Apr 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
i hope you have fun weekend plans, and if you’re here in spfld, i hope they don’t involve any outdoor activities because it’s supposed to rain a lot. but of course you never really know about the weather until you’re actually right there in...
Apr 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
it’s that time of year again – it’s a little warmer than usual, we had six big scoops of mulch delivered to our driveway, there’s so much to do outside…that’s how i spent most of my weekend, starting on friday morning. i’m a...
Apr 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
and it’s another beautiful, warm sunny day. yesterday i accomplished many things, and i’m feeling it’s all because it’s so great outside. nice weather just makes everything better. *never mind about that.* now it’s early on monday...
Apr 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
april 15th, tax day! except it’s not, luckily. we did the bulk of the work on the taxes, but they need to be filed, by monday. i’ve been busy, i’ve been gone, i’ve been more busy. i started writing this post, for example, at about eight in...
Apr 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
so many photos, so little time…i realize you might be craving a les paul fix, and i of course have many, many adorable photos of him lying around here on my computer…things have been busy around here, and this morning i’m taking a road trip with my...
Mar 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
near the end of what had been a very un-eastery easter sunday, we got an unexpected surprise… a visit from the EASTER BUNNY! of course he passed out easter treats… …and was happy to pose with the surprised gathering. he even posed with darling...
Mar 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
things went well for him yesterday – not much pain, didn’t need to take any of the strong drugs early in the day, but it got a little worse as the day wore on. i managed to tape his patch back over his eye, and he slept well. but today there’s a...
Mar 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
i felt really good about doing such a bang-up job of posting posting posting photos of our trip to florida, and was so very hopeful that that’ll motivate me to get the many, many photos left from our lovely trip to wales LAST SUMMER… but then life got in...
Feb 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
i got up at six, i don’t know why – maybe my body is anticipating daylight savings time, which starts in a couple week, or when we move the clocks ahead when we go to florida in three short days! mom’s celebration was a success and i’m pretty...
Feb 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
even though i know she won’t read this because she doesn’t feel like opening her computer. but i’m sitting here at 3:55 in the morning; i woke up about 2:30 and i can’t believe it’s almost four. the cats were eating then fighting, so i...
Feb 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
i hope your day was filled with chocolate and love. not necessarily in that order… mmm, chocolate. here are a few photos from the first part of february. february first, when there was no snow on the ground at all, a lovely day. today is a different story...
Feb 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
and WHEW, the month roars by as usual, and spring is right around the corner! except right now it’s only 18 outside. luckily i don’t have to step one foot outside the door today. so…NYC, a great time, we did so much, saw a couple of shows, had some...
Feb 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
so, spring is right around the corner…my personal goal is to try t get all my photos and videos of our trip LAST AUGUST up before it has been a year. possible? maybe. i’m doing my best, but life seems to be getting in the way quite a bit, not so much...
Jan 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
four and a half inches last night. i’m trying not to think about it, because i don’t have to leave the house til after nine. hopefully the roads will be fine and dandy by then. kevin is out snowblowing. a very good fella. meanwhile…this is just a...
Jan 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
last friday, january 8th, jim’s picture was in the paper on the front page of the city/state section, above the fold! it was a great photo, and jim said the photographer, Dave Spencer, followed him and his buddies around seven holes as they played disc golf....
Jan 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
although it’s so dark outside still that it’s not the most cheerful of days… but so far the winter hasn’t been so terrible. almost no snow, and only a few bitterly cold days. it was fairly warm on monday, and i went down to the dock where the...
Jan 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
it’s tuesday, right? my days are in a constant state of confusion lately because now i’m working a couple hours every sunday morning, which makes sunday feel like monday, and then the week is confusing to me. more so than usual. this morning i was the...
Jan 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
the sun is shining this morning, although it’s cold…it’s nice when we have the blue skies, because of the many gray days we’ve already had. just a few more december photos, and then on to 2016! which will be filled with…about 365 days....
Jan 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
i’ll get caught up before the end of the year! hopefully. only a couple more days… ok, i wrote the above a few days ago, and now it’s a whole nother year… i have high hopes for this year! i’ve been thinking about resolutions, and...
Dec 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
yeah, i’m not even quite sure how that happened. whoosh, and it’s over. the day after christmas i got up and thought that i really wanted to take down all the decorations, but since i’d put the very final ones up on xmas morning, i decided i should...
Dec 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
i hope you’re happy and not having any holiday depression, i hope you’re not already drunk before 8 a.m.! but if you are, i hope i makes you feel better. here at the hughes house…things are quiet, except, of course, for a little chester-winnie...
Dec 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
in case you weren’t aware of its imminentness. good grief. somehow, somehow, things have gotten away from me this year. i’ve spent a good part of the afternoon baking cookies, a good thing, because i wanted to bake 8-9 kinds and after today i have four...
Dec 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
i’ve been struggling to add posts about our trip, much too busy these days working and stuff, but here are some photos of our kitties who are feeling very neglected at not being represented here. les, enjoying the dock. sometimes kevin chases him around...
Dec 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
is that it’s really not so much about laziness, except i have gotten kinda addicted to one of the most dumb online games ever, but the thing is, that before i can post more photos of our trip, i have to edit together the video i shot that first day, and...
Dec 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
is anybody out there? hello? too busy, that’s where i’ve been, much, much too busy for my liking. will i ever finish posting the beautiful photos of our lovely trip, and what about lester, who right now is vigorously attacking the bottom of the coffee...
Nov 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
because it was sunny and in the 70s and a truly beautiful day, kevin and i decided to hike at Site M, the Jim Edgar Panther Creek Wildlife Area yesterday. We didn’t get there til about 2:00 in the afternoon. we started off and it was almost too warm, but really...
Oct 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
since les has a long history of escaping over the fence (he’s not able to do that anymore, finally), and then being gone for hours if we let him roam free, we’ve been limiting his going-out time. kevin lets him out in the early morning and he comes right...
Oct 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
i called bev on saturday; she’d called me during the week and i’d been too busy and forgot to call her back. from now on i must call her back right away, no matter what…because she’d spent the week in a state of fervent agitation and general...
Oct 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
amy and jim’s darling beagle noodle passed away last week. he was a sweet and good boy, and we’ll all miss him terribly, but nobody will miss him as much as amy. and jim. well, that’s not entirely true…poor little numie also misses him...
Oct 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
winnie seems to be handling his diabetes diagnosis pretty well. i can give him a shot now without freaking him out, and of course kevin has been an expert at it for a very long time. i took this picture as winnie dozed with his head on kevin’s comfy keyboard,...
