Jul 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
i wish there was a way to better order the lineup of videos here on my site. hopefully now if you click on it, though, the first cake video will come up, instead of the second one. they both look the same at the beginning, except one says “part one” and...
Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s actually two videos now, because it was too long for youtube. isn’t there a way to get a longer video up here somehow? please let me know. anyway, please HURRY RIGHT UP and click on the videos over there on the right of the screen. BE SURE TO CLICK...
Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
i have this slick, cool, lightweight, fabulous new camcorder, that takes beautiful images, so please CLICK ON THE BUTTON THAT SAYS TO WATCH THEM IN HD. the picture is noticeably better.
Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
we took it in a couple weeks ago and they said it would be ready in three to five days, but they didn’t call and finally kevin called yesterday morning and IT WAS READY! we were so happy, and drove right over to pick it up. i looked at the work order and it...
Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
here are photos from the labor-intensive, crazy CRAZY time-consuming wedding-type birthday cake i made for randy. first, i made the four layers, filled and frosted them. i bought a new 16″ pan because for my wedding cake i had a 6, 9, 12, 14 inch pan, and the...
Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
i spent much of the day sitting here in front of the computer, fixing a couple of little glitches in the videos i made, then trying in vain to upload one of them to you tube. it WOULD NOT LET ME because the video was over 10 minutes. i don’t understand this,...
Jun 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
i now make a FULL AND COMPLETE APOLOGY for being so remiss in writing on here. there has been so much to write about, but i have been deeply entrenched in getting ready for RANDY’S 50TH BIRTHDAY PARTY. it was last night. somehow i survived it. i effortlessly...
Jun 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
sunday morning, lots and lots of geese and goslings in the yard. i went out at about 7:30. here are lots of photos, and then, later, i’ll post the video i took. noodle and numie, trapped inside the fence, not able to chase the geese. see numie in the hot tub...
Jun 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
this is only part of the LOTS OF PHOTOS i have to put up here. i’ll save many many photos of geese for later. i told mom i WOULD NOT POST this photo of her. i took it last saturday when we were visiting kevin when he was doing the encampment at the old state...
Jun 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
i just re-read this posting from february 13th, 2009. there was a spam comment attached to it so i had to go to the posting to see the comment, which was, indeed spam, but then i read the whole thing that was written that day – kevin was telling the story of...
Jun 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
a belated happy birthday, that is. for jim’s birthday we had german chocolate cake. it was quite delicious and of course i kept eating it after i’d finished my piece – i was sitting right next to the cake and kept cutting little slivers off with my...
Jun 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
last night we went to the sangamon auditorium, a mere five minutes away, and listened to the amazing band BEAUSOLEIL. they’re a cajun band and they’ve been around a long long time – since 1975 – and they’re world-renown. i hadn’t...
Jun 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s almost ten on saturday morning, and i’ve mostly just been sitting on the couch ever since i got up at 7:30. kevin and i did concessions at the opening night of “seussical” last night, filling lots of popcorn boxes, wrapping hot dogs,...
Jun 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
not by me, of course. i went with kevin to the shooting range so he could try out his new flintlock rifle that a guy in the 114th custom-made for him. it looks very fancy, and very authentic. this is the flint part of the gun. you pour the…powder…down...
Jun 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
as i figured, i started thinking about at least two VERY VERY CRITICAL THINGS when i got back into bed early this morning. i can’t remember the one, but the other thing is that the mosquitoes have been feasting, FEASTING on my legs, my arms, i even got a...
Jun 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
on sunday some guy who was at one of the many HS graduation things that i attended all weekend long was going on about how beautiful it had been at 5:30 that morning when he’d woken up and he had to go outside because of all the beauty and he just stayed out and...
Jun 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
the other day i shot two videos of feeding the geese in the water, and i spent a ridiculous amount of the day today trying to upload one of them onto youtube and it DID NOT WORK, over and over again, no matter what i tried. so here’s the second video. ...
Jun 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
our neighbor rich is 82 years old. well, not quite – he’s going to be 82 on July 6th. he was born in 1928. he’s tall – six feet one – and thin – 175 pounds. his middle name is Charles. he isn’t on any medication, for...
May 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
i’m sitting here out on the deck and there aren’t so many boats going by anymore and it’s calm and peaceful and absolutely perfect outside. just think if it could be like this all year round… the great thing is that it feels like the middle of...
May 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
last night at about 9:30 kevin and i were sitting on the couch watching tv. we do this too much and must go out and seek more exciting things to do, but on the other hand it’s nice to sit after a day of standing. kevin, though, was falling asleep in a big...
May 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
we had TORRENTIAL RAIN and a HUGE FLOOD yesterday afternoon. streets were like lakes, traffic was a snarled mess, cars were floating away, raw sewage was bubbling up out of the sinks at the local tv station (they kept playing that footage over and over)…and we...
May 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
kevin replaced the fuel pump on the boat and it appeared to be working… but actually, it’s still not working right. he then replaced the fuel line and still no dice. i asked him what his motor-fixing plan is now and he’s says it’s pricing new...
May 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
i’ve had three of them thus far. they’re not the regular kind you get at the store, the kind in the little milk cartons; these are from pease’s candy, and they have an ultra-thick delicious chocolate coating and they’re pretty much the perfect...
May 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
for some reason i didn’t want to write that. i don’t know why. i’m just like that sometimes. so far mom has taken me to get a pedicure and i told the nail woman that it was my birthday so she painted little diamond flowers on both big toes. my big...
May 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
last night i went to patrick and gina’s lovely wedding, and there were many, many people at the reception and i even talked to some of them. i chatted with phil funkenbusch for a while – i’ve written about my friend phil before; he’s the...
May 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
plus here’s a picture of kevin at the shooting place in his civil war duds. i’ve decided that instead of apologizing for having so many geese photos, i should just go ahead and EMBRACE THE GEESE. not literally of course because they wouldn’t like...
May 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
whew, i can sleep easy now. i heard a noise and clicked onto the screen just as the loon was struggling back up on the nesting platform. it turned one of the eggs over and snuggled in for the night. funny, but while i was watching the loon, winnie was sitting here...
May 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s 11:04 p.m., i should definitely be in bed, but i can’t stop watching the loon cam. a while ago it was just showing this clump of vegetation, and it didn’t look quite right somehow. there was no loon in sight. i was doing other things online...
May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
do you ever think about sleep, and how weird it is, that you’re just lying there for (hopefully) hours on end, and it’s such a nice thing, but you’re unconscious? as you can see i’m feeling extremely profound this morning. at about five, winnie...
May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
winnie is here next to me fast asleep…mollie is snoring gently in her bed on the floor…and i CANNOT SEEM TO SHUT THE STUPID COMPUTER. i’m annoying myself now. kevin made it almost to FORT SHENANDOAH; he called throughout the day, and finally called...
