by CJ | Aug 26, 2011 | Journal
It’s hard to explain—especially in light of the traditional instruction in English classes about the way stories work—especially how novels work. Dunno how often somebody’s asked me to discuss plot—and I just groan, because I’m not...
by CJ | Aug 25, 2011 | Journal
Like many remodeled houses—we have a bit of a brick-match problem. In our case, some IDIOT put dark brown, grey, and red brick in the place where the old garage door used to be, when the house brick is earthy orange (like Oklahoma dirt), earthy yellow, brown,...
by CJ | Aug 24, 2011 | Journal
Brown dwarfs, which answer very well to the ‘jump points’, points of ‘dark’ mass which serve as spatial tethers, have been known to exist for some little while—sometimes when you predict something has to exist, and they find it, you can...
by CJ | Aug 23, 2011 | Journal
We can’t go to the chiropractor until we get a front stormdoor and back door. I’ve been in increasing and nasty muscle pain, I mean killer….an arm that lights up the sky when I reach at certain angles and a traveling case of leg pain that switches...
by CJ | Aug 22, 2011 | Journal
To paint the security grid, and the frame. This sucker is a steel grid about the size of a pencil in a moorish wave pattern, overlaid on screen, and two glass panels. We discovered the installers installed the door upside down. That’s one. Two—I got a...
by CJ | Aug 22, 2011 | Journal
The rascal’s growing!
by CJ | Aug 22, 2011 | Journal
The rascal’s growing!
by CJ | Aug 21, 2011 | Journal
Bought 20 lbs of top rated flour for 14.90. That will bake 20 loaves of very good artisan bread, which is at least 2.50 a loaf at the store. Or more. So if I don’t screw up a loaf 🙁 —it will replace 50.00-60.00 worth of storebought bread. Which is pretty...
by CJ | Aug 20, 2011 | Journal
With chicken parmesan Caesar salad. I managed to burn the last piece of bread this morning (Jane and I split a piece for breakfast) so it was quesadillas for breakfast (leftovers.) Oh—crap! It should be done, and I forgot to add the yeast. That’s going to...
by CJ | Aug 19, 2011 | Journal
It’s wheat harvest in the Palouse—you have to see this country to understand it: towering, rolling, completely unfenced hills of loess that grows wheat and lentils like nobody’s business. In the old days they used a 40-horse hitch to get a plow or...
by CJ | Aug 18, 2011 | Journal
A little walk after breakfast, a koi pond sparkling clear, the house in fair order, Seishi riding herd on Eushu so Ysabel can sleep her days through, and most of the garden walks ‘pathed’ in basalt chips so the weeds won’t grow. Mornings are...
by CJ | Aug 17, 2011 | Journal
Which is a relief. The swelling evidently diminished enough in my fall-abused back that it popped back with a sound like a manhole cover going back on—we went ahead and took a lengthy walk, and it seized up again, so I am sitting here with an ice pack, and it is...
