Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
i was about to close the computer, briefly checking my e-mail for anything of note, and i got an E-MAIL FROM DAD! dad used to send me the occasional letter when i lived far away; mom’s letters were also enjoyable but she wrote lots of them, like i did, so it...
Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
and i just can’t wake up. soon mollie and i will burst out the door and go running, but for now i’m wishing i’d tried to sleep another half hour. last nightwe stayed up very late for us, til midnight, watching “the madness of king...
Aug 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
besides carefully perusing all of bev’s AWARD-WINNING ENTRIES, kevin and i spent a lot of time looking at other stuff at the fair, too. first, the butter cow. why, i ask you, did kevin figure that this was a view of the cow that ANYONE WOULD EVER WANT TO...
Aug 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
first, i must show you bev’s AWARD-WINNING FAIR ENTRIES. second place whole wheat bread. the funny thing is, i think the night before she was going to bake the bread, she asked me if i had a good whole wheat bread recipe. THE NIGHT BEFORE SHE WAS GOING TO...
Aug 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
and i’m having trouble getting motivated. kevin went off to the shooting range bright and early, and i’m still sitting on the screened porch in my nightgown. i walked down to the dock, which took a lot of effort. the president of the gun club where they...
Aug 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
i keep taking pictures, but then i don’t sit down long enough to put them up here, so i’m trying to KEEP UP. here’s winnie, constantly trying his best to chill out. the lake was just so sparkly and glistening and beautiful on sunday morning. and here...
Aug 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today is my friend Erica’s birthday. she’s working at the fair, at the St. Johns booth in the Illinois building, so if you happen to be in the Illinois building buying honey ice cream, stop by and wish her a happy birthday! she’ll be the one with...
Aug 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
one count. the jury only found blago guilty on one count. it was nauseating to hear him blather afterwards about he isn’t guilty, justice will prevail, etc etc etc. we’ll just have to grit our teeth and wait. they will get him, but it’ll take...
Aug 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
you may or may not recall that my friend bev is crazy about entering stuff in the state fair. she used to stick to baked goods and other foodstuffs, but then she branched out into other things, like collections of…i can’t remember the collections she says...
Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
here’s kevin’s reply to my crazy middle of the night but actually very early morning rant: boat covered – check daylillies watered – check ducks fed – check goose fed – check mollie fed – check winnie fed – check coffee drunk – check garbage out – check...
Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
i finally got out of bed after lying there since four. i groped around in the dark looking for my earplugs because both mollie and kevin were snoring, and then i finally broke down and turned on the light but all i found were THOUSANDS OF KLEENEXES under the head of...
Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
on sunday we went to the mackinaw winery, which is between bloomington and peoria. i’d never heard about this winery. kevin wanted to go as part of his ongoing BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. some people from the 10th IL cavalry were there, “performing.” it...
Aug 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
a boat just zoomed by. wait, now i think i hear another one, or maybe it’s the same one, running in circles. so that guy, or those guys, got up earlier than me, and theoretically they did it because they wanted to. i wonder if they’ll take a nap later...
Aug 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
since it’s now 3:59 a.m., i guess it’s maybe technically more like really really early morning. i know that there are crazy people out there who get up at four a.m. i thought i saw the lights of a boat going by about 15 minutes ago, so i got up to see,...
Aug 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
i thought i’d captured footage of the dogs barking like crazy and crawling all over randy, but alas, i finally actually looked at the video and there was nothing exciting in it. i said a couple times in the video “here’s some birthday mayhem”...
Aug 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
so in between playing YOU DON’T KNOW JACK and getting ice cream, kevin and i did go down to the dock at least once. a storm was rolling in… what a great tie-dyed t-shirt, huh? i bought it for kevin at the fancy farmers’ market in kenosha when...
Aug 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
i know you’ve been clicking here obsessively, hoping to see pictures of kevin’s big birthday celebration. there are some photos, plus a video, but i only have time for the very first one right now. we started the evening at la fiesta, where the guys...
Aug 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
happy birthday to you! this is kevin, after he shaved off his goatee. i got the feeling he wasn’t so crazy about doing that. but it was for a good cause – he, randy, david, and our friend rick got to do a photo shoot for some political campaign. david...
Jul 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
but meanwhile, i’ve been very very busy all week which is why i haven’t posted anything here. first – CAMPING. we left last friday morning, and mollie was very excited to go with us on our drive to wisconsin. i had obsessively researched everything...
Jul 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
i found a website about poison ivy that’s worth reading. You can link to it here: EVERYTHING POISON IVY!, and it’s chock full of everything poison ivy. let me say this – CHOCK FULL. there are different categories like “from the medicine...
Jul 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
the wren that fell out of the house and kevin rescued has survived, and suddenly the wrens are out hopping and flying around. this is the first picture i took; it was hard to be quick enough to capture it before it zipped away. they’re just so cute and fuzzy....
Jul 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
that’s mostly what i’ve felt like doing lately. no, it’s not because i watched a few minutes of the bloody, f-word every two seconds for “shock” value, derogatory scenes of women being tied up and burned etc and a guy chewing a big hole...
Jul 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
i haven’t been writing on here mostly because i’ve been obsessively editing editing editing my scotland videos. i’m working on #5 right now, although i think it’s going to have to be 5 & 6 because it’s just so long. i was trying to...
Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
the other evening, around five o’clock, kevin said “grace, come out and see this…” there were two deer in the front yard, stopping by for a visit. they didn’t stay long… and they left, heading next door to make their way down the...
Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
last year i had people over for holiday festivities and it rained all the livelong day. we sat around in the screened porch and watched the rain, went down to look at the waterlogged boat, and finally drove over to the DAV to watch the fireworks. it was so rainy and...
Jul 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
whew. we’re having some people over today for a cookout/boat ride to see fireworks, and i cleaned and cleaned and cleaned the filthy house yesterday and the day before. today it didn’t seem that i had much to do – a sugar-free chocolate cake for...
Jul 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s going to be a crazy holiday weekend. last night we got home from muni and were sitting on the deck – tons of boats were going by, at 11:30. i looked out at one and they were still out there. this morning before eight i was still in bed and a really...
Jul 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
kevin and i have to leave momentarily to go volunteer at muni. all night, we’ll be slaving in the concession bldg, filling thousands of boxes of popcorn, wrapping hot dogs and pulled pork…but i get a DELICIOUS MUNI DOG! this morning i said to myself YOU...
Jul 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
lori ann sent me this on her phone, and i tried to color-correct it as much as i could. you get the idea…she’s going to be VERY VERY SCARY! ok then, friday grace.
Jul 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
the village people…watch it for a few seconds and the picture will get brighter (because my sister amy cleverly turned on the lights!) i wonder if youtube will take this away because they’re playing ymca. we’ll see. ok then, still friday afternoon...
