Author Archives: Joel

S&L are out of the state on some family business and I’m watching their place. Notionally watering the plants, not that that has taken any effort. Keeping the wild birds fed and interested in hanging around. And generally… “I hope … Continue reading →

This is just so wrong. I’ve been promised temps in the sixties every day this week and it has yet to happen. In terms of sunshine I’ve lost all faith in “free beer tomorrow,” though I do admit there was … Continue reading →

…and it’s how I spent basically all of yesterday after morning chicken chores. Because it was cold and wet – at one point it even snowed. With the exception of that one snowy interval it rained solidly from sometime in … Continue reading →

Who stole my crochet patterns?

Still getting a lot of weather. Overnight rain, morning wind. I have no idea what the wind will blow in. Smart money says I won’t like it very much. By winter standards it isn’t even cold out. Would have gotten … Continue reading →

I can’t wait to live in their perfect world. It’ll be so peaceful and nice. Project Veritas Catches Democrat Senator McCaskill On Camera: She’ll Vote To Ban High-Capacity Mags Project Veritas released another bombshell video on Monday night, this time … Continue reading →

Since a week ago yesterday, or for the past eight days, the next sunny day was always forecast to be three days away. Today I note we were supposed to have “rain and drizzle” this morning. In the forecaster’s defense, … Continue reading →

Along around six TB got all worked up about something outside the cabin. He seems to find all this natural stuff endlessly fascinating/threatening so he can go off about anything from a coyote in the yard to a bird in … Continue reading →

I’ve been passing out early which means waking up early. This morning at 4 I was done sleeping but Butterfly Brain definitely was not. So I came back to the (nice warm) bedroom from the ivory throne to find him … Continue reading →

Here’s a joke to get Sunday off to a good start… THE BIKER A little girl was leaning into a lion’s cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to … Continue reading →

Wide stretches of the landscape around here is just little rocks and pebbles… …and sometimes it pays to keep your eyes on the ground if you’re in a safe spot because interesting stuff can appear. People have been here a … Continue reading →

Not quite ready for that, young ladies… To avoid the risk of mansplaining I never tell new pullets that they shouldn’t hang out in the nesting boxes because then they just fill them with shit which I have to clean … Continue reading →

…from last week. Cleaning up after the building season – here’s the Secret Lair in its current form, from the hillside behind the cabin. And that buzzard or another just like it made another stop at the watering station…

…because the weather is going crappy again and there’s a good chance that D&L’s semi-regular Saturday trip to the feed and dollar stores would be canceled on account of mud. I don’t normally go on Saturday unless I have a … Continue reading →

The wood stove is ready to go… I cleaned four dead birds out of that thing, in addition to the one Laddie killed and two I released and shooed out the open door. The stovepipe really needs a better weathercap. … Continue reading →

…since – I’m sorry, ML, but “Laddie” is just a dumb name for a dog. Hell, why not “Rover?” Or “Rex?” He answers to Laddie so that’ll probably stay, but in my heart I’m going to call him Torso Boy. … Continue reading →

I’m still having email issues, but I just got off the telephone with the service guy who did the work and he says he’s been done transferring files and database for some time. So we’re back! I…guess… Since personal computers … Continue reading →