by CJ | Dec 3, 2010 | Journal
So Jane and I and Steve and Tracey all showed up, somewhat annoyed to find no available ice. But we got the grocery shopping done. We may go out with Joan to lunch tomorrow, just for a non-cooking holiday. We bought 26.00 worth of bargain chicken, and Jane is in there...
by CJ | Dec 2, 2010 | Journal
Apparently there’s more than one way to build a DNA molecule. And here I shout, “I knew it!” and smile broadly. Arsenic, would you believe? It’s from Mono Lake. One of my unguessable career bits was on the RNA thing—nothing too elevated;...
by CJ | Dec 2, 2010 | Journal
…off our roofs. I figure the church over there will go first, that and the flat roofed sections of the house across the street. But that snow was incredibly heavy and wet: a shovelful was a strain to lift, and I’m in pretty good shape. Last Snowpocalypse,...
by CJ | Dec 1, 2010 | Journal
Facebook was just getting more and more full of silly and just not the community this place is. So I’m devoting myself to the blog and to Closed Circle, which is where I’d rather be. Jane and I came to that conclusion pretty well a month ago, but hung on...
by CJ | Dec 1, 2010 | Journal
Facebook was just getting more and more full of silly and just not the community this place is. So I’m devoting myself to the blog and to Closed Circle, which is where I’d rather be. Jane and I came to that conclusion pretty well a month ago, but hung on...
by CJ | Dec 1, 2010 | Journal
The massive flowering quince that shades my bedroom totally collapsed flat. The snowplows just threw up a three foot berm across our drive, and Jane has thrown her back out, not unrelated to shoveling, I fear, but it looks as if this storm is mine. As soon as...
by CJ | Nov 30, 2010 | Journal
Pay close attention to the weather reports. An online correspondent of mine just had his entire house ceiling fall in. He went to work on a cold day, he lives in the far south, the cold froze pipes in the attic, and for hours and hours, a split pipe delivered water...
by CJ | Nov 28, 2010 | Journal
And this one has a week more to run…it’s not snowing today, but will tomorrow through next Sunday, and then the next BIG storm hits. We got over a foot from the last one, and had to clear our trees of snow; the snow was so wet you don’t want to ask...
by CJ | Nov 27, 2010 | Journal
A British reader pointed out—Thanksgiving is kind of an anomaly among holidays. And Americans love holidays. Halloween has gone from kids trick or treating to adults dressing up and going about to their favorite pubs or parties, decorating in orange...
by CJ | Nov 26, 2010 | Journal
…much easier the second time around! BTW, overstock.com is offering a refurb Nook for 99.00. Jane’s doing what she dearly loves this time of year: decorating for Christmas! We’re hanging a stocking for the cats, and we have wall to wall stags, mostly...
by CJ | Nov 25, 2010 | Journal
…we are particularly thankful for our friends in the Closed Circle network. Thank you all so much for your kindness. Our plans for the day, now that we have had breakfast, are to be thoroughly off-diet. The day’s fare will be (not just...
by CJ | Nov 24, 2010 | Journal
We’re not going skating today: a forecast daily high of 9 is just a little unreasonable for the winter clothes we own: we are not equipped for Fairbanks or Nome. I have an important scene to write today, and over all—we’re just going to be...
