Sep 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
I was looking forward to being so efficient about posting the rest of the photos from way back in May, but it was a busy week last week. I was power washing and staining our big dock which of course took much longer than I thought it would. I also power-washed half of...
Sep 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
On Wed. May 11th Mom and I had the whole day in Chicago and no plans . The hotel had a huge breakfast buffet and I went downstairs and loaded up stuff to take back to our suite. I’m looking at all the food now and am amazed that I didn’t spill all that and...
Aug 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Gee, this is May 7th, as poor little Pumpkin was recovering from his eye surgery. Here he was lying on me upstairs in what used to be his bedroom, where he spent all his time while healing. He never lies on me anymore. He has recovered well from the surgery and we...
Aug 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
That’s the sound of summer, suddenly racing away and I can’t believe it’s already the end of August. Because of the many annoying medical things I’ve encountered in the past few months I sort of feel like it hasn’t been a great summer,...
Jul 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Well, so much happened after we got back from Seattle in April, but this is all I have for the rest of April – first, Spot so happy to follow me over to Mom’s house, and he would have gone right into her house if I’d let him. I was just not thinking...
Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
I finished posting that post and looked at my e-mails and there’s a copyright claim on both pieces of music that Michio played. At least now I don’t have to worry about looking up the one piece, it’s “Romance,” and the copyright owner is...
Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Finally, finally, here are the last images and videos of the trip that Mom and I took to Seattle in April. Three months later, and this is it. Monday April 18th I went for one final run, and this time it was chilly and rainy. This seagull didn’t mind. It was...
Jul 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
I started the morning with a run. Well, first I took a bunch of pictures/videos because the mountains were out for the first time. And so beautiful… I started my run so very early for me, before 10 a.m. The marina was full of sailboats going out and some were...
Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Look at this cool swan!!! Isn’t it fabulous? Here’s what they said about it on their site: On Thursday, July 7, the Museum welcomed Her Excellency Lone Dencker Wisborg, Ambassador of Denmark to the United States to Osberg Hall to celebrate the arrival of...
Jul 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
In my last post, I had many photos/videos of the many sailboats I saw while running alongside the marina in Seattle on Sat. April 16th. That afternoon, Mom, dearly departed Stan and I drove around to look at many sights he wanted to show us, and ended up at the...
Jun 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
I just counted the number of videos I took on Saturday April 16th while jogging along the Shilshole Bay Marina waterfront in Seattle. Thirty! C’mon, Grace, what’s wrong with you? I can’t imagine that I managed to maintain a challenging heart rate...
Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
After realizing yesterday that my spring banner was out of date, I managed to create a new one. But that picture of the Seattle mountains was sure pretty.
Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Tuesday morning I woke up feeling so much myself again with boundless energy. I’d been so drained that I’d forgotten how good it feels to feel good. I went to the grocery store for the first time this month and scampered around outside in the garden area,...
Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
After posting that last entry I looked at that lovely picture of the mountains on the banner and was dismayed to suddenly realize it still says SPRING. I know that summer just officially started yesterday but it feels like it’s already whooshing past. Hopefully...
Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
On the afternoon of April 15th we drove to the BallardLocks, and once again, so many photos and videos…but I narrowed them right down. It was a cool place. It’s called the Ballard Locks because it’s in the Ballard section of Seattle, but the official...
Jun 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Finally, here are a few snippets from the trip to Seattle that Mom and I took waaaaay back in April, back when I still had a gallbladder… On April 15th we were out on our patio talking to our lovely air b&b host, Leah, and there were so many paddle-boarders...
Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
I had to check my calendar to see that it is, indeed, Friday, because things are still a little fuzzy in my brain. I’m doing better today, got some sleep last night, and I think I’m going to try a little light weeding in a while because it’s cool and...
Jun 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
I wrote the stuff below last week and I can’t for the life of me remember when I wrote it. I know I wrote about Stan dying on June 1st, and all the hospital horrors started the next evening, so I’m pretty sure I wrote this stuff on that very day. So...
Jun 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
As I’ve mentioned, Mom and I went to Seattle in April to visit her Mom’s high school sweetheart, Stan Orr. Stan was from Springfield and they’d gone to Springfield High together. He’d been in very bad shape for quite some time and had almost...
May 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
I started out at the crack of 11:00 in the morning on Thursday April 14th, and it was a beautiful morning. Here’s the lovely additional deck at our air B&B. I took too many videos, surprise surprise, but this one shows the view of our neighborhood. It was a...
May 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
On our first day in Seattle, Wednesday, April 13th, we awoke to this grand view. The Olympic mountains were beyond the shore out there but we didn’t see them til Sunday. It was awesome to look out at the water, with many kinds of boats going to and fro all day....
Apr 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
As I mentioned previously (or maybe I didn’t), I’m slightly (or maybe more than that) overwhelmed by the huge number of videos/photos I took of Mom and my trip to Seattle earlier in the month. This morning I decided to start with a couple of pictures and...
Apr 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ok then…first, Pumpkin’s ulcer quickly turned into something called a Corneal Sequestrum. It showed up on April 8th, just six days after the ulcer had formed. It’s basically a hole in the cornea, and it’s so uncommon that our vet had to get out...
Apr 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
…and the most important thing is that there was a Harley sighting!!! Last Sunday I spent a great deal of time creating an eye-catching lost cat flyer and changing it around a lot making many copies. Doing this made me feel that at least I was doing something...
Mar 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
It has been a crazy month. Hard to believe that April is almost here. On February 18th I wrote about our attempts to capture one of Wanda’s outdoor kitties, Harley. His brother, Pumpkin, had been successfully taken to live out in the country with Nancy, who had...
Mar 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
…Plus, There have been 1,276 of my cheesecake video on YouTube already. Crazy! Meanwhile, I can’t believe it’s March, and there were so many inside things I’d planned on accomplishing during the winter. Oh well. Here’s lots of birds out...
Feb 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’ve posted many, many videos on youtube over the years, hundreds of them I’m sure. I posted lots and lots of videos about our different trips, multiple accounts of hiking in Wales, Sailing on the Queen Mary to England, taking the train to Glacier, biking...
Feb 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Mom turned 86 yesterday and we celebrated with a small but fun gathering. So…I always make a meal when having people over. One time Kevin grilled some delicious chicken, and hopefully he’ll do that again when the weather is nice, but mostly it’s me,...
Feb 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
…has had so much cat activity. In addition to now having five inside cats plus two outside , we are endeavoring to catch one of Wanda’s two outside cats, Harley. Harley and his brother Pumpkin came to Wanda’s when they were tiny kittens. Their mom...
Feb 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Kevin took this video on November 19th…quite a surprise to see who was hanging out with whom! Les Paul loves everybody, and they love him right back. Ok then, Mrs. Finally Finishing up November...
