Doc visit—and Ari’s getting better…

The every-few-months buzz past the endocrinologist, who keeps me happily functional, and I’m doing fine…excellent blood pressure, no problems. Battled morbid depression for years until I got the thyroid problem figured out, and since then it’s been...

Doc visit—and Ari's getting better…

The every-few-months buzz past the endocrinologist, who keeps me happily functional, and I’m doing fine…excellent blood pressure, no problems. Battled morbid depression for years until I got the thyroid problem figured out, and since then it’s been...

If it's not one thing, it's the other….plumbing saltwater…

A marine tank is not a matter of tossing water conditioner into city water, oh, no. It’s a matter of getting a small ro/di filter to filter gallons of tapwater into a quality exceeding what they run in your supermarket RO kiosk. A carbon block, a 1-micron...

Going to do hamburgers for supper. On homemade buns…

y’know those big 4″ muffin-top pans? Great for hamburger buns. Set up the breadmaker for making dough, and drop a slightly flattened ball in each of 6 muffin-places. Makes great hamburger buns. We’ve still got a couple of pieces of the pineapple...

We turned Ari out into the pond…

Well, we maneuvered her onto a tea towel for a sling and gently took her over to the pond from the 50 gallon fountain we’d used for a hospital tank. Her head wound hasn’t closed yet, but it’s a lot better, and her ripped fins have all healed, a very...

A happy birthday cruise…

Patty and Mike (Briggs) and Sparky (Ann) joined us for an overnight—afternoon at pondside, dinner on the water (all you can eat salmon and roast), with drinks, back to a little sit by the pond at night—dinner cruise on Lake Coeur d’Alene, and...