by CJ | Jul 17, 2010 | Journal
It takes me a while to recover my stride after a diversion. Thank goodness for outlines. We were, for one thing, diverted by a spate of really cool weather, making it foolish to wait to do certain outdoor jobs which would have to be done in potential 100 degree...
by CJ | Jul 15, 2010 | Journal
…unlike the journey of 10,000 miles, does not begin with one step, but with a List. One of those hanging-fire for months lists where, when the weather is too hot and nasty to do anything else, means you’ve got to get 1. wire staples for weedcloth (sold out...
by CJ | Jul 15, 2010 | Journal
…that’s the S&S anthology I have a short story in. Lou Anders is the editor, and it’s from Harper. There’s also a version that is signed by all the participants, for those of you who are into collections.
by CJ | Jul 14, 2010 | Journal
I’ve finally learned how to get Thunderbird to ban a whole site: highlight a piece of spam in the inbox, go to “message/create filter from message”, choose not ‘is’, but ‘contains’, and get rid of everything but the part after...
by CJ | Jul 13, 2010 | Journal
Has been a poser, but the internet can solve anything. Step one: if the sash won’t lift easily, oil the track. We tried graphite. No go. What works: Peanut oil. Machine oil. Any fine oil. Lifts like a charm. Treat both upper and lower sash tracks. Move them...
by CJ | Jul 12, 2010 | Journal
We took yesterday off, pretty well, because both of us are so sore we can’t walk.
by CJ | Jul 11, 2010 | Journal
…I’ve tried every method known to man and I can definitively report that unless you have a bog garden at least half the size of your pond, if you live in a sunny clime, you will have algae. Chemical remediation: bad, because the algae killers are copper....
by CJ | Jul 11, 2010 | Journal
…I’ve tried every method known to man and I can definitively report that unless you have a bog garden at least half the size of your pond, if you live in a sunny clime, you will have algae. Chemical remediation: bad, because the algae killers are copper....
by CJ | Jul 10, 2010 | Journal
…and we’re both off to a party, with guitars and filk books and a box of wine. We think we deserve it.
by CJ | Jul 10, 2010 | Journal
…and we’re both off to a party, with guitars and filk books and a box of wine. We think we deserve it.
by CJ | Jul 8, 2010 | Journal
Jane as usual will have the pix. But half our front yard, up to the front walk, has a retaining wall about hip high, with cinder stone in front of it. The other half, a short half, is—was—grass, rolling down to the street. Now there is no grass. And we...
by CJ | Jul 6, 2010 | Journal
Lynn Abbey’s The Wooden Sword is now available on CC. If you have bookmarked The Store, she has created a Lynn’s Books page reachable from the Lobby, just as a heads-up. We have some navigational cleanup to do over there, but start from the Lobby and you...
