by CJ | Nov 11, 2017 | Journal
Don’t try to buy anything until we get it fixed. We CAN fix it, but it’s more complicated than we hoped.
by CJ | Nov 8, 2017 | Journal
It’s that time of year. Burlap is smelly and sheds and I hate storing it in the house, but when you need it, you need it. Makes a great tree-wrap for mimosas and new Japanese maples. But we’re out. I wrapped Jane’s better of two mimosas and the new...
by CJ | Nov 8, 2017 | Journal
Some will. I always worry that there’s somebody in the lot just too shy to reply, but otherwise the stack of applicants just grows more confusing. You HAVE to write that letter. If I denied you, I can still fish you out of the ‘deny’ pond and put you...
by CJ | Nov 5, 2017 | Journal
I’m unwilling to wear either of my good coats out there to the garage, so with 3″ of snow coming down, I go out to saw boards in sweatshirt and bare-handed. Cold. In the words of Bela the Bat, I tell you wot, cold! OTOH, there’s a visceral joy in...
by CJ | Nov 1, 2017 | Journal
I managed to lock myself out of my password manager. This is not a happy accident. I do have a record of the password that gets me the other passwords. Unfortunately my handwriting is not always legible when it is a note scrawled amid a page full of other notes. There...
by CJ | Oct 29, 2017 | Journal
He stands about 7 feet tall, is black and red, glows in the dark, flaps his wings and breathes fire. He will reside in our basement until his next emergence. We fell in love with him, and, well, he’s ours. We can’t let him out when it’s raining or...
by CJ | Oct 29, 2017 | Journal
My addy is in the usual category up top. Write me a “hello, I’m not a robot!’ if you’re waiting forever for that confirmation letter. The letter from you must precede it. Today I blitzed some 28 plus spammer-origin applicants that popped up...
by CJ | Oct 28, 2017 | Journal
The lights. The floor. We finished Friday. The baseboards are yet to come, but we don’t count those: that’s wall, and Scott will do the baseboards. We now have a complete floor. Yay us. Ceiling painting, dining area painting, almost done, pantry interiors,...
by CJ | Oct 26, 2017 | Journal
….countertop….but it’s coming. November 13th. It’s a felicitous day. Can’t wait. I can’t believe this stupid mouse ate the whole post. But it did. It’s cheap, it ‘jumps’ and sometimes obliterates text. Its sole...
by CJ | Oct 19, 2017 | Journal
This is after pulling the cabinets and deciding to put an equipment closet midway to section off the dining area. The walls are now coral in the direction of view, white trim, and will have a grey slate flooring. Cabinets are quiet brown, fittings are ruddy copper,...
by CJ | Oct 17, 2017 | Journal
A little warier than last year. I am doing 3 things, first of all having a pond ‘turnover’ device, a little heated pump that will keep circulating a stream of water up to outgas CO2 buildup and then to return to the depths…and a regulation...
by CJ | Oct 13, 2017 | Journal
It’s a thing of steam-punked beauty. Coppery. We’re not installing it yet. I can get by with what I have. The ceiling with the lights is nearly finished, and we’ve found a way to move some wiring onto other breakers so that I won’t have the...
