Anne's Blog

      I live in an area of Kansas City, Missouri called Westport or Midtown or both. It’s a very urban area of the city and it’s probably not for everyone but I love it here. I live in a building built in 1910 so I guess it might be considered an historic building and it’s right across from the “Shady Shell” on 38th and Main. You experience it all around here.       Earlier today, I walked to the Westport Post Office to ship a package. It’s only about a 3 block walk from here and it’s nice today. In my ongoing effort to keep myself mobile and out of a nursing home (I’m 64), I try to walk around here as much as possible. On the way back in the block between Westport Road and 39th on Baltimore Street, I came across a young man walking a beautiful Golden Retriever. He was on the other side of the street but walked across the street to where I was standing. Actually, the dog was very friendly and led him across the street to me. The Golden Retriever was ta...

     It has been another freakishly, balmy mid-February day in Kansas City, Missouri. At the time I started writing this, it's about 5pm & it's still 62⁰ out. I have all the windows in my 4plex unit open. I'm sitting by an open east-facing window now. I have not one, but two, 16+ year old cats as family members. One of them is sitting on my lap. I guess Spring isn't that far off. I can hear birds in the distance, again, from my OPEN window in mid-February. This afternoon, when I was walking my dog, I could hear a woodpecker happily pecking away. The trees are all still bare so it's easy to see birds up in the trees. I looked for the woodpecker. I really wanted to see it. I have seen Pileated Woodpeckers in this area and they should be easy to see in the still leaf-less trees. However, I had my dog on the end of a leash in my right hand and I couldn't look @ any length for the woodpecker as looking up in trees while you have a dog on a leash is not a stable s...

     My most "recent" entry was on December 17th of last year which wasn't really that long ago. Wasn't 12/17/2025 just yesterday? Weren't my sons young just yesterday and my parents still alive? On that post, I noted that the temperature on that day in mid-December was a balmy 54⁰.       After reading that, I felt compelled to write a similar weather-related entry. Today, in Kansas City, the sun was out all day and, the only time I checked the weather today, the temperature was 71⁰ (in early February even). This isn't Minnesota where balmy in February is 32⁰. It can get very cold here in Kansas City in the Winter. However, 71⁰, even here, 500 miles or so south of St. Paul, Minnesota is beyond balmy. I wore a short-sleeved shirt, a skirt & my neon green soccer slides to take Heisenberg for a walk. It felt and, still, feels, wonderful to be outside. On a side note, the Leo in me has a thing for neon green. I have lots of neon-green colored shirts, s...