Not much going on—which is a good thing.

by | Jul 28, 2016 | Journal

We hired the gutters cleaned. We hired the trees trimmed. We are concentrating on the maintenance only we can do—like actual gardening and garden plumbing. We had only one glitch: our gutter cleaners were supposed to bag the refuse and they did—in 80 lb...

So today I cleaned the fish sump…

by | Jul 24, 2016 | Journal

Glug. I disconnected all the equipment, pumped it dry, took it out and hosed it out. Talk about a job postponed for 10 years. It should make maintenance easier. What I dumped stopped the utility sink, and fool I, I reached in to unclog the drain—which involved a...

Sigh. I had an endodontist app’t this morning…

by | Jul 20, 2016 | Journal

…and had waited since the last visit to get in. He x-rayed, agreed, and set the actual appointment for 10th Aug. Meanwhile I still have a sore tooth. And now I have a headache. Rats. The air here is wretched, second-hand from somewhere: I haven’t had...

Sigh. I had an endodontist app't this morning…

by | Jul 20, 2016 | Journal

…and had waited since the last visit to get in. He x-rayed, agreed, and set the actual appointment for 10th Aug. Meanwhile I still have a sore tooth. And now I have a headache. Rats. The air here is wretched, second-hand from somewhere: I haven’t had...

Bee-stung. I swear…

by | Jul 15, 2016 | Journal

I have this absolutely wonderful hand-face-whatever cream I picked up on the trip to Chicago. Don’t laugh. Carmindy of What Not To Wear swears by it. It’s from the Prairie Soap Co, in Deadwood, (actually from a town near) and what I’ve got uses real...

Getting out from under the load…

by | Jul 15, 2016 | Journal

We’ve hit a natural cycle of a rain-rich year in a maturing garden, to the extent that even our gutters have foot-high weeds growing (thanks to the gutter shield which admits seeds) and trees are out of bounds as well. So Jane and I have finally admitted there...

Getting real tired of dental issues…

by | Jul 13, 2016 | Journal

But I think we are finally on track to fix things. The hitch is, I have to put up with this (mild) headache, I fear, until the 20th, when I can get the endodontist to fix something another dentist did ten years ago. This is good, understand, but I am real tired of...

Dental woes.

by | Jun 30, 2016 | Journal

Oh, woe! First a bridge came unglued. Then I got an appointment with my old dentist in another town, who now has moved, and couldn’t be found once I got there. So I got ‘worked in’ by a local dentist I found on the internet…and they (quite...

Raining—happy us.

by | Jun 10, 2016 | Journal

We’ve had an uncommon burst of high 90’s weather in early June—shouldn’t arrive until July. But now it’s set in for cool and rain for the next week, back into the 70’s. Much nicer! Understand that Washington rain is what other...