Monthly Archives: June 2016

This week has been all about yard clean-up. I had to haul out about 40 sandbags, rake much packrat nest rubbish out from under the cabin, move a lot of building materials I had foolishly stored under the cabin on … Continue reading →

In fairness, I’d have probably thought it was cool. (But this one looks like a minor character in a Gilbert Shelton comic.) Anyone who can look at this tragic picture and not burst into laughter has no soul. https://t.co/ZE41nGgczk — … Continue reading →

On days like this I’m tempted to feel bad about adopting him. Then I remember he was born in Phoenix – so it was more in the way of a rescue.

This is really basic to most of you guys. But you know, I’m not really a tool guy. Yeah, I know I was a dealership mechanic/votech teacher/tech instructor/tech writer/training developer and I owned a great big chest of tools but … Continue reading →

Sometime last spring, maybe, I scrounged an eight by eight metal roof off one of Former Neighbor J&H’s goat shelters, intending to raise it on poles over my workbench. Still think it was a good idea, problem is the thing … Continue reading →

It’s early yet, but if Clinton successfully walks the tightrope we could experience a dramatic ideological reorganization. A Clinton coalition that mixes populist with establishmentarian, capturing both disgusted center-right Republicans and wary independent Sandernistas, could be the biggest tent American … Continue reading →

Who (in the state department) did what and when did he/she do it? This is the sort of baffling mystery the state department was created to solve, and it will begin to get to the bottom of it the very … Continue reading →

If it’s summer, D&L are probably mixing mud for another coat of adobe on their amazing house. Or trying to. They bought an old used mud-mixer that has given them a lot of service, but it hasn’t been entirely trouble-free. … Continue reading →

Here’s the set-up: In its understandable desire to make some hay out of Her Royal Clintonness’ email scandal, the RNC filed a FOIA request with the state department for a bunch of Clinton aide emails. The state department came back … Continue reading →

I hate to be a bother. I know you’re very busy. Breaking the U.S. economy, arming all the bad guys of the world while rendering your own citizens helpless, hell, just managing all the concentrated evil in the IRS alone … Continue reading →

It’ll be hard enough getting the skirting to look halfway decent, being as how the Lair is built on a slope. The only purpose of skirting the cabin is to keep wind from whistling through in winter, it won’t be … Continue reading →

I had this great post all lined up, or so I thought. A black chick – excuse me, Young Person of Color (POC) – maybe half as old as my favorite knife but not nearly half as experienced, took the … Continue reading →

I dug all this stuff out yesterday, trying to find that dead rabbit that was making my life such a joy. These two piles do not by any means comprise the total nest, there’s still quite a bit more under … Continue reading →

I started smelling it day before yesterday, and I should have known. Somehow I misidentified it, I thought it was sewer gas. I convinced myself it was sewer gas. I should have known. I’ve smelled a corpse before. Honestly, crawling … Continue reading →

“I’d have hurried up more.” It’s Monday, our usual day for going into town and filling up on drinking water. What with the heat wave I had more than usual and so did D&L, and as it turned out we … Continue reading →

Seems like we get the smoke. It’s been smoky around here for the past couple of days, but today it’s so thick it’s actually interfering with the solar panels. Happens at least once every summer.

Supreme Court won’t let you implement your Clean Power Plan? No problem. How many nukes does the court have? Simply nationalize buy the plants and close them. No, really. Why not? Under Plan A, the federal government would buy or, … Continue reading →

I have no idea what this is all about, but a vision of lamp posts danced in my head… The honorary degree will be folded into five sharp corners and shoved where the moon don’t shine. In other news, Hillary … Continue reading →

TUAK will resume as soon as I’ve consumed coffee and thought of something to say.

After I have betrayed the revolution and set myself up as president-for-life, there’ll be a new rule that all politicians except myself who carefully phrase denials of things they’re clearly doing will go straight to the wall without even a … Continue reading →