wednesday

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...

june! as the summer whooshes by…

soon it will be time for the Il state fair!  it’s remarkable how quickly the summer is going by.  funny that in april it did nothing but rain rain rain, and now things are dry and i spent a great deal of time watering my flowers. here’s a panorama of my...

sunday morning…

and it’s another beautiful, warm sunny day.  yesterday i accomplished many things, and i’m feeling it’s all because it’s so great outside.  nice weather just makes everything better. *never mind about that.*  now it’s early on monday...

happy valentine’s day!

i hope your day was filled with chocolate and love. not necessarily in that order… mmm, chocolate. here are a few photos from the first part of february. february first, when there was no snow on the ground at all, a lovely day.  today is a different story...

COUNTING DOWN TO THE END OF JUNE!!!

and YES i have SO MANY PHOTOS from may, and now june is almost over and the summer is SPINNING OUTTA CONTROL!!! SLOW DOOOOOWN!!! But it’s ok.  everything is good.  it’s raining right now, as it has been most of the summer. once again, i only have this one...

friday, how’d that happen so dang fast???

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...

wednesday

yesterday i told kevin that maybe we should clean the gutters today since it’s supposed to rain tonight, and all the gutters have little trees growing out of them because of the one hundred million spinners. so this morning he said i could help him, and he got...

thursday morning

last night i overdid it a little with the yard work, and we went to be before 10!  this morning i got up a little after six, so clearly i’m turning into an old lady who gets up at the crack of dawn. well, i’m not entirely sure what time the sun rises, so i...

friday, yay!

it’s been quite a week.  the grass is getting pretty green, at least, even though it’s cold and windy outside.  luckily i only have to leave the house a couple of times. in february, we had a wide array of weather.  amy and jim escaped to austin with...

un-fixing bayonets

thursday morning.  les just carried a huge sock roll into the room and dropped it on the floor.  he ran off to do many other important tasks before i could take a picture of him. here’s a metal pole sticking out of the lake.  you could see a lot more of it when...

spring, damnitall.

yeah, i realize i’ve put up the april banner already and it’s not quite april yet, but i want to be reminded that SPRING IS HERE, despite the FREEZING COLD TEMPERATURES.  yuck, that’s all i have to say. i took pictures of the daffodils on wednesday,...

photos proving that spring is springing…

here’s mollie, on sunday.  she sleeps a lot because she’s on drugs, but of course she sleeps a lot anyway.  she was especially exhausted by all the birthday partying. on sunday there was a different kind of woodpecker outside, but kevin wasn’t quick...

wintertime activities, such as they are

the snow is coming, we’re waiting for more snow.  it was due in here about six this evening, then nine, now it’s supposed to show up at midnight. maybe it’ll pass us by. if it arrives, i am prepared.  i won’t be going outside.  i am completely...

THUNK.

that was the sound of a bird hitting the window as i sat here on the couch this morning.  it slid down the window and i thought it surely must have died.  i opened the window and looked down, but saw no dead birds.  pretty soon a dove rustled around in the bushes and...

sunday morning chillaxing…

mollie is sleeping really loudly over on the other side of the couch.  winnie is curled up next to me – he’d rather be in my lap, but the computer is here, so he’s content to sleep alongside. yesterday was a little bit too busy and i have many things...

my word…

i woke up around sixish this morning, petted mollie, petted winnie, both of whom were sleeping nicely nearby.  after a while, though, i figured i might as well just get up. up before kevin!  a historical moment.  this has happened maybe three times in our lives...

trying to catch up with all the photos…

i keep taking pictures, but then i don’t sit down long enough to put them up here, so i’m trying to KEEP UP. here’s winnie, constantly trying his best to chill out. the lake was just so sparkly and glistening and beautiful on sunday morning. and here...

SATURDAY MORNING

it’s almost ten on saturday morning, and i’ve mostly just been sitting on the couch ever since i got up at 7:30. kevin and i did concessions at the opening night of “seussical” last night, filling lots of popcorn boxes, wrapping hot dogs,...

MAY!

i hope you spent some part of yesterday, MAY DAY, outside. such dazzling weather, and it’s nice that this weekend the rain has been restricted to late at night instead of ruining everybody’s weekends with deluges during the day. we have a whole lotta...

three a.m.

and it’s very early in the morning around here.  it’s actually already 3:16.  i wish i was asleep.  winnie was sleeping right by my head and he’s still there on the pillow; i can hear him jingling in the bedroom and i hope he doesn’t decide...

saturday…

everything is just so much better now that it’s spring. we went running at 10 this morning, because if we’d waited any longer it would have been too hot for mollie. the other day i ran with her and it was in the 60s and she just didn’t want to keep...

last day of march

it’s going to be warm and beautiful and i’m going to spend my afternoon in traffic court…well, it should be interesting.  different.  my just desserts after being so happy about not having to do jury duty… wayne took my laptop away yesterday. ...