by CJ | May 12, 2017 | Journal
My tiny camera doesn’t take great pix, but Jane has some, and between us we have pix that aren’t hazy. This is, fwiw, the view from my workstation, and the quince is in bloom. THe shiny patch is reflection of light on the water. I have a great window. This...
by CJ | May 11, 2017 | Journal
It’s been a long day—doc’s appt at 8 am, they sent my prescription to the old pharmacy, not the new one, and we are about to track that down—ear problems. Being dizzy for two months is a pita. But the great news is, we have 6 koi. They’re...
by CJ | May 10, 2017 | Journal
I got about 15 ‘joins’ last night, many with unlikely names, most from Russia, and not a personal letter to me in the lot, I’m sure. I did some clean-out of the approval queue last night and if you’re a real person and got ‘denied’...
by CJ | May 9, 2017 | Journal
I’ve seen them. Tricks of the water and the light that make me, from the corner of my eye, think I’ve seen one of our lost koi. because they were always part of my field of view from my workstation. The water is warm now, and Jane and I worked yesterday at...
by CJ | May 7, 2017 | Journal
named after Pairuti took a shot at Bren and demised.
by CJ | May 4, 2017 | Journal
And came in sweaty, overheated, and worn out. The messy trellis by the lotus pond had to go. The espaliered apple had broken out in vertical shoots, and I trimmed those and took down the clematis vines that will now have to grow up the trellis we’re installing....
by CJ | May 3, 2017 | Journal
When we moved out of OKC and gave up all the tanks, I missed them—so for my birthday in 2000, I got a little ecosphere egg with five little shrimp in it. And a twiggy branch. It’s a sealed system. It’s got algae, bacteria, and some tiny, tiny shrimp...
by CJ | Apr 29, 2017 | Journal
I’ll try to get a picture of it. It’s an Emperor One Japanese Maple, a nice tall one, pretty red leaves. There’s a little worry about sun exposure with this tree—they don’t like it hot or bright, but we have those tall evergreens and some...
by CJ | Apr 29, 2017 | Journal
It was in the book with the kids’ visit to Tirnamardi. I forgot to enter it in the Little Black Book. It was where Aseida lived. And by that you know that Jane is doing a pass through the Hinder Stars and I’m outlining basic setup for another Bren book. I...
by CJ | Apr 26, 2017 | Journal
I put in a 1″ outer diameter water pipe for scale. and here’s one of my kitteh sleeping, because he has such a sweet face in that mode.
by CJ | Apr 26, 2017 | Journal
Some in this generation are afraid of BIG. Big pharma. Big oil. Particularly Big Data. How valid is the fear? Bigness isn’t a new thing. We had things so Big in the 1800’s we regulated them: one man owning all oil. One man owning all rail. Then one man got a...
by CJ | Apr 25, 2017 | Journal
Spring is springing forth, and the pond has water. It’s not as crystalline as we like but it’s alive, in the sense that the biological filtration is proceeding, and when it has fish, it will be good. The chemistry is good. The weeping cherry is going...
