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There are places here and there in the wash where water comes to the surface. Prior to this summer I only knew of two, but there’s lots of wash I never explored. In the Gulch the wash is commonly used … Continue reading →

They all got rounded up and hauled off a month or so and I thought that was the end of them for the cold season. Apparently not so. They’re baaaack. Just chased this bunch out of my yard. I hate … Continue reading →

It works at a glacial pace, but it does work. Interested in keeping track of time, I set up the distiller but didn’t turn the flame on till 8am exactly. Not surprisingly, it took a long time for anything at … Continue reading →

…from a Generous Reader… Early this year there was a shortage complete absence of distilled water available anywhere, and it went on for quite a while, expending my stored supply. Literally down to nothing but still having a bunch of … Continue reading →

This has been on my mind, wondering when the pistol sight would fail me and whether – as per tradition – it would do it suddenly and at a really bad time. In fact I was surprised when the LED … Continue reading →

$63.20, or $3.80 a gallon. The good news is that I’m very happy I topped off the bottles when I did, at the end of last winter. Not real common for me to make smart financial decisions: Maybe I’m finally … Continue reading →

…sent me this heat-actuated woodstove fan about five years ago. Still works great! The original version of the heat-actuated fan comes from Canada and is quite expensive. Also quite good: D&L have a couple of them in their workshop and … Continue reading →

D&L had another doctor appointment in the big town about 50 miles away today so I came over to feed the boys their lunch. While I was weighing out hay there was a great clattering in the far corner of … Continue reading →

I’m not a particularly introspective person. Navel gazing has never struck me as useful, in general, and for much of my adult life I was simply too busy, too harassed, to want to do anything with often rare free time … Continue reading →

I’m getting to an age where I have an excuse to pick my time to do certain chores. Not that I need excuses, most of the time, except to my own built-in Yankee work ethic, but still. I don’t need … Continue reading →

We have a day or two of nice weather before more early winter is forecast. I’m trying to use it to get some annoying things out of the way. But at the moment I’m just waiting for the outside temperature … Continue reading →

Thursday and much of yesterday brought misery worthy of December. Yesterday afternoon the sun came out and melted the snow, and by 8:30 this morning I was working outside in shirtsleeves. I’m still trying to work out how best to … Continue reading →

Right, so last night the wind came up and the rain turned into snow… Not a lot, maybe an inch. But with the temperature crash and the heavy overcast, this time it stayed on the ground, so… …this morning Tobie … Continue reading →

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Yup, it’s November. It rained on and off all night long, waking me up repeatedly. And it has rained on and off all morning. That seep under Ian’s Cave is worse than it’s ever been… With not merely damp but … Continue reading →

I’ve been pleased as can be with the way my solar power system has functioned this past several years. It came to its current state of maturity maybe four years ago after a long period of gradual growth, and was … Continue reading →

The one convenience store in the crappy little town nearest where I live was the last to drop an absolute mandate on wearing masks inside, long after everybody else gave it up as a bad idea, no doubt because it’s … Continue reading →

Sorry for the long silence there, folks. Nothing’s wrong. Winter arrived and I went suddenly into cocoon mode like it was some inescapable lizard instinct. The good news is that I’ve already made inroads on that stack of books beside … Continue reading →

I knew it would get nippy overnight, but… …wasn’t expecting snow, and… …wasn’t expecting it to get quite this nippy. I didn’t even have the woodstove set up yet. Happily that doesn’t take long… Unhappily, this means we’re officially in … Continue reading →