Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
first of all, Kevin replaced the second bearing on his truck yesterday. the first replacement took a day and a half and the second only four hours. soon he’ll be replacing the mysterious bearings all over the place. On my October 25th jog I decided to run out on...
Oct 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
First, to clarify – my last post had a photo of Kevin on the sailboat wearing a lovely lavender t-shirt from bev and wrote that she got it for bowling. yesterday she informed me that she’d bought a bunch of them for a line-dancing performance she did last...
Oct 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
I have plenty of photos for October but right now i just have time to show you this incredibly funny photo of Riley. Kevin took him for a walk in the back yard on Sat. October 10th and Riley bounced in such a comical way… it’s now the crack of 11:23 in the...
Oct 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Mom, Kevin and I had a lovely weenie roast on Friday Sept. 25th. We’ve been having them every friday night since then, and it’s a fine tradition. Kevin goes down to the dock about an hour early and starts a fabulous fire – fires are one of...
Oct 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
now that it’s the ides of october… i finished painting the front porch and i realize i didn’t take a photo. i’ll have to do that sometime. in september i also decided to tackle cleaning the walls of the screened porch. they walls are siding,...
Oct 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
it’s chilly and rainy today so i’m taking a break from painting the old entrance to the house. i started the project yesterday and spent two hours taping all the glass that needed to be taped and then another couple hours applying primer but i got so tired...
Sep 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
On sunday August 2nd I took a little video of an ant carrying around a gigantic bug. He was working so hard… I thought it was interesting to think of this ant’s struggle and wondering if it was successful in getting to its final destination. there were...
Sep 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
i thought i’d just slap a couple photos from august up here and get right on to september but then i thought, why not post as many as you want? I love this photo from the beginning of the month, with my wonderful giant rooster and the hydrangea that were so...
Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
We went out on the boat yet again on July 16th and went farther into the infamous “hot ditch” next to the power plant than i’d ever been. usually there are plenty of fishing boats because the water is so warm there but since it was a week day, nobody...
Sep 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
still kitties…here’s sweetie, the happiest kitty ever who gets to spend quality time in the fenced yard. Riley loves it too, but he doesn’t have the exuberance of sweetie, who was finding that cement block to be the most comfortable spot to curl up...
Sep 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
my plan today (and i had a plan today, yay for me!) was to go through my july and august photos and choose a very small selection to post here. which of course i didn’t manage to do. instead, here’s just a part of the photos from july that i want to share...
Aug 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
my plan was to hurry up and slap just a few photos of July up here, and so far i’m only up to July 3rd. On the 4th we roared over in the boat to the other side of the lake to watch the fireworks at the marina. They were less than spectacular. But there were no...
Aug 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
So, July…well, here’s a few photos from the beginning of the month. First, Riley. in June I posted a photo of Riley in my re-purposed my clothes basket , which was so long ago…Riley still enjoys climbing inside sometimes. Sweetie just likes to...
Jul 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Les and Riley, always happy to hang out in the fenced yard. Lilies! All transplanted last year from different place in the yard. Now i kind of wish i’d planted them someplace where we could see them more often, but I think this is where they’ll stay. Can...
Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
a bunch of random images at the end of may…first, Riley and Les Paul trying to relax on the screened porch on May 24th. May 25th, Memorial Day, Kevin relaxed down at the water for a brief time after doing some herculean effort, i’m sure. There was quite a...
Jun 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
here’s a short video of a couple of the cute baby groundhogs next door. I took some photos of them but they were too hard to see. meanwhile…this is the biggest gaggle of goslings I saw in may. they’re much bigger now. The moon looking pretty...
May 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Kevin took Riley for a walk on Sat. May 2nd. I’m not sure if Riley has ever been out in the yard; he has always been content to stay inside the fence. But I think he thoroughly enjoyed strolling around in the wild for a bit. And actually, yesterday Sweetie...
May 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
That’s addressed to you, mom…but suddenly it’s already late afternoon on mother’s day and another day has gone by whoosh…. we bought a 25-lb bag of powdered skimmed milk a few weeks ago. i found it on some site that sells bulk stuff but...
May 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
these two ducks were enjoying the bird seed scattered on the ground in back of the house. Riley had no interest in them at all. Kevin bought this remote for the upstairs TV. we probably won’t lose it. it’s funny, we’ve only ever had one TV, but he...
Apr 6, 2020 | Kitties
I have things to post from march, but right now i’m posting this because it’s so funny and cute. first – Lovey the outside cat is transitioning to inside, and kevin was upstairs where she’s quarantined for now. I was going to join them, but...
Mar 24, 2020 | Florida 2020
Statue update: it’s gray and rainy today. a little sunshine would go a long way around here. I continue to cough. Status quo. Meanwhile…Saturday mornin, Feb 22nd, Kevin sent me this photo of a boat on the lake. The reason we’d chosen to go to Tampa...
Feb 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
So…it’s Sunday morning here in sunny Florida and mom and I are going to be headed to the beach in a while. But here are some pictures of the darling kitties who I miss quite a bit! of course I really miss Kevin, but at least we get to talk on the phone every...
Feb 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
it was so warm and kevin was feeling ok so he asked me to join him down at the dock. i thought we should include lester because he’s always dying to get out. this worked ok for a few minutes but les just wanted to get down and wander around, so it wasn’t...
Feb 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
yay, we made it through january! Lester and Riley are chill. they stopped what they were doing for a moment so i could get a picture… …and then it was back to cleaning. i don’t think we’ve had two kitties who loved each other so much. Winnie...
Jan 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Brrrr…well, it’s not so bad today as yesterday. But still. January. not my favorite month. Lester doesn’t mind. I think i took this when walking from mom’s house to mine. so many deer relaxing. this is one of the lights in front and i was...
Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sweetie got real brave in December and sat up on the kitty house. sometimes she’s brave, sometimes she spends her time up in the upstairs bedroom. when i got up this morning she was right here but then she decided she needed to be back upstairs. kevin bought all...
Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Les and Riley can’t help being so adorable all the time…here they are on the first day of december. christmas swan!!! mom and i went to hobby lobby at the beginning of the month and were were about to check out but i hurried back in to pick up some...
Dec 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
so…i just got back from NYC. Mom and i left on monday and got back yesterday afternoon. Right before i left i spent a lot of time uploading photos, creating drafts to post while we were gone. it didn’t happen. plus i took approximately 3.2 million photos...
Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
gee, i can’t believe it’s already the last month of the year…my goal is to get everything from this year posted in this year. not a huge goal, so hopefully it’s attainable. first – when i jog on the lake road i pass a house that has a...
Sep 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
On august 20th I went to lunch with randy…I think this was my first lunch there, I have been there probably five times at least. We went late enough so that the place was almost empty, which I always love. We walked around in the museum next-door, and I had...