Each down a pound…

…surprising, since we’re eating an amazing lot. The best deal is that veggie salad that goes with dinner (a light slightly spicy cold crunch—the balsamic vinegar sort of does an instant-mild-pickle number on the cucumber, so it has a very nice...

The weather's turning toward fall…

I think our second summer is over. The temperatures are falling, and more to the point, we’re settling into more frequent rains, which means the wind has shifted from south to northwest, and once the weather starts rolling in from Vancouver, BC, and from off the...

The weather’s turning toward fall…

I think our second summer is over. The temperatures are falling, and more to the point, we’re settling into more frequent rains, which means the wind has shifted from south to northwest, and once the weather starts rolling in from Vancouver, BC, and from off the...

The upcoming Rusalka cover:

This will be a total revision of the Rusalka books, not so noticable in the first, but definitely in the second and third. It’s a fantasy, a romance, and a ghost story… I did the cover sketch, and Jane did the color, the finish, the lettering…Thank...

One of those days…just bits and pieces of frustration.

I got up early to get the iris moved to the front. and Jane wanted to get weedcloth and rock under the stickery junipers by the stop sign and the fire hydrant. But it’s brutally hot even if the thermometer says 80-ish. We try to work bent over pounding things in...

Moving lava rock…in the heat…

We’re approaching fall and probably snow—but in the meanwhile, after nearly freezing all our flowers, and putting the poor koi on a wheat germ diet (you can’t feed them protein in cold water)—we are now baking; and all the lava rock we had...