Bye-bye el nino, hello la nina—

according to the weather bureau. It’s raining again, and looks to rain all week. I just cleaned the pond filter yet again—the hyacinth isn’t growing, because we’re in perpetual overcast (with small intermissions)…so I built a pot filter....

Doing somewhat better than expected

I’m not a great believer in ‘cold-prevention’ potions like Emergen-C and Airborne, but what could I lose? I wrapped my throat in elegant-looking Bengay pain patch bandage, took the Emergen-C and dosed myself with sake, and the sore throat has...

how to waste time

Really wicked links follow: it’s easier to put them in a comment than get the fancy-shmancy link button to work in the regular post.

Rain, rain and more rain…

It’s a case of animals starting to pair up in Spokane. If anybody’s building an ark, I have yet to hear it, but we’re more than soggy. I don’t think I’ve seen such a spate of rainy weather since we’ve been here. And our stripped...

Ok, we are about to attempt to fix OSG’s avatar…

…and our theory is that we have to delete OSG’s membership, and attribute all her comments to her alter ego, which she has; and then she will rejoin as OSG, with that icon, and then I will wipe her alter ego, attritbuting all alterego’s comments to...

Ok, we are about to attempt to fix OSG's avatar…

…and our theory is that we have to delete OSG’s membership, and attribute all her comments to her alter ego, which she has; and then she will rejoin as OSG, with that icon, and then I will wipe her alter ego, attritbuting all alterego’s comments to...

We’re back from Miscon…

We were late getting there because it turned out the Stars on Ice tix we bought without looking at dates back at Nationals were for Friday night…and we started out with OSG driving at oh-God-thirty on Saturday. Among first things was to meet with...

We're back from Miscon…

We were late getting there because it turned out the Stars on Ice tix we bought without looking at dates back at Nationals were for Friday night…and we started out with OSG driving at oh-God-thirty on Saturday. Among first things was to meet with...

Breakfast in the rain…

Of the many pleasures of our garden, the gentle NW spring days are one of the greatest. It rains…but this morning we threw towels onto the fabric seats of our patio set and had breakfast (softboiled egg in spaceman-with-helmet egg cup) on our flower plates with...