Or  Maybe- Back in the Groove?

Friday, July 31st, 2015 -( 28˚C / 82˚F — Muggy, grey and stuffy @ 2:39 pm in New Brunswick  —  26˚C / 79˚F & ‘Clear’ in The finger lakes region of Nouveau York State @ 1:39 pm  — 13˚C / 55˚F & ‘Mostly Cloudy’ @ 9:39 am in and around North Pole, Alaska )-

We’re not sure the light at Yoko’s Imagine Peace Tower has gone out, but this tweet says she will relight it on John’s Birthday.

– It’s good to check in  on you guys and see that both Doug and Jim are busy, hey it looks like you’re up to your eyebulbs in projects, hey?

There’s something in the air, and it isn’t all peaches and cream. The Harper Fascists are bombarding the airwaves with terribly banal propaganda commercials that I can probably quote from memory, word for disgusting word – just from wincing and groaning every time the bloody commercials play- And it looks like the ‘prime minister’ wants to call a long election season because he smugly believes his party’s ‘war chest’ is so much bigger than his rivals’ that he can outspend them to death and maybe even drive them into bankruptcy – What he, in his short-sightedness probably doesn’t realize is, unlike similar matters in the U.S.A. a lot of us are betting that the Conservatives up here CAN lose an election by grossly underestimating the intelligence of the voting public. 😉

But there is a lot of positive stuff in the air, even when my allergies have my eyes burning and my nose either stuffed up or running any time, night or day, allergy pills or not-

My favourite brother’s divorce has come through. I might actually be able to reconnect with him now. It’s really sad when a wonderful person gets hooked up with someone whose toxic personality drives incredibly deep wedges between a warm, outgoing, friendly, decent human being and everyone he or she is connected to- Welcome back – Nob!

Every one of us caught the same bug at the same time, it seems. Some kind of viral nesting instinct kicked in. Jim tells us he is trying hard and constantly to tidy up his office while his game developing whoopy do zing zang walla bing bang nifty windows computer is down until he can afford replacement parts, or even a replacement zing zing zoom zoom computer – Jim and Cathi are rescuing pallets from their neck of the woods and threatening to tear them apart and use the recycled wood for all sorts of creative projects. Cathi’s writing up a storm and getting stuff published. Jim’s got at least three novels that he works on every chance he gets. They’re also working on getting regular podcasts together and sharing them with the rest of us out here in the ‘Real World’

Doug’s heart is with his sweetie up here even if he spends most of his time, down there – more like down there and turn right – drive all night and stop for lots of coffee on the way- and I hear he’s taken a couple vacation days he would have lost if he didn’t use them and worked on the look of his News Service Blog/web site – Radio Free Earth News – and is considering moving a copy of everything he’s ever done there to one of our servers just in case somebody threatens to shut him down by charging magical new fees for their free services.

– jda – seems to be distracted by technical issues, Moe is thinking that it would be really nice to find a warm sunny spot and just relax for a change – but then, he’s been scouring his little corner of this planet for the perfect spot to sit, smile at Mother Nature’s handiwork,  and maybe stretch out and roll around on a soft bed or moss and think about either reliving his favourite stories of hunting in the wilds or just reveling in past glories. He isn’t hard to please.

And we all noticed a very short blackout or power spike a couple days ago. Jim says that three computers he was working on at the same time survived the surge or spike or disruption, whatever it was, but then crashed for no apparent reason in the next day or two. One computer that had a lot of his almost forgotten stories and old photographs stored on just stopped working. He’s pretty sure the hard drives with their valuable old ‘stuff’ are still okay, but the death of an old computer, while it is not as traumatic as the death of a treasured pet – is no fun at all.

And I’ve had a couple computers of my own drop dead on me in the past few months, it seems like I’m in a constant state of backing things up before I lose them. I don’t want to stop and count the number of hard drives that have dropped dead, and I’m not even sure I want to know how many hard drives I’ve got that are still working. One or two of them are getting cranky and may need to be backed up, reformatted, re-thought – have their operating systems re-installed and reconnected to their productive purpose in this life.

Okay, so maybe I am guilty of thinking of my hard drives as sentient beings- but – since there is a word for that, I can’t be the only one, right?

— anthropomorphically yours –,    Jassper LeBoof 😉

Sunday, 26 October, 2014. Damp, cool and slippery.

Zen Garden Window?

This is one of the Windows on Cathi’s ‘Zen Garden’

Wall

And this is one of the stone walls we get to see from Cathi’s windows.

Closer to the road

And this is the wall’s section north of the house, northwest here- closer to the road.

Wood pile, Tarps, Wall

This is maybe ten or twenty feet west of the previous photo, where we are giving our firewood a nice, hopefully dry little home for the winter- This project is on-going, we do not expect to leave it like this for long.

Another shot of the wall to the south.

The wall to the south. From a little farther away.

Sunflower

Cathi planted one sunflower this year.

 Cathi and her Garden

-Along with tomatos and several other things.

October 26th, One week after the sunflower was in bloom-

-And this is the garden one week after the shot above it.

I should stop here and ‘publish’ this.

~~~~~Boof!

Monday, August 25th, 2014.   -( 14˚C / 57˚F & Dark @ 4:15 am on Atlantic Canada )-

We have upgraded, and, I think – survived the process.

So far, I haven’t found where the posts and comments were stored, So I’ve copied and pasted manually from the earlier version of this endeavor.

And I’m very tired, Listening to Coast to Coast am while I type away-

—Schrug–

———Jassper le Boof——