cat diet…actually working.

by | Jan 30, 2018 | Journal

It’s not easy: we’ve got one never-gains-weight and one easy-keeper, and feeding one enough while not having the other blimp up is not easy, but we’re managing. Now that we’ve fixed the yard as escape-proof, we can let them both out, then feed...

Counter (numeric) weirdness…

by | Jan 27, 2018 | Journal

For a number of years, the visits counter on cherryh.com has not worked. I’ve refurbed it several times, but this time couldn’t even find the free-counter site to do it. And this last week, lo, it’s come back to life. With an updated count, as if...

Ice has melted a bit and we can see the fishes…

by | Jan 25, 2018 | Journal

Wesley, the orange one in the photo, we think Goku, maybe Sanzo, maybe Maddy….they’re still down in the deep dark and overshadowed by the winter cover, but daytime temperatures have been 40-ish and they’re stirring. Water temperature is probably...

Ow. The knee.

by | Jan 20, 2018 | Journal

My knees have never been the best. I acquired two football knees without playing the sport—the first time to fail me was when I was about 12, stepping over a barbed wire fence, thank goodness in jeans, but a mile from camp. Leg just quit, with a nasty cracking...

Crazy weather—6″ of snow and today a rapid melt.

by | Jan 13, 2018 | Journal

These are some of the babies, who are now half a foot long. Hoping they make it through the winter in good form. Right now it’s melting as if somebody had taken a giant hair dryer to the town. Jane is in the kitchen applying copper contact paper to the nice...

This strange-looking fellow is Goku…

by | Jan 10, 2018 | Journal

We got him, about a 4″-5″ size, to reassure our really baby koi, who would not come out from under their rocks and eat. Baby koi have a strong self-preservation instinct. And big ones frighten them. But so does no big ones in the pond. So…Goku. Who...

A springtime image, when the azalea is in bloom.

by | Jan 9, 2018 | Journal

We painted the garage wall in imitation of a Chinese painting—painted it first in mud—real mud, from the ground—so we could get the feel we wanted, hosed off the bits we didn’t like, then re-did them. Then we got a selection of little sample...