by CJ | Nov 4, 2011 | Journal
She should never have asked Jane and me to go kitten-hunting with her. OSG had her eye already on a foster-home candidate, a tortie girl, out in Otis Orchards, a small town near Spokane…the woman has a feral-cat feeding station which enables her to nab strays...
by CJ | Nov 3, 2011 | Journal
…this one takes the (wedding) cake. And the guy is ok with this because?
by CJ | Nov 1, 2011 | Journal
Yep. It could be forming planets. In fact—it’s probably forming planets.
by CJ | Oct 31, 2011 | Journal
Everybody first search my books on B&N, and if you find Hephaestus Books with omnibuses of my work, go to customer service at B&N’s corporate site and write them explaining these are ripoffs and not real books. Be nice, but be firm that these are...
by CJ | Oct 28, 2011 | Journal
This was a day. First, we decided to refi the house—if you’re a homeowner with loans handled by Freddy Mac or Fannie Mae, with interest in the 5’s or higher, there are some special provisions that let you do some revision of your interest rate, ie,...
by CJ | Oct 27, 2011 | Journal
Sei’s just very careful about coming onto Herself’s territory; but yesterday he spent most of the day under the chest of drawers in my room…rather a high legged chest, so I know he’s there, and he can watch things. He spent last night there,...
by CJ | Oct 27, 2011 | Journal
Sei’s just very careful about coming onto Herself’s territory; but yesterday he spent most of the day under the chest of drawers in my room…rather a high legged chest, so I know he’s there, and he can watch things. He spent last night there,...
by CJ | Oct 26, 2011 | Journal
Yesterday afternoon Jane and I went for a walk to try to get new air into our lungs, and came back to find OSG had come over from work, being unable to raise us by phone. We went out to the Swinging Door and had supper, which was really all I can remember eating...
by CJ | Oct 25, 2011 | Journal
We none of us planned on it. But Ysabel, I think, had picked her moment. She always slept with me. And she was unusually ‘with me’ last night, but today, surprising both Jane and me, she woke up with serious problems. She stayed for Jane’s birthday,...
by CJ | Oct 23, 2011 | Journal
They’re giving the figure for a very thin crust, a very shallow 9″. Screw that. Crust #1 became breakfast, with cinnamon and sugar. I have crust #2 chilling now. I’ll bake later today. And bake again tomorrow. I’m going to get this. It was...
by CJ | Oct 23, 2011 | Journal
They’re giving the figure for a very thin crust, a very shallow 9″. Screw that. Crust #1 became breakfast, with cinnamon and sugar. I have crust #2 chilling now. I’ll bake later today. And bake again tomorrow. I’m going to get this. It was...
by CJ | Oct 21, 2011 | Journal
…but we are gaining on our difficulty. Those of you who’ve been with us a while know that this hasn’t been our easiest year. Jane’s illness threw us. She hadn’t been able to work on things for months, and finally found out why; when I...
