at the water for a brief time after doing some herculean effort, i’m sure. There was quite a...
Jun 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
kevin has been making homemade cards for me for many years. this one is awesome, cleverly made from a file folder… …plus all this stuff pasted to the inside! so, my first social-distancing birthday. my friend julie called to tell me she’d left...
Jun 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
we took a chilly boat ride on May 22nd and amy kept warm while driving. On may 23rd lester had a nice walk down to the water, where he spent a lot of time in this old plastic tub. ! I love this picture with les way in the background, his chin comfortably resting on...
Jun 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
here’s a short video of a couple of the cute baby groundhogs next door. I took some photos of them but they were too hard to see. meanwhile…this is the biggest gaggle of goslings I saw in may. they’re much bigger now. The moon looking pretty...
Jun 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
after we threw rocks onto the shore and dragged away branches on saturday the 13th, i was spent but kevin kept on keeping on. he moved the barge and cut more giant branches off the oak tree which is leaning precariously into the lake. since it hasn’t fallen in...
Jun 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
whew, i was starting to worry that maybe i wouldn’t write on here anymore. i have so many hopes of getting things done every day and then somehow the days continue to slip away… i really wanted to start a journal at the start of the coronavirus but i...
Jun 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
earlier this evening i thought, ok, i can do this, i can write on my site, i can do it…it’s been a while, but i’m making time, sitting down, getting something constructive done… the weekend has been packed with physical exertion. well,...
May 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Kevin took Riley for a walk on Sat. May 2nd. I’m not sure if Riley has ever been out in the yard; he has always been content to stay inside the fence. But I think he thoroughly enjoyed strolling around in the wild for a bit. And actually, yesterday Sweetie...
May 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
here’s one final thing to share, our boat launch on April 24th. first, here’s the fancy new cover that kevin installed. Because the top pole of the roof snapped in two when we pulled the boat under our big pine tree out front, we had to get a whole new...
May 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
That’s addressed to you, mom…but suddenly it’s already late afternoon on mother’s day and another day has gone by whoosh…. we bought a 25-lb bag of powdered skimmed milk a few weeks ago. i found it on some site that sells bulk stuff but...
May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
well…today i kept reading so much bad news that i became overwhelmed. this happens too often. i think we all have to try to find a little relief from it all, if we’re lucky enough to be safe and healthy. in april i decided to finally tackle the...
May 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
these two ducks were enjoying the bird seed scattered on the ground in back of the house. Riley had no interest in them at all. Kevin bought this remote for the upstairs TV. we probably won’t lose it. it’s funny, we’ve only ever had one TV, but he...
May 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
dad would have been 83 today. he was a really good dad. 1974, when he was 31 years old. This is one of my favorite photos – amy and dad in 2006. celebrating his birthday in 2009 – I don’t know what year this was, and i’m assuming it was...
May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Yeah, pretty lame that i’m just doing this now. same excuse as before; it’s now 11:30 on this sunny friday morning and at least i’m out of my jammies, but only just. lots of time spent reading reading reading about the coronavirus; the latest news is...
Apr 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
and i know that “good” is pushing it a bit. but it’s good because it’s a dazzlingly sunny day and the weather is warming up and we’re all healthy and safe. every day i try to accomplish something. some days i don’t get anything at...
