Dec 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
yeah, i’m not even quite sure how that happened. whoosh, and it’s over. the day after christmas i got up and thought that i really wanted to take down all the decorations, but since i’d put the very final ones up on xmas morning, i decided i should...
Dec 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
i hope you’re happy and not having any holiday depression, i hope you’re not already drunk before 8 a.m.! but if you are, i hope i makes you feel better. here at the hughes house…things are quiet, except, of course, for a little chester-winnie...
Dec 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
in case you weren’t aware of its imminentness. good grief. somehow, somehow, things have gotten away from me this year. i’ve spent a good part of the afternoon baking cookies, a good thing, because i wanted to bake 8-9 kinds and after today i have four...
Dec 18, 2015 | Wales 2015
which, as i mentioned in the previous post, didn’t involve walking at all! well, not walking on the pembrokshire coast path, but we did hike around the area around Martin’s Haven, where we took a boat ride out to Skomer Island. we had gotten to...
Dec 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
i’ve been struggling to add posts about our trip, much too busy these days working and stuff, but here are some photos of our kitties who are feeling very neglected at not being represented here. les, enjoying the dock. sometimes kevin chases him around...
Oct 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
i called bev on saturday; she’d called me during the week and i’d been too busy and forgot to call her back. from now on i must call her back right away, no matter what…because she’d spent the week in a state of fervent agitation and general...
Oct 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
and things are ok. trying to wake up this morning. it’s harder to get out of bed when it’s chillier outside; how will i ever manage when it gets truly cold? let’s not worry about that right now. one moment at a time. here’s mincy and numie;...
Aug 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
as the summer FLIES BY… no time, no time, no time… here is the entire month of july, in not really that many pictures, considering it was a whole month! a lovely goldfinch on one of our walks. what a darling photo! sweet pea, numie, noodle, all lined up,...
Jul 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
it’s been a weird summer thus far. rain rain rain, and then a couple hot days, then more rain…i haven’t had to water the plants much, which is a good thing! wow, i forgot all about these beautiful peonies that i picked in may…they bloomed like...
Jul 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
photos from may, which seems approximately one bazillion years ago: first – there were SO MANY TINY GOSLINGS way back in may! here they are in my neighbors’ yard. i counted 30 of them at one point! how is this possible; did they adopt some of them???...
Jun 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
and now i feel that i was wrong, maybe i won’t have so much free time. but then again, you never know. but WHAT ABOUT LESTER? it’s been a while since i’ve posted anything about the darling little kitty, so here’s a very cute photo of him and...
May 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
…is how the month is going. may 15th??!!! already??!!! it’s been busy, and i don’t see it letting up anytime soon. two days ago i went out to buy flowers for JUST TWO PLANTERS, and ended up with a huge, HUGE amount of lovely flowers. but then i...
Apr 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
i started this post on wednesday, blinked, and now it’s friday already!!! no exciting BILLY BOY THORNTON or even boat ride photos today; this morning, it’s all about the cats, all about the cats, all about the cats… chester, hidden kitty in the photo...
Apr 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
THE WEEKEND! i don’t know why, especially since all weekend long i mostly did just a huge, huge amount of absolutely nothing. when i woke up i’d been having a very long dream; we were going on a big trip and dad was there, and we were packing and packing....
Apr 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
*cough* *cough cough* and then, more *cough* I HAVE TO DO A LOT OF TALKING ON THURSDAY NIGHT!!!! a REALLY REALLY BIG SHOOOOOOWWW! did you call to reserve your ticket yet? they tell me you can get there as early as 5:30, to get a good place. last night i practiced,...
Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
mom and i went to see KINKY BOOTS last night at the fox theater in st. louis, and i love that show! i’m going to go out and buy myself a pair of tall red boots! or maybe, a pair of tall red pumps, even better! they had these funny cardboard standups around for...
Mar 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
first, here’s the daily quote from the Mutts comic that kevin sends me every morning. a really good quote. Daily Quote If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. Albert Einstein And here’s an example...
Mar 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
yaaaay, we’ve successfully made it to MARCH! the roads were cleared by sunday afternoon, the show was sold out, it was a lot of fun, but i was quite content to get home, and last night i deliciously lolled around in my jammies and reveled in not going anywhere. ...
Mar 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
oh, the snow. oh, the snow. the snow. the snow. the snow. it started about four in the afternoon yesterday, and it just kept a goin. we had plans to have a cast party at the hilton last night, but as the show went on, we kept seeing the snow falling…and...
Feb 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
we woke up on our last day of the trip, jan. 7th, and it was chilly! not chilly enough to drag out the little space heater that we’d brought, but chilly enough. of course it’s all relative. right now here in lovely spfld it’s seven degrees with a...
Jan 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
whew. HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR’S DAY! yeah, i know, waaaaay late, not an auspicious beginning to this shiny new year. the thing is, i spent new year’s eve in our popup camper, in fort myers, florida… a deliciously warm way to usher in the new year,...
Dec 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
i’m over christmas now. i’m sitting here on the couch and they’re re-playing the christmas in rockefeller center special. LeAnn Rimes was singing “i want a hippopotamus for christmas.” didn’t she used to be a country singer? she...
Dec 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
yes, i have quite a few things to do, but not so many, not gonna get all stressed about it. now, if the sun would just come out. it’s been more than 10 days since the sun has shone. a little bit yesterday, but come on, already. winnie, on the seat cushion...
Dec 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
i woke up at 6:30, decided to stay in bed and pet poor tiny lester til 7:00. why get up before it’s light outside, anyway? well, there’s yesterday morning, when i got up at FIVE THIRTY. ridiculous. RIDICULOUS. kevin had gotten up at 5:00. this morning,...
Dec 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
well, the bad news is that i went running on saturday and felt so good that i ran for 45 minutes instead of 30 minutes, and i hadn’t run in maybe a month, but really, that shouldn’t have caused ALL THIS PAIN. my foot is kind of swollen and it’s...
Nov 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
i woke up before seven, i don’t know why. it wasn’t even light out yet! i really don’t know how kevin does that, mostly waking up before the sun has risen. it’s like getting up in the middle of the night. but here we are, and i’m...
Nov 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
this morning i’m trying to focus on the positive, instead of all the election results. the positive, of course, is the cats. plus, i bet this is the last day this year that the temperatures are going to climb into the 60s. we have a bevy of outdoor stuff to do...
Oct 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
and it’s early around here! last night i asked kevin to please wake me up by 7:30, so he woke up at five because he was afraid he’d oversleep. and then, of course, i was up by seven. so we’re all up. but i, for one, won’t be fully awake for...
Oct 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
it’s only fall, but the sky looks like winter, bleak and gray and where is the sun? it will surely return again someday. meanwhile…soon i have to go to randy’s house to check on sweet little rupee, but first, i have a big melange of all the photos...
Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
i went running, and it was overcast and sprinkling a little bit, but then it stopped, and i felt good, and decided to run all the way to the start of the vachel lindsay bridge…but when i got there i decided i might as well run over it, and then i figured that...
