by CJ | Nov 30, 2010 | Journal
Pay close attention to the weather reports. An online correspondent of mine just had his entire house ceiling fall in. He went to work on a cold day, he lives in the far south, the cold froze pipes in the attic, and for hours and hours, a split pipe delivered water...
by CJ | Nov 28, 2010 | Journal
And this one has a week more to run…it’s not snowing today, but will tomorrow through next Sunday, and then the next BIG storm hits. We got over a foot from the last one, and had to clear our trees of snow; the snow was so wet you don’t want to ask...
by CJ | Nov 27, 2010 | Journal
A British reader pointed out—Thanksgiving is kind of an anomaly among holidays. And Americans love holidays. Halloween has gone from kids trick or treating to adults dressing up and going about to their favorite pubs or parties, decorating in orange...
by CJ | Nov 26, 2010 | Journal
…much easier the second time around! BTW, overstock.com is offering a refurb Nook for 99.00. Jane’s doing what she dearly loves this time of year: decorating for Christmas! We’re hanging a stocking for the cats, and we have wall to wall stags, mostly...
by CJ | Nov 25, 2010 | Journal
…we are particularly thankful for our friends in the Closed Circle network. Thank you all so much for your kindness. Our plans for the day, now that we have had breakfast, are to be thoroughly off-diet. The day’s fare will be (not just...
by CJ | Nov 24, 2010 | Journal
We’re not going skating today: a forecast daily high of 9 is just a little unreasonable for the winter clothes we own: we are not equipped for Fairbanks or Nome. I have an important scene to write today, and over all—we’re just going to be...
by CJ | Nov 23, 2010 | Journal
We’re under a blizzard warning and asked to stay off the roads…the city services have got all they can handle. Jane says the snow-viewing lantern looks like a Russian onion dome. We have about 5″ down so far and it’s still coming. We were going...
by CJ | Nov 21, 2010 | Journal
…and we spent yesterday afternoon hacking frozen ground and moving semi-frozen mulch. Our neighbor now thinks he doesn’t want a wall where we were going to put it, so we had to rip up a wee bit more sod and (in a mild wind) get the newspaper down and then...
by CJ | Nov 18, 2010 | Journal
No word from a lot of you for a while. Hello? Hello? What’s everyone up to?
by CJ | Nov 18, 2010 | Journal
…just a white frosting. But I realized last night I forgot to open the gate valve and drain the 30 gallons in the waterfall tank (pumped in from the pond continuously until pump shutdown) which is now standing water, and which needs to be emptied. I’ll...
by CJ | Nov 17, 2010 | Journal
Maneuvers take more energy than plain-skating—things like 3-turns and crossovers and backwards skating…and I’m still taking it slow, coming back to the ice. I’m limiting myself to about 30 minutes a go, to avoid straining something. And there...
by CJ | Nov 16, 2010 | Journal
I think the strongest winds since we’ve been in the Pacific NW. Some gusts to 60 mph. I’d thought maybe they wouldn’t happen—because it had started to rain, and I thought the front might have piffled. But then… We got a weather warning on...
