Apr 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Let me just start by saying that this story has a good ending…however, I started writing it on Monday April 3rd and I feel like I haven’t sat down since then. This is ridiculous, of course – I have done plenty of sitting, but haven’t managed to...
Mar 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
OK then, first day of spring and I’m having a serious problem trying to get off the couch. I woke up early, planning on getting so much done…and now it’s almost noon and not much accomplished so far. I’m going to go for a job pretty soon but...
Mar 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Friday Feb. 24th, it was nice to wake up with nothing electric car-related to obsess about. Mom wanted to take a boat ride and they had ones leaving from the aquarium near the Publix where we’d fueled our car, so I booked the hour-long dolphin cruise. We’d...
Mar 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
On Thursday Feb. 23rd, Mom and I drove to Lakeland to visit her cousin Barb. Barb is such a sweet and lovely person, and we were so happy to spend some time with her. First we drove to the Tampa airport to exchange our electric car. When we got there, so many people...
Mar 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Here’s a very quick video of our Air B&B in Clearwater Beach. I took this before we went to dinner, and before I’d strewn my stuff all over the place. I was clearly exhausted when I took the video because at the end I dropped the F bomb, something I...
Mar 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mom and I walked down the very very long walkway to the Ringling mansion which was huge and ornate. Mom sat on a bench to catch her breath while I darted around trying to figure out where the entrance was. Here’s a short video of the front of the place. I ran...
Mar 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
As I wrote previously, the Ringling Museum was a five-minute drive from the Sarasota Airport, so after I figured to put the electric car in drive, we headed right over. Since Ringling had made his fortune while abusing animals for so many years, that aspect of it made...
Mar 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Last Monday, February 20th, Mom and I headed down to St. Louis to spend the night and fly out to Florida on Tuesday morning. It was a make up trip since Mom hadn’t been able to go to NYC with me in January. We stayed in the Pear Tree Inn right across from the...
Feb 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mom turns eighty seven today! She didn’t used to want people to know her age but now now she’s loud and proud! I guess she’s always been loud. Yesterday afternoon Mom and I got back from a quick trip down to Florida. We went to make up for her not...
Feb 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
This was actually the end of December, when Mom was staying with us after being run over in the Kohl’s parking lot. We decided it’d be easier to care for her cat Hobbs if Hobbs was here with our crowd of kitties. Also, once you have half a dozen cats (plus...
Feb 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our flight home from NYC wasn’t til 3:30 in the afternoon on Friday Jan. 20th so we had plenty of time to do some final things before leaving. Well, plenty of time isn’t necessarily the right word. We had some time, anyway, and I really wanted to go to...
Feb 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Thursday, Jan.19th it rained on us most of the day in New York. Whenever I’m in NYC I spend too much time walking walking walking and when it’s raining the walking is not so enjoyable. But this time Randy and I did manage to stay dry and inside for quite a...
Feb 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Wed. Jan 18th, after spending quite a bit of time at the Statue of Liberty, Randy and I walked up to the 9/11 Memorial Pools. Just walking up to them makes me choke up. The new world trade center. We took the subway uptown a ways, stopping at the cool relatively new...
Feb 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Wednesday January 18th – I’d been obsessively looking at the weather (I actually always obsessively check the weather) and knew it was going to rain on Thursday, our last full day in New York, so I wanted to cram as much outside stuff as possible into...
Feb 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our trip to NYC on January 17th started out on such a high note, with an easy drive to the St. Louis Airport and then the crazy only 40 people on the plane and exiting the airport and getting into a cab out of the newly-refurbished La Guardia Airport. When Mom and I...
Jan 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Yes, I realize the month is half over. Never mind, I wasn’t able to complete that thought above and suddenly it’s the end of January. I feel like I haven’t had the time to sit down for most of the month, but surely I’m mistaken. But crazy,...
Dec 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
I guess that overall the year has been ok, except for not taking any trips (that I recall) and many constant cat issues and the whole gallbladder malarkey. But good lord… The last time I wrote here was December 18th. The next day I finished putting up all my...
Dec 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’ve never felt as happy about a negative test result. Yesterday morning when I decided to test myself I was pretty sure I was still positive so it was awesome to see that I wasn’t. Kevin started feeling crummy on Monday evening, tested positive on Tuesday...
Dec 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s been almost three years since the world found out about Covid and I felt I was taking pleny of precautions. It was strange to not even get a cold in all that time. Last Tuesday, Dec. 6th, my friend Randy and I went to breakfast and he helped me pick out...
Nov 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
We took my boat out of the water on October 29th and there were many white pelicans lined up on the seawall at the beach house. Ha ha, taking my boat out has never before seemed like such a breeze. Motoring over, simple. Steering it up to the trailer, no problem....
Nov 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Marley continues to flourish even though she’s quarantined to her bedroom because of the wild cat Pumpkin. Well, he’s not so wild now, as a matter of fact, right now as I type he’s stretched out on the chair opposite me, sleeping peacefully as...
Nov 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
I just might not get back to photos from summer as fall continues to roar ahead as it does. It actually felt like summer yesterday, reaching the 70s in the afternoon. I spent as much time as possible outside, including going for a jog wearing shorts and a t shirt and...
Nov 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’m hoping Bev has a lovely birthday today…
Oct 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Last year we didn’t get Kevin’s sailboat out of the water til after November 1st and were shocked to find that the boat docks had been taken out of the water and set up on the boat ramps, so we couldn’t take his boat out at the sailboat launch, which...
Oct 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
So, June, so long ago…my sister Amy and our friend Amy joined me for a boat ride on June 11th, five days after my hospital release. My sister Amy hasn’t been on a boat ride with me since, which shows you just how momentous this occasion was. She massively...
Oct 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
I wanted to go with Mom to see her friend Mick come home from his Lincoln Honor Flight on June 14th but he wasn’t going to get back to Springfield til pretty late at night so I decided not to go. I’ve known Mick ever since I can rememeber – he and...
Sep 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Yes, September is almost gone, and here are a few photos from waaaay back in June. June 1st, I wanted a photo of this crazy tall yucca plant…it’s almost as tall as Kevin! None at the shore have ever gotten that high. Spot was happy to be in the picture....
Sep 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Why? How? I was looking at my May photos and I have a group that I processes on Photoshop but I can’t find them anywhere so I guess I didn’t manage to post them here yet. Whew. I’m happy to have time to sit down right now on this very very muggy and...
Sep 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
The day after seeing “Moulin Rouge,” Mom and I were supposed to take the train home at 12:30 the next day, Thursday, May 12th. I actually saw this little sign the day before, and thought it was cool because it depicted how Chicago used to look in 1779....
Sep 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
I don’t remember how, but we managed to get a cab to the theater to see Moulin Rouge. We were there pretty early and I was so excited! Several years ago I went to New York with Bev to visit her daughter Erin and we had the pleasure of seeing Erin’s friend...
