We’re slightly snowy…

by | Dec 13, 2013 | Journal

Just a little frosting. We could use some of the snow pack you guys to the south are getting…our sympathies to you. We live where snowplows exist and have a Plan for the event. We got with our accountant by phone yesterday and finally have the healthcare thing...

A day for strangeness….

by | Dec 11, 2013 | Journal

Started it off by getting the blood test I’m required to get quarterly (thyroid doc) a month late because of the crud… That went pretty well. I’ve only had this car since July and I’m finally learning how to work the lights…(getting there...

And it continues: still having the sale…

by | Dec 10, 2013 | Journal

and Jane FINALLY (see the epic 6.5 hour struggle with Comcast…) got the new router set up. It wasn’t glitchless, but we got it. Jane got it. Neither she nor I is as energetic as we wish, but hey, the router does work. Yesterday she got mulch for the new...

SALE at Closed Circle…

by | Dec 6, 2013 | Journal

You are the first to know… 10% off all e-books and physical books until Jan 1. Free domestic shipping on all physical books until Jan 1. Foreign shipping discounted until Jan 1. [The foreign shipping discount is equal to the free domestic shipping, somewhere...

Fiendish Feline Intelligence…

by | Dec 5, 2013 | Journal

Sei is not the brightest light in catdom…so he’d have you think. Shu is. And you should be afraid…be terribly afraid. The morning and nightly routine involves the payoff: kitty treats. PM, I call Sei, who always ‘loses it’ [oh, look, a...

Down to 18 degrees last night…

by | Dec 3, 2013 | Journal

And the pond is really, really frozen. Yesterday our two scoundrel fish-raiding cats (because of whom we have had to net the pond) were out there near the pond heater hole in the ice, and the ice was cracking under them—I watched them the entire time, really not...

It's going to be a little snow, and a dive into the teens.

by | Dec 2, 2013 | Journal

As in 7 and 8. Coldest it’s been in 3-4 years. Jane’s out tending to some shopping and getting a strand of lights to replace the dead one for the ‘woodland tree’, a little tree we hang all our wild-animal motif things on: it has frosted little...

It’s going to be a little snow, and a dive into the teens.

by | Dec 2, 2013 | Journal

As in 7 and 8. Coldest it’s been in 3-4 years. Jane’s out tending to some shopping and getting a strand of lights to replace the dead one for the ‘woodland tree’, a little tree we hang all our wild-animal motif things on: it has frosted little...

And it's a white winter morning…

by | Nov 30, 2013 | Journal

We got snow last night. The pond, already frozen hard and deep by a week of 20 degree weather, is white, and dark below, and we hope the fishes are well asleep. Jane bravely got out yesterday, got the last of the juniper to the compost can, and the trash and recycling...

And it’s a white winter morning…

by | Nov 30, 2013 | Journal

We got snow last night. The pond, already frozen hard and deep by a week of 20 degree weather, is white, and dark below, and we hope the fishes are well asleep. Jane bravely got out yesterday, got the last of the juniper to the compost can, and the trash and recycling...