by CJ | Oct 5, 2024 | Journal
I’ve been more than remiss in communication. As you may know I had round #2 with cancer–breast cancer—which I got out of with a lumpectomy and no complications, but — radiation, etc. and as many as 8 doctor visits a month….which kind of...
by CJ | Nov 13, 2023 | Journal
Get those tests, people. At times I’ve heaved a heavy sigh at my doc’s insisting on another mammogram—like, what could go wrong? Well, that did. After years of clean tests, I got the prize. Small, thanks to my doc’s insistence on me keeping...
by CJ | Oct 23, 2023 | Journal
It’s been crazy…but we’re making progress. We’ve done a couple of podcasts for Defiance, and you can catch at least one now, maybe the other one a little later, on YouTube. Just google cj cherryh and/or jane fancher and you’ll see things...
by CJ | Aug 27, 2023 | Journal
You may have heard there were fires in Spokane county—there have been, terrible where they were; we’d had humidity down to 6% due to no rain and the heat—and somewhere east of us and north of us we had fire start in areas with a lot of tall fir...
by CJ | Aug 10, 2023 | Journal
Doing some yard work. And pond work. I’ve emptied the saltwater tank and system in favor of a freshwater planted tank—which is developing very prettily. Mostly danios and tetras and angelfish—I’d forgotten what little hams and prima donnas...
by CJ | Jul 23, 2023 | Journal
I’ve been getting out at 6 am to catch cooler temperatures: we HAD to get some pruning done. One thing with a yard with many trees and bushes and such—if you don’t tend them in spring (and we didn’t) it gets way worse by July. I also managed...
by CJ | Jul 8, 2023 | Journal
The tank is up and going. There is one problem fish: one of the giant danios was having difficulty — hanging near the surface, trouble breathing; and I feared she was not going to make it—even considered icing her down (the humane way to euthanize a fish)...
by CJ | Jul 6, 2023 | Journal
Exhausted—I’ve cleaned out the former freshwater tank, which Jane is going to use for a diorama…. This involved transferring all the fishes to the new setup in the 100 gallon, which involved, first, catching them, and if I say 5 cory cats and 3 giant...
by CJ | Jul 5, 2023 | Journal
We’re not suffering from the heat this summer, at least. It’s tended to the 60’s at night and 80’s by day, which is unusual for this end of Washington. We’re trying to refurb the ponds from the disaster of winter, and the baby koi have...
by CJ | Jun 30, 2023 | Journal
I’ve got Defiance (Bren # 23?) in…Jane and I both. We’ve got Alliance Unbound turned in. Jane and I are now engaged on separate books—she’s working on the next Alliance start—I’m working with Bren—and we’ll switch...
by CJ | Feb 28, 2023 | Journal
2020 was a year. I had cancer. Jane had to take care of me, when she was due for a hip replacement, so that had to wait, since I had the prize of the year. I came out of it all pretty well except the chemo—which took all summer. Fall, she was finally going to...
by CJ | May 3, 2022 | Journal
..are having issues with old links, the website being one, you need that s. Just plug it into your browser URLS and save it, and you should not have any trouble. Jane and I are finishing the edit, Betsy is eagerly awaiting same, and we are doing ok—some family...
