Sep 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
before kevin and i went to see richard linklater’s new film, “boyhood” yesterday, i knew three things about it: 1. linklater had a fantastic, brilliant idea to create a piece of fiction about a boy growing up using the same actor. so when the...
Sep 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
and i’ve been busily photoshopping many, many photos, and guess what – they’re mostly photos of lester! such a surprise! taking pictures of les when we’re on our walks is always a lot of fun, though. plus i can’t help it because...
Sep 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
i just can’t say. i was about to edit some photos from august, which is GONE NOW, and i realized that i still have photos from july. just can’t seem to catch up. today is going to be the last hot day of summer, i think. i hope i have time to go jump in...
Sep 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
it rained a lot last night, and this morning it’s cool. we’re going to have a couple more hottish days, and then cooler, fall-like weather. weather forecast in a nutshell. gus the goose continues to come back, almost every day, and i bought a 40-lb. bag...
Aug 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
and it’s HOT HOT HOT. craaaaazy hot. but at least it’s only supposed to last a few more days, as opposed to a couple of years ago when it was hot all summer long. luckily, last sunday, the 17th, was cloudy and relatively cool. a perfect morning for...
Aug 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
here’s erica on the sky glider at the fair on sunday. we had a lovely time; we had just finished Abe’s Amble the 10k that left from the fairgrounds. more about that later. but the yellow jacket update: here’s kevin on saturday morning, as he got...
Aug 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Here’s a picture of one of the dozens of Yellowjackets that swarmed me! Damn wasp. The swelling has gone down enough so that now I can see the individual stings. I think there are maybe 30 to 40 of them. good grief. ok then, mrs. Wednesday...
Aug 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
erica suggested that i have my own TV show with the above title. sunday morning, i went to amy’s two workout classes, weightlifting and “cardio jam” which is like zumba only it’s better, with amy’s own choreography. the classes started...
Aug 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
and we’ve finished season 4 of downton abbey! so whew, now what will we do? for one thing, les always need a walk…he usually marches right down the back steps of the deck, but one afternoon he jumped down over the side because he needed to explore under...
Aug 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
a half an hour ago, at his usual time of 4:30 a.m., chester marched into the bedroom and started his plaintive meowing. i tried to ignore him, deciding that i wasn’t going to succumb to his sorrowful cries, but i finally staggered out of bed and shut the door...
Aug 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
last night amy and i were on veteran’s parkway, almost to fit club west, where amy was teaching a 6:30 class and i was gonna participate, although i wasn’t super excited about going and would have rather sat at home and watched the rest of the final...
Jul 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
My computer is fixed and back home now, so now i’ll be posting all the time… well, as all the time as i can. you might remember my last post about Gus the Goose – he had an injured leg, right where the leg and his foot met. He seemed to be getting...
Jul 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
the other night winnie was playing – winnie doesn’t usually play so much, he mostly looks very upset about things. but he was chasing something all around the floor, skidding in back of the couch – we went to investigate, and it was a green bean. a...
Jul 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
good god. well, to begin with, last sunday, not the one we just had, but the sunday before that, kevin was playing an online game on my computer and it just died died died. i assumed that his friend wayne woiuld be able to fix it, but wayne looked at it and no, it...
Jul 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
and last night the weather man kept saying that we’re having “weather like october,” which seems like a slight exaggeration to me. but it’s been lovely and cool and we’re lucky that we’ve been having such a nice summer so far. gus...
Jun 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
i wrote about the goose, who is now our goose and kevin named him Gus, on may 28th. he had a family, with a wife and four little goslings, and he had a horrible limp. since then, the wife and babies haven’t been around so much, but gus continues to show up...
Jun 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
and randy, i’m happy to say, is safe and sound. on sunday he traveled to Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, to go to a destination wedding. well, on sunday he was supposed to fly out of springfield to chicago, and then his charter plane left ridiculously...
Jun 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
last night we had some people over for dinner, and it was a lovely time, but people were telling pet stories, and kevin started a story with “we had a dog named mollie.” it was a funny story, about the fact that mollie always barked when anybody came...
May 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
yesterday i told kevin that maybe we should clean the gutters today since it’s supposed to rain tonight, and all the gutters have little trees growing out of them because of the one hundred million spinners. so this morning he said i could help him, and he got...
May 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
and the highlight of my day was eating a chocolate chip off the dining room floor. well, there were some other good things about the day, but usually if there’s something on the dining room floor, it’s a piece of dry cat food, not a delicious,...
May 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
last night i overdid it a little with the yard work, and we went to be before 10! this morning i got up a little after six, so clearly i’m turning into an old lady who gets up at the crack of dawn. well, i’m not entirely sure what time the sun rises, so i...
May 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
…and it feels like spring again. it was finally warm enough to be outside yesterday, very nice. here’s mom working on the stone we made to put over dad’s ashes under the peach trees down by the lake. we had marked the spot with a shell, and we...
May 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
yesterday, a little rocky, but today promises to be better. for one thing, kevin is coming home. he’s been gone since wednesday, at the North South Skirmish Association spring national civil war shooting competion in winchester, VA. or the soggy excuse for it...
May 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
after 15 unbelievably horrific days in the hospital, dad had a “miraculous recovery,” and the doctor came in and talked about moving him home after the weekend, and dad was so happy and felt good and joyfully drank a chocolate shake. and a year ago today,...
May 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
yesterday i went to the grocery store with randy and a bottle of wine leapt out of our cart and dramatically CRASHED to the floor, shattering all over the place, and it was red wine, so a huge red pool oozed all over the place. but it was in no way my fault! so,...
May 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
i did spectacularly break a butter dish last night, with no effort at all. i was trying to get a can of diet root beer out of the pantry and somehow managed to CRASH the glass butter dish to the floor, with many, many little shards of glass everywhere. nothing broken...
May 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
in between feeling bad about my dad, and about mollie, and about stuff that i feel bad about here in this month of may, i have been creating wide swaths of mayhem and destruction. not intentionally. first, the power washer – i was so looking forward to cleaning...
May 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
saturday was a very big day. first, the Fat Ass 5k, which was actually pretty fun. the race started at the very civilized hour of 10 a.m. here’s kevin, dressed in his civil war garb, so that he could fire the opening shot of the race and then sprint along in...
May 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
so if i have any readers out there still, just so you know, they suspended my site cause i had malware, and i had to pay to have some service delete the malware, but it’s some site that charges per year, so now i’m covered for a year but they sent me a...
Apr 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
whew. i guess that sums up my general attitude about most things in life at the moment. just whew. last night there was yet another ad on the tv about some new cell phone. they’re always so much BETTER and MORE ADVANCED and FABULOUS and SPECTACULAR. do you...
