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I knew it was going to boil down to not very much. I wouldn’t know how much not very much was till I got there. I sterilized five jars and hoped I wasn’t being too comically optimistic… …and to my … Continue reading →

I left the pears to soften up for five days and that may have been a mistake: Two different species of bugs had pretty thoroughly colonized about half of them. Quite a bit is going to the chickens. I was … Continue reading →

“Dammit, Tobie! I’ve had that brush for years!”

FBI Rally In D.C. Ends Without Incident

Points for brevity, at least… As so often happens when I receive business-style spam, I’m left wondering “what was the point of this?”

I put this out here back then with great trepidation, since I hate asking for things in any case and I’m downright neurotic about expensive things. It ended kind of spectacularly. So spectacularly, in fact, that I never even unpackaged … Continue reading →

Summer will be done before I know it. My field of high waving flowers has faded… …and I thought I was being relatively attentive about the pear tree. Unfortunately… …turns out I wasn’t being attentive enough. So when all was … Continue reading →

Busy morning. Toward the end of his morning walkie Tobie finally managed to bring a bit of juniper branch all the way home without losing it; apparently assuming I wouldn’t let it inside the cabin he immediately flopped down on … Continue reading →

I bake every five days or so, usually well before I’m out of bread in summer because it molds before I finish eating it. Less often in winter, because it doesn’t. I’ve been doing this for most of the fifteen … Continue reading →

Tobie and I went on an unusually long walkie this morning. Beautiful day in a recent series of beautiful days, a little warm for comfort in the afternoon but pleasant in the morning and it seems we’re looking at Monsoon’s … Continue reading →

(This turned into another wall’o’words post. Apologies.) PREAMBLE: Longtime readers will have noticed that I seldom do political posts anymore. Honestly they were never anything but filler to help me fulfill the Post Every Day rule, which is hard to … Continue reading →

A quickie little project for D&L turned out quite a bit more difficult than expected. I think it might have been easier if I’d gotten in there before the mud dried, though it certainly would have been messier… A corner … Continue reading →

Coming home from the Monday morning water run has become a bit of a stressful thing since Tobie decided he could chew and scatter whatever he wanted if Uncle Joel wasn’t home. I cleared out the lower cabinets and bathroom … Continue reading →

It has bugged me that, after waiting on the order of 10 years for this tree to fruit, most of the fruit will be wasted. Right? I mean they’re not going to be as good as commercial pears no matter … Continue reading →

But Tobie does the best he can. He’ll go nuts with one of his toys for a while, keeping himself occupied… But sooner or later he’ll see if he can get me involved in the game. This is nothing I … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a very pleasant day, in that there was never even a credible threat of rain. Unlike the day before. And, allegedly, this afternoon. So certain things that should have happened on Wednesday were moved to Thursday, like Battery … Continue reading →

Rained off and on all night, a fact I know because I was awake for much of it filling tissues. So yeah, I’m really looking forward to a nice long walk first thing in the drippy morning. Tobie’s only real … Continue reading →

…and then this morning Ian proved that it really does (very) occasionally show up on his videos. Only the first few seconds are really relevant to this post, but I’m still in love with the WWSD ARs so what the … Continue reading →

In hindsight this was all predictable and somewhat avoidable based on prior experience. Little Bear was not always a lovable puppy. But that was twelve years ago and I’d put all the chewing and property destruction out of my memory. … Continue reading →