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My favorite cacti are blooming! I love the shade of these flowers but the plants are pure evil. The spikes are not only very sharp, they’re hooked as if they don’t want to stop causing you pain when you get … Continue reading →

Haven’t really been sleeping well the past several nights. Nothing wrong, it just comes and goes. Also I went to the big town about 50 miles away yesterday and that seems to have used up my supply of wanna-do for … Continue reading →

Not actually much in the way of Spring flowers so far this May. I’ve lost hope for the yucca this year, and I’m not sure if the cactus are going to do anything. The cliff roses are coming along nicely, … Continue reading →

Okay, so I got my principal iPhone working. Yay, me. But all of a sudden the bluetooth earpiece I habitually wear wasn’t telling me when I had a new text. And that’s the main reason I wear the damned thing. … Continue reading →

Sometimes I get so annoyed I actually exert myself to fix a techie problem myself. Also, for like the first time since I started using Apple products, iTunes was of some value to me. It took half the afternoon, but … Continue reading →

Friend of the Blog Commander Zero sent me a gift! A tactical gift, of course… This is a really nice flashlight, (as far as I know) up to date with the latest fashion. Ol’ Boomer Joel has continual trouble wrapping … Continue reading →

Maybe especially if you are. I went to bed at the usual time. It was raining off and on and Tobie was unusually unsettled. Usually by my bedtime he’s long since checked out. I didn’t hear thunder at first, my … Continue reading →

I have to stop and remember, while using the new Arex, just how obsolescent old school my pistols have been, and for how long they’ve been that way. I swapped my worn-out 1911 for a big-bore revolver 12-13 years ago. … Continue reading →

My whole online life revolves around my smartphone. Since sometime in 2017 I’ve been using a secondhand iPhone that was getting pretty worn out and I was getting worried. Then early last year Big Brother texted me out of the … Continue reading →

I just read an article about Glenn Campbell on the anniversary of his birthday. And while I don’t actually give him much thought a linked video to Wichita Lineman made me chuckle to myself. The song was ubiquitous on the … Continue reading →

Neighbor D had a health setback yesterday, which disrupted my plans to go to the biggish town about 35 miles away and shop for (groceries and) a holster for the Arex. Poor me, right? Having typed that first sentence I … Continue reading →

Last summer there was this whole big story arc about a(t least one) nest of mice that I ended up killing one by one, starting with the adults and ending with the babies. But I never found the nest – … Continue reading →

At last night’s surprise party I received a few Joel-centric gag gifts that’ll probably never be used and one that’s already in use… …and a not-at-all gag gift from Ian, who came all the way up here to surprise me… … Continue reading →

Well, I can no longer say I’ve never had a birthday party. Total surprise. Details later.

Every now and then somebody asks for my bread recipe, and it has been a long time since I talked about that. So here’s the current version. Keep in mind that bread in the developmental stage is very sensitive to … Continue reading →

Seriously, I was thinking about it this morning. Tobie and I were out early… …and on the way home we saw our closest neighbor coming home in his new pickup, towing his flatbed trailer. It was a few minutes past … Continue reading →

I have so many flashlights I don’t know what to do. I have a really nice rechargeable I carried for years until quite recently, when I pruned down the stuff I keep on my belt. I have a sort-of-slightly-bigger-than-a-penlight that … Continue reading →

…to put the woodstove to bed for the season. It’s just been too nice outside for anything but play – till today when I’m relatively stuck indoors and so it was time for a good cobweb hunting and floor vacuuming. … Continue reading →

The return of pleasant weather has gotten me off my ass and out the door a bit more in the past couple of days, and loving it. Yesterday was a prime example… Start early – indeed, as soon as the … Continue reading →