by CJ | Jul 6, 2012 | Journal
Seishi turned up sick, refusing food… We’ve been blaming his weight loss on our attempts to keep Shu on a diet, and his skittishness and leaving food on Shu’s tendency to gulp his own and then shove Seishi out. But it got to absolute refusal to eat....
by CJ | Jul 5, 2012 | Journal
We spent the 4th down the street at our coach’s house: Joan has a house facing an overlook of the downtown, and they let off a big display down in the heart of town, in Riverfront Park: thousands gather down there, on the bridges, and this year on a friendly...
by CJ | Jul 4, 2012 | Journal
new cover It’s book cover time… CC is about to bust out in new books all over.
by CJ | Jul 4, 2012 | Journal
new cover It’s book cover time… CC is about to bust out in new books all over.
by CJ | Jul 3, 2012 | Journal
link to fishes The water is finally in balance again, despite rains and high sun in alternation. Click on the image to get the large, clear version. The link to Jane’s page has more. The fishes are: Ari, the big cream-colored one; Maddy, the white one with the...
by CJ | Jul 3, 2012 | Journal
You may know I’m not keen on shopping. I’ll tend to wear something that’s ‘still good’ until it’s clear it isn’t. But now that Jane wants to start walking again—I began to realize the shoes have sort of reached the...
by CJ | Jul 2, 2012 | Journal
she does.
by CJ | Jul 1, 2012 | Journal
…with the iris. That one by the bridge had to be pulled before it shoved the bridge over— The roots/rhizomes are about the size of large Irish potatoes, and getting in there…gasp…was a bear. I started modestly with clippers to take off the...
by CJ | Jun 30, 2012 | Journal
Yesterday’s bread was a bit, well, I had some ado getting it out of the pan last night, so the scrappy end of the loaf ended up in the skillet with a little butter, then some blueberry jam, we optimistically put the umbrella on the patio table, had breakfast out...
by CJ | Jun 29, 2012 | Journal
In the depression of yesterday, we got up this morning, went to Waffles n’ More, blew our diet, and went plant shopping: we got some summer annuals to brighten the garden along with the roses—an everblooming hydrangea, a freesia, which MIGHT be annual if...
by CJ | Jun 28, 2012 | Journal
Best I can figure, we had a slow clog of the waterfall filter that really developed while we were gone for 2 weeks. We THOUGHT it was running slow. Now the waterfall is what provides aeration. And I had some water conditioner which can adversely affect oxygenation. WE...
by CJ | Jun 26, 2012 | Journal
This site that of COURSE hits the top of the search engines–freeze.com (don’t go there) —managed to offer a legitimate download of a useful program, Filezilla, but AS the legit program downloads, about the time your normal little black and white...
