by CJ | Oct 8, 2011 | Journal
We changed out the white, hard to keep countertop in our kitchen; and, waste-not, want-not, two children of children of the Great Depression are we. Rather than pay an extra 50 to have the guy haul off the old countertop we had removed ourselves, thus saving 100.00 or...
by CJ | Oct 7, 2011 | Journal
But it’s going to look good. We’re each putting a couple of wooden shelf supports by the side of the sill, and adding an oak plank, which does not bend, and which will serve as a cat perch, as well as a workspace shelf for cups and such. Found a way to...
by CJ | Oct 7, 2011 | Journal
But it’s going to look good. We’re each putting a couple of wooden shelf supports by the side of the sill, and adding an oak plank, which does not bend, and which will serve as a cat perch, as well as a workspace shelf for cups and such. Found a way to...
by CJ | Oct 5, 2011 | Journal
I’d just gotten these bifocal contacts when Jane got sick—and my eyes have gone further ‘off’ by the month since, until today—well, first we decided to hike a mile down to Pancakes R Us, in the rain—and then I thought I’d have...
by CJ | Oct 5, 2011 | Journal
…and in its way it was more trouble than the bulkhead on the ‘up’ line. This one was full of calcium carbonate from the time we had a calcium or alkalinity test go bad (can’t remember which, but either will do it)—so we over-added, in our...
by CJ | Oct 5, 2011 | Journal
…and in its way it was more trouble than the bulkhead on the ‘up’ line. This one was full of calcium carbonate from the time we had a calcium or alkalinity test go bad (can’t remember which, but either will do it)—so we over-added, in our...
by CJ | Oct 4, 2011 | Journal
The Sack of the Gods STRANGERS drawn from the ends of the earth, jewelled and plumed were we; I was Lord of the Inca race, and she was Queen of the Sea. Under the stars beyond our stars where the new-forged meteors glow, Hotly we stormed Valhalla, a million years ago!...
by CJ | Oct 3, 2011 | Journal
at the bulkhead, which is a hole drilled through the bottom glass, inside a ‘caisson-like’ containment called the ‘downflow box’: there is an open hole on the watery side, and a screw-on tap that goes to a hose on the ‘air’ side of...
by CJ | Oct 3, 2011 | Journal
at the bulkhead, which is a hole drilled through the bottom glass, inside a ‘caisson-like’ containment called the ‘downflow box’: there is an open hole on the watery side, and a screw-on tap that goes to a hose on the ‘air’ side of...
by CJ | Oct 1, 2011 | Journal
I wish comfort to everyone sad today.
by CJ | Oct 1, 2011 | Journal
Let me share a little something that is, however crazy, at least true in the way I look at the universe. Jane and I have always said that our kittehs’ having nine lives—and I’m sure doggies have something the same—is their way of keeping up...
by CJ | Sep 30, 2011 | Journal
Jane’s reacted yesterday: aches, sleepiness for a few hours. Mine got me today: aches, really horrid aches, and drowsiness. Lasted about 4 hours. It’s really, as Jane pointed out, amusing: it’s the Fast H1N1 Flu. It comes on a few days after the flu...
