Author Archives: Joel

For flooring materials received last autumn, I owe D&L many hours of labor which will be burned off mostly helping D put a veranda all the way around their new house.They’ve spent several-going-on-many years building their wonderful strawbale-and-earthbag extravaganza. Remember … Continue reading →

Now this is some chicken stew.After we gorged on roast chicken, Ghost and Little Bear tearfully watched me push the still-meaty carcass into a pressure cooker full of water. Or they would have, if dogs could cry. They’re very good … Continue reading →

I’ve converted some things from .pdf to epub, including George Potter’s Symbols Flow. Alas, when I did a search for “free epub readers for Linux” I fell into that twilight zone of “It’s easy! All you have to do is … Continue reading →

Guffaw in Az meditates on the circumstance of one’s gear getting that experienced and lived-in look, when you can’t afford to replace it with nicer gear. You can lament it or you can celebrate it. No law says you can’t … Continue reading →

Relatively quick trip to the big town about 50 miles away this morning, for my part to order a new pair of glasses and finally put this long-standing vision crisis behind me. A friend sent me $20 as a 60th … Continue reading →

One of the fun things about gungrabber propaganda is the mindlessly relentless way they focus on their nemesis and arch-enemy, the vile, cruel and heartless (cover your children’s ears if you’re reading this to them aloud) National Rifle Association. It’s … Continue reading →

There are reports that the idiotic Bloomberg poster below is a too-subtle fake. Maybe yes, maybe no. The web site it advertises certainly seems realistically anti-gun. So I dunno. Just saying, might be fake. The world has become a pretty … Continue reading →

Here’s Victor Davis Hanson, suggesting that those federal SWAT guys could have more properly found a target much closer to home, had they been inclined to do something right for a change. …we are not threatened by the likes of … Continue reading →

Seriously? Fear driven by ignorance is usually unreasoning fear. Not the sort of thing on which common sense laws are built. And these “Everytown” people have certainly wasted no time demonstrating their ignorance. H/T to Thirdpower. BTW, for a beautiful … Continue reading →

Shortly after writing that I planned to sit around all day, I got restless and wandered over to Landlady’s place. There’s always something to do if I rouse myself to do it. Right now Landlady’s Big Chickenhouse contains what amounts … Continue reading →

Absolutely no motivation to do anything but putter today. Expect no deep thoughts. I’ve got two paying gigs I should be on, but if all goes according to plan neither will progress today. I vant to be alone. Putz in … Continue reading →

To those awake to the problem, “militarized cops” aren’t exactly a new topic. But I’m seeing a flurry of more mainstream sources writing on the subject as if they’d only just noticed. Washington Post, of all places: The disturbing messages … Continue reading →

So Harry Reid tottered to a microphone, shook his wizened finger and wheezed that what went on in Nevada was “domestic terrorism.” “They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists,” he repeated, because repetition proves it’s true. The fact that it came … Continue reading →

Passin’ it on. Looks like Oathkeepers are taking the point here. Which is good, because according to Vanderboegh there’s also a heavy presence of those-you-wish-weren’t-on-your-side.

Up near the county road, miles from here, there’s a big herd of calves running around. Every time I see them they wander farther from the water tanks, looking for grass. This morning it seems I had one in my … Continue reading →

Sorry about that – I gather from the traffic numbers, or lack of same, that I wasn’t the only person who couldn’t get on the blog yesterday. TUAK piggybacks off another site, and sometimes I think the provider got the … Continue reading →

Don’t worry about Michael Bloomberg. He’s okay. “I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s … Continue reading →

No, I’ve got nothing to say about it. It just sounded like a cool title. Also, I’ve actually done that. Or…something like that. Because I’m all bipartisan and stuff. Or maybe I’m just a partisan, I forget which. Did I … Continue reading →

Or wait… No, my bad. They did the other thing instead.

Next appointment in six months. I passed the course, and walked out with a prescription for a shiny new pair of glasses. Yay! Then I crossed the street to Wal-Mart and found out I can’t order said glasses till I … Continue reading →