Author Archives: Joel

We went on our regular Monday morning water run, only to find a sign on the food store door saying the water machine was out of order. Bother! That meant Plan B… …the vending machine outside the convenience store. 35 … Continue reading →

Oh, I love that phrase – especially on the morning of what promises to be a quite rainy Sunday. Yesterday Landlady and I spent several hours cleaning out Ian’s powershed, preparatory to mounting a door. I hauled two full wheelbarrows … Continue reading →

Today’s big project is cleaning out Ian’s powershed prior to fitting it with a door… It’s been that way since we built it in 2009 and you can imagine the rat situation. It contains the power system but we also … Continue reading →

A couple of Generous Readers, emphatically including Big Brother, seem to fear I’m going to starve! All this is from BB: I’ve got snackies to last me the month – or until 3PM today if I left it out, so … Continue reading →

Yesterday I took the big cage out of the chickenhouse. I left it in there with the door propped mostly closed so the pullets could get to their own chick food without being hassled by hens, lest the hens eat … Continue reading →

…if you’re a #resistance prog who got caught doxxing republican senators, that is. If you’re a republican nominee for the Nine Nazgul, fergetaboutit. You dirty pedophile. Cosko’s defense attorney, Brian Stolarz, told Fox News his client acted alone. “We all … Continue reading →

I’ll have to re-do this once I find better-looking hardware, but I don’t know when that’ll happen and Winter Is Coming. Eh. It works. Unfortunately, I have learned the terminal limitation of my beloved cordless drill… Been using it near-daily … Continue reading →

Early last night at the cattle watering station… And then two and a half hours later this big boy showed up briefly… I knew they were around – I even know they come around the watering station because of the … Continue reading →

I’d forgotten all about that, never having been more than peripherally aware of it to begin with. But I got a phone call from a neighbor around 10, asking if I’d gotten this FEMA “emergency alert” text. I said no, … Continue reading →

This “break in a new dog” thing is requiring more adjustment than expected. I did not see this coming… This happened yesterday evening, and it gave me a real pang. What am I to say about a dog that doesn’t … Continue reading →

And raining, and raining. All night long. Some tropical storm over Mexico, says the Jeep’s radio. Insert nonsensical rant about illegal aliens.

I really don’t know how people in rainy places put up with it. It’s barely even raining raining. Just dripping. Once in a while it’ll briefly rouse itself to work up a light rain, then slump back to dripping. It’s … Continue reading →

Sorry, not much going on around here today. Went to town for the Monday morning water run, during which nothing much exciting happened. Earlier Laddie and I went for what by recent standards was a pretty long walk in the … Continue reading →

“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.” -Proverbs 17:28 -or- “It is better to close your mouth and be thought a fool than to … Continue reading →

That’s always been the claim. So far experience suggests otherwise. A few nights ago my desk lamp started blinking. Very annoying and distracting. Acted like a bad connection, which given that I had wired it was not out of the … Continue reading →

Back started hurting about halfway through stacking wood. Went and put my brace on, which helped a lot, and got finished. I really do want to finish that sixth tier just so I can say I did, but I’m probably … Continue reading →

…that this guy looks exactly like Steve Martin to me. Insert obligatory rant about how ID wouldn’t be required in a free society, and all that… ETA: Okay, Alert Readers have pointed out the significance, which is that that actually … Continue reading →