by CJ | Nov 25, 2015 | Journal
More later. Nastional news seems to have reported this as a 20,000 household power outage. We were hit with near hurricane force winds (71 mph) and trees went down on the power lines. ours stood, but the news services forgot a zero. It’s 200,000 people in...
by CJ | Nov 17, 2015 | Journal
Strong wind from the east, unusual, on a very cold morning, makes the water surface shiver all up and down. It looks cold out there. The lotus pond had frozen yesterday morning. The large pond will lose heat fast with this wind blowing. We have, several weeks ago,...
by CJ | Nov 16, 2015 | Journal
I swear there is nothing Jane can’t do. In this case, we decided the carpet had to go—allergies. So we took it up. The hardwood floor in Jane’s room —stopped—in favor of plywood about 10′ feet in. But not just stopped. The plywood...
by CJ | Nov 11, 2015 | Journal
So here I am dozing peacefully with the window open, 3 am, and Sei jumps up and runs to the window, tail bushed. Now Shu, the Night Fury, our fierce black Bengal that no stranger should try to touch, is great at attacking people IN the house, and will defend a hotel...
by CJ | Nov 7, 2015 | Journal
We hate doing in mice, but we have to defend our stuff in the garage. Jane ordered some flatpack anti-mouse stuff that should have arrived by now. We think it is now mouseproofing the underside of our porch.
by CJ | Nov 4, 2015 | Journal
The postman left a large padded letter/envelope as well as a box leaning against our porch wall. Put the envelope behind the box. Picking up the box caused the envelope to drop through a crack between our concrete porch and the brickwork, clear to the ground, because...
by CJ | Nov 2, 2015 | Journal
It is in New York. I do not even want to tell you all that happened trying to get this file to New York, usually a matter of seconds. But it is done, it is in! And we did it! With Jane’s suggestions, input, spellchecking, grammar-checking, reading, critiquing,...
by CJ | Nov 2, 2015 | Journal
And I honestly don’t know what to do with myself. I found myself walking around and around the triangular loop between hall, kitchen and living room, without the least notion what I’m to do now…the concentration’s been so absolute, so long,...
by CJ | Nov 2, 2015 | Journal
And I honestly don’t know what to do with myself. I found myself walking around and around the triangular loop between hall, kitchen and living room, without the least notion what I’m to do now…the concentration’s been so absolute, so long,...
by CJ | Nov 1, 2015 | Journal
120,000 is a max-size limit. 100,000 puts us within the typical bounds, and I am still going. One scene midway, one to go.
by CJ | Oct 29, 2015 | Journal
There are.
by CJ | Oct 27, 2015 | Journal
I’ve got three scenes to go. It’s not going to be the full 120,000 words, but it will be as long as it needs to be. And it is, except those scenes, ready to go.
