Nice visit with Jane’s cousins…

We went out to Anthony’s, which has a panoramic view of Spokane Falls, right in the heart of town: a white water river with a short but turbulent falls, and a walkway across the water—we didn’t take it this evening, but the water hitting the rock to...

Loaded sixteen tons and what'd' we get?

Some pretty river rock. Actually, it’s five tons, and one ton of gravel, and the truck that delivered it was worth the price of admission. It’s a double dumptruck, and it pulled up across the street, unhitched the second bin, then backed up and dumped the...

Loaded sixteen tons and what’d’ we get?

Some pretty river rock. Actually, it’s five tons, and one ton of gravel, and the truck that delivered it was worth the price of admission. It’s a double dumptruck, and it pulled up across the street, unhitched the second bin, then backed up and dumped the...

We got back on the ice and had a pretty nice skate…

I’m not nearly as sore as I should be, but I’ve been front-loading Aleve. And the effort it took to load 2 of the 5 fifty-pound bags of sand straightened out the kink between my shoulders that’s been there for, oh, six months, so not all ill winds...

Up at 7 to poison weeds…

I broke 2—count ’em, TWO sprayers for Round-up, but got the essential job done. Moved about 500 lbs of red lava rock, between Jane and myself. Jane got the weeds out of the intended path, set some rocks, set some more rocks. I went back to make a pot...

Worried about Jane…

…she’s undertaken the whole formatting/prep job for Closed Circle, which has gotten so arcane I don’t remotely understand half of it, she’s working late hours trying to get it all done, do the graphics, covers, tweak the covers so they display...