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I always say I’m going to remember this next year, and every year I forget. In my defense I also forget about Christmas, so what can I say. I’m a hermit. But Commander Zero – being the person who invented … Continue reading →

‘Go for a ride in the Jeep.’ I missed the picture where he was pawing at the door, which he never otherwise does. He’ll forgive me for teasing about walkies – nothing special about walkies. But if I say those … Continue reading →

Baking day! And while waiting for the bread dough to finish its first rise I went outside and serviced the generator in preparation for wood cutting which will get under way as soon as I get a round tuit. But … Continue reading →

Not long ago a commenter said that (paraphrased, since I’m too lazy to go look for the actual comment) there are Youtubers who post videos about this cool remote retreat they’re building while carefully avoiding the angle that shows the … Continue reading →

Ever look at a pop-up ad and wonder “what the hell are they trying to sell me?” You might be a boomer. With the exception of the wireless earphones which are helpfully labeled, I don’t recognize a single item on … Continue reading →

DIY infrastructure comes with irritants large and small. Sometimes it’s the things that go only a little wrong that can get your day off to a bad start. Example… That is the outlet to the Lair’s sink drain. It empties … Continue reading →

Boy, after an almost completely dry week it clouded up and rained like a sonuvagun briefly this afternoon. Started with hail. Filled the gullies real quick, so no surprise that the wash ran a little. About 20 minutes after it … Continue reading →

I’ll never learn. So back in February something got stuck in the Jeep’s transmission valve body. Drive was Drive and so was Neutral, Reverse was Neutral and Park was some moving gear, possibly reverse, locked by the parking pawl. I … Continue reading →

When I first contemplated moving to the boonies for realsies in the mid-oughts there were all manner of weird things I could mentally picture myself doing for fun and profit. Some that I really did end up doing never crossed … Continue reading →

Oy, the things people with horses get up to… I like horses, normally, but a horse that gets in the habit of pissing where it lives is the foulest creature I’ve ever encountered. Gallons of the stuff, all deposited in … Continue reading →

…would break my budget if it weren’t for Big Brother. I have always been open to the possibility that, however blessed I’ve been since moving to the Gulch, I am cursed in one respect: I seem doomed never to have … Continue reading →

Stolen from Wendy McElroy.

This time it was 3am. Tobie went on a veritable rampage, charging from window to window snarling horribly. Never heard him snarl before except during play. He wasn’t playing early this morning – in fact he was so serious I … Continue reading →

Tobie takes perimeter defense very seriously, especially in the middle of the night, and seems genuinely perplexed as to how I can just sleep through all those critters that creep so brazenly around outside his open window. Being stuck inside … Continue reading →

More and more, offgrid battery tech is moving toward batteries that don’t require topping off the electrolyte levels. Some day maybe lithium battery prices will come down to where penniless desert hermits can afford them – preferably without depopulating Africa … Continue reading →

Momentarily flush, I ordered some replacement supplies from Amazon. Normally I would wait to pick up the box until the regular weekly water run but it’s a pretty morning and I wanted a bike ride. This, I knew before I … Continue reading →

My neighbors D&L have a very large house, post & beam with strawbale & adobe exterior and earthbag interior walls. I do believe it’s got more thermal mass than Ian’s Cave, which is great in the summer but a surprising … Continue reading →

…are you ever planning to get out of bed? Food bowl’s empty and bladder’s full over here…

…DJT decided to give up on the politics crap and just openly become a supervillain instead. I mean, if that face isn’t plotting an intricate and horrible revenge right that very moment against all those who have wronged him, I’ve … Continue reading →

It has drizzled rain for days now: No accumulation worth measuring but it’s like living inside a mister. I expect ferns. Just to get outside the cabin for something other than bare necessities I started out on a just for … Continue reading →