Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope yours is going well, or maybe it's all done...I'm in charge of turkey breast, whole wheat rolls, pumpkin pies, plus I just made a salad for Kevin because he doesn't like green bean casserole. The turkey breast is in the oven and it's actually starting to smell pretty good. I made the pies and the rolls yesterday thank goodness, so I had some time to watch a little of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. I mostly fast-forwarded through it, and certainly had the sound down for the majority of it but now I'm realizing that I forgot to watch the Rockettes. Maybe they'll be on You Tube? Surely...

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still july…
still kitties...here's sweetie, the happiest kitty ever who gets to spend quality time in the fenced yard. Riley loves it too, but he doesn't have the exuberance of sweetie, who was finding that...
ok, back to july…
my plan today (and i had a plan today, yay for me!) was to go through my july and august photos and choose a very small selection to post here. which of course i didn't manage to do. instead, here's...
happy birthday, tiny sister!
amy's birthday was on Tuesday, and we had a lovely indian meal. she'd made me a lavishly delicious Indian feast for my birthday and I hoped that she'd be open to me reciprocating. She was! I've been...
more of the beginning of july
my plan was to hurry up and slap just a few photos of July up here, and so far i'm only up to July 3rd. On the 4th we roared over in the boat to the other side of the lake to watch the fireworks at...
As the summer slips by…
So, July...well, here's a few photos from the beginning of the month. First, Riley. in June I posted a photo of Riley in my re-purposed my clothes basket , which was so long ago...Riley still enjoys...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN!!!
today is kevin's birthday, and so far he's spent it competing in our group competition in the game that amy, mom, kevin and i play, June's Journey. It was an intense time and our group didn't do so...
final photos from june…
June 19th, and this happened...Amy was rollerblading at Southwind Park and she purposefully swerved into the grass so she wouldn't encounter a person coming towards her. But it wasn't grass, as much...
(mostly) outside in june
Les and Riley, always happy to hang out in the fenced yard. Lilies! All transplanted last year from different place in the yard. Now i kind of wish i'd planted them someplace where we could see them...
driveway resurfacing in june
at the beginning of june, in between throwing barge-fulls of giant rocks up onto the shore, kevin resurfaced the driveway, coating it with a new coat of black sealant. it was pretty hot then, but...









