Flooding the Zone,
which I'm reading is actually a political term, whereby someone does a whole bunch of different things in all directions in order to cause confusion. Well, that's not what flooding the zone means to me. For me, it was a literal flood. Confusion, yes, but that was all in my brain, the confusion. Yesterday morning I was naively confident that the day would be calm, and I settled down on a chair on the deck to enjoy a bit of quiet time and my cup of Lapasang Souchong. But alas, it was not to me, as I, being Grace and consistently acting in the opposite manner, somehow knocked the entire cup of...
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I’m Grace Hughes, from Springfield, IL. Welcome to my world of fun, mostly involving cats and sometimes travel.
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Happy Anniversary to us!
Yesterday we celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary by taking a delightful 23-mile bike ride along the Sangamon Valley Trail. We haven't been on this trail on the far west side of town for three...
The State Fair, Part One
I went a few times this year, and its amazing that the fair weather, which can be so awfully hot and sticky, was pretty much great. First, I went the first Sunday, August 13th. They've been working...
Goodbye, Sweet Little Marley
Sweet and very tiny little Marley left us yesterday morning at 5:25. She'd been losing weight for a couple of weeks; she was only four pounds to begin with, and she got so thin that I could feel the...
Different August Things
For one thing, I was looking at my site and it suddenly dawned on me that the banner currently reads "Spring 2023." Oh boy. Slightly falling behind in literally all things... So I fixed that. Yay,...
Paddle Boarding Fun
Our friend Amy has a very cool paddle board, and we store it under our deck for her. Isn't it cool? I've seen some paddle boards around the lake but they're usually just boring and one single color....
Boating Adventures
One of my most favorite things is to go out on my pontoon boat. I haven't been out this summer as much as I'd have liked...it was too hot, it was raining, I was too busy pulling weeds and taking...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN!
Well, happy belated birthday - it was Aug. 4th and we did quite a bit of celebrating. We went to dinner at the Yacht Club and Kevin enjoyed a delicious piece of carrot cake for dessert. It was a...
Hot Heat
That's how hot it is now. Hot hot heat. Yesterday the heat index said it felt like 122. I mean, c'mon. I kept going outside and my glasses kept fogging up. Good grief. When I got home from the...
July,
as the summer marches on...first, July 1st when the power was out, Pumpkin was thoroughly enjoying the cat grass that Kevin planted. Such a happy boy! Later that day a family of raccoons showed up....