Getting the tank back into shape

by | Jan 12, 2011 | Journal

We had let the marine tank kind of get along in the keeping of the monster hammer coral…euphyllias like it, and they had taken over. So we fragged the monster (Jane has pix) and rearranged the tank. To our great disgust, Jane’s brilliant arrangement has a...

the day from hell—Wednesday.

by | Jan 6, 2011 | Journal

I get up—I turn on my computer. I have no website. I have no blog. I have no e-mail. It’s snowing. I figure out that when I received the notification that I owed more money to a company for the website, I dimly (I have NO brain when I’m working on...

one of those days…(the Monday and Tuesday version)

by | Jan 6, 2011 | Journal

Jane and I determined on Tuesday to frag the very large (nearly 2′) hammer coral in our marine tank—because it had grown up against the glass and took half our 54 gallon tank. We prepared: we got buckets (polystyrene), a small saw for the coral, found a...

Snowmageddon…

by | Dec 29, 2010 | Journal

Actually, outside of the fact it’s very wet, heavy snow, not so bad, but it’s snowed since last evening, it’s weighing down trees, and there’s blizzard conditions in the Palouse, where the wind comes sweeping down the valleys with considerable...

we’re ok with the diet during holidays…

by | Dec 29, 2010 | Journal

Jane and I both gained back 6 lbs, over the 3 days of Christmas, and have one week to trim up before New Year’s. I’ve observed that there’s weight gain, and then there’s ‘binge weight gain’, —and if you don’t let B turn...

we're ok with the diet during holidays…

by | Dec 29, 2010 | Journal

Jane and I both gained back 6 lbs, over the 3 days of Christmas, and have one week to trim up before New Year’s. I’ve observed that there’s weight gain, and then there’s ‘binge weight gain’, —and if you don’t let B turn...