Aug 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
here are bev’s BLUE RIBBON BRAN MUFFINS. she entered many, many, MANY things in the fair again this year. these muffins are just that all-bran recipe, but they did look very perfect and symmetrical, which i’m sure counts for a whole lot. i think there...
Aug 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
it was sad to take our very last boat ride – the lake level has just been dropping and dropping, so we decided to take the boat out. plus it’s not working so great, ever since we ran out of gas. this is what the sky and the water looked like when we...
Aug 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
mom and i went to the fair parade, mostly because randy was going to be in it, but also, of course, because we got to go to the fair for free and we even parked for free, even though we drove by many people with paid parking on their lawns. people were parking there,...
Aug 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
do your remember that brave little willow tree that jim planted, that a very hungry beaver chewed right down? then it came back and dragged off the huge top of the tree. well, now it’s sprouting new branches like crazy. i saw it when i was taking les for a...
Aug 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
kevin took these pictures before i was out of bed one morning. i WISH i could deal with getting up really early because it is SO PRETTY early in the morning, with the sun coming up. one morning i opened my eyes and sat up and put on my glasses and saw the sun coming...
Aug 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
kevin and i went up to sterling to visit his mom, who had pneumonia and was in the hospital. by the time we got there she was doing much better, and it was really nice to see her, and i’m happy to report that she’s now back at home. it’s been too...
Aug 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
the other night randy said to me, “so you’re not writing on your site any more, huh?” nope, i said. i always say that when he says that. problem is, the more days that pass, the more i think I MUST WRITE TODAY, and then i don’t, and then...
Aug 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
last monday night, garrick and janice and max joined us on the boat for dinner and a cruise around the lake. we went under the Vachel Lindsey Bridge, which is being renovated and repaired in a big, big way. they closed it on july 5th, and it’s not supposed to...
Jul 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
yesterday it RAINED, and cooled off for a while! it was fantastic, and i went down to the dock to get pictures of the storm rolling in. i planted four canna lilies in pots on the dock, and i’m excited because two of them are blooming. because she takes so much...
Jul 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
any exertion at all in this heat makes everybody exhausted. we’ve been lolling around all week, except when we were doing stuff, but not too much outside stuff cause it’s way too hot for that. here’s les paul and kevin wednesday afternoon, les with...
Jul 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
i have been trying to photoshop some photos, but at the same time i’ve been busy playing with the busy little kitty. i bought him one of those feathers-on-a-stick toys a while ago, and today he managed to completely destroy it – the feathers are totally...
Jul 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
whew. no raccoons at all today; instead, i thoroughly cleaned the screened porch. let me just say this – i never knew what raccoon pee smelled like. I WILL NOW REMEMBER IT FOREVER. IT IS A VERY VERY BAD SMELL. this is the picture i took with my phone friday...
Jul 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
oh good lord. things are very crazy around here now. first – amy, jim, and kevin all left yesterday about noon; amy and jim to chicago to visit aunt sandy, and kevin off to wisconsin for another civil war shoot. yeah, that’s pretty much all he does all...
Jul 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
the weather is perfect; soon i will go plant some of the many flowers i bought for the newly-mulched area down by the dock. last night randy and i went to TWIRLS N SWIRLZ, or whatever the fabulous new yogurt place clear on the other side of town is called. I LOVE...
Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
sorry, no pictures of the CUTE CUTE CUTE baby raccoons… yesterday morning when kevin got up, he went out onto the screened porch and realized we had forgotten to close the glass door; only the screen door was closed. only it wasn’t because the raccoons had...
Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Sunday, July 10th, 2011 6:15 a.m. i was lying there in bed minding my own business, sleeping as well as could be expected considering that kevin and the animals were up and making a little bit of noise. then, mollie started BARKING LIKE CRAZY. oh boy, something in the...
Jul 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
things went better than expected on thursday. Les Paul had a grand, grand time all day long. he ran around like a maniac, he sproinged up onto the couch and off the back of it, he was very, very busy. he and winnie…well, since they’re cats, they...
Jul 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
winnie just walked by on the back deck. now he’s sitting there looking in. hmm, is this a good time for the showdown? i feel i’m not quite awake to deal with it yet. i realized i forgot about these pictures – we took them when we went out for...
Jul 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
the days sneak up on me in the summertime. they sneak up, and then they whoosh by. this morning i’m sitting in the screened porch, mollie is lying on the rug, and les paul is perched on the table, looking outside. no wait, he’s gone…yesterday i let...
Jul 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
kevin found our red white and blue lighted flag decoration, which i’m about to go put down by the dock. there are plenty of boats out today, even though it must be kind of toasty out there. i also have to clean the boat seats, and i’m afraid i’m...
Jul 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
well, quaaludes are one of the few drugs NOT on the list of potential anti-spraying kitty list. the vet gave me a big printout of info about kitties spraying and peeing and other such BAD KITTY behavior. i was entranced by the huge, huge list of drugs they can give a...
Jun 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
and that’s all i have to say this afternoon. we are going out to celebrate RANDY’S HAPPY BIRTHDAY tonight. randy wanted me to write here that he thought that hangover 2 was “ok.” he said he “laughed a few times.” i said YOU...
Jun 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
i let les paul out of the hot tub room yesterday, into the bedroom and bathroom and he explored everything he could. i let him out again a coupla hours later and he went a little crazy, richocheting off the walls and stuff, excited to be in a bigger space. this...
Jun 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
the weather continues to be PERFECT, which is why i must type very very fast in order to GET BACK OUTSIDE. here’s a very very cute photo of mollie that kevin took at some time. i can’t say when he took it, because when i downloaded the photos from his...
Jun 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
there’s a huge backlog of photos somehow – partly because kevin has been taking pictures and i haven’t ever downloaded them, partly because i’ve been so busy outside. but here’s the beginning of a bunch of different things – first,...
Jun 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
kevin just sent me these photos; he got FIRST PLACE in the smoothbore individual competition; he was shooting with the “A” shooters, the best of the best. good job, honey! he was also on the A team for the smoothbore team shoot and they won first place! ...
Jun 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
that is my two word summary for “the hangover 2.” last night i was really looking forward to going to a movie…kevin and i talk about going to movies sometimes, and he keeps saying he’d like to see this movie or that…but somehow we rarely...
Jun 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
yesterday afternoon kevin left for the sandy ford shooting place in streator, illinois. this morning when i got up, i wondered why winnie hadn’t been batting at my head, insistent on getting some breakfast. i walked into the kitchen and he was frantically...
Jun 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
it rained and rained and thundered and lightninged really early on saturday morning, but it stopped by the time we got up. this is what the camper looked like by saturday morning; we’re not the neatest campers in the world, i know. it’s easier to keep...
Jun 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
i drove to menard’s this afternoon to pick up a milliion more bags of mulch, plus many many many (130, to be exact) bricks to put around some landscaping that i’m going to do down by the lake. when i drove back to pick up the stuff i went right by the spot...
