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I owe you a care package post, and I promise I’m working on it, but first I want to make an announcement to people who’ve been using my maildrop address: Please don’t send any more packages to that address. Things … Continue reading →

In general, the new hotness in expensive firearms isn’t going to matter that much to a penniless hermit. In fact if it weren’t for a Forgotten Weapons video I was on with Ian going on 3 years ago I might … Continue reading →

Today has been scheduled for baking all week, and in addition to the usual I wanted to do something unusual: Actual bread sticks. I like to keep snacks around, BB has spoiled me that way, but for reasons not to … Continue reading →

Just sitting around reading most of the day, doing mundane chores for the rest. Here’s a funny video…

I don’t know anything about the comparative value of camera brands or models. I don’t know very much about cameras: When I read a review most of it may as well be in Urdu. But I have figured out that … Continue reading →

Okay, so it was definitely going to get cold last night. It’s been overcast the past two days, snowed on and off and never got above freezing all yesterday, and overnight the sky cleared. We’re at 6000 feet: it’s gonna … Continue reading →

It’s been a really dry winter so far, so… …a quick half-inch or so of snow is noticeable. Certainly Tobie thinks so. This is probably only the third time he’s ever seen it in his life, and he hasn’t gotten … Continue reading →

I’ve really grown to dislike the local goats. I have my doubts about the goat people. I mean they’re perfectly nice people, personally. But they’ve got this goat herd that they can’t really feed and don’t even try to confine, … Continue reading →

…because she was always the most dependable egg-layer. Not especially good eggs unless you like them small and green, but one egg a day like a nervous, spastic little machine. But I was beginning to think none of them were … Continue reading →

Out of the blue, Neighbor S volunteered to go up on the Lair’s roof and replace the chimney cap, an improvement the Lair has needed for, roughly, ever. Don’t know how effective it’ll be as a spark arrester, but I … Continue reading →

By this time of the season it’s kind of automatic… Chop kindling, … …and lay tomorrow’s fire. For several years this was a more emotional issue than it should have had any need to be, because ten years ago I … Continue reading →

I was running an errand this morning, listening to C&Rsenal on my earpiece, when Othias ran this bit… …and I had to ruefully admit that until recently I had never owned a set of gunsmith screwdrivers in my life, despite … Continue reading →

By happenstance, a person in my social network paused at my maildrop and found a neato package I didn’t expect to see for another two weeks… Gelsocks! I don’t know who sent these, they came directly from the distributor. B … Continue reading →

I went looking for distilled water for the batteries. Shouldn’t have let my supply get so low, right now I’m down to begging Landlady to bring some up from the city. Also no bread in the store, but that’s not … Continue reading →

Okay, technically books do come from factories but what I mean is that when I was a little kid I never gave any thought to where books come from. I assumed vegetables came from a canning plant: It actually kind … Continue reading →

I haven’t posted for days, because I’ve just been sitting around for days. Nothing’s wrong, it’s just winter. Tobie has a new thing, though… I found him some leather bones that don’t turn his guts to water, and he approves … Continue reading →

This has actually happened to me twice since I moved here. The first was on a second-hand teapot, so it didn’t owe me anything. The one two days ago was a nearly-new but really cheap and crappy pot I got … Continue reading →

The Monday morning water run was held on Tuesday afternoon this week, and I took that opportunity for my monthly visit to what I’ve come to think of as the Jeep’s final resting place. To my surprise, I noticed that … Continue reading →

It’s a dim cool rainy morning here at the Secret Lair, very undesertlike, and I’m taking this opportunity for some maintenance/repair. I always keep some 2-part epoxy around the Lair for just such occasions. In this case… The tightening wedge … Continue reading →

This used to be such a big deal; I had tarps everywhere and made a huge mess. Took longer to clean the cabin afterward than it took to clean the stovepipe. People kept trying to tell me I was doing … Continue reading →