Feb 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
at least we’re having a little break from the bitterly cold weather; last week was record-breaking cold temperatures and even though it’s 58 degrees right now, the lake is still mostly frozen. but hey, it’s february, it’s possible to squint...
Jan 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
i feel like i haven’t written anything about him for so long even though it’s only been a few days i guess. i just found a few photos from 2006, when we still lived in westchester. here’s Winnie eyeing a squirrel way up high. August 15, 2006 That...
Jan 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
whew. these were all taken right after it snowed, the week before winnie died. Saturday morning, Jan. 12th, Riley was determined to play in the snow even though it was piled mighty high. intrepid riley Shortly thereafter i shoveled the back deck off the bedroom and a...
Jan 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Winnie looks so regal here on the only new couch i’ve ever bought. This is before we got married and moved into Kevin’s house in Westchester. April 3, 2005 Winnie and Honey on the swing on the old front porch. where is this swing now? did it rust away? why...
Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
i felt the need to change the banner again, adding a different photo. i realized that since we got Winnie on Sept. 29, 2002, he surely couldn’t have been more than a month old, so he must have been born in august sometime. to some totally rotten people who...
Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
on tuesday i was scrounging around in a cabinet, looking for frames to put some of winnie’s photos in, and i found yet another big stack of pictures. here’s the very first picture i took of winnie! i was ridiculously happy that i found it. he’s...
Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
That’s the day mom and i found winnie on the lake road. we were riding our bikes and suddenly heard a loud MEW from the side of the road, and stopped to see a tiny little grey kitten. somebody must have dumped him! people can be rotten. We decided that mom would...
Jan 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
is gone. He was such a sweet, loving, gentle, accommodating soul. We are so sad. I’m going to be posting many photos of him, because i keep going through my old pictures and finding so many. Friday night, kevin went to garrick’s house to watch a movie....
Dec 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
oh boy. head about to explode, late on a sunday night. first – new wordpress update and i can’t really figure it out. i know that when i did the update there was some kind of choice about doing it the old way, instead, but now of course i can’t...
Dec 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
first, happy belated birthday, bev! here she is with a group of friends vigorously celebrating her special day. one of her friends bought bev the Barbie seen there in front of the pig, and they carried the Barbie around with them all day, photographing it in all...
Nov 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
and the thing is it seems like deep winter all of a sudden. fall passed in the blink of an eye – it got deeply cold yesterday and snowed. ugh. to early. let’s go back to mid-October when we had that little flash of autumn. Winnie enjoyed lying in a new...
Sep 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
first, a couple of darling kitty photos. this was sunday, august 26th. les had to rest his weary head on top of a sock, on top of a cushion, on top of a rug…and yet his usual favored sleeping position is resting against some cold piece of metal. Winnie is...
Jun 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
although it’s early june, it feels like august. 91 degrees right now, feels like 96. might as well be time for the fair. meanwhile, the end of may….this tiny fawn was curled up outside amy’s porch. since then we’ve spotted it and its mom...
May 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
it’s like I jinxed things by writing that Winnie was OK as of yesterday – last night I stayed up much too late for no good reason at all, and this morning I was awakened by a sound that I couldn’t quite make out, but I suddenly knew that Winnie was...
May 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
this morning we took him to the vet and he rode on my lap – he was much less stressed there rather than in a crate. I told kevin to be extra sure that we didn’t have an accident since Winnie wasn’t buckled in. they had to take blood from his jugular...
May 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Winnie isn’t doing well. he had a seizure the night before last just after we’d gone to bed. it was horrible, as he writhed and convulsed, for what seemed like forever. I called the emergency vet but we decided we didn’t want to take him there; if...
Apr 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
yeah, a mighty chilly april. I’ve either been busy working or sitting around waiting for spring to actually arrive. riley is doing his best to adjust to life-at-breakneck-speed that we have around here. I love how his paw is dangling down like that; he...
Apr 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
yes. spring. it seemed that we’ve had now had a ritual of snow every sunday. snow on easter, snow the sunday after that, and the sunday we just had…well, no snow really til Monday, and then it was a very brief blizzardy thing early Monday morning. but...
Apr 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
i’m convinced now that we’re going from winter to summer, no spring at all. my poor daffodils have been trying valiantly to bloom but it’s a good thing they haven’t because the snow is going to start again any minute now. ridiculous. I just...
Mar 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
we took him to the vet this morning; we found that having him sit on my lap on the the ride to the doc is much better than him being in his cage. the vet visit, not so fun for him. the good news, hopefully, is that he has pancreatitis, something that’s not...
Mar 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Oh boy. On Friday he threw up, so we took him to the vet because of his diabetes, no food in his system after getting insulin. He was OK all weekend, until today; he ate breakfast, but he has not eaten anything else today, until Kevin gave him some canned chicken. He...
Mar 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
riley. the cat, that is. we have a new cat! his name is Riley. we didn’t expect to get another cat, after chester’s demise in january. but sometimes things just happen… he’s seven months old, we think, and he’s soft and sweet…we...
Feb 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
i hope it is a good one for you. here, it’s a warm day at least, although there’s no sign of the sun thus far. winnie is much happier now that chester is gone. he hangs around near us most of the time, and he’s more calm. so even though...
Jan 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
well, here’s the great photo of lester and chester, as chester patiently waits for les to finish his meal so he can swoop in and devour the remains. poor little kitty. winnie, sleeping on a “mutts” pillow. here’s mom’s living room facing...
Jan 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
sometimes i’d called Chester “chestertarian,” making up a little song, rhyming it with librarian, unitarian, vegetarian, egalitarian, rotarian… here he is in august 2012. i love this picture of the three of them, something that could be an...
Jan 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
some more photos of chester from November 2011…he and les were such good friends. this is about a week after we got him, and already they were snuggled together on the bed. the middle of november, out in the back yard with les. in December 2011, lester giving...
Jan 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
i took this picture on sept. 28th, 2011. we kept chester in the hot tub room for a while, separated from everybody else, because we hadn’t taken him in to be neutered yet. when we first got les and he was also not fixed, we let him roam freely in the basement...
Dec 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
christmas. coming right up. here’s what i’ve done thus far, christmas-decorating-wise: i’ve gotten the new artificial tree out of the basement. yay, me. oh boy. it’s not that i don’t want to decorate, it’s just that i’ve...
Nov 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
this is from october 15th, capturing that magic moment when the sun lights up the other shore. hmm, that was taken at 6:12 p.m. last night i was sitting here looking out at the lake and was pretty dark over there, at 5:02 p.m. but before you know it the days will...
Nov 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
winnie, always darling. lester popping up from the vincas! this continues to be my favorite boat on the lake, and i’m confident that at some point they’ll stop by and take us for a ride. ok then, mrs. h.
