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Check this out… I got a text from some neighbors yesterday around ten, asking if I ever eat cold cereal. I don’t particularly, but I’m adaptable. They said they had some they were never going to get around to consuming. … Continue reading →

I tried setting up a summer oven outdoors, scrounged from a scrapped-out RV. It worked, sort of. For a while. Not very well. It didn’t like being outdoors, that’s for sure. In early winter a neighbor asked me to haul … Continue reading →

Over the weekend I spent several hours helping J&H pack for their move, in return for which they gave me first crack at some stuff they didn’t want to keep or move. Much usefulness, including one ‘want.’ J bought this … Continue reading →

As far as I know the thing in the foreground is of use only to truckers with flatbed trailers. But I happen to know a cash-strapped trucker with a flatbed who might be happy to have it, so I’ll see. … Continue reading →

Ever since building my ramshackle storage/power shed year before last I’ve watched for some decent shelving. It’s just so very expensive, and I got along with expedient measures till I couldn’t find a damn thing in there. Then one day … Continue reading →

…And I do the damndest things with them. So I go over for shit-shoveling at J&H’s yesterday morning, right? And J&H had guests from the city over the weekend, and apparently went out and bought a bunch of food that … Continue reading →

Allegedly it still works. It’s a 4000-watt Trace inverter, that somebody just chucked out after an upgrade. Yeah, prices have come ‘way down and all, but do you know what these things USED to cost? I’ve got to do some … Continue reading →

Notes from the “People throw away the damndest things” department: A couple of years ago I inherited this very excellent chair from the neighbors. With the addition of Tobie’s bed the Lair has room for exactly one comfy chair and … Continue reading →

Sometimes I think my motto, if I started having a motto, ought to be “People throw away the damndest things.” In our latest exciting adventure in profiting from other people’s stuff, somebody is replacing their washer and dryer. And looking … Continue reading →

It’s funny: The political climate in this country has gotten so toxic that even ‘living green’ has an element of hostility to it. I’m kind of living the stereotypical green dream, but I imagine that your average greenie would rather … Continue reading →

Last November marked 15 years of fulltime Gulch living for me, 10 years since the Lair became … not complete, gods know, but habitable. It’s always good to reflect on how you’re doing, what could be improved, what needs to … Continue reading →

From the “People throw away the damndest things” department, I give you… …the closest to “cute” we’ve come so far. 🙂 Excellent timing: The last of the scrounged deck chairs had just about finished falling apart. The old table, knocked … Continue reading →

I hurt my shoulder in 2016 and couldn’t even work a press for a while. Unfortunately by the time I could get back to it I had thoroughly lost the war against the rats in the old RV I used … Continue reading →

This was the day. It came from a kid’s bunk bed, is at least 20 years old, and I’m going to go ahead and guess that’s way beyond its rated lifespan. For the past 3 years an inch of memory … Continue reading →

Landlady came up this weekend, and we spent an hour cutting the plywood and then laying out the boards for the kitchen counter in Ian’s cave… That’s an old cast iron double sink, weighs a ton. Similar to the one … Continue reading →

People throw away the damndest things! Going through the stuff at J&H’s I’m supposed to find homes for, I came upon this picatinny riser which solves a couple of problems I’ve had with the AK’s scope. Looks even sillier than … Continue reading →

This is technically one of the “people throw away the damndest things” files, but on sober reconsideration a landfill may not have been an inappropriate destination for this particular acquisition. GC Guy wanted it off his property. I want more … Continue reading →

Late posting today, because I got an early start on M’s Dome. Long-time readers may have noticed that there haven’t been many M’s Dome updates lately. Yeah, M noticed that, too. And that’s because there’s been very little progress on … Continue reading →

Like the loft ladder, the cat’s ladder moved around a lot and took different forms in my head. The problem was that there’s just not enough wall space anywhere for a conventional pole-and-shelf ladder. Finally I decided to go with … Continue reading →

Ian, bless his heart, gave me the gift of a nice metallic target to do with as I will. What I will is a semi-portable target stand I can place way deep in a canyon area of the wash where … Continue reading →