Nov 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
was filled with running and kitties, mostly. here’s the corn row, which is now down. les, always enjoying the day. amy sent me this – i thought that she’d somehow managed to get zuri to pose like this, but nope, the doggie did it on her own. (is...
Nov 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
on the first day of october we took our first and only kayak trip of the year. maybe i’m wrong – maybe we went out in the spring? i don’t think so. it was a lovely morning and erica bought herself a new kayak so we went with her. here’s me in...
Nov 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
winnie, always darling. lester popping up from the vincas! this continues to be my favorite boat on the lake, and i’m confident that at some point they’ll stop by and take us for a ride. ok then, mrs. h.
Nov 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
whew, how is it that we’re so close to the end of the year? how did that happen? meanwhile, i realized i hadn’t posted all of my photos from september and was not going to do so, but mom and i went to a girl scout fundraiser which was cool so i had to...
Oct 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
on sunday kevin and i were sitting on the couch and he heard a ruckus, thinking it must be chester picking on winnie. but that wasn’t it; winnie was with us. he thought it could be lester and chester fighting, but no – it was les paul, scurrying away...
Oct 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
it feels like the end of october. brrrr, it’s cold and grey and rainy. yuck. we’re about to go see the new “blade runner,” to forget all about this weather. les paul refuses to give up this dangerous behavior. those cushions for the end of...
Oct 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
On sept. 18th kevin and i headed over to the fairgrounds to see this convoy of military vehicles. they were trekking all the way to california on route 66, and i’m hoping kevin will remember some of the details and tell you about it. here’s a pretty cool...
Oct 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Turkey Run State Park in Indiana is fantastic. We went there when i was a kid and did a little hiking, and maybe we stayed at the lodge. I know we went back there about 15 or so years ago, stayed at the lodge, did a little hiking but it had rained a lot and the...
Oct 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
our 11th anniversary, to be exact! September 16th, which fell on a saturday this year. so hard to believe that it’s been 11 years… after i’d seen herman’s hermits at the IL state fair in august, kevin revealed that he was a huge fan! so...
Oct 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
on monday afternoon, after I ‘d posted the stuff about falling in the road on saturday, the urgent care place called me to say that my nose was, indeed, fractured. this is the first time i’ve ever broken anything. i’m not scheduled to see an ear...
Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
that was the sound of my forehead hitting the asphalt on the road on saturday morning. not the best way to start the weekend. we’d been planning to visit kevin’s siblings in northern IL but kevin wasn’t feeling well, so when i set out for my run i...
Sep 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
we did this just a few hours ago, and i want to post this to show the dramatic difference in the water level between when we took the boat out for repair on august 18th, and today. there goes kevin again, after untying all the ropes so i could set sail. many of the...
Sep 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
i took this on august 15th, when we were taking the boat out of the water yet again for repairs. there’s kevin, walking up to the house to get in the van and drive over the bridge to pull the boat out. it’s funny, because today we took the boat out for...
Sep 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
trying to remember my excuse for being so lax in posting much in august, i looked at photos. i was pretty busy doing stuff outside. i power-washed the little dock, and wow, what a difference. lester approved. while i did that, kevin installed a portable toilet on the...
Sep 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
whew, i can’t say what happened to september, but i finally have a few photos and clips of the great and free show at the grandstand at the IL state fair. Bev wanted to see herman’s hermits and i figured, why not. we didn’t have a plan, really, and...
Sep 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
i don’t think i’ve been to the fair for a few years. i didn’t go last year, and we were on vacation the year before that, so that means it’s been at least since 2014. i love the fair, even though usually when i get there i immediately think...
Aug 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
On our walk yesterday afternoon, lester was really excited about a hole in the ground that he found. he never did find out what was down inside it, but he did enjoy himself thoroughly. when it was over he was content to find cicadas emerging from the ground,...
Aug 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
as i’ve written about, something is always going wrong with our pontoon boat. yes, it’s very old, but kevin replaced everything from the floor up several years ago, the pontoons are fine, in theory it is perfectly seaworthy. lakeworthy. the issue is...
Aug 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
did you see it? yesterday, at 1:18 p.m.? that’s when it happened here, anyway… i wasn’t that enthusiastic about the eclipse, really, but yesterday morning as i was driving home from work, my friend jill told me that she had eclipse glasses. i...
Aug 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
how is that possible, anyway? why does time speed by so much more quickly as i get older? how is it that the fair is starting on thursday? it’s a strange day today; it’s usually hot and humid at the start of august but instead it’s cloudy and cool...
Aug 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
i can’t believe it’s August 8th, as the summer sprints along. here are a few outside photos from july. oh, that moon. can you spot the heron in there on the right? another evening of beautiful clouds. we had a big storm, and just as i was opening the...
Jul 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
as i ran between the corn rows at the end of may, i thought it’d be interesting to take pictures of it as it grew. corn grows mighty fast around here. may 25th: June 2nd, just eight days later: June 8th, just six days after that! June 17th, a mere nine days...
Jul 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
the addition of the giant window was fantastic, but i’m in love with my new giant chicken. lester, however, was nonplussed. here’s the view of the chicken from out new giant window. yeah, technically it is a rooster, but i like saying “giant...
Jul 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
instead of taking a long trip this year, we installed new windows in the living room. this is what the big window used to look like…there’s a beautiful view of the lake, except for the big panel in the middle where there was a mirror. plus the seal on the...
Jul 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
I woke up this morning to see that the lovely Tanja, from the site The Red Phone Box Travels, had posted my guest blog on her site! Here it is. Tanja is from Croatia, and writes about the wonderful places she’s visited; she is especially enamored of London,...
Jul 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
here are three photos from the very beginning of july, such a very long time ago, it feels like. les, always stalking something down by the water. this is a beautiful new tiny tree i bought on impulse. it’s called a Duranta, and i just read on wikipedia that...
Jul 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
whoops, i forgot about these photos. here’s a snapchat photo, which i took the morning of the 20th anniversary of harry potter. how is it that 20 years have passed since the first novel was written? i had to take this photo of the fridge because it’s...
Jul 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
so, ta da, the final photos of june as july zooms right along. here’s bev, giddy with excitement when she spent the night a few weeks ago – she had a procedure done at the hospital and they told her she shouldn’t be alone for 24 hours in case...
Jul 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
yesterday, thursday morning,kevin drove the van over to the boat dock as i slowly left the shore on the boat. i noticed that kevin had installed a nifty new black lamp post at the end of the dock! cool. the water was still, no other boats around, and the breeze felt...
Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
a week ago i wrote that the pontoon boat was running great this summer, which is probably the first summer it’s done that since we’ve had it. and i said “i don’t want to jinx it.” which of course i did. kevin and i took a lovely boat...
