Apr 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Apr 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
yes, it’s almost the very middle of april and we’re SUPPOSED TO GET SNOW LATER TODAY. a very, very unfortunate state of affairs. as i’ve already written here, we bought 22 bags of mulch last thursday, plus a new front door. on friday we went back to...
Apr 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Apr 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
here’s the kitty condo, which les immediately had to check out. this isn’t such a great photo, but it’s a rare one, since both chester and les were in it. i think winnie has gotten in once. erica sent me this photo of her sweet kittie heidi, who was...
Apr 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
yester we bought 22 bags of mulch, and i put 18 of them down. before that i had to rake approximately one million leaves. needless to say, i overdid it and i’m sore today. but it’s warm! which is incredibly fantastic. yesterday i saw the first flower...
Apr 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
it’s been quite a week. the grass is getting pretty green, at least, even though it’s cold and windy outside. luckily i only have to leave the house a couple of times. in february, we had a wide array of weather. amy and jim escaped to austin with...
Mar 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
where your teeth fall out? mom said she used to have the dream when she was younger; she’d be brushing her teeth and they’d all fall out. but i still have the dream, and it’s not about brushing my teeth, it’s just about my teeth crumbling and...
Mar 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
mid-february, , lots of snow had fallen yet again, so i decided to go down to the dock and take a look at the frozen lake. les was CRAZY to get out as usual, so i let him out the back door, thinking that he’d surely stay up on the deck because the snow was...
Mar 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
because this morning i woke up to SNOW ON THE GROUND. luckily it wasn’t that much snow, and it’s mostly gone now, but it’s a chilly 30 degrees with a wind chill of 16, which makes me just wanna forget about going outside at all. meanwhile..i hope...
Mar 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
and yeah, of course it’s cold again, and there’s a chance of SNOW tomorrow…but this morning things are ok; i don’t really have to go out of the house at all till tonight, when randy and i are going to see “H.M.S Pinafore” at the...
Mar 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
it’s gray and dreary and windy and WE WANT SPRING ALREADY! here are my last few photos from our trip to florida…it seems so long ago, but also, it seems that it SHOULD BE WARM HERE NOW! the sunset on our last night. we drove across the road to the state...
Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
it was 73 yesterday, an amazing thing! we were supposed to get 2 to 4 inches of snow last night, but luckily instead there was only a dusting, a trifle of snow, plus first it rained for a very long time, which will help all that grass grow. c’mon spring! ok,...
Mar 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
yeah, it’s 4. nice way to start march. here are a few more photos of our second day in florida, after we rushed over the long bridge from sanibel island to see the sunset. well, actually, here’s a picture i took of myself while we were still on captiva,...
Feb 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
ok, maybe i might be slightly dramatic here, but last night we had a wind chill advisory cause it got so bitterly cold and windy, and right now it’s 10 but feels like minus two and COME ON ALREADY with the damn cold weather! so instead, i think about florida,...
Feb 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
…and it’s good to be inside right now, but i’m going running pretty soon because this is the warmest it’s going to be all week…and today it’s only supposed to be 29. so yeah, i don’t think we’ll be seeing any daffodils...
Feb 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
yeah, it’s 60 degrees. amazing, but of course it’s not gonna last. i’m pretty sure that spring will come eventually, though. so, back to our trip to florida…i posted photos of the first morning there, and then mom and i went on a dolphin...
Feb 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
well, kevin said he was gonna go to a ceremony at lincoln’s tomb this morning, which starts at 10:30. right now it’s 9 degrees, so i seriously doubt he’ll be making it. maybe he’ll go to some other ceremony tonight, which will be inside,...
Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
yeah, it’s getting pretty boring, as the temperatures climb way up to the 20s, then plunge again and today the high will be 10. at least we don’t live in siberia. there was a little thing about siberia in the millions of hours of olympics on the tv, and...
Feb 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
i’m really not spending all winter vacationing, but i’d like to be! but the thing is, i’m in this play, i probably mentioned that, and we started rehearsals a few weeks ago, but we didn’t have rehearsals all week this week because one of the...
Jan 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
it’s -5 right now. he first thing when i got up, i let chester out because he was desperate, and then les was right there wanting out too, so i was gonna check on him in a minute. when iwent into the living room, it seemed chilly – kevin had been up for...
Jan 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
and the forecast is cold, cold, cold, yet again…it might heat up to 30 today, but we’re also supposed to have wind gusts of 40 mph. delightful! so, back to sunny and warmer gulf shores… monday night, i asked kevin to wake me up on tuesday morning....
Jan 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
and this morning it’s also gray and there’s a little snow coming down, but nothing to worry about, hopefully. more photos from our trip to gulf shores…here’s last monday, and it seems hard to believe it was just a week and a couple days ago....
Jan 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
well, yes, it’s only 5 degreees with a minus whatever wind chill out there, but i’m toasty warm here at home, gotta do a massage soon, but right now things are quite fine anbd calm. chester is curled up on the couch next to me. i’m actually sitting...
Jan 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
ok, i know i know, i know, it’s SO PAST XMAS, and WHO CARES ABOUT XMAS ANYWAY, certainly not me, HOWEVER, here’s the beautiful photo of randy’s dazzling dining room and kitchen, all finished, so lovely, and decorated for the holidays. i’m...
Jan 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
since i wanted to merge the top half of me with the bottom half, i decided that it’d be nice to put me in an interesting location. this one is interesting, at least to me. it’s from our first day of biking in scotland, when we got really, really lost. we...
Jan 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
and a great big WHEW, as my show is now over. it’s funny, how much effort i put into it, and it was all over so quickly. i didn’t cough so much, luckily, and it was a full house – i think they even had to bring in more chairs! i had thought that...
Dec 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
not a good way to spend the days leading up to xmas. i had a little sore throat saturday night, then all of a sudden i had the full-blown flu on sunday. dreadful. i can’t remember that last time i got the flu. i got a flu shot for the first time last year and...
Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
and i guess that’s how it’s gonna be for the next few months, sooooo cold. at least we only have a minute amount of snow. right now. i’m typing on my computer which is so amazingly fast that sometimes it does stuff for me that i don’t even...
Dec 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
that’s what color my computer screen was the other day after i dropped it. actually, it was fine right after i dropped it, but then blue the next day. so i”m blue about the blue. meanwhile…i ordered a new, better computer (even though nobody buys...
Nov 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
yesterday morning, at the crack of nine a.m., kevin and i started running the TURKEY TROT thanksgiving race at washington park. maybe it wasn’t really a race, just a run that benefited…something. people without health insurance, maybe? we actually started...
