by CJ | Jun 25, 2011 | Journal
Ysabel, due to her allergies, has never had a kitty treat in her life. When she lost Efanor, and with the new kitten tearing about, she was so down I found one thing she could have—pure human-consumption tuna. She’s gotten a bone stuck in her throat, we...
by CJ | Jun 25, 2011 | Journal
Ysabel, due to her allergies, has never had a kitty treat in her life. When she lost Efanor, and with the new kitten tearing about, she was so down I found one thing she could have—pure human-consumption tuna. She’s gotten a bone stuck in her throat, we...
by CJ | Jun 24, 2011 | Journal
The weather has hit a giant ‘wallow’, where nothing is happening, and the usual culprits, aka, the jet stream et al, have run scampering off.
by CJ | Jun 23, 2011 | Journal
And used a template to drill pilot holes for the big bridge decking. This decking is a multi-part operation. 1. pilot holes, quite small, drilled into the painted decking board: 4 each. They don’t go all the way through. This part we did. There are 44-45 boards...
by CJ | Jun 22, 2011 | Journal
One more test to run, but we don’t think that’s it. She’s responding to treatment—we think, in short, she sprang a leak from an old surgery under the stress of this spring—and losing Efanor fried it. Transfusions got her back on her...
by CJ | Jun 22, 2011 | Journal
One more test to run, but we don’t think that’s it. She’s responding to treatment—we think, in short, she sprang a leak from an old surgery under the stress of this spring—and losing Efanor fried it. Transfusions got her back on her...
by CJ | Jun 22, 2011 | Journal
The techniques a conference is developing for minimizing damage from a “Carrington Event.”
by CJ | Jun 20, 2011 | Journal
…seems peonies, which we just cut for the first time today, are poisonous to cats. Ditto, roots of iris (no cat would be that desperate), and lupines (seeds). Roses are ok. Don’t take your cut flowers for granted, if you have a kitteh who loves to drink...
by CJ | Jun 20, 2011 | Journal
Must’ve been something off the hawthorn tree, or the like. Pain, omg, pain. I managed to get the lens off, and have both lenses soaking in cleaner, but I am, this evening, glasses-only. Owie! We have this fancy hydrogen-peroxide cleaner that mutates to H2O...
by CJ | Jun 20, 2011 | Journal
Finally, sunlight; and a little warm-up. I felt it yesterday evening; and it’s not quite nippy this morning. After breakfast we went walking in the garden, and it was very nice. We’ve missed our breakfasts in the garden this year. We believe Eu-shu’s...
by CJ | Jun 19, 2011 | Journal
Jane and I, having no one to call on this day, went out to our favorite pub and lifted a glass to the two men who made us what we are…faults and all: they were remarkable individuals. Jane’s dad grew up on a ranch, my dad grew up on rural streets, on his...
by CJ | Jun 19, 2011 | Journal
Jane and I, having no one to call on this day, went out to our favorite pub and lifted a glass to the two men who made us what we are…faults and all: they were remarkable individuals. Jane’s dad grew up on a ranch, my dad grew up on rural streets, on his...
