Feb 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
so…we’d seen the sun rise, we’d watched the manatees, we’d walked on the beach and picked up many shells…and then it was off to the beach for some serious sitting on the beach time! have i mentioned that i love the waves? kevin took some...
Feb 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
This was Monday, January 5th – one whole full glorious day on captiva island, sunup to sundown. which meant we had to get up early to see the sunrise. not THAT early, because the sun was scheduled to rise at, hmm, something like 7:16. i got up right before 7,...
Feb 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
part 2 of sunday, january 4th – as i wrote yesterday, we got to check in to our hotel an hour early. we drove over to jensen’s marina to check in – the jensen brothers have two properties, the marina with their twin palm cottages, and...
Feb 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
this was sunday, January 4th, and i, personally, was very VERY excited because we were going to captiva island to stay at his wonderful place! a hotel, but our own little cottage! it was a busy day, and we took such a ridiculous amount of photos that i must divide...
Jan 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
we had booked a hotel on captiva island for sunday and monday nights, so on saturday morning we decided to get ready for that little trip. well, for some reason kevin decided that the best use of his time would be to thoroughly, and i mean THOROUGHLY, clean the...
Jan 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
i posted a picture of a calabash tree when i wrote a few days ago about going to the edison & ford estates. i thought i’d take a moment to look up the calabash, because i knew nothing about it. well, wikipedia had lots and lots and LOTS of information about...
Jan 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
and on our 3rd day in florida, we hit the beach! but first, we sat around in the morning, outside, enjoying the weather. kevin took a picture of this tree, the big one in the background, because it was so huge and had a nice shape and i’d like to have a big tree...
Jan 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
it was a sunny, beautiful new year’s day, a perfect day to tour Thomas Edison and Henry Ford’s estates. but first, we hung out a little bit at our campsite. we took a drive down the long road to the heart of Ft. Myers – it was funny, because as we...
Jan 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
and we took it easy. well, first we spent a good three hours driving around, trying to find some kind of connector for the camping fridge. the connector had broken and kevin thought it would be “easy” to find a replacement. i believe his words were...
Jan 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
i realize as i type that many of my posts now have a !!! at the end. it’s funny, because when amy and i text each other, we almost always end our sentences with !!!, but have talked about how we do this with many or most texts, but don’t usually feel the...
Jan 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
and things are good. here are the final, final photos from 2014. let’s be done with it already! just a few xmas photos – i’ve noticed that many, many people still have their xmas decorations up still. get over it, people! here’s a happy xmas...
Jan 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
whew. HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR’S DAY! yeah, i know, waaaaay late, not an auspicious beginning to this shiny new year. the thing is, i spent new year’s eve in our popup camper, in fort myers, florida… a deliciously warm way to usher in the new year,...
Dec 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
i’m over christmas now. i’m sitting here on the couch and they’re re-playing the christmas in rockefeller center special. LeAnn Rimes was singing “i want a hippopotamus for christmas.” didn’t she used to be a country singer? she...
Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
i made more cookies today. because i’m a crazy person. lester is bouncing all over the place, clearly even more energized than me. here’s the tree a few days ago. i hope your christmas day is a good one. ok then, mrs. christmas eve...
Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
i hope you’re not crazy with last-minute stuff today, but you probably are. so here’s something soooo cute and funny to make you smile in between the wrapping and cooking and hopefully not still shopping… a few gifts were under the tree the other...
Dec 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
i was lying in bed at 6, thinking about all the stuff i need to do today, finally getting up at 6:18, because i clearly wasn’t sleeping anymore. but then when i staggered out into the living room, kevin was up. well, he’s 99% of the time up before me, but...
Dec 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
yes, i have quite a few things to do, but not so many, not gonna get all stressed about it. now, if the sun would just come out. it’s been more than 10 days since the sun has shone. a little bit yesterday, but come on, already. winnie, on the seat cushion...
Dec 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
i woke up at 6:30, decided to stay in bed and pet poor tiny lester til 7:00. why get up before it’s light outside, anyway? well, there’s yesterday morning, when i got up at FIVE THIRTY. ridiculous. RIDICULOUS. kevin had gotten up at 5:00. this morning,...
Dec 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
well, the bad news is that i went running on saturday and felt so good that i ran for 45 minutes instead of 30 minutes, and i hadn’t run in maybe a month, but really, that shouldn’t have caused ALL THIS PAIN. my foot is kind of swollen and it’s...
Nov 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
i woke up before seven, i don’t know why. it wasn’t even light out yet! i really don’t know how kevin does that, mostly waking up before the sun has risen. it’s like getting up in the middle of the night. but here we are, and i’m...
Nov 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
i read that last post of mine from last week; that day we did get soooo many things done, but we only got the pontoon boat ready for winter. but the cadillac is back in the garage. yesterday it was also warm, so we did many more outside things, including getting the...
Nov 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
this morning i’m trying to focus on the positive, instead of all the election results. the positive, of course, is the cats. plus, i bet this is the last day this year that the temperatures are going to climb into the 60s. we have a bevy of outdoor stuff to do...
Nov 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
last night, about 10, i was shuffling around the kitchen, wandering into the dining room, muttering WHERE’S THE REST OF THE HALLOWEEN CANDY? gone, of course. luckily we had no trick-or-treaters because i ate almost all of it before we went to go see...
Oct 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
was buying a bag of halloween chocolates on tuesday. i was going to wait til today to buy them, but then i figured that i’d be ok, it wasn’t that many days til halloween, plus i just wouldn’t open them. my second big mistake was opening them. i...
Oct 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
and it’s early around here! last night i asked kevin to please wake me up by 7:30, so he woke up at five because he was afraid he’d oversleep. and then, of course, i was up by seven. so we’re all up. but i, for one, won’t be fully awake for...
Oct 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
it’s only fall, but the sky looks like winter, bleak and gray and where is the sun? it will surely return again someday. meanwhile…soon i have to go to randy’s house to check on sweet little rupee, but first, i have a big melange of all the photos...
Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
i went running, and it was overcast and sprinkling a little bit, but then it stopped, and i felt good, and decided to run all the way to the start of the vachel lindsay bridge…but when i got there i decided i might as well run over it, and then i figured that...
Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
we came so close to going someplace, so close to putting up some photos that weren’t just adorable pictures of our kitties…we were going to go up to northern illinois to visit kevin’s family, but he got sick, so we didn’t go. and...
Oct 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
and it’s very fall-like today. well, a yucky fall day – very cloudy. the only good thing about the cloudiness is that i had to take kevin to the cataract guy at EIGHT AM, and they dilated his eyes, and the ride home wasn’t all sunny and blinding...
Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
i feel that i should change the name of this site to “les paul.” or “les paul plus occasionally chester and winnie.” also i should probably get out more, for no other reason than to take pictures of something besides the cats. but i like to be...
