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My summertime routine for going to town in the middle of the week, a relatively rare practice, is to drive the Jeep to the county road and then take my ebike the rest of the way. This is, admittedly, a … Continue reading →

One of the things that pleased me about my third-hand Model 69 was that in the redesign S&W was farsighted enough to take the possibility of aftermarket sights into consideration. I found an adapter plate from a site called EGW … Continue reading →

Oh, I’ve been waiting for this. Got the email late yesterday afternoon and just got back from riding my bike into town. Lords of shooting please don’t let me screw this up, because… …I’m about to put a red dot … Continue reading →

I heard that phrase on a podcast that was playing in my ear while I cooked breakfast, and rushed over to write it down before I lost it. It pretty much encapsulates the upside-down world I’ve been trying to wrap … Continue reading →

The bread shelf at the crappy little market in the crappy little town nearest where I live… Glad I bake my own, though of course the price of flour is going the way of all things. The rise in the … Continue reading →

So shortly after I posted the below, my connection to the outside world abruptly went away. I live down in a hollow in the middle of the wilderness, nowhere near line-of-sight of any cell tower. Until a couple of years … Continue reading →

Yup. I’ve been dad to a daughter. I got things this wrong on a fairly regular basis.

It’s funny: The political climate in this country has gotten so toxic that even ‘living green’ has an element of hostility to it. I’m kind of living the stereotypical green dream, but I imagine that your average greenie would rather … Continue reading →

I was futzing around in my desk drawer last night and came up with a thumb drive that had gotten smooshed to the back. Had no idea what was on it. Among other things were a bunch of stories I … Continue reading →

Or until that expensive water pressure system’s sudden but inevitable betrayal, in any case. I’m quite pleased with myself this morning. Right now the only thing in Ian’s place that uses propane is the water heater. Gas to the kitchen … Continue reading →

I have questions. ‘Breast milk bag’ is self-explanatory, I suppose. But is a bag really the best container for that application? And why do people keep sending me this absolutely hopeless spam? Can’t say it often enough: I’m a desert … Continue reading →

I had quite a number of big tumbleweed-gathering sessions in April, trying to clear my yard of them. Unfortunately April generally marks the start of the windy season, this one was exceptional, and of course tumbleweeds are really only famous … Continue reading →

Brought home everything I needed for a nice pot of spaghetti. Opened a can of sauce, poured it into the saucepan, and after scraping out the can I gave it to Tobie. Little Bear loved to clean the sauce can. … Continue reading →

…and horses eat a lot. Expensively, if there’s nowhere they can graze. So… …midmorning found me at D&L’s barn, helping unload and stack yet another pallet of pellets. Nice morning for it.

Yesterday D&L gave me first refusal on a big pile of dog stuff they’re getting rid of since they plan on never having another dog. I suggested they might want to defer that decision for a few months, because nearly … Continue reading →

They lost both their dogs in less than a month. Just got back from helping them bury the second one. They were both quite old: The female had been sick for a while, got much worse and they euthanized her … Continue reading →

A sentence virtually never spoken concerning my attempts at improvised infrastructure is “It works too well.” In this case it originally worked so well it destroyed itself, repeatedly, so really didn’t work at all – at least never for very … Continue reading →

Sweartagod, every propane system upgrade goes like this. This fitting/hose/pipe/whatever doesn’t fit. Wait a week, get the right part (alternate version: Wait a week, get the wrong part.) That hurdle cleared, move on to the next fitting/pipe/hose/whatever. Which won’t fit. … Continue reading →

This has been an unusually cool May. I don’t object to that particularly, but normally the Spring wind has backed off by now. Instead it has carried on, and in fact has been starting up first thing in the morning … Continue reading →