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I have known three people living out here with dangerous health issues. One’s dead, one moved away, and I don’t know what’s to become of the third who got driven away in an ambulance this morning. And getting her to … Continue reading →

Yup, it’s July. This past weekend has been an exercise in waiting for the sun to go down. Saturday: Sunday: Hey, it was a whole half degree cooler indoors yesterday! One factor contributing to Tobie’s newfound acceptance of Jeep rides … Continue reading →

D&L’s horses Doc and Coaltrain have not been getting a lot of riding time, what with one health-related issue or another on the part of their owners. In their downtime they’ve developed the habit of fussing at each other, and … Continue reading →

At last! All spring, bull snakes were more common in the yard than I’ve ever seen them – one time there were actually three within sight at one time, and they’re not really all that sociable. Then just as Tobie … Continue reading →

Almost all the daytime pictures the game camera takes are of birds, and almost all of them are very unremarkable – small brown bird sits on watering trough, ho hum. But because there are so many pictures of birds, some … Continue reading →

I haven’t had a lot of luck with dogs wanting to be brushed. The sole exception around here was Magnus, who loved it so much that he really thought it should be a privilege reserved for him alone. He’d happily … Continue reading →

How does it profit anyone to do this? I know it’s just robospam, no actual Chinese lady named Tracy sat down and composed an email to me alone. But somebody did go to the trouble of – whatever labor goes … Continue reading →

I’m not impressed with the night-vision resolution of my new Bushnell game camera compared to the old Browning. But I’ll take what I can get – at one location after another there’s been a frustrating lack of action day or … Continue reading →

I went into the drug store in the crappy little town nearest where I live this morning, and out of a morbid sense of futility walked past the only ammo counter in the crappy little etc. And quite to my … Continue reading →

This is the same dog that a month ago would lay down and pee himself rather than get in the Jeep. I refrained from forcing him to anything to do with the Jeep for over a week, then kept the … Continue reading →

The other day I noticed that the water canteen was missing out of my bike’s pannier bag. Seems I neglected to zip up the bag when I loaded the bike on its Jeep-back carrier. I know this, because… …a couple … Continue reading →

It works! Ian’s place never required very much propane; until last year there was never anything in there that used it but a kitchen stove – that nobody uses. So it had two swappable 20-pound bottles and that was all. … Continue reading →

This past week I received a new rear window for the Jeep, courtesy of Generous Reader Terrapod. Yay! Now, on the bottom edge of the rear window there’s supposed to be a plastic thing, there to hold the window shut … Continue reading →

Little wuss.

I’ve tended this thing for something like seven(?) years and long since gave up on it as anything but a yard decoration. It’s supposed to be self-pollinating but the truth is nobody around here has ever had any luck with … Continue reading →

Huge Spike In Americans Buying F-15s After Biden Suggests You’ll Need Them To Overthrow Government h/t Claire

I just finished a pretty good book… I’ve been following Andy Weir since his first book, The Martian, which got made into a big and pretty okay Matt Damon flick which I have on DVD. But the book is much … Continue reading →

For my second try at a single large loaf rather than two rather flat ones, I only made two little changes: I left the dough ball substantially wetter than usual, and on a hunch I reduced the olive oil in … Continue reading →

Shepherds, Anatolian or otherwise, have remarkably expressive faces. You could get the impression from Tobie’s resting face that he spends his days contemplating death metal, existential angst and the efficacy of nihilism in political discourse… …I mean that’s one serious-looking … Continue reading →