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Changes

Seeing as how I've been posting more photos, waaay more photos, than making entries in this here blog — through no fault of anyone or anything or anywhere, just due to my own present inclination — which made it appear that this site as a whole wasn't being updated much,...

July???

You're wondering what happened to May in my life? Never mind June? When it's just become July?!? Really?? Geez oh man. Where've I been, huh? Well, here. Really. And I've got the pictures to prove it. If I ever get around to processing them, that is. Sigh. I just haven't...

Finally...February!

I'm baaack, again! Had some severe computer issues that made it increasingly difficult to not only get work done, but do anything, online or off, at all. Slow, slower, slowest. Even. To. Surf. The. Web. So, held my breath, crossed my mouse fingers & brought my pc in for servicing....

Site updated...

Six months ago I wrote about finishing the flowerbed. And then disappeared. At least, from this site. So what the hell have I been doing since? Some stuff. Here's a summary: Summer: Kept the flowerbed & lawn alive, despite a season-long drought & uncommon hot weather (for here). Took some...

Site, updated

Well, I think I've got the new design down, for now. Although I'm continually surprised by how much tweaking I keep finding it absolutely, irresistibly, compulsively necessary to carry out...'cause the ideas just don't stop coming, even when I believe they're done. I seem to always find yet another level...

Spring cleaning

Contrary to reports of snowstorming in the Midwest this past weekend, here we got a mere half-inch or so that only clung to grassy surfaces (& my deck) & quickly melted, amen. Although it was quite windy & cold, Buffy & I refused to pay it too much attention. 'Specially...

Breathing space

How cute is she? Only 3 wks. this time, between posts...that's getting a little better. Spent an intense & obsessive few weeks designing & building Mac's new site. Which I finished, officially, on Wednesday. After which was able to use a little break between projects to take a few new...

Busy, busy, busy

Snowy bird feeder Whoa, near 6 wks since posting here! Which is not to say I've been idle...far from it. Since I can't let the whole month go by without a few words, here goes a few words: Bluejay @ feeder In between (& perhaps because of) bouts of frigid,...

Meanwhile...

Summer 1949 Finally managed to add several more photos to the Family archive yesterday. Sorry for the long delay on that project...if doing some every day isn't possible, I hope to process & upload photos at least once a week from now on. In any case, it wasn't idleness that...

A new project

Okay, so here's the main reason this site hasn't been updated very often, if at all, over the last 2 months (until today): Have been busy with renewed nest-building activities. Specifically, renovations of the guest room so it could double as an office as well as a place for storing...

July update?

Buffy, up close So you're wondering if I'm okay & what the heck I've been doing during the last 14+ days? Well, hhhmm, let's see: Naturally, just 2 days after I wrote about not yet needing to install the ac, Mac helped me to install the ac. Not that it...

Buffy's tale

Click to see show! Wow, didn't realize how long it's been since my last post! Have been busy: celebrating the 4th; rearranging the living room & buying a few new furnishings, completing some unfinished decorating; continuing yoga therapy (Gretchen's been guiding me into a more intensive involvement...god, is she good!);...

A rose is a rose is a rose...

Fairy roses, closeup Rose wall [enlarge on click] Spent a cool-ish Father's Day watching a Chicago Cubs' game (which they unfortunately lost) with Lois & Mac, but before the game started took some pictures of the profusion of Lo's roses...unfortunately, most of the shots didn't come out too well, a...

Lawn care?

Clouds over Franklin St. [enlarge on click] The grass is working on growing...I'm working on web sites...the grass is getting high...I'm getting on with working...the grass is growing, obsessively...I'm getting on, obsessively, with web sites...the grass is growing harder...I'm working harder...the grass, the grass, the grass...needs a lot of mowing..........

Closeups...

[enlarge on click] [enlarge on click] Have been busy, many hours adding much to my friend's website, as well as obsessively devising some design changes for it. After overdoing that to the point of exhaustion, have been attempting to break up the work with other activities, including another trip to...

Flowering

Temps finally edged back up into the 60s today and I managed to take some photos of my frost-free porch flowers. Meanwhile, a shopping trip yesterday to Muskegon yielded a new birdfeeder which, besides holding more seed also provides more perches for more birds &, not incidentally, more visibility for...

Safe

Yay, my plants (& the backyard lilacs) survived the freeze and now, with temps edging into the low 40s and a brilliant blue sky, I can only hope spring will proceed unimpeded...and please, please, please warm up again. Have spent the last few days obsessively, busily building a website for...