We have been spoiled by our weather…

We’re used to 72 degrees. Jane had done a little planting in the cool of the morning and I ran the leaf blower to get the hawthorne husks off the patio and path, and that was about it…well, I did fill the green-compost garbage can with forsythia...

Seishi is no longer refusing to eat…

He is beween me and myc screen trying to persuade me that it is noon. It is 10. He prefer to be on Texas time in the Am, adn Washginton time in the afternoons until it is 3, at which point he goes on Texas time agian, caliming to be starving….for tuna.

Hellacious day yesterday…

Seishi turned up sick, refusing food… We’ve been blaming his weight loss on our attempts to keep Shu on a diet, and his skittishness and leaving food on Shu’s tendency to gulp his own and then shove Seishi out. But it got to absolute refusal to eat....

The heat is coming…

We spent the 4th down the street at our coach’s house: Joan has a house facing an overlook of the downtown, and they let off a big display down in the heart of town, in Riverfront Park: thousands gather down there, on the bridges, and this year on a friendly...

Pond water pix: the way we like it to be…

link to fishes The water is finally in balance again, despite rains and high sun in alternation. Click on the image to get the large, clear version. The link to Jane’s page has more. The fishes are: Ari, the big cream-colored one; Maddy, the white one with the...

New shoes. You have to understand—this is an Event.

You may know I’m not keen on shopping. I’ll tend to wear something that’s ‘still good’ until it’s clear it isn’t. But now that Jane wants to start walking again—I began to realize the shoes have sort of reached the...

Mortal Kombat…

…with the iris. That one by the bridge had to be pulled before it shoved the bridge over— The roots/rhizomes are about the size of large Irish potatoes, and getting in there…gasp…was a bear. I started modestly with clippers to take off the...