Jul 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
I don’t think I’d ever seen Lovey being confident enough to sit on top of the kitty house, but there she was on June 15th looking very confident. But then, aha! Riley spotted her up there. He trotted right over as Lovey eyed him suspiciously…...
Jul 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s nearing the end of July, and I just got my second wasp sting of the summer. This morning I was trying to rotate a big planter/bench that’s on our back deck off the bedroom. Dad planted coral bells in the planter, and the ones at the end gets more sun...
Jul 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
I realize that this photo is up above in the banner, but really, it’s one of my favorites. One of the first nighttime photos with my new phone. I might even print it out and frame it. Many things have been going on around here, mostly cat-related. More on that...
Jul 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
June 11th, to be exact. I was up pretty early (for me), enjoying the morning and the darling kitties who were also enjoying the morning. It’s usually Lester who is posing for the camera while Riley sprints away, but here Riley stopped for a minute. Lilies are so...
Jul 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
I lived through my surgery, yay for that! Gee, it’s been way over a week since it happened. Much has happened, but not so much. First – two days before my surgery, June 22nd, Les Paul and Riley were on top of their cat house and suddenly there was...
Jun 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Jeez, where has the month gone? Well, oing yard work. Lots of yard work. It’s 6:18 a.m. right now and we have to leave at 7:30 for my torn meniscus surgery. It’s so lovely and quiet at this time of day, but I doubt that will make me get up this early on a...
Jun 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Don’t be dumb, that’s me talking to me. You can do whatever you want, but I, personally, I’m trying like crazy to not be dumb. So far it’s not working out super great. It’s all about my dumb knee and how I keep doing things that make it...
Jun 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
A good moon photo! I’m excited to take more moon photos with this new phone. Sunday May 30th we had a little get-together for my birthday and then we sat down by the water where it was chilly! This is funny because that was only nine days ago and it’s...
Jun 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
It suddenly got super hot around here but it cools off at night which is great. I have photos from the end of May, but these are mostly from May 22nd, after Kevin and I took that lovely kayak trip. We need to do that again soon. Anyway, that afternoon I babysat the...
May 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
How did that happen? It felt like mid-summer with temps soaring high into the 80s but it’s suddenly cooling off a bit, now that June is almost upon us. On May 20th we were down at the dock and a goose sauntered by… Lester, always so happy…...
May 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
I woke up at 5:50 this morning, and without my glasses on I could just make out the rising sun and decided to get up and go outside and look at it. Because it’s my birthday, I thought it would be a good idea. The air was crisp and fresh and the kitties joined me...
May 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
May 2nd, the first family of geese! I think there were about 10 babies. Kevin and I took a wonderful kayak ride that morning. I don’t know why I didn’t take pictures during our trip; we paddled all the way to the end of Long Bay, one of my favorite spots...
May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last Saturday, May 8th, it occurred to me that Kevin and I had taken part in what I decided was a biathlon that I’m sure nobody else on the planet did. We’ve created a new type of biathlon! It won’t be in time for the Olympics this year which is just...
May 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
I was so excited to get my new iphone a couple of weeks ago. I had a 6s+, which was about four years old and had started randomly shutting off for no reason, plus, of course, the new phones has cameras that are light-years better. Or so I hoped… Here’s my...
Apr 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Ok, “excitement” might be stretching it a bit. Or maybe a lot. But I happened to see a great italian greyhound door mat on facebook and had to buy it for Amy and Jim. Maybe it’s a regular greyhound but I didn’t care because it’s so cute....
Apr 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Amidst all the anxiety, frustration, fear of the unknown and of what tomorrow will bring and general crappiness that started last year with our new Pandemic Reality, there has been one happy thing that’s stood out for me- my nightly conversations with my friend...
Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
The day after Easter I drove past this grand house in Laketown. It’s always fully decked out for any and every holiday, but I thought this Easter decor was above and beyond, maybe because not so many people decorate do much for this holiday. The daffodils were...
Apr 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last Saturday morning, April 3rd, Lovely bravely ventured out in the fenced yard. She’d done this with Kevin, but last Saturday she was so eager to get out that when I opened the door she screwed up all her courage to rush past me outside. She was delighted to...
Apr 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
A couple of days before I felt like fainting and had to go to the ER, Amy dropped a glass pie pan and it shattered. She swept it up, but felt like there was a shard of glass in the sole of her foot. She tried to dig it out, to no avail, so the next morning, March...
Apr 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
It was so chilly on Thursday, with temps in the 40s and strong winds blowing. It’s continues to warm up and today it’s going to be in the 70s. The daffodils are blooming, as well as the hyacinth. Lots of positive changes here for April. Meanwhile, way back...
Mar 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Cerebral Volume Loss. Not something you want to read about, re: the state of your brain. But let me start at the beginning. Last Wednesday, March 24th, I was messing around the house, doing the stuff I usually do. I’d played a game on my iPad while drinking my...
Mar 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
As I posted way back in December, Kevin hand-crafted a leather purse for me for Christmas. He has spent the past couple of months doing the dying of leather, and yesterday he completed the project! He worked so hard on it! All that work was worth it.And that’s it for...
Mar 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hmm, hopefully that’s not wishful thinking. We’ve had a few unseasonably warm days lately, but it’s only March, after all. But even if we get more snow that’s OK because buds are starting to poke up out of the ground and spring is just right...
Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Here are a few photos of Mom’s birthday celebration. Amy and Jim did quite a bit of festive decorating, and their house looked fantastic. We bought her a new pair of shoes because of the huge amount of walking we’ve been doing… …and she loved...
Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
This morning, March 3rd, the lake has finally thawed, it’s sunny, and might reach 60 degrees. Whoo hoo! I thought maybe this would be my last post from February but then was a little dismayed to see that there are many photos I haven’t yet posted. What was...
Feb 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
I bet it’s the warmest February 26th we’ve had in a long time. A great day for Mom’s Covid birthday! We will celebrate with a family dinner tonight, but before that there will hopefully be much birthday merriment. No involving going into any places,...
Feb 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Here’s a short video from February 8th, geese out on the lake. Yet another snowfall on Feb. 15th. I looked out the front bedroom window and there was a deer eating bird food. 3 It looked like it was trying to catch snowflakes. Then she looked at me, but wasn’t worried...
Feb 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Bev sent me this cute photo on Valentine’s Day – she’d been going through a box she’d taken home from work when she retired five years ago, and came across this card I’d given her. Funny, I have no memory of the card. Because the...
Feb 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
On Saturday February 13th Kevin had turned on the bathroom faucets so they’d drip through the night and our old pipes wouldn’t freeze. Les Paul jumped up on the sink and took great delight in playing in the water. It’s been really really cold and now...
Feb 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
The bitter cold has settled in, with temperatures maybe climbing into the teens, and it’s just going to get worse this weekend. It’s 16 right now but feels like 2 degrees, and over the weekend the high temperature will be 8 and three on saturday and...
