Florida 2026 – the tent and the house
Before Mom, Amy and I went to Florida in January, I decided to buy a sun shelter for the beach. The beach is my absolute favorite place, but I don't want any rays of the sun to touch my skin. Mostly. On previous trips that Mom and I have taken to Florida we had horrible luck with beach umbrellas. Umbrellas were generally included with our rentals, but we could never, ever get them to stay in the sand. On more than one occasion some big strong guy would come along and help us but even they couldn't secure the umrellas and they'd collapse or blow away and were pretty much a disaster and an...
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Early birthday morning
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...
the beginning of May
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...
A Unique Biathlon plus lots of crazy Saturday
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...
More from April
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...
April Excitement
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...
Dust Mites!?
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...
Out on the Lake and other random April Things
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...
Outside April
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...
More crashing around to the end of March
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....