We are back!

As per usual we don’t advertise when we’re on the road—but we have been. We were down in Texas, and took the kittehs with us on their first multiday road trip. Pix will turn up on Jane’s site. More later when we quit vibrating. But the route...

The Gardening Angels have departed…

…leaving the front yard defined in mounds of mulch (flowerbeds) and pathways. You are either a mulch-heap, or a pathway. Or a rocky streambed. There is no other choice in our front yard. We are weeded, and mulched, pathed, and we are both quite, quite...

The Methodists are coming!

The church across the way has for some reason taken us under its wing—they came to our rescue when Jane was sick last year, laying paths in the back yard, around the koi pond, helping with weeding, and such, and laying the very heavy boundary stones, moving our...

Augean Stables Day 3

I came to a philosophical decision when I decided I needed more room. I HAVE more room. I HAD more room. I just wasn’t using it. My personal problem? A family tendency to hang on to ‘heirlooms’ and ‘mementos.’ I later realized that in my...

The Augean Stables revisited…

One of the things that is becoming quite clear…is that the accumulation of stuff we bought that we now know is not going to be useful, but it’s good stuff—is a problem. The Methodists are having a garage sale. And looking at the small pile of stuff...

Today I…

1. cleaned the office. That was major. Ever heard of the Augean Stables? 2. I filed all the stack of papers, and did, filed, and paid the quarterly business taxes. 3. I designated some stuff for the upcoming garage sale among the Methodists (the people who helped us...