March!

March!

Sometimes Kevin and I go to Mom's house to watch TV, but mostly to hang out with Pumpkin who loves Kevin best of all. We celebrated Mom's birthday in March and she got these two mugs, among many other lovely gifts. Such a sweet kitty, aptly named. Riley, living the life of. Twice in March, Kevin and I ttended performances at the Performing Arts Center and it was fun to walk through the field to get there. The first week it was a Symphony performance of Harry Potter music and it was kind of chilly and we were pressed for time, so no photos. But the second time, a week later, we saw the...

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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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august already…

august already…

i can't believe it's August 8th, as the summer sprints along. here are a few outside photos from july. oh, that moon. can you spot the heron in there on the right? another evening of beautiful...

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corn

corn

as i ran between the corn rows at the end of may, i thought it'd be interesting to take pictures of it as it grew. corn grows mighty fast around here. may 25th: June 2nd, just eight days later: June...

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giant chicken!

giant chicken!

the addition of the giant window was fantastic, but i'm in love with my new giant chicken.   lester, however, was nonplussed. here's the view of the chicken from out new giant window. yeah,...

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a  giant new window.

a giant new window.

instead of taking a long trip this year, we installed new windows in the living room. this is what the big window used to look like...there's a beautiful view of the lake, except for the big panel...

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guest blog!

I woke up this morning to see that the lovely Tanja, from the site The Red Phone Box Travels, had posted my guest blog on her site!   Here it is.   Tanja is from Croatia, and writes about the...

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july!

july!

here are three photos from the very beginning of july, such a very long time ago, it feels like. les, always stalking something down by the water. this is a beautiful new tiny tree i bought on...

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the really real last photos of june…

the really real last photos of june…

whoops, i forgot about these photos.  here's a snapchat photo, which i took the morning of the 20th anniversary of harry potter.  how is it that 20 years have passed since the first novel was...

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final photos of june

final photos of june

so, ta da, the final photos of june as july zooms right along. here's bev, giddy with excitement when she spent the night a few weeks ago - she had a procedure done at the hospital and they told her...

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fixed!

fixed!

yesterday, thursday morning,kevin drove the van over to the boat dock as i slowly left the shore on the boat.  i noticed that kevin had installed a nifty new black lamp post at the end of the dock!...

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