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Wave Without A Shore

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The live shipment from an online critter supplier (invertebrates: tank cleaning crew) arrived badly packed and frozen and smelling to high heaven. The company was not only careless, shipping bags of live critters into the north in nothing but a cardboard box with a...

Just a little frosting. We could use some of the snow pack you guys to the south are getting...our sympathies to you. We live where snowplows exist and have a Plan for the event. We got with our accountant by phone yesterday and finally have the healthcare thing...

Just a little frosting. We could use some of the snow pack you guys to the south are getting...our sympathies to you. We live where snowplows exist and have a Plan for the event. We got with our accountant by phone yesterday and finally have the healthcare thing...

Started it off by getting the blood test I'm required to get quarterly (thyroid doc) a month late because of the crud... That went pretty well. I've only had this car since July and I'm finally learning how to work the lights...(getting there early assures a shorter...

and Jane FINALLY (see the epic 6.5 hour struggle with Comcast...) got the new router set up. It wasn't glitchless, but we got it. Jane got it. Neither she nor I is as energetic as we wish, but hey, the router does work. Yesterday she got mulch for the new trees. WE...

You are the first to know... 10% off all e-books and physical books until Jan 1. Free domestic shipping on all physical books until Jan 1. Foreign shipping discounted until Jan 1. [The foreign shipping discount is equal to the free domestic shipping, somewhere close...

Sei is not the brightest light in catdom...so he'd have you think. Shu is. And you should be afraid...be terribly afraid. The morning and nightly routine involves the payoff: kitty treats. PM, I call Sei, who always 'loses it' [oh, look, a butterfly!] when trying to...

And the pond is really, really frozen. Yesterday our two scoundrel fish-raiding cats (because of whom we have had to net the pond) were out there near the pond heater hole in the ice, and the ice was cracking under them---I watched them the entire time, really not...

As in 7 and 8. Coldest it's been in 3-4 years. Jane's out tending to some shopping and getting a strand of lights to replace the dead one for the 'woodland tree', a little tree we hang all our wild-animal motif things on: it has frosted little round lights and one...

As in 7 and 8. Coldest it's been in 3-4 years. Jane's out tending to some shopping and getting a strand of lights to replace the dead one for the 'woodland tree', a little tree we hang all our wild-animal motif things on: it has frosted little round lights and one...

We got snow last night. The pond, already frozen hard and deep by a week of 20 degree weather, is white, and dark below, and we hope the fishes are well asleep. Jane bravely got out yesterday, got the last of the juniper to the compost can, and the trash and recycling...