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I had exactly fifteen rounds of my favorite commercial .44 Special in my possession. That’s five in the gun and ten in speed loaders. It was looking bad for our heroes. Oh, I could still reload – except that early … Continue reading →

For three years now, this has been part of the Spring ritual… Drag the ebike into the light. Air up the tires and top off the battery. This has been a very mild winter, and there have been a few … Continue reading →

Last November marked 15 years of fulltime Gulch living for me, 10 years since the Lair became … not complete, gods know, but habitable. It’s always good to reflect on how you’re doing, what could be improved, what needs to … Continue reading →

For a long time the Jeep has needed repairs that I continually ignored out of a belief that the transmission was soon going to completely fail (it did) and then the Jeep would become a permanently-parked blight on the landscape … Continue reading →

Judging by recent experiences friends have had with building contractors, these people are years too late. “Phone Hasn’t Stopped Ringing” – The World’s Ultra Rich Are Panic Buying Doomsday Bunkers The “ultra rich” in the title is probably very wrong: … Continue reading →

It’s been very mild for early March, which is normally extremely changeable in the high desert. Sometimes I’ve even been briefly opening some windows that don’t directly face the heavy late winter/spring wind. Kind of important to remember to close … Continue reading →

…is not something I really thought I was going to have to do. But for some reason, though bottled tapwater is easily available under a large variety of labels… …there is a widespread shortage of distilled water. I genuinely did … Continue reading →

…has been pretty pitiful this winter. During the mid-day walkie I dumped yesterday’s empty brass into the tumbler and turned it on. Came back two hours later to find… …that everything in the tumbler didn’t make much of a pile. … Continue reading →

After sitting unused for more than 3 months, a battery that should have had another year or so in it let me down this morning… …and annoying as that is, the timing couldn’t have been better. I no sooner got … Continue reading →

A Generous Reader who asked not to be identified sent me a big bag of home-cast .44 boolits for free. I promised a review, and here it is. I weighed about 40 of them at random and they are quite … Continue reading →

To my surprise, the followup trip to the shop on Tuesday does seem to have improved the Jeep’s situation. I admit that a) I didn’t even know it had an adjustable TV cable, and b) I still don’t understand why … Continue reading →

Aw, it got away from me… 😉

I was barely home with the Jeep last week when it was clear that things weren’t right. This came as no surprise. Everything was well enough except the transmission kept randomly going out of gear under acceleration, especially up steep … Continue reading →

Okay, the breadsticks didn’t work out so well – especially after a couple of days in the bag. This morning I looked at some little boxes of raisins BB sent me last month, then went to my copy of Joy … Continue reading →

…about their borders are relatively rare in the modern world. Yet there are plenty of places where borders are clear on maps but vague on the ground because there’s really nothing there to defend. Example: I know I’ve been in … Continue reading →

I share chicken chores with another neighbor, as we share expenses and eggs. Today was my day. I went over there with Tobie in the Jeep, went into the powershed to swap waterers… …or I should say I tried to. … Continue reading →

Not by any means a huge snowfall – hell, we got 10″ almost exactly a year ago – but it’s by far the biggest of this so-far very dry winter. View from the porch… Oh, bother. If the forecast is … Continue reading →

Several weeks ago I inventoried my pistol ammo and began to fret. 44 Special is not an especially popular cartridge anymore* and for the past two years it has been unobtainium. My favorite flavor, CCI “flying ashtray” Blazers, was depleted … Continue reading →

Boy, I really could have used this over the weekend: Neighbor D’s Jeep doesn’t have a trailer hitch and I had to borrow S&L’s pickup to move a bunch of stuff for some other neighbors. But I’ll take what I … Continue reading →

Gelsocks are always welcome at the old one-legged guy’s Lair… Somebody hit my Amazon wishlist. If you know what this is for, you might have a woodstove. My old stovepipe brush is ten years old and I have learned that … Continue reading →