Oct 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
When Randy and I went to the fair on Sun. Aug. 11th, after looking at the goats, he went to see if his brother Ricky (“Elvis Himselvis”) needed any help before performing at the Miller tent. I took the opportunity to go into the grandstand where there were...
Oct 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
I don’t know why I love goats so much. I haven’t ever actually known a goat personally, and they say that goats can be mean. But there’s just so cute. When Randy and I went to the fair on Aug. 11th we got to spend some time looking at the many, many...
Oct 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Somehow I missed this final photo of Mom and my day at the fair. As we were leaving the fair I decided to climb up up up the many steps of the Giant Slide. I love the Giant Slide. Except… It was me and these three little girls. But I wasn’t gaining any...
Oct 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
After the excitement at the Hobbies, Arts & Crafts building Mom and I wandered around a bit. We stopped at the Dairy building, of course, to get a picture of the butter cow. A high-diving show was about to start so we sat down to watch, and it’s the first...
Oct 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
As Mom and I worked our way through the HA &C building on Friday August 9th, I didn’t stop to catalog everything quite as thoroughly. I thought this prize-winning pillow was very cute with the big yellow boots.. The bottle on the right is from the United...
Sep 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
The good news – I read online that the bow hunting isn’t going on continuously til the end of the year; there’s a break from Nov. 16 – Dec. 16th. The bad news – everybody who lives near the hunting areas was sent a color printout of the...
Sep 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
I know you’re sitting on the edge of your seat, anticipating the exciting conclusion to our fun at the Hobbies, Arts and Crafts building at the Il State Fair, but I have to interrupt my tale. I was lost in the woods this morning. There’s a trail in the...
Sep 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
After Mom and I left the Illinois building on the first Friday of the fair we headed over to the Hobbies, Arts & Crafts building. But first we stopped off at the Village of Cultures, formerly the Ethnic Village, for a Saganaki. Last year the Saganaki was...
Sep 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Mom and I went to the fair on the first Friday,August 9th, something I can’t recall doing before. It was a beautifully not too hot day, which is rare and fabulous. We started off at the Illinois Building, where they’ve moved the flower arrangements. Ok,...
Sep 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
One evening in early August, Amy texted me to say that a deer was heading over to our front flowers. I looked out and there she was. I’ve done a decent job this year of keeping them from chomping the flowers out front because they’re covered in netting. I...
Sep 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
That’s right, Kevin was the First Place winner! in three different categories at the 74th IL Secretary of State Vehicle show last Saturday, Sept. 7th. We’d entered it once before a couple of years ago and Kevin won 3rd place with his 1992 Cadillac that had...
Aug 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Plus many other exciting things in July… On July 27th, my friend Gena and I were taking a walk through the lovely Lincoln Memorial Gardens, and we came upon a squirrel who ran way out on to the very tip of a branch on a tree. He looked like he surely was going...
Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
I’m sitting here on my couch realizing that I should be outside right now cause the weather is amazingly perfect. I mean, perfect. I just did some yoga out on the deck and disturbed Lovey, who likes to lie around out there. Oh well. Anyway, July…the sky...
Aug 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
I went for a run on the 4th and had to take a selfie next to this very tall corn, well past “knee high by the 4th of July.” Lately I’ve been pulling cobs of corn off the stalks and peeling them for the deer as I run by. The corn sure does look ready...
Aug 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Yesterday was Kevin’s birthday and we had a glorious celebration! We had lunch at the , Legacy Pointe Eatery which is quite delicious. Kevin’s birthday brings out the kid in him for sure. He quickly made a bow out of some tissue paper. Actually, any...
Jul 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Have you ever seen such an unusual and beautiful Canna Lily? I can’t remember where Randy says he bought it, but it’s amazing. Not only is the flower two-toned, but the leaves have wonderful stripes. Spectacular. Sweetie and Riley enjoying the screened...
Jul 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
…and I’m just too busy. Here’s little Sweetie, enjoying the round-a-round. This one used to belong to Mom’s cat Hobbs, and the kitties are in love with it. Somebody is usually sprawled on top of it. We had another one up in Pumpkin’s...
Jul 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Even though I don’t know when we’ll ever get to take another vacation, at least it’s very vacation-getaway-like around here. Here’s a pair of geese with their adolescent goslings at the end of June. Spot on my lap in the garage on June 24th....
Jun 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Time, it just keeps flying along. Spot is doing pretty well, thank goodness. His neck wound is still oozing a little blood but because his platelets are either low or gone altogether, so that’s to be expected. The vet called on Thursday to say that his wound was...
Jun 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Whew, Spot’s surgery was a success. Such a miracle. We took him in yesterday morning and the vet called to tell us that his white blood count and platelets were still dangerously low and the procedure would be high risk. She wanted to know if we wanted to...
Jun 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
I was reading my last entry and it seems so long ago, but only three days have passed. Whew. Here’s poor Spot at the vet on Monday morning. When he’d been to the vet before for minor injuries, he’d been very happy to just be inside and was a very...
Jun 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
So much for a calm start to the month. I feel I haven’t had time to catch my breath but I’m confident today will be a little less frantic. Spot seemed to be slowly improving but then yesterday Kevin realized his left front leg was more swollen and looked...
Jun 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
So much has happened. First, here’s a photo of maybe 30 goslings. Don’t think I’ve ever seen this many at once. On May 20th Spot and I sat down on the dock and then climbed aboard Kevin’s sailboat. He was very happy. I haven’t mentioned...
May 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Kevin and I went to see the movie “The Fall Guy” this afternoon and it was quite entertaining. We had no idea that it was pouring down rain outside and more rain and flooding is forecast. We’re cancelling the birthday dinner for tonight which is fine...
May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Or is it more accurate to say Garage Sale Frenzy? I wrote this on May 4th but then didn’t post it and now the mania has subsided. From May 4th: Randy has been talking about having a garage sale for a year, we were going to have one last year but it didn’t...
May 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
I know I spend too much time feeling bad for Pumpkin who lives all alone upstairs. I have been bringing him down for short periods of time, when everybody else is in the back of the house, and I do go up there three times a day and spend time with him. Kevin joins me...
Apr 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
We launched my boat on April 9th which seemed very early, but Mom looked it up in her journal and says that last year we put it in on April 10th. We didn’t go on the boat much last year, though, and things are going to be different this year. I tried looking up...
Apr 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Even though it’s suddenly chilly out there that’s OK because things are green and soon it’ll be warm. The other day when it was a little warmer but not too warm I did yoga out in the fenced yard which was very enjoyable. The ground is amazingly...
Apr 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
…and we’re already into April. How do I never have time to just sit at my laptop, typing in stuff? I must make more time for this. I don’t know how. Eventually, maybe, I’ll figure it out. Meanwhile…way back at the beginning of March we...
Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
How how how did it get to be the last week of March? It’s because no matter what, time keeps marching on. Here’s Les on Feb. 16th as a deer approaches the feeder. The next day the deer was right up at the feeder as Les looked on. On Feb 21st the snow was...
