April 23rd, 2010
This week not only marked the one-year anniversary of my dear cat Axel’s death, but it also brought his littermate Günter to the vet, ultimately for more bad news.
Earlier in the week I noticed he wasn’t feeling well, and I thought I felt a lump in his abdomen. Along with his other symptoms I was [...]
November 27th, 2009
My heavy workload did not let up until late Wednesday afternoon, which didn’t leave me a lot of time to prepare and cook for thirteen on Thanksgiving. I did manage to run out at lunchtime on Tuesday to get the grocery shopping done, but would have liked to have more prep time.
Thankfully, I have [...]
September 15th, 2009
The master bathroom tiling is dragging on. And on.
I really want it to be over with.
The contractor occasionally hounds me about it because he wants to do the finish work on the plumbing so he can get a final payment (although apparently he just realized yesterday that the plumber he sub-contracted didn’t include finish work [...]
August 11th, 2009
It’s been a while, but I’m hoping to catch up on all the happenings around here in the next week or so.
Thanks for all your thoughts, prayers and well-wishes for my father-in-law. He is currently in rehab and appears to be slowly improving, although it’s doubtful he’ll be living on his own from this point [...]
April 23rd, 2009
As some of you may have suspected by my absence this week, I do not have good news to report about Axel.
While his appetite improved slightly after the vet increased his prednisone last week, it was still a struggle to get him to eat enough. I went through can after can of cat food, [...]
April 17th, 2009
Just wanted to give a little update on Axel, the best kitty ever.
He’s doing fairly well, but has lost even more weight and is very weak. His appetite decreased earlier in the week, so the vet upped his prednisone and he has been eating a little more. I’ve been trying to get him to [...]
April 7th, 2009
My three-week hiatus from blogging was mainly due to a tight deadline with a big client of mine. The good news is that we met the deadline and the client was very happy with the results.
During this heavy workload, almost three weeks ago, I took Axel to the vet for a much-needed teeth cleaning. Before [...]
February 19th, 2009
I had a meeting late Wednesday morning with the architect (more on that later), so around 9:15 on Tuesday night I called my mother to see if she wanted to go out for breakfast on Wednesday.
No answer. A little strange that she’d be out that late on a weeknight, but she has lots of [...]
December 30th, 2008
I thought I better get these Christmas photos up before 2008 is over! I’ve been around, but just either too busy or too lazy to post lately. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday — we certainly did.
Thankfully, despite nasty weather on Tuesday, my stepdaughter and her husband managed to fly in from the East [...]
August 13th, 2008
Last Saturday night we were on board the Evening Star, cruising up and down the Chicago River and out to Lake Michigan. It was a beautiful night — a little cool for August, but pleasant nonetheless.
There are so many things I love about Chicago, and the view of the skyline is just one of [...]
March 27th, 2008
In the previous house I had a collage of old black-and-white family photos on the wall, but in this house my wall space is more limited, mainly because of the windows. However we do have the stairway wall leading to the attic, which for me is a perfect spot for these types of photos.
Several [...]
October 17th, 2007
We just returned from a short trip to Philadelphia where our (Pete’s) daughter got married. It was a beautiful wedding in the gorgeous Knowlton Mansion in North Philadelphia. The house was built in 1881 as a summer home by William Rhawn, a Philadelphia banker. Later it was owned by John Powell, a wealthy industrialist, and [...]
October 7th, 2007
…for matching the copper sash chains in our house!
Our windows had been updated with copper coated chains by the PO, but it turns out the upper sashes still had rope chains. The window guys started to replace them with new chain, but they only had silver and asked me if that was alright. Pete had [...]
July 18th, 2007
Our little village of Morton Grove was recently recognized in the August issue of Family Circle magazine as one of America’s Top 10 towns for families. They chose from among 1,850 towns across the country with a population between 15,000 and 150,000 (Morton Grove is around 22,000) that “combined big city opportunities with suburban charm.”
I [...]