Sep 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sweet and very tiny little Marley left us yesterday morning at 5:25. She’d been losing weight for a couple of weeks; she was only four pounds to begin with, and she got so thin that I could feel the bones in her face when petting her. We got her on December...
Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
For one thing, I was looking at my site and it suddenly dawned on me that the banner currently reads “Spring 2023.” Oh boy. Slightly falling behind in literally all things… So I fixed that. Yay, fixing one tiny thing today. The other thing is, well,...
Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our friend Amy has a very cool paddle board, and we store it under our deck for her. Isn’t it cool? I’ve seen some paddle boards around the lake but they’re usually just boring and one single color. No cool swirly things like this one. On Thursday...
Aug 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of my most favorite things is to go out on my pontoon boat. I haven’t been out this summer as much as I’d have liked…it was too hot, it was raining, I was too busy pulling weeds and taking care of many cats… We went out for a boat ride in...
Aug 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Well, happy belated birthday – it was Aug. 4th and we did quite a bit of celebrating. We went to dinner at the Yacht Club and Kevin enjoyed a delicious piece of carrot cake for dessert. It was a lovely night. Before we went to dinner we gave him two new pairs of...
Jul 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
That’s how hot it is now. Hot hot heat. Yesterday the heat index said it felt like 122. I mean, c’mon. I kept going outside and my glasses kept fogging up. Good grief. When I got home from the grocery store yesterday, there was an ambulance and a fire...
Jul 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
as the summer marches on…first, July 1st when the power was out, Pumpkin was thoroughly enjoying the cat grass that Kevin planted. Such a happy boy! Later that day a family of raccoons showed up. There were four little ones but a couple of them scampered off. It...
Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Here’s Lester, always so happy to pose for a photo. Lovey and Riley. Poor Lovey has been pulling out her hair because she’s allergic to something. I can’t comfort her because she continues to be deathly afraid of me. Smoke from the Canadian wildfires...
Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
The funny thing is, it was challenging to write that last post while we had no power because I had to do it on my ipad. I finally finished it at about 7:50 in the evening and proceeded to water the flowers on the back deck. Amy called me as I watered but I...
Jul 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
This is what I forgot to post- through all of this, feeling crazy and stumbling around in the dark and everything, Kevin has been a rockstar. Calm and cool and keeping the generator running and just being, well, Kevin. He spent the last five days nonstop chain-sawing...
Jul 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
At about noon last Thursday, June 29th, the emergency sirens went off. We immediately began herding cats, always a thrilling event. The rain started coming down and we didn’t have time to look out and see what was going on because, well, herding cats. Finally, most of...
May 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
it’s not even summer yet, so I just need to calm down about the yard work. The weeds will always be there, I don’t need to pull them all right this minute. It rained a bit this afternoon so that gave me an excuse to stop with the yard work for the day. I...
May 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Busy, so busy. I need to take some time to go for some relaxing and calming boat rides, instead of being a total maniac about getting everything on my very long “spring 2023” list accomplished. It’s not like we’re having a big garden party...
Apr 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Two weeks ago Kevin had cataract surgery on his left eye, which was the worst in terms of not being able to see. He’d had a vitrectomy on Dec. 9th, where they sucked all the fluid out of his eye and replaced it. An “oil change,” as Kevin calls it....
Apr 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
First of all – yet another Les Paul Crisis, this on Saturday. Early in the morning Kevin went off to an all day event and when I got up I went upstairs to sit with Pumpkin and then did a bunch of vigorous weight-lifting followed by going to Menard’s with...
Apr 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Let me just start by saying that this story has a good ending…however, I started writing it on Monday April 3rd and I feel like I haven’t sat down since then. This is ridiculous, of course – I have done plenty of sitting, but haven’t managed to...
Mar 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
OK then, first day of spring and I’m having a serious problem trying to get off the couch. I woke up early, planning on getting so much done…and now it’s almost noon and not much accomplished so far. I’m going to go for a job pretty soon but...
Mar 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Friday Feb. 24th, it was nice to wake up with nothing electric car-related to obsess about. Mom wanted to take a boat ride and they had ones leaving from the aquarium near the Publix where we’d fueled our car, so I booked the hour-long dolphin cruise. We’d...
Mar 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
On Thursday Feb. 23rd, Mom and I drove to Lakeland to visit her cousin Barb. Barb is such a sweet and lovely person, and we were so happy to spend some time with her. First we drove to the Tampa airport to exchange our electric car. When we got there, so many people...
Mar 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Here’s a very quick video of our Air B&B in Clearwater Beach. I took this before we went to dinner, and before I’d strewn my stuff all over the place. I was clearly exhausted when I took the video because at the end I dropped the F bomb, something I...
Mar 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mom and I walked down the very very long walkway to the Ringling mansion which was huge and ornate. Mom sat on a bench to catch her breath while I darted around trying to figure out where the entrance was. Here’s a short video of the front of the place. I ran...
Mar 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
As I wrote previously, the Ringling Museum was a five-minute drive from the Sarasota Airport, so after I figured to put the electric car in drive, we headed right over. Since Ringling had made his fortune while abusing animals for so many years, that aspect of it made...
Mar 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Last Monday, February 20th, Mom and I headed down to St. Louis to spend the night and fly out to Florida on Tuesday morning. It was a make up trip since Mom hadn’t been able to go to NYC with me in January. We stayed in the Pear Tree Inn right across from the...
Feb 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mom turns eighty seven today! She didn’t used to want people to know her age but now now she’s loud and proud! I guess she’s always been loud. Yesterday afternoon Mom and I got back from a quick trip down to Florida. We went to make up for her not...
Feb 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
This was actually the end of December, when Mom was staying with us after being run over in the Kohl’s parking lot. We decided it’d be easier to care for her cat Hobbs if Hobbs was here with our crowd of kitties. Also, once you have half a dozen cats (plus...
Feb 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our flight home from NYC wasn’t til 3:30 in the afternoon on Friday Jan. 20th so we had plenty of time to do some final things before leaving. Well, plenty of time isn’t necessarily the right word. We had some time, anyway, and I really wanted to go to...
Feb 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Thursday, Jan.19th it rained on us most of the day in New York. Whenever I’m in NYC I spend too much time walking walking walking and when it’s raining the walking is not so enjoyable. But this time Randy and I did manage to stay dry and inside for quite a...
Feb 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Wed. Jan 18th, after spending quite a bit of time at the Statue of Liberty, Randy and I walked up to the 9/11 Memorial Pools. Just walking up to them makes me choke up. The new world trade center. We took the subway uptown a ways, stopping at the cool relatively new...
Feb 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Wednesday January 18th – I’d been obsessively looking at the weather (I actually always obsessively check the weather) and knew it was going to rain on Thursday, our last full day in New York, so I wanted to cram as much outside stuff as possible into...
Feb 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our trip to NYC on January 17th started out on such a high note, with an easy drive to the St. Louis Airport and then the crazy only 40 people on the plane and exiting the airport and getting into a cab out of the newly-refurbished La Guardia Airport. When Mom and I...
