by CJ | Jul 13, 2012 | Journal
The pond is not now crystal clear—but it’s doing pretty well. It was gruesomely hot, about 94, down to 90 at 7pm. Rain is supposed to sock in for the next number of days, and moderate the temperature a bit. Shu has stopped spitting at Sei. The vet-smell...
by CJ | Jul 11, 2012 | Journal
I am, of course, the Nervous Nellie. The vet’s office had to be glad to get me out the door. Shu is accusing as we return without Sei, but when we do get him back, Shu will take one whiff of the disinfectant and hiss and slap at him. Well, it was early up, and a...
by CJ | Jul 11, 2012 | Journal
I am, of course, the Nervous Nellie. The vet’s office had to be glad to get me out the door. Shu is accusing as we return without Sei, but when we do get him back, Shu will take one whiff of the disinfectant and hiss and slap at him. Well, it was early up, and a...
by CJ | Jul 9, 2012 | Journal
…and discovered a food container in the floor, courtesy of our boys. No food after midnight? We don’t think so. So I had to call the vet, apologize, and reschedule for Wednesday. The vet was very ok about it—I’m sure they’d rather have...
by CJ | Jul 7, 2012 | Journal
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...
by CJ | Jul 7, 2012 | Journal
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.
by CJ | Jul 6, 2012 | Journal
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....
by CJ | Jul 5, 2012 | Journal
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...
by CJ | Jul 4, 2012 | Journal
new cover It’s book cover time… CC is about to bust out in new books all over.
by CJ | Jul 4, 2012 | Journal
new cover It’s book cover time… CC is about to bust out in new books all over.
by CJ | Jul 3, 2012 | Journal
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...
by CJ | Jul 3, 2012 | Journal
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...
