Look out, nation. Snowpocalypse has arrived!

by | Nov 23, 2010 | Journal

We’re under a blizzard warning and asked to stay off the roads…the city services have got all they can handle. Jane says the snow-viewing lantern looks like a Russian onion dome. We have about 5″ down so far and it’s still coming. We were going...

The pond has frozen…

by | Nov 21, 2010 | Journal

…and we spent yesterday afternoon hacking frozen ground and moving semi-frozen mulch. Our neighbor now thinks he doesn’t want a wall where we were going to put it, so we had to rip up a wee bit more sod and (in a mild wind) get the newspaper down and then...

First snow!

by | Nov 18, 2010 | Journal

…just a white frosting. But I realized last night I forgot to open the gate valve and drain the 30 gallons in the waterfall tank (pumped in from the pond continuously until pump shutdown) which is now standing water, and which needs to be emptied. I’ll...

Gaining on it, slowly, with the skating…

by | Nov 17, 2010 | Journal

Maneuvers take more energy than plain-skating—things like 3-turns and crossovers and backwards skating…and I’m still taking it slow, coming back to the ice. I’m limiting myself to about 30 minutes a go, to avoid straining something. And there...

heckuva windstorm last night…

by | Nov 16, 2010 | Journal

I think the strongest winds since we’ve been in the Pacific NW. Some gusts to 60 mph. I’d thought maybe they wouldn’t happen—because it had started to rain, and I thought the front might have piffled. But then… We got a weather warning on...

Don’t click on the kitteh on Facebook—

by | Nov 15, 2010 | Journal

—Closed Circle is taking a big financial gamble, actually running an ad for Blood Red Moon on Facebook, so if you do see it, you can ‘like’ it, but please edon’t click on it, so that we don’t get charged for people who already know where...

Don't click on the kitteh on Facebook—

by | Nov 15, 2010 | Journal

—Closed Circle is taking a big financial gamble, actually running an ad for Blood Red Moon on Facebook, so if you do see it, you can ‘like’ it, but please edon’t click on it, so that we don’t get charged for people who already know where...

Monday, and this time—back on the ice.

by | Nov 15, 2010 | Journal

Trying to get up earlier in the day so I have time to get my day’s writing mostly done before we go skating. I’m going to have to replace my coffeemaker: it’s decided not to dispense coffee, and I’ve tried every way to clean it I can think of....

The diet: Jane and I both are almost into exciting territory.

by | Nov 14, 2010 | Journal

I’m headed into territory I haven’t explored in decades. Jane is headed past a pesky plateau that has stopped her again and again. Let me give you the gist of it: first of all, we joined the actual South Beach site, at http://www.southbeachdiet.com which...