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Wave Without A Shore
It’s a work in progress but everything should work now
spammers are such pigs…
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 the @. Unfortunately if your e-mail is...
Cleaning wooden sash and storm windows…
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 until they...
Exhausted. Flat exhausted…
We took yesterday off, pretty well, because both of us are so sore we can't walk.
Update: pond algae's on the retreat…
...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. Copper is...
Update: pond algae’s on the retreat…
...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. Copper is...
It’s the monthly filk night…
...and we're both off to a party, with guitars and filk books and a box of wine. We think we deserve it.
It's the monthly filk night…
...and we're both off to a party, with guitars and filk books and a box of wine. We think we deserve it.
Retaining wall…
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 decided to...
New Book on Closed Circle…
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 should be...
I got the UV unit up…
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 and 1/4 inch...
4th of July and I’m going to honor the spirit of ’76 by disagreeing…
...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 weren't so much...
4th of July and I'm going to honor the spirit of '76 by disagreeing…
...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 weren't so much...
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