Considering ending registration as it now exists…

And arranging it so that you cannot become a member of this site except by writing a letter to me. My addy can be found herein. But every time I toss off five RU hucksters, I get 10 in their place. I can easily add someone, or un-add them. But I’m of a mind just...

Membership apps to this site: READ.

I’m about to purge the whole list of applicants, most of whom are Russian bots, but—if you’re real and want in, all you have to do is drop me an e-mail (addy is available on this page) and tell me you’re not a bot and say hi. Not a real...

We are beginning to let kitties meet…

And after several bouts, we have discovered Sentry ‘calming collars,’ which offer some promise. They are loaded with Feliway-stuff. At least Tanner is less hysterical about his basement steps howl-a-thon, and the other two seem to be quieter in...

Pruning the apple tree…

The book said prune in fall or spring, and spring didn’t work. So this time I’m trimming in fall, and cutting it back until it looks like an Angry Orchard poster. It gave us 2 good apples. But it’s right near our Japanese maple, it’s an...

New bug…

Thursday we took delivery of the window well inserts, read, two six foot x six foot curved forms that have to go into the 7x 6 pits the basement window installers dug while installing the new basement egress windows. And while the SAIA truck driver was kind enough to...

Monday…yep.

On the good side—Jane cleaned up the living room and polished the floor and it is now free of boxes and spacious and pretty again for the first time since construction began LAST September! I’m organizing things in the basement. And…the middle...

New basement windows

The little rusted windows (we broke one the night we got locked out) are now history. We replaced the 3 garden-side windows with modern screened windows. And then because we’d like to finish the finished side of the basement, and not have it be a junk storage,...

We’ve lost one of the kitties.

Tracker, age between 15 and 18, to kidney failure. Nothing they can do. So we’re headed to the vet’s in a few minutes. Very sad day here. This is one of the two we brought from Jane’s sister’s place.