Window washing and the Keystone Cops…

I went out to wash the windows. Plain water wouldn’t cut it. I came in after the swabbing brush and the Dawn dish detergent. And I headed out again to hose down the windows and scrub. “I’ll help,” says Jane. The wind is blowing a gale. She...

the freeze is coming—29 degrees Monday night.

The koi are huddled under the water hyacinth, and they aren’t eating. The Valley had major hail, uncommon for us: usually hail falls as styrofoam pellets, but this dented cars. And then a major wind gust blew over the gulls that sit on our outdoor table, blew...

92000 words. And the power unit on my computer…’sploded.

Well, not quite, but it quit and then got very hot. I use a Dell. If you recall the viral internet pic of the Japanese businesssman recoiling in horror from a burning computer, you may remember that Dell and several other computers were getting batteries from, I...

92000 words. And the power unit on my computer…'sploded.

Well, not quite, but it quit and then got very hot. I use a Dell. If you recall the viral internet pic of the Japanese businesssman recoiling in horror from a burning computer, you may remember that Dell and several other computers were getting batteries from, I...

no writing done today: the office reached critical mass…

It had become a Rubik’s Cube problem. Move the wastebasket to move the box of sortables to move the chair to reach the stack… It’s a very small office for 2 people and their business records. It’s become complicated by computer bits and bobs,...