April, mostly cats plus a minor explosion
Gee, I'm really on a roll with getting stuff up here for a change. Or course that can and probably will come screeching to a halt again because that's how I roll. Rolling, but only occasionally and sporadically, and then skidding to a halt. Anyway, here's darling Spot when I took him for a walk in April. He's posing on our neighbor's pontoon boat. I mean, wouldn't you have to pay a professional photographer big bucks to get a shot like that of a cat? "Just tilt your head up and the the side," the beleaguered photographer would say, and of course, normally, a cat would just look away or turn...
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getting the boat out of the water for the year…
we did this just a few hours ago, and i want to post this to show the dramatic difference in the water level between when we took the boat out for repair on august 18th, and today. there goes kevin...
wrapping up august, as fall is upon us…
i took this on august 15th, when we were taking the boat out of the water yet again for repairs. there's kevin, walking up to the house to get in the van and drive over the bridge to pull the boat...
august…
trying to remember my excuse for being so lax in posting much in august, i looked at photos. i was pretty busy doing stuff outside. i power-washed the little dock, and wow, what a difference....
and finally…Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits at the fair!
whew, i can't say what happened to september, but i finally have a few photos and clips of the great and free show at the grandstand at the IL state fair. Bev wanted to see herman's hermits and i...
bev and i go to the illinois state fair
i don't think i've been to the fair for a few years. i didn't go last year, and we were on vacation the year before that, so that means it's been at least since 2014. i love the fair, even though...
Les Paul finds a hole
On our walk yesterday afternoon, lester was really excited about a hole in the ground that he found. he never did find out what was down inside it, but he did enjoy himself thoroughly. when it was...
so many boat shenanigans, the day after the eclipse
as i've written about, something is always going wrong with our pontoon boat. yes, it's very old, but kevin replaced everything from the floor up several years ago, the pontoons are fine, in theory...
the eclipse!
did you see it? yesterday, at 1:18 p.m.? that's when it happened here, anyway... i wasn't that enthusiastic about the eclipse, really, but yesterday morning as i was driving home from work, my...
wrapping up july with kitties, as the state fair is about to start…
how is that possible, anyway? why does time speed by so much more quickly as i get older? how is it that the fair is starting on thursday? it's a strange day today; it's usually hot and humid at...