Fall!

Fall!

So...things are all right. I opened up my laptop again after a hiatus, so that's something. Plus I'm cancer-free! So that's something else. Almost three weeks of not doing much of anything. Kevin and i did take a couple of short walks on Friday and they went pretty well but right now it's much too hot out to do any walking. Maybe tomorrow, if I wake up in time. I'm still napping mostly every day. We went to the Route 66 Car Show on Saturday for a while and it was pretty hot and we walked a fair amount. I stopped every now and again and i sat down and rested for a while, and when we got home...

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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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february…

february…

at least we're having a little break from the bitterly cold weather; last week was record-breaking cold temperatures and even though it's 58 degrees right now, the lake is still mostly frozen. but...

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more winnie…

more winnie…

i feel like i haven't written anything about him for so long even though it's only been a few days i guess. i just found a few photos from 2006, when we still lived in westchester. here's Winnie...

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more photos from that big snow…

more photos from that big snow…

whew. these were all taken right after it snowed, the week before winnie died. Saturday morning, Jan. 12th, Riley was determined to play in the snow even though it was piled mighty high. intrepid...

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winnie winnie winnie

winnie winnie winnie

Winnie looks so regal here on the only new couch i've ever bought. This is before we got married and moved into Kevin's house in Westchester. April 3, 2005 Winnie and Honey on the swing on the old...

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one more banner…

i felt the need to change the banner again, adding a different photo. i realized that since we got Winnie on Sept. 29, 2002, he surely couldn't have been more than a month old, so he must have been...

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First photo of Winnie

First photo of Winnie

on tuesday i was scrounging around in a cabinet, looking for frames to put some of winnie's photos in, and i found yet another big stack of pictures. here's the very first picture i took of winnie!...

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September 29th, 2002

September 29th, 2002

That's the day mom and i found winnie on the lake road. we were riding our bikes and suddenly heard a loud MEW from the side of the road, and stopped to see a tiny little grey kitten. somebody must...

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Darling Winnie

Darling Winnie

is gone. He was such a sweet, loving, gentle, accommodating soul. We are so sad. I'm going to be posting many photos of him, because i keep going through my old pictures and finding so many. Friday...

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before the storm…

before the storm…

the first part of january was snow-free, kind of warm-ish. i took this picture because it struck me as funny, this planter inside another planter, covered in water. and then it froze, and i bet it's...

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