Apr 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Trying to find happy things, i came across this on you tube and you have to watch it. soooo cute! today my plan was to post some photos/videos from march, but then other things have come up. so this is a perfect thing to share with you on this tuesday morning. i hope...
Apr 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last Wednesday, April 8th, there were thunderstorm warnings and big hail coming down not too far north of town. So of course I ran down to the water to take a look. This is the sky a little before 5:00 p.m. That’s kevin over there on the left, talking to his...
Mar 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
in one of my recent posts about mom and my trip to florida i made this statement: “Ok, so…i’ve had a cold with a horrible cough for over a week now. plus, the coronavirus …” what i meant to convey was that i’ve been feeling bad with...
Mar 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
I know i’ve just started posting about our latest journey to Florida, but i want to pause a moment to show you what Kevin has been up to. I went to Florida with mom because Kevin was busy rehearsing ballet! He did the sword fighting choreography and was in...
Feb 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
whew. we got home late tuesday night and i feel like i haven’t sat down since then. i mean, i have, but…busy. last night i decided to transfer all my florida photos from my phone to my computer and was completely dismayed by the sheer volume. i feel like...
Feb 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Well, it’s 12:11 pm and theoretically we will be going out for our last day at the beach here in Florida. We are going to head back to the Pass-a-Grille Beach, where we went twice while we were staying in St. Petersburg. It was quiet and nice and a great beach!...
Feb 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
So…it’s Sunday morning here in sunny Florida and mom and I are going to be headed to the beach in a while. But here are some pictures of the darling kitties who I miss quite a bit! of course I really miss Kevin, but at least we get to talk on the phone every...
Feb 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
On saturday February 8th, we went to the Ballet Gala fundraiser. I think the funnest part was getting ready, as usually seems to be the case. I looked for a 20’s headdress and found that I had this tiara… …and also this one. I wonder why I have 2 tiaras,...
Feb 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
it’s 7:44 a.m. on sunday feb. 16th; i’m about to roar into action so i can walk out the door at 9. i kept waking up because we’re leaving this morning, and finally got up at 7. here’s all our valentine’s stuff – the beautiful roses...
Feb 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
there are about a million photos of me as a kid all around, but the ones of kevin are few and far between. he scanned a bunch of negatives and found a couple of him. here he’s with his family at new salem, i presume? kevin is the cute boy on the fence on the...
Feb 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
it was so warm and kevin was feeling ok so he asked me to join him down at the dock. i thought we should include lester because he’s always dying to get out. this worked ok for a few minutes but les just wanted to get down and wander around, so it wasn’t...
Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
here’s a photo that jim sent me when he took that splendid video of the sunrise over the lake back on sunday september 2nd. I captured a few imaged from the video, as well. You can see the white pelicans better here. On that same sunday i tried to capture the...
Feb 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
you know i rarely get a sunrise but jim sent me this beautiful video he captured. i can’t recall ever seeing the lake looking purple like this. plus i watched it first thing when i woke up this morning and only now do i see that there are a bunch of white...
Feb 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
i don’t know how i remembered this morning that i’d forgotten to post these photos. maybe it’s because my brain appears to be sharp and good, i’m sure because the sun is shining and it’s supposed to be in the 50s today. sunshine, good....
Feb 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
yay, we made it through january! Lester and Riley are chill. they stopped what they were doing for a moment so i could get a picture… …and then it was back to cleaning. i don’t think we’ve had two kitties who loved each other so much. Winnie...
Jan 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
On Sunday Jan. 26th the sun appeared! this was fantastic; i’m not sure how long it had been cloudy but i know that we haven’t seen it again since sunday. so i went a little bit bonkers taking geese photos on the lake that day. i mean, pretty crazy. i think...
Jan 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
On January 22nd it was still gray but not nearly as cold so i took some more photos of the geese. You can see that they weren’t too bothered by me since this whole group was sleeping. i love it when they’re asleep with one leg tucked up. i like this one...
Jan 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday January 21st there were lots of geese in the yard and down on the recently-frozen lake so I decided to walk down and take some photos. And of course because i was creeping down to the water they got nervous and flew out of the yard and onto the lake. i love...
Jan 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Brrrr…well, it’s not so bad today as yesterday. But still. January. not my favorite month. Lester doesn’t mind. I think i took this when walking from mom’s house to mine. so many deer relaxing. this is one of the lights in front and i was...
Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
today i realized that it’s 20/2020, and i like that. so hopefully we all had extra 2020 vision about life. and then it’ll be 02202020 before we know it! ok then, grace
Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sweetie got real brave in December and sat up on the kitty house. sometimes she’s brave, sometimes she spends her time up in the upstairs bedroom. when i got up this morning she was right here but then she decided she needed to be back upstairs. kevin bought all...
Dec 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
i’m taking a break from writing about NYC to wish you all a lovely new year. i have a cold, so we’re spending the night sitting around. we did have some new year’s eve day excitement though – we went to see the latest “star wars.” i...
Dec 22, 2019 | New York 2019, Uncategorized
finally, some photos from the trip mom and i took to new york. it started inauspiciously…on Monday dec. 9th we drove down to Lambert airport in St. Louis and our plane was delayed for three hours. we sat around for a very long while and both felt crazed by the...
Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Les and Riley can’t help being so adorable all the time…here they are on the first day of december. christmas swan!!! mom and i went to hobby lobby at the beginning of the month and were were about to check out but i hurried back in to pick up some...
Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
whew. Xmas is now ridiculously close and i still have a whole bunch of stuff to do. I think i’m still a little tired from all the traveling. I just transferred my 2.3 millions photos from phone to computer and i can’t think about them right now, even...
Dec 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
so…i just got back from NYC. Mom and i left on monday and got back yesterday afternoon. Right before i left i spent a lot of time uploading photos, creating drafts to post while we were gone. it didn’t happen. plus i took approximately 3.2 million photos...
Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
I feel i’ve been woefully lacking in my posting of les paul photos, so here are some from the beginning of November. we were having a lovely walk…and then Les decided to climb right up the oak tree that’s leaning way over in the lake. he didn’t...
Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
gee, i can’t believe it’s already the last month of the year…my goal is to get everything from this year posted in this year. not a huge goal, so hopefully it’s attainable. first – when i jog on the lake road i pass a house that has a...
Nov 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
and i’m tired. but my house is clean, one of those rare times when it looks pretty good and i wish it looked that way more often. the thing about cleaning is that you get it all done and then it just gets dirty/messy again. meanwhile… as i wrote last time,...
Nov 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
whew, plenty has been going on around here since we got back to spfld at the end of September…like, for example, it’s almost thanksgiving! two more days. must get on it. but backtracking, highlights of this fall: on Monday Sept. 20th we drove up to...
