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Yeah, I just made that up. Don’t ask what it means, it’s like a koan or a haiku or something cool like that. You’re supposed to decide what it means. Meanwhile I’m taking all the complicated steps involved in doing … Continue reading →

Quote of the day: “There can be few ironies greater than nominating Bernie Sanders after spending two years of accusing Trump of (sic) being too friendly with the Russians.”

I used the pizza dough recipe in my Joy of Cooking, because I’m old. Just had to cut the ingredient sizes in half for one pie. Canned roast beef this time, with lightly-fried potatoes and fresh onions. A big improvement … Continue reading →

Yeah, I know the Jeeps are still in this pic…

Thanks to Landlady. And I wish to have it known that the problem wasn’t even my fault. The service stopped working when it hit “inbox full,” but I do practice basic file hygiene and my inbox – and junk and … Continue reading →

I had strong doubts about success, until things suddenly started going well. You might recall that the front legs had completely collapsed, pulling their piers right out of the ground… We put some forward pressure on the rack with the … Continue reading →

I’ve been dreading the matter of repairing/replacing my prosthetic leg, a thing that really does need to be done this year, not because of the cost since I did manage to drag it over the “eligible for Medicare” goal line … Continue reading →

So everything’s going great, right? Had my walkie, did the chicken chores, went over to see S&L about a matter. Got home and was washing breakfast dishes when it seemed the socket on my leg suddenly became a lot looser. … Continue reading →

Wind’s a’howlin’, though nothing at all like Monday. I have the stove prepped and the woodbox full but it unexpectedly turned really sunny and as long as it stays so I won’t need the fire till the morning. It burned … Continue reading →

Hmph. Neighbor L saw this yesterday and told me about it. I went over this morning for fear it was doing damage to the new fence, which it isn’t so this can wait. But clearly we need better anchoring.

Watched the news this morning and saw something precious. I did not, of course, watch the SotU speech last night any more than you did, in fact didn’t give it a thought – but it was all over the internet … Continue reading →

This has been a very mild winter so far, so much so that this might rank as the coldest morning recorded this season by the Lair’s sophisticated meteorological equipment if it goes down just two more tiny degrees before sunup. … Continue reading →

And we had a masterpiece of a windstorm yesterday. Seen while on today’s walky… I know what we’re doing this weekend. I worried about that when it was put up, but it was 3.5 years ago and before yesterday it … Continue reading →

It was forecast to turn windy but this is taking it way too far. Temperature-wise, this would have been an even more pleasant day than yesterday; not even noon and already mid-fifties in the shade. But that’s about to change … Continue reading →

It never fails – every morning I wake up with a song in my head. Sometimes there’s an obvious reason for this, like if it’s something I was listening to the night before. But usually I couldn’t begin to tell … Continue reading →

Because if the old one-legged man could get up on the roof, even with trepidation, cleaning the stovepipe would be so much simpler. But since I’m not going to risk what remains of my creaky life up on that steep … Continue reading →

I went on a rather longer morning walkie than originally planned – it turned into such a beautiful morning I ditched my coat, hat and gloves at Landlady’s during morning chicken chores and just sort of went thataway. I ran … Continue reading →

Lordy, what a beautiful day! I had a bunch of morning chores mapped out including battery day at Ian’s and Landlady’s places. As it happens I store my bike at Ian’s, and by the time I was done with his … Continue reading →

…At least if you run Apple products. They really, really don’t like getting too far behind on updates and after a while they’ll just refuse to play. My attempts at loading updates while sitting here at the Lair’s desk have … Continue reading →

I tend to walk with my eyes glued to the ground in front of me. It’s a habit I’ve battled, mostly without success, all my life. As a consequence I don’t usually trip on rocks, but I do tend to … Continue reading →