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Here’s what eight pallets in fairly good shape look like when imitating a stack of firewood…

So Tobie chewed up a strap on his harness the other day. At first I thought it would be a simple fix because I have lots of strapping among my repair stuff, but I had foolishly used up or never … Continue reading →

This kid combines the chewing fetish of a typical puppy with the chewing ability of a … well, a combine. Today, the little sonovabitch wrecked his own harness. While he was wearing it. I actually expected to be able to … Continue reading →

Next to the wash there’s this one – not a butte, not a mesa, I guess I’d go no more exalted than an erosion feature – that is very pretty in first autumn light. I’ve been meaning to come out … Continue reading →

…when they’re forced on you. Yesterday’s experiment with D doing the mid-day horse feeding went so well he decided he’d also take over the 6am feeding. As you can imagine, I begged and pleaded for him to have a change … Continue reading →

He figures he still can’t haul the muck wagon around the corrals but he ought to be able to do at least some of the feeding. So I’m skipping the 11am feeding this morning and will meet him at 4. … Continue reading →

My neighbors D&L took the covid thing really seriously, as I may have mentioned. They masked religiously and stopped attending neighborhood get-togethers, got the vaccine as soon as humanly possible and still masked and distanced themselves. At one point D … Continue reading →

So I’ll do it a bit late. Every time I come up on some calendar milestone, even if it doesn’t really matter that much to me, I mean to mention it on the blog because that’s just what you’re supposed … Continue reading →

I thought I had a 2-gallon reserve can which turned out to be empty because I forgot that the chainsaw also uses gasoline. Then the Monday morning water run got set back to Tuesday which wasn’t good news at all. … Continue reading →

My quotidian chores have lately taken up so much time in small bites over the whole daytime period that I’m kind of having to push a bit to get my seasonal chores done. These guys… I negotiated the 6am-7pm five-visit … Continue reading →

Eight ayem I had to be at S&L’s, leaving in time to be at D&L’s in time for corral and pellet stove cleaning at 8:30. I started the Jeep, put it in reverse, and was definitely dragging something through the … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing with my new camera off and on in what passes for my spare time, which is to say not as much as I’d prefer. Of course I don’t leave it in the Jeep, obviously because I’d need … Continue reading →

He’s been sitting in that chair reading a book for two hours, and… …I’m seriously considering chewing up another pair of his gloves because even getting yelled at would be preferable to sitting around all afternoon.

For one thing I don’t have a doorbell… h/t to JP

I get human-type passengers so seldom – and would so hesitate to invite somebody civilized to put his/her ass on that seat anyway – that I’m thinking seriously of just pulling it out and laying down some old carpet. Except … Continue reading →

Some jobs are either super easy/barely an inconvenience or impossible, depending entirely on whether you have the part you need. Thanks to Generous Reader Terrapod I suddenly had a whole package of them, so… …the Jeep once again has a … Continue reading →

Okay, so after the 11am feeding I went down the hill to where I parked the yellow Jeep and put the rear driveshaft back on… …and Tobie was in the red Jeep and apparently being a very good boy, but … Continue reading →

Two old guys on one old guy’s turf are going to rub each other the wrong way sometimes. Case in point, my OCD neighbor D instructing me on how to fill his truck with gas: “When you put the cap … Continue reading →

I’m trying to find a new level of normal; over the past week I’ve devoted so much mental energy to where I’m supposed to be when I’m supposed to be there that I spend too much of my actual down … Continue reading →

Ian interviewed an expert on the subject 3 years ago. Very interesting. Bottom line: That famous accident last week not only could have been avoided, normal every-day movie-set practice would have avoided it.