Jul 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
a fawn appeared at the side of the fenced yard one day. can you see it, there in the middle? it saw me, and hid down in the weeds. it hung out at our house for a while, but amy and jim also saw it next door. here it is, nestled outside their fence as their blind...
Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
boat ride! so far the pontoon boat has been running great; i think this is the first year since we’ve had it that it has managed to keep running this long into the summer. hmm, better not jinx it. the water was really high in june, and the yuccas were in...
Jul 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
soon it will be time for the Il state fair! it’s remarkable how quickly the summer is going by. funny that in april it did nothing but rain rain rain, and now things are dry and i spent a great deal of time watering my flowers. here’s a panorama of my...
Jun 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
last saturday night i went to see a musical at the outdoor theater at New Salem. it was a perfect evening, and beforehand i took a little time to walk through the village. If you’re not from around here, New Salem is where Lincoln lived for six years before...
Jun 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
i haven’t even started trying to find any truly spectacular doors here in springfield, IL, because i fear that there aren’t many. we certainly don’t have the beautiful old doors posted from around the world on norm’s thursday doors. but i did...
Jun 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
as the first day of summer approaches, i try to find time to sit down and write. here’s all i have for the month of may after our trip to las vegas. a spectacular display of irises in bloom. i want that many irises. maybe next year – deer don’t...
Jun 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
sometimes i feel like we’re living in the wild here. a tiny fawn appeared at the fence the other morning when i was drinking my tea. since then we’ve seen it nursing, as well as leaping and bounding after its mother. so tiny, and so darling. and tonight...
May 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
i took such a crazy amount of photos in las vegas on our three-day trip, and i’ve been doing my best to pare them down to show you. on the morning of may 2nd i had to take this photos of this duck with its little gaggle of ducklings down at the water before...
May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
my dad died. it’s weird to think of it being four years ago. here’s an old photo of mom and dad at a going-away party for somebody, many many years ago. i have no memory whatsoever of this event, but i know i was there because i saw a picture of me at...
May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
as i was running on the lake road i passed this intriguing opening in the underbrush. a deer doorway. it made me want to follow the path and see where it led…but i was on a mission to keep running and i’m sure i was about to be late for something or...
May 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
we launched the pontoon boat on april 15th, which might be the earliest we’ve ever done that, although i can’t possibly remember yesterday much less last year. even if we might have launched it earlier one year, it always broke down. kevin did all the...
May 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
erica got us all tickets for the Mission Outreach fundraiser so we all got dressed up. this is one of my favorite photos of bev, showing off her cute leggings. we all looks so color-coordinated! a nice meal, and erica is there in the background, hobnobbing as she...
May 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
it was nice to be home with our kitties in march. les enjoyed sitting on a rock in the water. i spotted a bunch of turtles on a log when running through the woods, but most of them plopped into the water before i had a chance to take a picture. isn’t that a...
May 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
i managed to post my thursday door this week with only 21 minutes to spare. i’m glad i didn’t realize that it had to be posted by noon eastern time today. as i mentioned in that post, i just got back from las vegas, where i took a more absurd than usual...
Apr 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
that “La La Land” is really one of my favorite movies. i saw it twice on the big screen and am looking forward to seeing it again when it comes out on video. i just saw this totally charming video by a high school kid, asking emma stone to prom using the...
Apr 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
whenever i have a little free time, and i realize i definitely need to work hard on having more free time, i’ve been looking at other wonderful sites that people have. they’re all interesting and like i said, i wish i had more time to explore them. but i...
Mar 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
here are a few photos i took in between going to NYC and then to the south. first, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, MOM! she celebrated her birthday while i was gone, and then we had another birthday dinner for her on the saturday in between trips. amy had made her a couple...
Mar 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
the top of the empire state building, that is. because erin’s roommate joe works at the NYC LinkedIn office there in the building he was able to secure us passes to get to the top. he’d already taken us on a tour of the offices, and then we went back down...
Mar 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
i’ve been gone since last thursday, in NYC ostensibly to help my friend bev move her daughter, but then we didn’t actually have to do that, but we did many, many other things, and i have just one little posting of a fabulous door… but first, i just...
Feb 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
OK, I managed to upload this very short video of the street barrier in New York near the 9/11 site going up!...
Feb 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
We went down to the financial district in Manhattan on Friday and got to see the two 9/11 Memorial pools. The whole place is just beautiful and moving. People stuck some roses into some of the names. Red white and blue roses. This is the point when I started to cry...
Feb 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
but first – the beautiful roses that my sweet husband gt for me! A+ to you, honey! so anyway, it’s still wednesday, 9:03 p.m., i’m pretty exhausted by my day. i think i have most of the stuff done, except i need to water a few more plants. maybe...
Feb 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
and my time is very limited today – i’m leaving for NYC tomorrow morning! i’m going to brooklyn with bev, to help her daughter erin move from one third floor walk-up to another, so i’ll for sure get lots and lots of exercise. we’ll...
Feb 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
this morning, when i could have slept in, i woke up at 6:25. much, much too early, but theoretically i could accomplish many things this morning. probably won’t happen, but there’s always that slim possibility. it’s more likely that i’ll sit...
Feb 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
last week, or maybe the week before, i uploaded my feature film “hope’s happy birthday” onto youtube. at first i had it unlisted, because i didn’t want any random person seeing it, but i told kevin about it and he linked it on his own blog....
Feb 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
haha, i started writing this post LAST wednesday, and now, poof, another week has flown by. i must be more aware, or all the weeks will be used up before i know it… here’s darling lester, enjoying our new TV stand cabinet. so this means it’s been...
Feb 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
final random photos from january… chester, who should clearly be a planter mixed nuts spokescat. a hawk landed on the fence outside the window. the other birds freaked out, but no one was injured. four of amy’s five darling IGs – they, too, should...
Feb 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
we’d been down at the water and had a nice stroll, but then les wanted to keep going. he headed over to the neighbor’s dock. on the left there is the floating dock, the same one that les had walked out to over the very thin ice. at this point i was gently...
Feb 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
i forgot to write about kevin’s wonderful act the other day – he went running in the soccer field, and when he ran near the soccer nets he saw two people standing next to one. it looked like a dog was caught up in the net. kevin ran over, and it...
Feb 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
i have thought about myself in all kinds of ways, but i’ve always considered myself to be, at least, healthy. but i’m in the middle of a cold, after having bronchitis a month ago, and now i’m thinking if this is just how it’s going to be,...
