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The running gag of the early part of the lockdown was toilet paper. Then it was any sort of baking supplies. Flour has come back, sort of. But if you need sugar you’d better take out a loan – and … Continue reading →

Always makes me a little sad when the days get shorter. This hasn’t been a great summer for me but normally I much prefer summer, heat and glare and all.

I was able to scrape out all the old thinset under the tiles I replaced on the kitchen/woodstove side of the Lair with scrapers and chisels. No fun, but doable. But what I mixed on the door side was somehow … Continue reading →

Struggling CNN Just Starts Stealing Headlines From The Babylon Bee

There’s an overall word for that and I have spent fifteen minutes or more trying to remember what it is. Annoying. Anyway – A few weeks ago I had to put on my Joel the Sexton hat after burying Laddy, … Continue reading →

Most important election EVER!!!

What’s wrong with this picture? I was bashing through the wash yesterday, in a bit of a hurry because I was late to meet with D&L for the Monday morning water run, when the rattletrap the 19-year-old Jeep has become … Continue reading →

Thanks to Landlady, I got my iPhone back fixed! And now I can go back to photographing everything in sight, because the past six weeks or so have taught me that it’s really AirDrop I miss. The iPhone is much … Continue reading →

It’s September 10. Three days ago I spent the afternoon naked due to an unseasonable heat wave. This morning it’s 37o and I’m wrapped in layers and typing through gloves. I took a picture of the cool digital indoor/outdoor thermometer … Continue reading →

When I ran into Neighbor L yesterday morning she said there was a ‘90% chance’ of rain forecast for yesterday. There being not a cloud in the sky visible through all the secondhand smoke I had my doubts. But the … Continue reading →

…and to keep its second-hand smoke to itself. I mean I thought they were all into social distancing and stuff.

This guy is molotov cocktailing wrong – but at least he knows he can convalesce as the nation’s most popular meme for the next week or two – or anyway until the next political murder, which will be any minute … Continue reading →

I’m not ignoring you, at least not as much as it seems. It’s just that every time I go near a computer the cell signal falls to nothing. Seriously, most times I can’t even check email lately. And that with … Continue reading →

Yesterday I got a chance to visit the Palace of Food, the Safeway in the biggish town about 35 miles away. I get such a kick out of that place – nice to be reminded from time to time that … Continue reading →

From the “People throw away the damndest things” department, I give you… …the closest to “cute” we’ve come so far. 🙂 Excellent timing: The last of the scrounged deck chairs had just about finished falling apart. The old table, knocked … Continue reading →

August wasn’t a banner month for me to begin with, injuries always drop a bomb on my schedule, and the past two weeks have been kind of rough. What happened with Laddie depressed me more and longer than I expected; … Continue reading →

Murphy’s Law of Social Trend Integration clearly states “When Joel joins a fad, the fad burned out days or weeks ago.” So yesterday I actually bought one of those dumbass masks that have been all the rage for the past … Continue reading →

Okay, enter caveats: I have a paper right here showing that his mother and father were as married as dogs ever get so ‘bastard’ is wrong in every sense. And he was a Corgi officially christened “Sweet’n Soft’n Squishy,’ so … Continue reading →

Alternate title: All I Did was Suggest Improvements. I don’t need this shit right now – I just got the loveliest email in response to the post below. I get the impression this is a person who pitched something in … Continue reading →