by CJ | Nov 27, 2018 | Journal
Our knight in carpenter’s guise, Scott, helped us get the two big 10’x10′ canopies furled for the winter and set down to dry. THat’s huge. We let them stay up one winter, and nearly lost the gazebo, as the snow piled up and up. Now we take them...
by CJ | Nov 17, 2018 | Journal
And arranging it so that you cannot become a member of this site except by writing a letter to me. My addy can be found herein. But every time I toss off five RU hucksters, I get 10 in their place. I can easily add someone, or un-add them. But I’m of a mind just...
by CJ | Nov 10, 2018 | Journal
though it will get up to 50 at the end of next week, but not for long, I suspect. I swear people will NOT slow down on our street: it’s 30 for a reason: and we have had about 3 wrecks at our corner, one up the street, one up the other street, and...
by CJ | Nov 8, 2018 | Journal
…is helping, because I was able to get out and wind up hoses for the oncoming winter, get the raccoon-scarers packed away, get the abused new lily out of the lotus pond and into deeper water for the winter in the big pond, get the outside faucets shut down and...
by CJ | Nov 4, 2018 | Journal
our very own wizard…fixed it on his way to church. Poof! We have a page again.
by CJ | Oct 20, 2018 | Journal
I’m about to purge the whole list of applicants, most of whom are Russian bots, but—if you’re real and want in, all you have to do is drop me an e-mail (addy is available on this page) and tell me you’re not a bot and say hi. Not a real...
by CJ | Oct 20, 2018 | Journal
And after several bouts, we have discovered Sentry ‘calming collars,’ which offer some promise. They are loaded with Feliway-stuff. At least Tanner is less hysterical about his basement steps howl-a-thon, and the other two seem to be quieter in...
by CJ | Oct 9, 2018 | Journal
The book said prune in fall or spring, and spring didn’t work. So this time I’m trimming in fall, and cutting it back until it looks like an Angry Orchard poster. It gave us 2 good apples. But it’s right near our Japanese maple, it’s an...
by CJ | Oct 7, 2018 | Journal
…into the safely-walled garden, thus letting Tanner out of the basement. We are going to have to let them meet. We thought about doing it yesterday. But we decided to do it on a day when the vet is open. Not that we’re pessimists. In my fondest dreams,...
by CJ | Sep 25, 2018 | Journal
Thursday we took delivery of the window well inserts, read, two six foot x six foot curved forms that have to go into the 7x 6 pits the basement window installers dug while installing the new basement egress windows. And while the SAIA truck driver was kind enough to...
by CJ | Sep 17, 2018 | Journal
On the good side—Jane cleaned up the living room and polished the floor and it is now free of boxes and spacious and pretty again for the first time since construction began LAST September! I’m organizing things in the basement. And…the middle...
by CJ | Sep 15, 2018 | Journal
The little rusted windows (we broke one the night we got locked out) are now history. We replaced the 3 garden-side windows with modern screened windows. And then because we’d like to finish the finished side of the basement, and not have it be a junk storage,...
