So far so good…

Jane’s upper GI procedure turned up some small ulcers, nothing major. She’s in for the lower GI Friday. Stay tuned. Our crappy insurance is being crappy. More on that later.

Got 2 new fishes…

Our pond place is closing for the year, because of intense construction in the area, and the fact the owners haven’t had a vacation in ten years. So we went to see if there are any fishes that would be worthy successors to our lost ones. Mind, we still...

Update 2: doing pretty well

Due to holiday, docs can’t do anything until Tuesday. Otherwise, transfusions have made a good difference: she’s much more herself, and your letters and Eushu’s antics keep us in a good mood.

Update: spent the whole day at the docs…

Jane got transfusions yesterday: just as a point of information, it takes 2 hours to put in one unit of blood: we left at 10 am and didn’t get back until 11 pm. She’s feeling much better today but I’m going to defer the actual reports over to her...

We are building the bridge…

This morning we painted one side and edges of the 2/ 2″x12″/ 12′ arches, cut and painted the 5/ 2×4 /29 inch interior braces, and have found room enough to paint 3 of the decking boards that will be sawed up into deck for the bridge. This...

Distressed at news about Joplin MO

This is the home of my earliest memories. I was between 3 and 5, and there are so many. Walking in an autumn woods near our house on Pearl Street, and my mother overcome with anxiety, running toward me through the woods…I’d been lost—well, I knew...

OSGuy promises us he's sanding the bridge supports…

and we may have them this afternoon. If that’s the case, we’re going on a bridge-painting-building binge. We figure that having a  no-railing span across the waist of our 20 foot long pond will cramp the eagle’s style—literally, since they...