Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
this morning at the last minute i decided to walk with mollie on the path we normally run, to meet up with kevin who would be coming home from class. i figured i’d bring the phone and take a couple of pictures… here’s the little stretch of road that...
Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
i haven’t been so pleased with this system, taking pictures one day and posting them the next. it feels like too much happens between one day and the next, and with my ever-shrinking memory it’s sometimes hard to remember exactly how things were JUST THE...
Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
my friend thad who live in D.C. just sent me a few photos of all that snow. this is what he had to say… Well… 30-35” of snowfall over the weekend and we still don’t have a call yet on how many inches hit us yesterday and today…still falling. However, we have now...
Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
yesterday afternoon i looked out the window and all the birds flew away, per usual. but one poor little bird remained. it was crouched over in the corner of the food tub. was it sick? injured? were we going to have to bring it in inside and feed it morsels of...
Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
the snow that fell on monday night was sparkly; it looked hollywood fancy sparkly movie snow. there was quite a bit of it. nothing like the mountains of snow out east – i can’t imagine actually going outside there. here, the birds were feasting as the snow...
Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
i woke up at one and laid there for a while. winnie jumped up on the bed and slept on my shoulder until i couldn’t stand the weight anymore, and then he slept next to me. at two i finally got up because i just wasn’t sleepy. i started obsessing about...
Feb 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
here’s mollie, after our run yesterday. we didn’t have to run today because it did start snowing last night, and then it snowed some more today. not as much as they predicted, but there were at about four or five inches on the ground, plus it was very...
Feb 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
yesterday i figured that i was already out of things to take pictures of, but then i looked out the window and there were a bunch of geese in the yard. when mollie and i went outside the geese started to saunter towards the lake, of course. that’s why all their...
Feb 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
i’ve been in a pretty good mood lately, nothing to worry about, and more importantly, nothing crazy in my head making me worry for no good reason. i’d even be so bold as to venture that my mood has actually been full-on good, not just pretty good. but...
Feb 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
i FINISHED THE PAINTING the bathroom. except, of course, i really didn’t. i thought i did, but then i looked at the room for the 100th time and realized that i forgot one side of one of the doors. but it’s mostly done; the main parts are done. done. i...
Feb 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
here’s what it looked like out the window on friday morning: the woodpecker clearly wasn’t intimidated by the projected HUGE SNOWSTORM. he didn’t mind a little rain. i ventured outside when the rain stopped. it was windy, but not that bad. this is...
Feb 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
there was a 100 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW! i mean, wouldn’t you agree that’s a pretty high percentage? but instead of snow, last night it rained, all night long. and this morning, more rain, then a short period of freezing rain which looked bad, but it...
Feb 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
some nice person named darla left me a comment saying that all those white geese weren’t gulls, they’re SNOW GEESE. i thought it was very nice of her to point this out to me, but since i don’t know darla i decided i’d better verify it with...
Feb 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
we took these photos with my phone on saturday night and i forgot to post them. we went to dinner at tim and gena’s, and they have three amazingly soft bunnies in addition to their lovely sparkly-teethed sweet and entertaining dog Shiloh. they let us hold the...
Feb 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
yesterday, furiously painting the bathroom, i came into the living room on my way to the basement to find a paint container. i looked out the window, and all the gulls in the world appeared to have landed on the lake. here’s what they looked like from the...
Feb 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
it was gray yesterday, but today the sun is out. there are still gobs of geese out on the lake right in front of the house, and down the way, but i’m not going to take any more pictures because we’re in the process of remodeling the bathroom and right...
Feb 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
someday, when we’re very very old, there will be a huge orange tree growing right out of the lake not too far off our shoreline. people will drive up in their fishing boats and their power boats and their pontoons and canoes and waverunners, plus in whatever...
Feb 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
if you’re a smith, BE CAREFUL! i’m talking to you, aunt sandy! as you may recall, dad fell and broke both wrists on dec. 30th. he had plates put in both wrists and now one of them is healing better than the other one. he’ll be in casts till late...
Jan 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
that exclamation point shouldn’t be necessary; since they snarfed down the cold vegetable pot pie lickety split, wouldn’t you think that of course starlings would eat blueberries? but here’s the thing – wouldn’t you assume that ALL birds...
Jan 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
and i’ve been up for about an hour and a half. it’s sunny today at least, although ridiculously cold – about 13, but i’m sure because it’s so windy it must feel like zero. yesterday, also cold plus cloudy, kevin walked to his music...
Jan 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
i just wanted to put a new, summer-themed banner up there. since i put up new banners less than once a month, i can get a little fuzzy on how exactly to upload a new one. i know that i need to upload a new one TWO TIMES somewhere in all the mass of files in my file...
Jan 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
luckily i didn’t decide to DEFINITELY START DIETING yesterday. because last night kevin and i attended a cooking class, ALL ABOUT TAPAS. the official title of the class was SPANISH TAPAS TONIGHT! it should have had a sub-heading – TONIGHT YOU WILL EAT...
Jan 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
that’s my problem. i should be MUCH MORE PESSIMISTIC, then i wouldn’t get my hopes up. because many times my hopes are DASHED upon the rocks. i got to the endodontist’s office by eight a.m. SHARP, a tooth assistant girl was just getting out of her...
Jan 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s going to be very early. if i had gotten some exercise today, maybe that would help me sleep, but the most exercise i got was taking gizmo for a 10-minute walk which mostly consisted of either standing around while he stood there and thought his deep gizmo...
Jan 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
i know it’s a very weird thing, but i’m looking forward to getting a root canal tomorrow morning at EIGHT A.M. this weekend i’ve been staying up very late reading, and then sleeping really late, so getting up at seven tomorrow to get to the root...
Jan 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
that’s all i’m going for here. haiti haiti haiti, then that guy wins in massachusetts…why doesn’t the media ever have big stories about how people have been trying to get health care passed since about 1912? literally? so, something to get...
Jan 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
maybe these guys should be in charge of the relief effort in haiti. i just watched a video clip of anderson pulling a bleeding kid away from a crowd of looters who were THROWING BRICKS DOWN ON PEOPLE. i can’t imagine the horror of having everything around you...
Jan 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
and what a friday it’s been. another freezing cold day, but this one was filled with all kinds of excitement…way way way too much excitement… we took dad to the doctor yesterday and they told him that he’d be having surgery on both wrists. ...
Jan 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
this morning it is gone, the paper plate and everything. i’m thinking that the raccoon took it back to his tree to heat it up in the microwave. the plate might actually be out there on the deck, but i’m not going out there yet because it’s only ONE...
Jan 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
dinner, part one: ok, for the moment let’s just ignore the fact that it only got up to 14 today and right now it’s seven with a wind chill of minus four, and it looks like it’s going to be like that forever, except for sunday when we’re going...
