We’ve lost one of the kitties.

by | Sep 10, 2018 | Journal

Tracker, age between 15 and 18, to kidney failure. Nothing they can do. So we’re headed to the vet’s in a few minutes. Very sad day here. This is one of the two we brought from Jane’s sister’s place.

Finally rained-upon and smoke-free

by | Aug 29, 2018 | Journal

Every year that we can, I like to take the Coeur d’Alene lake supper cruise for my birthday, with friends, and we are booked with temperate and clear weather, which is nice, because I like to do it in the open air of the upper deck, where we do get wind. And...

8 lbs in a week exceeds what the docs say is safe…

by | Aug 12, 2018 | Journal

but, funny thing, the human body has absolutely NO compunction about piling on 5 of them in one 3 day period of bad eating. So off with 8 is not a bad thing, at least in this particular first week. We’re holding up very well in the not-getting hungry department....

Exhausted. Had to make another run to Seattle…

by | Aug 9, 2018 | Journal

While trying to clean up the copy-edits. Jane’s been over it, I’ve been over it, Jane went over the front end and read; we both agree that the c/e first section has to be fixed and fixed with some major work to get back to where we were before we tried to...

Raccoon wars.

by | Jul 26, 2018 | Journal

That blighter has gotten on my last nerve. He’s eaten two baby fishes from the lotus pond. He’s ripped up a 30.00 lily. And the struggling lotus. He’s ripped up some of the waterlily pads on the main pond and tossed bark chips into the pond that...

Firefox hanging.

by | Jul 20, 2018 | Journal

A little note for those using Firefox browser. The latest update of an Intel driver apparently caused my browser to hang after several hops across the internet, particularly in graphics-heavy sites. This would produce an error message in Win 10 to the effect that...

Locked out.

by | Jul 16, 2018 | Journal

To deal with prowlers at the pondside we installed little spooklights around the path, and when they go on, we know something’s out there. So I went out about 11:00 last night armed with an electric lantern to put whatever it was out and away from the pond. Jane...