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Wave Without A Shore

She. We've gotten desperate with Tanner, who has maintained a state of screaming (thank goodness few blows landed) war with Sei and Shu. And any time we go into the kitchen we get Tanner howling on the stairs. If Jane moves at night---he hears, and starts howling....

Scott was kind enough to come over and help us blow the drip-line system out for the winter: we never have had to do that, since our old sprinkler system was below ground. It takes a compressor and a connector to the lines at the water source. I shut down and drained...

Which means I had to go out and stop the pond pump that sits on the bottom, so water can start layering (warm water on the bottom, earth-warmth, 3 feet down from the to-be-frozen surface. I've sent for another heater, the floating sort, to keep the koi's airhole open....

Jane and I got to figuring that neither one of us have walked much more than the length of the house or the circuit of the garden path since before last November. Except one foray when we visited Patty, and may have walked 2 city blocks, but were pretty done in. The...

The annual cruise on lake Coeur d'Alene came off last night. Ourselves, Scott and Andrea, Tim and Cheryl, Patty and Ann and Ann's husband Richard all took the dinner cruise out onto the lake, and a very good time was had by all, celebrating Jane's successful hospital...

We hadn't mentioned it because we didn't want a buzz going on, but Jane had been having trouble with irregular heartbeat, and after 2 bouts with a Holter monitor and visits to a cardiologist, plus an angiogram, we were shunted over to a second cardiologist with a...

We finally managed to get down to Tricities (Pasco, Kennewick, Richland) on the Columbia and visit Patty, who breeds (besides books) show horses. She has 8 babies. And they're wonderful. Hand-tamed, so they're willing to be petted, if a little shy. And so tempting I...

a. I'm vexed that it came without a shaker top. And it's---um---wet. Looks like wet sand. b. So I'm after spreading it wherever our nightly deaf raccoon uses as his pond-approach. [Deaf: he seems the only raccoon able to ignore the sonic deterrent. And he likes to go...

...it would be wonderful, now that it is fixed, if it calmed his opera-on-the-stairs routine, but we have small hope. The good news is, he is otherwise in good shape. Sympathies for those of you in heat-stress. We've been cool up here, but I have the feeling nature...

We're celebrating with a gardening expedition this morning. While others have sweltered, alas, we've basked in 72 degree days. And Jane and I are moving a little better, aggressively challenging the pain. We figure move it or lose it, and we made a major push this...

Jane and I took a driving trip to plot the next Alliance book. We are Scott-less for about 5 more weeks, as he supervises a crew building a barn for someone, and we are taking the chance to put the upper floor together, which necessitates more moving of boxes. We got...

Somebody asked me about the five Padi Valley clans: the ones commonly listed are Taiben, Atageini, Ajuri, and Kadagidi---so what is the fortunate fifth? I repeat the answer here: "Dur does function as a fortunate fifth. The real fifth was Sheiji. When an association...