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One of the signs of a quality firearm, long or short, is a nice neat pile of brass consistently thrown in the same place. Or at least that’s what I always thought. My new Arex doesn’t agree. Yesterday afternoon I … Continue reading →

…and so today I drove the Jeep to D&L’s place and yoinked out the battery so I could take it to town. And now that problem has been dealt with, and winter cold won’t kill my aging Jeep battery. Embarrassing, … Continue reading →

This afternoon I found the first fallen pear, which wasn’t there this morning. So… I took down the fence so I could get a ladder in there and started twisting stems, seeing who wanted to come join me. And…well… The … Continue reading →

I went out to the Jeep in plenty of time, loaded it up with empty water bottles and gas cans, and then found that I had stupidly left the switch on and the battery was dead. It was in fact … Continue reading →

This review took a while for me to put together because it made me work, and because snake shot doesn’t particularly interest me – but I did promise to review the two types of shot that Generous Reader Eric sent … Continue reading →

I’ve been paying attention to the pear tree – last time it fruited I lost most of the haul because by the time I picked the fruit what hadn’t already fallen off the tree was bug-infested. This time I’ve been … Continue reading →

It has come to this… Periodically gathering up the Lair’s principal flashlights… …and replacing/recharging all their batteries. And it’s not like I have some weird flashlight fetish – I didn’t even know until years after I’d moved off-grid that there … Continue reading →

It’s Senior Day at the Palace of Food, which is not my favorite day of the month because I have to spend a lot of time in D&L’s truck and then half an hour or so in a crowded Safeway. … Continue reading →

Water Day is not a happy morning for Tobie. As soon as I start messing with quarters and empty water bottles he knows the drill, and he goes to his bed and enters Sulk Mode. This morning was a bit … Continue reading →

So late last month I got an email from my debit card provider asking if I’d just been trying to buy something while in London. I replied that, in fact, I had not. You probably know the tune: They cancelled … Continue reading →

No big crisis, it happens periodically as if the bots have a rotating list. The downside is that I always check the spam locker for legit comments that occasionally get wrongly dumped in there – if you ever had a … Continue reading →

I’ve been dreading this day since I first decided I was going to paint the cabin this summer… The original cabin siding was not of the best, and I put it up nine years ago. Only two sunny walls are … Continue reading →

I was chopping tumbleweeds in Ian’s driveway when I noticed that my pistol appeared to have gotten awfully loose on my belt. Looked at my shadow, and… ALL the bolts had worked loose between the holster and the belt attachment. … Continue reading →

I am undeniably a boomer. And you know what young shooters always complain about old shooters… …we’re always stopping to pick up our brass. And it’s true. At least with me it is. Even brass I don’t load for. Yet. … Continue reading →

Tobie normally kind of avoids my bedroom for his own reasons except in certain specific circumstances, like he needs the window overlooking the driveway or… …Uncle Joel is washing dishes. When I do that he almost always makes himself scarce … Continue reading →

Monsoon has been pretty predictable the past few days, with nightly thunderstorms but no real downpours. Last night was the heaviest rain so far, with my rain gauge showing .75″. Which is far from a record but enough to cause … Continue reading →

Seriously, it’s a good thing (for the blog) I started the blog when I was sixteen years younger. There is a tangible inverse correlation between physical age and ease of operating any device that contains integrated circuits. Probably there are … Continue reading →

Several years ago, after many and varied old-tractor troubles, Ian’s tractor’s injector pump got very intermittent and finally stopped working at all. It was just parked for a couple of years until July 2021, when… There was a great disturbance … Continue reading →

A Generous Reader sent me some ammo! Five boxes of 124 grain practice ammo, to help see if the Arex likes that better than 115 grain. Two boxes of .44 Magnum reloads and… Two different types of .44 snakeshot. This … Continue reading →

Oh, I hope she replies quickly! Can’t wait! Gave’er my debit card info too, just to speed up the direct deposit! Wonder who died? Funny thing, though – Lawyers may not know who both their parents are but most usually … Continue reading →