We share another grandfather: my 19th, Jane’s 21st.

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Journal

Thomas Knowllys (Knowles), Lord Mayor of London. He was mayor during the reign of the very mild-mannered and easily-shocked Henry VI of England, who mostly was interested in religion and education and seems over all to have been a pretty good king, if he had not lived...

We share another grandfather: my 19th, Jane's 21st.

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Journal

Thomas Knowllys (Knowles), Lord Mayor of London. He was mayor during the reign of the very mild-mannered and easily-shocked Henry VI of England, who mostly was interested in religion and education and seems over all to have been a pretty good king, if he had not lived...

176! I am one pound away from what I was in 1978.

by | Oct 15, 2013 | Journal

We’re keeping to the diet. Jane’s on a heckuva plateau that’s fighting her hard, and she got an awful upset stomach from the mold involved in the fishtank cleanup downstairs—nothing would work to settle it, and she finally got it quiet with...

Frost on the local pumpkins…

by | Oct 14, 2013 | Journal

…and on the bridges. If I’m going to get the windows washed before it snows, I’d better get at it. Pretty soon we’ll have to roll up the hoses for the winter.

Bonsai Tree Houses

by | Oct 10, 2013 | Journal

Really pretty stuff. I love bonsai, but I have a rather black thumb when it comes to caring for them. Tree houses: bonsai

10,000 years ago in Spokane…

by | Oct 10, 2013 | Journal

Our area was safe, but a massive flood from Lake Spokane and Lake Missoula hit this area, stripping the soil from ancient flood basalts. Resident Native Americans on the Columbia have a story about the fall of a bridge that Jane thinks may relate to the Missoula...