by CJ | Jul 28, 2010 | Journal
Live and learn! We now have very little green algae: we have a barley-based clarifier and a type of bacteria-based cleanup stuff normally sold for small lakes: I use it by the half-ounce weekly, and another dose of a different bacterial cocktail once monthly, and...
by CJ | Apr 3, 2010 | Journal
It’s been bitter chill and windy ever since we took the lawn up…so cold I haven’t been able to wash out the filters for the pond (two of them are lying on the patio drying out, but not washed, because the water is like ice) and am down to my last...
by CJ | Jan 29, 2010 | Journal
OSG says don’t trust February, but it’s been generally trending warmer. Mmm. We have seen fishes: Ari and Maddy, Ishida, maybe Grant, and a couple of the orange ones, which we can’t see well enough. We have 11 of them, and they shift about a bit. But...
by CJ | Nov 12, 2009 | Journal
Kids are still out of school, or at least some are, which means terror on the ice…I love the little princess who spent most of her time digging her toepick into the ice near the wall, so that an unsuspecting novice can fall and break his/her neck, but hey, ice...
by CJ | Oct 8, 2009 | Journal
Gutter cleaning. We got a couple of wheelbarrow loads of compost out of it: gutter-guard keeps the big stuff out, and the chaff composts really nicely. Darn the luck. I meanwhile hauled out the garbage, the recyclables, and the yard clippings, and clipped the roses...
by CJ | Oct 8, 2009 | Journal
Gutter cleaning. We got a couple of wheelbarrow loads of compost out of it: gutter-guard keeps the big stuff out, and the chaff composts really nicely. Darn the luck. I meanwhile hauled out the garbage, the recyclables, and the yard clippings, and clipped the roses...
by CJ | Sep 14, 2009 | Journal
…are exploring the architecture. Frequent e-mails, and substance is happening as she and I figure out what we want to do and where we need to put it to have that happen. I don’t think you can see much of it yet, but there is stuff happening behind the...
by CJ | Sep 10, 2009 | Journal
It’s not going to be too hard, actually—once I learn to tie pages together. We now have the print color straightened out. If the size is still too small, it’s CSS and you should be able to scale it up, but if not, tell me and I’ll fix it from...
