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I’ve needed to bake bread for the past couple of days, but to do that you really need a few more-or-less guaranteed uninterrupted hours, preferably with the sky at full-sun, and yesterday and Wednesday that wasn’t going to happen so … Continue reading →

My uncertainty derives from the first one not being a confirmed kill – these things are important in the life of a young gangsta – when he was still very young he disappeared for a while and came back with … Continue reading →

By happy coincidence, Tobie just finished destroying his last dollar store chew rope a couple of days ago. So while I was at the big town about 50 miles away I stopped at the Tractor Supply store and bought him … Continue reading →

I went to the big town about 50 miles away with the address of a place that claimed they would take my phone in and replace the glass and clean its various orifi inside one hour, for $80. I made … Continue reading →

Sometimes, in my capacity as Entertainment Director here at the Secret Lair, I fall down on the job. Or at least sit down. For some reason, over the past three days the end of my stump has gotten all swollen … Continue reading →

I sit on the ridge over the wash, looking back over my home… …thinking about this and that. I sometimes wonder if it shouldn’t seem odd to me that I’m so happy to live here – really it’s the only … Continue reading →

It’s not cold out, looks like it’ll break 50 which isn’t cold at all for early January, but heavy clouds and in every other way not at all like yesterday which was scandalously nice. Heavy clouds are why … If … Continue reading →

First week in January, and it’s in the sixties. I’m walking around outside in a longsleeve t-shirt. It’s almost obscene. Clear sky, warm breeze. Any nicer and we’ll have to arm up to keep the tourists away. This morning I … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s post was really just a quicky to make up for the long pause in posting, it was never intended to be a bleg. But a bunch of people came out of the woodwork to deal with Joel’s tragic looming … Continue reading →

…and I expend every round of commercial .44 Special with a pained grimace that would look good on Ebenezer Scrooge. For the first time in my career as a cedar rat I’m asking myself why oh why did I decide … Continue reading →

I’ve been so careful with this thing for years… …then yesterday morning it fell out of my hoodie pocket and must have landed on that corner just right. The phone is the key to basically everything online here at the … Continue reading →

Rain last night, then wind in the wee hours and I woke up to driving snow – not a lot, probably less than an inch, but still the first real snowfall of this heretofore very mild winter. I took Tobie … Continue reading →

The bad news is that Soylent Green was set in 2022. I have this irrational urge to go check my food and ammo stocks…

I recently heard a one-liner from a movie I never saw, and now I can’t wait to work it into a conversation: “Don’t call me ‘sir,’ that’s like putting an elevator in an outhouse.” Townie strangers who run into me … Continue reading →

…expect something uncompromising.

Evidence suggests that the deer in Texas take a more proactive approach to collisions with automobiles…

…and only just over this night did we get our first official snowfall… …and it’s barely more than a dusting that will be gone in an hour if we get any sun at all. Walking along the wash I saw … Continue reading →

It’s December 27, and so it has been exactly one month to the day since a neighbor towed me in the Jeep to the single auto repair shop in the crappy little town nearest where I live. That shop hasn’t … Continue reading →

…and it’s still kind of windy out but the clouds have cleared away – I’m hoping for long enough to get the batteries back up to snuff. I woke up sometime before three with the wind blasting the cabin, which … Continue reading →