by CJ | Jul 14, 2010 | Journal
I’ve finally learned how to get Thunderbird to ban a whole site: highlight a piece of spam in the inbox, go to “message/create filter from message”, choose not ‘is’, but ‘contains’, and get rid of everything but the part after...
by CJ | Jul 13, 2010 | Journal
Has been a poser, but the internet can solve anything. Step one: if the sash won’t lift easily, oil the track. We tried graphite. No go. What works: Peanut oil. Machine oil. Any fine oil. Lifts like a charm. Treat both upper and lower sash tracks. Move them...
by CJ | Jul 12, 2010 | Journal
We took yesterday off, pretty well, because both of us are so sore we can’t walk.
by CJ | Jul 11, 2010 | Journal
…I’ve tried every method known to man and I can definitively report that unless you have a bog garden at least half the size of your pond, if you live in a sunny clime, you will have algae. Chemical remediation: bad, because the algae killers are copper....
by CJ | Jul 11, 2010 | Journal
…I’ve tried every method known to man and I can definitively report that unless you have a bog garden at least half the size of your pond, if you live in a sunny clime, you will have algae. Chemical remediation: bad, because the algae killers are copper....
by CJ | Jul 10, 2010 | Journal
…and we’re both off to a party, with guitars and filk books and a box of wine. We think we deserve it.
by CJ | Jul 10, 2010 | Journal
…and we’re both off to a party, with guitars and filk books and a box of wine. We think we deserve it.
by CJ | Jul 8, 2010 | Journal
Jane as usual will have the pix. But half our front yard, up to the front walk, has a retaining wall about hip high, with cinder stone in front of it. The other half, a short half, is—was—grass, rolling down to the street. Now there is no grass. And we...
by CJ | Jul 6, 2010 | Journal
Lynn Abbey’s The Wooden Sword is now available on CC. If you have bookmarked The Store, she has created a Lynn’s Books page reachable from the Lobby, just as a heads-up. We have some navigational cleanup to do over there, but start from the Lobby and you...
by CJ | Jul 5, 2010 | Journal
I hope this is the solution to the pond problems. It’s a killer unit. Literally. It’s sposed to kill algae, by exploding their cells. It’ll do in some of our beneficial bacteria, but we can add more. I want to see the fish. I got the unit, saw the 1...
by CJ | Jul 4, 2010 | Journal
…with the insipid offerings on Discovery, such as the Story of Us and The Revolutionary War. You know I do genealogy. And you know I’m American. It has not gone unnoticed by me that my ancestors were a mixed bag…and that in the minds of many we...
by CJ | Jul 4, 2010 | Journal
…with the insipid offerings on Discovery, such as the Story of Us and The Revolutionary War. You know I do genealogy. And you know I’m American. It has not gone unnoticed by me that my ancestors were a mixed bag…and that in the minds of many we...
