by CJ | Jul 28, 2016 | Journal
We hired the gutters cleaned. We hired the trees trimmed. We are concentrating on the maintenance only we can do—like actual gardening and garden plumbing. We had only one glitch: our gutter cleaners were supposed to bag the refuse and they did—in 80 lb...
by CJ | Jul 24, 2016 | Journal
Glug. I disconnected all the equipment, pumped it dry, took it out and hosed it out. Talk about a job postponed for 10 years. It should make maintenance easier. What I dumped stopped the utility sink, and fool I, I reached in to unclog the drain—which involved a...
by CJ | Jul 20, 2016 | Journal
…and had waited since the last visit to get in. He x-rayed, agreed, and set the actual appointment for 10th Aug. Meanwhile I still have a sore tooth. And now I have a headache. Rats. The air here is wretched, second-hand from somewhere: I haven’t had...
by CJ | Jul 20, 2016 | Journal
…and had waited since the last visit to get in. He x-rayed, agreed, and set the actual appointment for 10th Aug. Meanwhile I still have a sore tooth. And now I have a headache. Rats. The air here is wretched, second-hand from somewhere: I haven’t had...
by CJ | Jul 15, 2016 | Journal
I have this absolutely wonderful hand-face-whatever cream I picked up on the trip to Chicago. Don’t laugh. Carmindy of What Not To Wear swears by it. It’s from the Prairie Soap Co, in Deadwood, (actually from a town near) and what I’ve got uses real...
by CJ | Jul 15, 2016 | Journal
We’ve hit a natural cycle of a rain-rich year in a maturing garden, to the extent that even our gutters have foot-high weeds growing (thanks to the gutter shield which admits seeds) and trees are out of bounds as well. So Jane and I have finally admitted there...
by CJ | Jul 13, 2016 | Journal
But I think we are finally on track to fix things. The hitch is, I have to put up with this (mild) headache, I fear, until the 20th, when I can get the endodontist to fix something another dentist did ten years ago. This is good, understand, but I am real tired of...
