Today we are going to put the skin on the greenhouse…we hope.

Doing much better this morning, after incredible stiffness last night: now we get to wrestle a significantly heavy plastic and cloth cover onto the frame, which stands way over our head. It is one piece, we think. If it has to slip down like a sock onto a foot, this...

Oh, when you get out of shape…

…I’m doing rehab at the Y, and just a little tends to do me in, I mean like 15 reps apiece on each of about 6 machines—but I’m up from 10. The good news is (I’m working most on the leg exercises, a little on the midriff) I started out...

Today we do the messy part of fishkeeping. Pumps and hoses.

I’ve got to go to Lowes and the feed store, in inverse order, and get two pumps, one that will accept a garden hose for the pond, and a little Maxijet for the topoff tank. Then I get to go find tubing/hose/adapters that will do the job. I nearly flooded the...