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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interrupting trip for this important announcement!
I know i've just started posting about our latest journey to Florida, but i want to pause a moment to show you what Kevin has been up to. I went to Florida with mom because Kevin was busy rehearsing...
sunny florida!
Finally i have time to sit down and post a few of the photos from our trip to sunny florida. Mom and i flew on southwest out of st. louis on sunday feb. 16th and it was a good flight, not like when...
safely back at home…
whew. we got home late tuesday night and i feel like i haven't sat down since then. i mean, i have, but...busy. last night i decided to transfer all my florida photos from my phone to my computer...
One last ocean sunset
A lovely day. A grand time was had by all. we are being evicted from our Airbnb tomorrow morning at ten which is much too early. But I’ve managed to stuff most of my stuff into my giant suitcase and...
Last full day in Florida…
Well, it’s 12:11 pm and theoretically we will be going out for our last day at the beach here in Florida. We are going to head back to the Pass-a-Grille Beach, where we went twice while we were...
kitties!
So...it’s Sunday morning here in sunny Florida and mom and I are going to be headed to the beach in a while. But here are some pictures of the darling kitties who I miss quite a bit! of course I...
a big shindig
On saturday February 8th, we went to the Ballet Gala fundraiser. I think the funnest part was getting ready, as usually seems to be the case. I looked for a 20’s headdress and found that I had this...
valentine’s day
it's 7:44 a.m. on sunday feb. 16th; i'm about to roar into action so i can walk out the door at 9. i kept waking up because we're leaving this morning, and finally got up at 7. here's all our...
darling kevin as a tot
there are about a million photos of me as a kid all around, but the ones of kevin are few and far between. he scanned a bunch of negatives and found a couple of him. here he's with his family at new...









