by CJ | May 11, 2010 | Journal
…well, the UV filter did. It’s a long UV bulb that fits in a slot in the skimmer, and I’d changed the bulb a week ago and had it running. We’ve had a lot of algae, which means cleaning the filter every 3 hours or so, so we’d left the...
by CJ | May 7, 2010 | Journal
She was on muscle relaxant yesterday and slept nearly 12 hours; I got out and attempted—well, DID move the two trash bins that she’d filled, killing her back; I exhausted myself getting them to the curb, and I threw MY back out. She slept all day. Got up...
by CJ | May 7, 2010 | Journal
She was on muscle relaxant yesterday and slept nearly 12 hours; I got out and attempted—well, DID move the two trash bins that she’d filled, killing her back; I exhausted myself getting them to the curb, and I threw MY back out. She slept all day. Got up...
by CJ | May 2, 2010 | Journal
…well, actually they’d been in his possession, and when he heard of plans for chiseling, he decided that wouldn’t do, no. So he and OSG spent all yesterday afternoon figuring out a bandsaw which OSGuy had tracked down, calling in a massive lot of...
by CJ | Apr 25, 2010 | Journal
Jane’s beautiful little espaliered apple tree is in: it looks like one of Tolkien’s elvish trees, three branches on a side, and centered on the back (barn red) fence. It has a Gravenstein graft, a Fuji, a Gala, Yellow Delicious, Yellow Transparent, and a...
by CJ | Apr 24, 2010 | Journal
We have ton-o’ new plants. Of course. Jane worked outside from dawn to dusk, and I popped out now and again to assist, but I couldn’t take that icy wind. She came back in after building 50′ of sidewalk (40′ to go) base (it will be gravel, lined...
by CJ | Apr 3, 2010 | Journal
It’s been bitter chill and windy ever since we took the lawn up…so cold I haven’t been able to wash out the filters for the pond (two of them are lying on the patio drying out, but not washed, because the water is like ice) and am down to my last...
by CJ | Mar 19, 2010 | Journal
The fish are disgusted: days are in the mid fifties and nights at about mid twenties. So there’s all this sunlight, and yet frost enough to keep them from eating. We soaked seeds of morning glory and moonflower for opposite sides of the Moon Gate, the clematis...
by CJ | Jan 29, 2010 | Journal
OSG says don’t trust February, but it’s been generally trending warmer. Mmm. We have seen fishes: Ari and Maddy, Ishida, maybe Grant, and a couple of the orange ones, which we can’t see well enough. We have 11 of them, and they shift about a bit. But...
by CJ | Dec 18, 2009 | Journal
I’m working on Hellburner, and Heavy Time is in process. I did the covers with Jane’s able help. Get the picture: I’m looking like the risen dead, in my bathrobe, chasing this stupid heron who is shopping in the warm end of the pond—I go...
by CJ | Dec 18, 2009 | Journal
I’m working on Hellburner, and Heavy Time is in process. I did the covers with Jane’s able help. Get the picture: I’m looking like the risen dead, in my bathrobe, chasing this stupid heron who is shopping in the warm end of the pond—I go...
by CJ | Nov 12, 2009 | Journal
Kids are still out of school, or at least some are, which means terror on the ice…I love the little princess who spent most of her time digging her toepick into the ice near the wall, so that an unsuspecting novice can fall and break his/her neck, but hey, ice...
