More from way back in June, when I still had health insurance…
Yeah, I continue to count the days till I'm insured, and it's now THREE MORE DAYS including today. So hopefully things'll be OK. My new (Aetna) insurance through the Affordable Care Act is kind of pricey and not great. But at least I'll be insured, whew. Here's tiny Princess Leia waaaay back on June 7th, when we just got her and she was being very darling and sweet. Oh how things have changed. At first Les would go upstairs and sit outside the fencing we'd put up in Leia's door so they were able to get acquainted. After a while, maybe a couple of weeks, she went downstairs. Because Sweetie...
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the end of the tree…
here are two more videos of Mund Enterprises taking down our trees, plus some photos. Something I didn't get on tape was when a giant branch smacked into the bucket where the guy was - a part of the...
tree-cutting-down continued
taking down the silver maple took up most of the day on Wednesday, august 22nd. after making quick work of the tall locust tree, they started in. I have some photos, but I think the videos are...
taking down the trees
I took many photos and a completely berserk amount of video of the huge team of guys felling our trees. i'm still pretty sad about the whole thing even thought it was all my idea. I am grateful that...
more stuff from august
first, there was kevin's birthday. I attempted to make a healthier version of a black forest cake and it ended up taking a very very long time and there was lots of oozing of cherries and it was...
as august is about to slip away…
i'm sitting in my living room trying to avoid the blistering heat-n-humidity that has been plaguing us for the past couple of days, and will continue this week. just now I finally decided to quit...
Friday night at the fair
a while back, randy and I got tix to see boy George & the culture club at the fair. I remember when we went to the empty fairgrounds to buy them, thinking that the concert was such a long way...
summertime, summertime…
when we were out on the boat on july 23rd, we saw this tree that had crashed onto this boathouse. ouch. at least it didn't crash through and destroy the fancy boat moored there. amy and jim's dogs...
are you kidding me, august already??!!
the summer roars by, nothing to stop it...we had a lovely reprieve from the hot heat, but it's back to feeling like august again, but at least it's happening now in the correct month, not like the...
more of july…
glenn helped kevin launch his sailboat at the beginning of the month. kevin lowered the boat into the water, and glenn motored back to shore...except the motor died, a constant theme in the hughes...