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I usually go do chicken chores around four in the afternoon, but… …there was a lull in the rain around 1:30 and I had a feeling I should take that opportunity… …because I might not get another chance today. Good … Continue reading →

I could have done everything I wanted yesterday and more. Oh, the weatherman was right about how it was going to rain but very wrong about when. Finally started raining at quarter to four and then it never stopped. Look! … Continue reading →

Step One: Have an absent neighbor with a refrigerator. For a couple of years after we put that big fridge in Ian’s Cave I ignored it. I’d gone so long without refrigeration that I was used to living without it. … Continue reading →

Monsoon is almost as annoying when it doesn’t rain as when it does. I sat around all afternoon yesterday afraid to get very far from shelter while the daily storm clouds built and threatened and then sailed harmlessly away to … Continue reading →

I touched some very muddy grass this morning, if by grass I mean tightly-packed brush and branches. A biggish culvert got plugged and needed to be cleared before the next flood tears it right out of the road. And the … Continue reading →

Beautiful morning for a ride. By the time morning walkie was over the sky was completely clear so it’ll probably warm up later but just then the temp was in the sixties, I was feeling good, the bike was apparently … Continue reading →

Nice morning for it. I really hate the new pannier; this afternoon’s project will be to cut some backing boards for it out of veneer to keep the floppy bags out of the spokes. I rode home with them bungied … Continue reading →

Yeah, early this summer cattle were released at the water tank near the county road. They’ve been working their way toward the Gulch ever since. Uncle Joel not happy about this. Tobie finds it very interesting, though…

My neighbors D&L moved up their semi-regular Saturday trip to town to today so I could tag along for a couple of needed errands… Yesterday morning during Tobie’s walkie I noted that one of the two remaining propane bottles feeding … Continue reading →

Starting my twice-daily gig at T&S’s this afternoon… Naturally racing a thunderstorm so there was no time to enjoy it. I like taking time with the boys and taking advantage of the view, but not today. Between no windshield wipers … Continue reading →

I don’t know how mice are getting in and out of Ian’s powershed but they’re suddenly doing it in substantial numbers. And the only way I know to keep that from turning the place completely useless is jihad. Here’s #5: … Continue reading →

I have another T&S gig starting Thursday, which means a lot of back and forth across the plateau and up their mesa. This morning’s Monday water run was my last chance to gas up for it… …so I poured my … Continue reading →

It’s been a remarkably cool not-especially-hot summer so far, what with Monsoon having gotten such an early start. So it’s not that big an issue so far that the Secret Lair can get awfully hot and stuffy in the afternoon … Continue reading →

We’ve only had six and a quarter inches of rain year-to-date but the grass really took off as soon as it started to fall, no doubt riding on its many successes during last year’s very wet Monsoon. And the grass … Continue reading →

…as I’ve been doing every other month or so, lately, with D&L. Was running low on hamburger so I bought a couple of biggish packages of the good stuff. This morning after morning walkie I had a bunch of chores … Continue reading →

I’m working with two different flavors of headache this morning, because last night my always-suspect shower chair… …decided to fold its legs and dump me on my geriatric ass. Which wouldn’t have been so bad, except a millisecond later the … Continue reading →

See, this is (only about reason #56,724,968 for) why I became a hermit. You just can’t depend on people. See this? This shouldn’t be here. This should be parked with a gunsmith in the big town about 50 miles away. … Continue reading →

Good news! I figured out the electrical problem on the ebike! As quite a number of people suggested and I myself suspected, it was really only a separated connector. Bad news! The connector is nonsensically located inside the bike frame. … Continue reading →

I bought my first pair of offbrand noise-cancelling earmuffs as soon as the price came down to where I could kind of afford them. When they wore out I saved my dimes and bought these. Which are wearing out. But … Continue reading →