skier!

i was wondering what i’d take pictures of around here, now that the snow geese seem to be gone, as well as most of the other geese.  but then we were outside and THERE WAS A SKIER! ok, so, sure, it’s warm and incredibly wonderfully warm today…but i...

and…more pelicans!

in celebration of the fact that it’s going to be in the SIXTIES today, here are some more photos of key largo. here’s yet another view of the water, taken from the edge of the property.  it reminds me of gilligan’s island for some reason. have i...

tuesday

ok, i changed that banner – this is the picture i wanted to use, but i’d just have to cut too much of it off to make it nice and long.  kevin took this picture with his phone and he’s using it for his screen background on his computer and it’s...

p.s.

i realize it’s time for a new banner – it’s WAY PAST february now.  must get right on that…

oh, james

what is james cameron’s mood this morning?  what did he do last night, after getting shut out of the oscars, after his ex-wife won for both best director and best picture?  did he get really drunk?  did he go home and cry, or did he smash things? i’m...

oh, the photos

i haven’t been writing because i’ve been in florida.  key largo, to be exact.  we left monday morning and got back late last night, and i took SO MANY PHOTOS.  a RIDICULOUS amount of photos, and i have to look at them and do all the stuff with them so i...

olympics fever

last night i heard a brief mention about the funding for the olympics, how the canadians spent more money on them in the years leading up to their hosting, and how that resulted in a whole lot of medals.  i couldn’t remember the specifics about it, so i found an...

red red red

here are the pieces of red that i painted…and painted…and painted.  it didn’t seem that they’d take that long, but it took longer and longer.  first they had to be painted with the gray primer, and then the red…and more red.  Floorboards,...

geese geese geese

they look so cool out there on the lake that i just want to keep taking pictures. there they are, way out in the middle.  for some reason they prefer that far shoreline to this one. it’s so cool and is such a loud sound when they take off, so i tried to capture...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

i called her yesterday morning and sang “happy day before your birthday to you” to get a headstart on the celebrations.  we’re not officially doing anything for her birthday till sunday, when amy is graciously fixing a fabulous birthday meal. on...

BIG TIME WINNER!!!!

i checked the jury website this morning at 11:15 – no jury service this afternoon! i just checked again for tomorrow and the announcement just said YOUR JURY SERVICE IS COMPLETE.  YOU ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO PHONE IN OR CHECK THIS WEBSITE. nice.  if only...

THREE-TIME WINNER!

…of the NOT GOING TO JURY DUTY LOTTERY!!!!! a couple months ago i got a notification for jury duty, and hoped that i wouldn’t actually be called.  but then, i got the letter…today was my FIRST OFFICIAL JURY DUTY DAY. i had to go to the jury website...

well…avatar, finally.

well…it was long.  a very long movie. very long. i was prepared, though – i didn’t drink ANYTHING for a few hours beforehand.  didn’t have to go to the bathroom for the whole three hours. the blue people didn’t annoy me nearly as much as...

bathroom work work work

i was going to wait till the bathroom was all done to post some photos, but i just can’t wait.  i’ve posted a couple of photos, but here’s what the bathroom looked like after kevin took down the big mirror and was dismantling the sink. note the...

birds! geese! plus more! all on saturday…

we were supposed to have snow last night, but instead it was warm.  today it reached somewhere in the 40’s, which made everybody happy. me?  i just can’t stop taking pictures. mr. woodpecker has an extremely flexible neck. i took some pictures of the geese...

other things going on…

yesterday, what with the new window installation and the report of the norwegian cross-country skiier’s HUGE, CONCRETE-LIKE THIGHS, i found myself with no free time to post the pictures i took yesterday morning, which seems like a very long time ago now. first,...

drama of our own!

there is a large hole in our bathroom wall.  time is running out.  there’s a 70 percent chance of rain at 5:00 today. kevin decided to go ahead and replace the bathroom window today before putting in the new sink, because the sink goes right under the window and...

HUGE, CONCRETE-LIKE THIGHS…

Norway’s marit bjoergen just won her second cross-country gold medal…but not before, during the race, the tv announcer said MARIT’S HUGE, CONCRETE-LIKE THIGHS are powering her up the hill… i can only hope marit’s english isn’t so...

DUCK CAKE!

my friend gary made an awesome duck cake and sent me a photo…he sent me the photo in JANUARY, and what, exactly have i been so busy with that i didn’t even have time to open the photo?  what, i ask you?  playing freerice.com?  breaking the old one then...

NEW CAMERA! plus RACCOON BONANZA!

it arrived yesterday afternoon at about 2:30 and i had just an hour and a half to figure it all out before my massage clients showed up at 4:00.  i knew that by the time they left it’d be 6:00 and therefore dark so if i was going to take photos outside, i had to...

a really cute mollie photo…

i was awake at 2:00 a.m., for a while, and among the other thoughts swirling around in my head suddenly was this one – I DIDN’T POST THAT CUTE PHOTO OF MOLLIE! how did i even think of that?  i’ve been posting so many photos lately, so what made me...

mr. raccoon returns on tuesday night…

i couldn’t resist taking a few (dozen) more photos despite my messed-up camera.  i put out some bread pieces and mr. raccoon seemed to like them a lot, but they were a little hard and he had to throw his head back to chomp on them. he was so close,  i could see...

MR. RACCOON!

…but who’s to say that he’s a he?  it could be a lady raccoon. i took gobs and gobs of pictures the night before last, and more last night.  the night before last, valentine’s night, it was snowing like crazy.  mollie slept so close to the...

WHY I CANNOT BE TRUSTED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES…

…when it comes to chocolate. because it’s just my nature, that’s why. the core of my being. i resisted on valentine’s day, then yesterday i ate a couple of little piece of chocolate lying around at randy’s house but i only ate one piece...

kevin smith’s big fat broohaha…

have you read about it?  i bet you have – kevin smith got on a southwest flight and tried to fly standby but he normally books two seats on a flight, but he couldn’t do that on standby, and some bonehead southwest person made the poor judgment call to make...

more from valentine’s day…

the beautiful flowers from kevin.. in anticipating of eating all of the chocolates that kevin gave me, plus any more i might receive from randy, i took mollie running yesterday morning even though the snow was pretty darn deep. i took some pictures but most of them...

valentine’s day!

i look forward to getting up in the morning and sitting down drinking my tea and looking out at the birds while reading the comics online. but this morning i got up and there were valentine packages on the dining room table, so i said LET’S OPEN OUR GIFTS NOW! ...

babysitting saturday

yesterday amy and jim went to see jim’s nephew takil in a wresting match – he won, and now he’s going to state!  whoo, takil! so i babysat numie and noodle, who were very good and extremely EXTREMELY excited about coming over.  numie was so excited...

red yellow and blue

while watching the olympic opening ceremony last night i wondered what countries might have red, yellow and blue flags.  because those are my new bathroom colors i figured that they must be the colors of some damn team, but then i figured they had to also be the...