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Regular readers will recall me spending much of the late wet winter bitching about the mud on Laddie’s path, in the ashfield at the foot of the ridge. I thought caliche clay made the worst mud, but that was before … Continue reading →

A number of commenters in the post below have chided me for not upgrading from the Taurus Tracker I started carrying about three (four?) and a half years ago. And the truth is – I did. Late last year. Regular … Continue reading →

…that was before the Internet. He’d probably also approve of specialized online commerce. I’ve marveled before on this blog at commercial websites dedicated to meeting very specialized needs, that seem to do good business. Often you can freely buy things … Continue reading →

Somehow it seems I haven’t been getting notifications and there are probably people out there thinking I’m some kind of ingrate because I haven’t acknowledged you. I just got an email from TUAK’s unpaid CFO, who said… So it occurred … Continue reading →

Haven’t slept well the past couple of nights for various reasons, so today when not driven by the usual necessary chores I just sort of hung out. Finally got around to baking bread, which I needed, … …and that was … Continue reading →

We set up the target stage yesterday afternoon and tested the new hardware… …and then spent a couple of hours in the sun shooting guns and video of guns. Fun! I’m in the wrong business; we went through more ammo … Continue reading →

…and it appears that tomorrow is gonna be kinda busy. Fun busy – Ian brought all the toys. Shooting guns and video all morning long. And probably also Saturday. I’ll report as I can.

Hit the ground running this morning, had a bunch of chores and started knocking them out early. I needed to go over to Landlady’s and drop some stuff off, and while there I borrowed her vacuum cleaner. The only other … Continue reading →

I tried to post the first part of this earlier this morning but couldn’t connect. Can’t wait to try that passive signal booster when it gets here; I’m motivated. Yesterday was the first day it got hot enough that the … Continue reading →

I’ve been waiting to see if the Prickly Pear were going to bloom this year, and it looks like the answer is yes and in a big way. Yesterday morning Landlady came over for coffee before heading back to the … Continue reading →

Maybe we should just put the Babylon Bee in charge?

Get a load of this kind gift from Generous Reader MM: This is the same guy who, hearing last year that I was low on 550 cord, sent a 400 yard spool. 🙂 So now I’m in good shape for … Continue reading →

Elk tracks have sometimes been a problem for me because they’re not unlike certain cattle tracks, which come in all sizes and a variety of shapes. Elk and mule deer are easy to tell apart; elk and cattle, not always … Continue reading →

I may be condemning them for a crime they didn’t commit, and even now I won’t just go hunt them out. But the very next infraction I catch them at, I’m not shooting into the ground. Torso Boy greeted me … Continue reading →

I’ve found many desiccated party balloons stuck in many junipers over the years. This morning on my walky is the first time I ever saw one still somewhat airborne. Two of them tied together, to be more factual, and I … Continue reading →

Sorry about that; we had a little (a very little) weather change and my connectivity went away to the point where I couldn’t even send texts to neighbors. It’s been bad this year, not really sure why. Not at all … Continue reading →

My initial estimates of the RadRover’s practical range on hilly country roads were excessively conservative. That much is clear and last summer’s truncated experiments in high desert biking left me thinking the whole matter of using the ebike for actual … Continue reading →

I call it Post-Apocalypse Monk Walks His Mutated Dog.

For the record, Torso Boy is an idiot. We went out for the evening walky, same as we do every day around this time. Usual routine, he’d have a pee in his regular spot and then we’d saunter together down … Continue reading →

I’d forgotten all about this experiment in going too cheap until I set the reloading shack back up and began sorting through some old brass. The most embarrassing part is how many of these it seems I actually loaded… The … Continue reading →