Happy new year…
Well...a new year. Here we are. Where did December go, you ask? Not entirely sure. Anyway, here's a dazzling photo of the sunrise way back on Dec. 22nd. I'm pretty sure Kevin must have taken the picture... And then there was Christmas...it all went OK, and here's just one photo from Christmas day, me with my beautiful new ukulele that Kevin gave me for Christmas, along with my festive headband from Randy. Kevin has his traveling guitar, and I know we we played a little bit on that day and I'm positive it was highly entertaining. Kevin also gave me a lovely strap for it. About that...
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the last warm day of the year…
kevin and i have been doing all kinds of projects outside because indian summer is coming to an end later in the day. it's been in the 70s and i've gone running for the the past couple of mornings...
running and painting near the end of October
first of all, Kevin replaced the second bearing on his truck yesterday. the first replacement took a day and a half and the second only four hours. soon he'll be replacing the mysterious bearings...
more happenings in October
the white pelicans are back and as usual i keep trying to get a good close-up. this one on october 16th wasn't too bad. the problem is that when i walk down to the water they start to quietly glide...
Mostly Riley in October
First, to clarify - my last post had a photo of Kevin on the sailboat wearing a lovely lavender t-shirt from bev and wrote that she got it for bowling. yesterday she informed me that she'd bought a...
ricocheting from one thing to the next…
i can't say why i've been so productive lately. On Friday it was, indeed, really warm outside and I dug up most of my gerbera daisies but when i was done putting them in pots i realized i'd missed a...
projects!
this might be the last warm day of the year; it's already 63 and it's supposed to get up to 81. tomorrow the temperature is going to plunge throughout the day and rain is in store, so if i'm going...
Kangaroo Kitty
I have plenty of photos for October but right now i just have time to show you this incredibly funny photo of Riley. Kevin took him for a walk in the back yard on Sat. October 10th and Riley bounced...
wrapping up september…
Mom, Kevin and I had a lovely weenie roast on Friday Sept. 25th. We've been having them every friday night since then, and it's a fine tradition. Kevin goes down to the dock about an hour early and...
More from september,
now that it's the ides of october... i finished painting the front porch and i realize i didn't take a photo. i'll have to do that sometime. in september i also decided to tackle cleaning the walls...