And here comes the fire truck…

by | Oct 31, 2009 | Journal

…big bang, flash outside. Nope, not the mate to the Indonesian meteor: an electric line to the neighbors house just broke and dropped into the city arterial that flanks our house. We lost power briefly, and then a pumper firetruck shows up, blocks traffic while...

Sadly, we lost one of our koi.

by | Oct 31, 2009 | Journal

Our littlest, Rukia, that never grew much, that we tried specially hard to feed and help into her first winter. It was my fault, my inexperience. I saw her up swimming that one cold morning, and looking up the problem, found that it was a symptom of hypothermia:...

My aching fingers…

by | Oct 30, 2009 | Journal

We have collected all the disks from the last 20 years of writing and doing business and having lives onto a terabyte drive, and I have begun to edit them for duplications. There’s method in this: this enables me to find the text files for past...

Back to the rink…it tried to snow today, but didn't.

by | Oct 29, 2009 | Journal

I was sore today and so darned sleepy (probably allergies) that I wasn’t worth much. We did run into old friends, had lunch with Kay. I’m still just exhausted, for no good reason, and had trouble breathing…just a little asthma, I think. No other...

Back to the rink…it tried to snow today, but didn’t.

by | Oct 29, 2009 | Journal

I was sore today and so darned sleepy (probably allergies) that I wasn’t worth much. We did run into old friends, had lunch with Kay. I’m still just exhausted, for no good reason, and had trouble breathing…just a little asthma, I think. No other...

93985…and back on the ice.

by | Oct 26, 2009 | Journal

We went back to the rink today, trying to get our feet under us: again, pretty good: my sense of balance isn’t shot, but it’s kinda wobbly—instinct recovers when I let a foot drift ahead, and the leg strength is there, to yank that straying foot back...

How to propagate spider mums…yes, you heard it here first…

by | Oct 25, 2009 | Journal

We really, really want some of the larger, more fragile mums for the Japanese-garden pondside, and I have searched the web for spider mum or football mum *plants,* to no avail. What I did find was the way to propagate them from a bouquet. It’s really pretty...