Dec 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
ahhh, friday…it was almost 50 degrees on friday. we took mollie, noodle and numie for a walk on the chatham trail, over onto the mountain bike trail that leads off it. everybody had a fabulous time, especially noodle. noodle feels like he’s part of...
Dec 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
that was the sound of a bird hitting the window as i sat here on the couch this morning. it slid down the window and i thought it surely must have died. i opened the window and looked down, but saw no dead birds. pretty soon a dove rustled around in the bushes and...
Dec 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
MUTTS!
Dec 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
so, kevin, mollie and i were out walking the other day; we made it across the windy cold soccer field and into the pathway through the little bit of woods next to a tiny sliver of lake, and we were talking about snow. well, i was talking about snow – well,...
Dec 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
my friend janice and i visited the farm! yesterday morning. it was the christmas open house, and i found even more great stuff there, PLUS FUDGE. could there be a more perfect morning? i think not. this time i brought my camera to get better pictures than the day i...
Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
we SAW HARRY POTTER yesterday afternoon… we couldn’t believe it had really lasted two and a half hours. right before it ended, they had the scene that i had assumed would be the place where they’d stop it, i thought, “hmm, it’s not gonna...
Nov 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
this morning i was outside, the wind whipping through my hair, the cold seeping into my pores, and i thought, “OK, this is it. no more nice weather.” i guess i shouldn’t think this way right now, since there’s about four months of it ahead. ...
Nov 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
i’ve been sitting around watching kevin read the last few “harry potter” pages. he’s almost done with #7, and then WHAT WILL HE DO? I’m still getting over the fact that i’ve finished them all. there are a couple of books about...
Nov 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s all taking way longer than i thought it would. even though the rolls were mixed up, i had to shape them all. then the pies…i thought it’d be quick, a breeze, but they weren’t. not only is the whole rolling of the crust challenging, but...
Nov 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
and this morning, i GOT UP BEFORE KEVIN. this is a rare occurrence. i woke up at 5:30 and thought MUST GET COOL WHIP OUT OF FREEZER. and worse, what if i was actually out of cool whip; what if the cool whip in the freezer was imagined cool whip? plus WOOD CHIPS. ...
Nov 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’m almost finished with harry potter #7 – i’ve actually been doing other things this morning instead of FINISHING THE BOOK because i want to stretch it out as long as possible. yesterday i spent some time on various harry potter sites, amazed at...
Nov 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
the sunday morning of the shoot, it was COLD. brrrr. they were going to have an opening ceremony for this last day of shooting, so i hustled down to watch. the guys were all lined up, and then…what did they do? i feel that they played some confederate anthem,...
Nov 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
last friday, kevin got through his first afternoon of shooting at the nathan bedford forrest state park in Eva, Tennessee, and on saturday he was just going to do one more individual shoot in the morning, and then had some team competitions in the afternoon....
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
last night kevin went to barbra’s website and found the tweet about randy winning the contest, but i only looked at it just now. here it is: Congratulations to RANDY DUNHAM who has just won 2 tickets to the taping of Barbra’s interview with OPRAH! Thanks...
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
randy finally sent me a text from the train; he didn’t get to meet babs, but he was EIGHT FEET from her, oprah, and robert redford! i wonder what he was doing there? i texted randy that he shoulda jumped the stage. i mean, yeah, he’d have been thrown...
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
what is white on rice, anyway? that was my aunt sandy’s guess as to what randy was for halloween. kelly guessed that he was a slug. randy was… A SALT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON. i think he had the idea for a long time, and he got sidetracked briefly when bev...
Nov 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
i have been camping. i have been camping in tennessee. i have been camping in our popup camper at the nathan bedford forrest state park. i find that a little confusing; it’s not a FOREST, it’s a state park,but the guy’s last name is forrest. we...
Nov 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
amy and jeem! such a cute couple! ditto about that for mom and dad! jim patton is receiving his SPECIAL CHICKEN AWARD – you get it if you put the least amount of thought and effort into a costume. maybe next year we should give it to somebody who is actually...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
FINALLY…a picture of dad! he was a rhinestone cowboy. he created the jacket when he was in “best little whorehouse in texas.” he looked very dapper on halloween. and also finally, JIM! a very scary zombie. we wanted a picture of mom, amy and...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
today is my brother david’s 50th birthday. gee, the 50th birthdays just keep coming, don’t they? i’ve already told him i’m not making him a giant, multi-tiered wedding-type cake like i did for randy’s recent 50th, and david is, of...
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
we keep meaning to send christmas cards every year but we never get around to it. i think we should definitely send them out this christmas, and this can be on the front. notice how kevin clearly has no beard. how did i not observe this, especially since he was...
Oct 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
first, here are our costumes from the party we went to on friday night, where i ate and drank too much. mom took this picture of kevin and me, and here i’m telling her how to take the picture. she figured it out without me bossing her around. kevin, mom and me...
Oct 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
last night, i had crossed everything off my list of things to do, and kevin, mom and i went to our friend kevin’s halloween party. the plan was to stay an hour. we were tired to begin with, plus there are many things to do today. we stayed two hours, not a...
Oct 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
dang! tomorrow night is the party! i need some red food coloring. also some toothpicks. i bet amy doesn’t have any. usually if either of us is in DIRE NEED of something critical, like an egg or a cookie sheet, we can get it from the other RIGHT NEXT DOOR. i...
Oct 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
i woke up at seven. it was dark. and cold. dark and cold. gonna be pretty cold today. luckily i’ll have the distraction of doing many things so i won’t have to dwell on the approaching COLD WEATHER. at some point we have to drag many flowers and plants...
Oct 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
that’s being very optimistic of me, isn’t it? the thought that today will be a happy day, even though i’m sitting here BEFORE EIGHT A.M. but it already feels like a happy day. it was nice to wake up not all anxious and snarly. that’s no way...
Oct 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
today as i kept furiously cleaning my house i kept thinking BUT IT’S GOING TO BE SO DARK IN HERE THAT NOBODY WILL EVER SEE ALL THE REAL COBWEBS AND THE DUST EVERYWHERE… and yet i kept going, like some kind of lunatic. very very busy around here. sunday,...
Oct 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
my friend linda castor sent me this e-card. i haven’t been up so long and i was in NO MOOD to watch some dumb e-card, especially because it said “sound on please,” which just annoyed me a LOT. i’m easily annoyed in the morning before eight...
Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
friday, more driving, driving, driving, through the mountains of virginia. we were going to stop friday night somewhere in kentucky because kevin wanted to drive through big stone gap, VA, because he’d done some volunteering there with his church back in...
Oct 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
I thought that everybody had heard of the shenandaoh, but apparently not. i told a friend about going to skyline drive, and she said “what’s that?” the shenandoah national forest is the most widely-visited national park we have. it encompassed...
