The “post every day” rule sometimes finds me in a frantic search for something in the news I can mock. To the extent that anything like an editorial policy for TUAK ever evolved, it is that I don’t really care what all Pelosi or Carney or $YesAllWhiteMenAreScum are up to today. I’ve got chickens that make more sense than these idiots.
But you just can’t talk about chickens and dogs and the perils of building your own stuff and the importance of closed-toe shoes in the desert every day. I’m not a great adventurer. Most of the time you’ll find me sitting in a chair, snoring over a book. You want another post about laundry? I think not.
Here’s a picture I took yesterday morning from Landlady’s porch. I was there to pick up a dozen eggs for L, after she called me at 6 in the frickin’ AM.
I’d just watched a big jackrabbit run all the way across that field of view from left to right and disappear into the rocks at the foot of the ridge that climbs to the plateau on BLM land. And it seemed unusual behavior for a jackrabbit, which basically exists to provide food and exercise for coyotes, to so draw attention to itself. I was standing there wondering about that when Ian appeared from Stage Left, which explained it. And until Avalon reshaped the round pen an hour later, that was the most exciting thing that had happened so far that day. Or was likely to happen, for that matter. I enjoy my life, but mostly you’d find it a bore.
So sometimes I need other things to write about, if I’m to post every day. Hence the political crap. But what can you really say about $AllYourDecisionsAreBelongToUs that hasn’t been done?
Some mornings I just want to say screw the world, I’m going for a walky.
The boring stuff is why I come here. That and the desert pictures. My tied-for-second-place favorite blog is ruralrevolution.com, also for the boring stuff and the purty pitchers.
I’m sure the other reader(s) would agree: make all the laundry posts you want.
I second what bravo said. Your “boring stuff” is actually a learning experience. What’s to learn about politics? I already know they’re all nuts and power hungry and there’s not a single thing I can do about that. But how to do laundry and deal with stoopid birds could be a real life saver.
I third it. Your rat and chicken and laundry posts are informative and ROTF funny, not boring. Where you live, I wouldn’t have any ideas about how to keep chickens alive and laying, provide water for them (and you) and chicken feed that would support egg laying. Before your posts my idea was that chickens were too stoopid to live where you are. After another day of working through the issues involved in producing food were I am (which are nothing compared with yours), it’s nice to know that there can be a future of snoozing in a chair with a book.
” I enjoy my life, but mostly you’d find it a bore.”
I wouldn’t bet on that. I’m pretty simple minded. I’ve been known to sit and contemplate a rock for looooooooong periods of time. I usually get bored when there are a bunch of people around me engaging in theater of the inane……like a shitload of Filipinos in my living room obsessing over the freaking Miami Heat and whoever else they are playing right now. Who cares what bunch of juvenile thugs in long shorts are doing with a ball? Give me a desert(or in present circumstances a jungle), my reloading bench, rifle, a book, a little halfway reliable once in a while wifi and as few neighbors as possible and I can find a fair bit of contentment.
Yeah,what Buck said.I get bored at parties,but nt outdoors all alone.Funny how life is different to different people.I live the simple life vicariously through your tales of the desert and ‘gettin by’.So don’t stop,please,we want to hear about doing laundry and raising chickens in the desert.If I want to know what else is going on,I’ll read drudge.