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...
Feb 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
They say we got about a foot of snow starting Tuesday night and ending yesterday afternoon. Not just a lot of snow, but blowing and drifting and I really just don’t care for snow. Yeah yeah yeah it’s lovely to look at but I’d be happy to see a photo...
Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Hmm, I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this kitty enclosure before…this is how it started out on November 14th. Kevin put clear plastic around the legs of an outdoor table and boards on top of it, plus cushions inside. That, together with the old red...
Jan 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Spot and I spent many evenings enjoying the lake from the dock. Here we are on November 4th. The trees on November 8th as I went for a run. Two days later they were so vibrant. And they looked even more so by the 11th! At 4:30 that afternoon, Spot and I watched a...
Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Wednesday, November 10th, we successfully got Kevin’s sailboat out of the water, but before that we made many many phone calls to try to figure out how to get it out. The reason that the ramp at the Vachel Lindsay Sailboat Launch is so steep is so that the keel,...
Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Tuesday, November 9th, we prepared to haul my pontoon boat out of the water. Mom and I headed over to the sailboat launch, but were surprised to find… The dock was gone! Well, not gone, but moved out of the water and it was sitting right in the middle of the...
Jan 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
We kept our boats in the water longer than we’d ever done and didn’t start taking them out til Monday November 8th. We’d taken all the boats to the fairgrounds in New Berlin to be stored, but last year we bought the fancy Navigloo boat cover for my...
Jan 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
After breakfast at the lodge we headed out for another hike, but first I took a picture of these incredibly cute elf bushes. Such a clever idea, I bet I could do that next year but there’s little chance I’ll remember it by then. Our first stop was Wildcat...
Jan 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
After our lovely hike on Dec. 8th, we enjoyed dinner at the Starved Rock dining room. The giant fireplace was decorated for Xmas. I had…beef something, with mushrooms, and Kevin had pot roast. All was delicious, and once again hardly any others were in the...
Jan 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
After lunch in the dining room, we headed out for St. Louis Canyon at Starved Rock at about 2:30 in the afternoon. It was cold, in the 20s, but the sun was shining which was great. It was funny to start out on this trail which we’d done a few times before,...
Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
On December 8th we spent the night at Starved Rock State Park. Just one night, but it was incredible to get out of town, something we hadn’t done since our trip to Glacier in September of 2019. Yeah, a very long time. I’d booked the overnight to Starved...
Jan 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Boy. Re: the new year, no postings, lack of sleep, etc etc etc. When I finally opened my laptop this morning to possibly write a new post, I looked at the latest one and realized that the banner still says “fall 2021.” So, not so great. Must get to work on...
Dec 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
First of all…I have no business sitting here on the couch but I’m trying to give myself a break. The most important thing is that Kevin somehow managed to get everything on the porch plugged in so now the blowup Minion and snowman are happily bogging...
Dec 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Yeah. Six. Not many. I woke up earlier than I wanted to this morning because my mind was exploding a little bit about all the stuff I have to get done this week. I’ve been blearily sitting here on the couch for a while now, trying to organize my thoughts about...
Dec 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
…Really??? How did that happen? Now it’s the first of December, and I’ve been MIA on here for much too long. I haven’t been lolling around eating bon bons, much as I’d have liked to, but instead I feel like I’ve been doing so many...
Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
When Spot and I sit down at the dock I end up taking so many pictures, and on this day, Oct. 14th, quite a few pelicans were paddling around. These two caught my eye. My favorite photo, a two-headed pelican. …and then they swam apart… … Spot and I...
