Author Archives: Joel

I love it when Landlady comes up for a weekend, I really do. But I swear there’s something to the old joke that foul weather always comes with her. It’s not literally true in that it doesn’t always happen. But … Continue reading →

I think I was about 15 the last time I let it happen, but that could just be my memory being self-serving… Anyway. Stop Making Me Defend Trump. Stop. But speaking of Trump Derangement Syndrome: Behold! Proof positive at last … Continue reading →

Decided to go out to brush-cutting without Laddie this morning, which meant I could do something I’ve wanted to try for some time… I’ve got a gig trimming roadside brush, which means I’m in and out of the Jeep many … Continue reading →

Not a very good night. I fell asleep early, then woke a little after midnight. Laddie barely looked up until I reached over him for my crutches and opened the bedroom door, which slides past just behind his bed. (Note … Continue reading →

I should add, “If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all” edition… Good morning, Hope all is well, just wanted to give you an update. I apologize for the delay with Little bear’s stone. Our shipment … Continue reading →

Somebody’s really phoning my spam in lately… Hi, We can promote your website to get it on the first page of Google search results giving you an increase in the number of leads and sales you are getting from your … Continue reading →

Two and a half hours, almost the first thing in the morning… And I have well more than three heaping wheelbarrows’ worth of stove-ready firewood. After I laboriously got these 5X5 timbers de-nailed and cut to length, I even got … Continue reading →

It’s the things you don’t know you don’t know that get you. You can plan for the things you know, but (okay, I won’t say you. I) tend to make comforting assumptions about the things I don’t know. Forgive if … Continue reading →

Laddie and I got an earlyish start this morning, out cutting brush on the road shoulders again. We took a little side trip to check out an anomaly in the wash far downstream from my stomping ground – it seems … Continue reading →

Water bottles aren’t forever, even if you don’t damage them. A few years ago I purchased 3 3-gallon water bottles at a now-defunct Kmart in the big town about 50 miles away. One got a small leak last winter, the … Continue reading →

As predicted.

I base that conclusion on the first headline I saw this morning, while waiting for the first cuppa coffee… Celebs Erupt At NRA, Trump After Jacksonville Shooting: ‘Gun-Humping Death Fetishists’ For the record, I believe it is wrong for fatcats … Continue reading →

Eleven eggs from nine hens that already have a tentative appointment with the hatchet? Yeah, okay, it’s a cheat. I collected eggs really early Saturday because I was afraid the wash would run, and then really late yesterday because I … Continue reading →

I’ve had a terrible time getting any results from the game camera. I guess everything has headed for high country for the summer, but hell – not even the rabbits want their picture taken lately. Finally decided to take advantage … Continue reading →

Hit the blog this morning determined to catch up on posting early, only to find the server was down again. It’s baking day so I just got back to the ‘pooter to find I can finally log on. Just starting … Continue reading →

A whole 160 page views at ten ayem, on account of how nobody could connect. Happens sometimes on Saturday, and prior experience suggests it might not be over. Ah, well. There’s nothing going on here worth writing about in any … Continue reading →

“Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas … Continue reading →

So every day for the past week I’ve been trekking to Ian’s Cave three times a day, usually with Laddie in tow. There, first in a box in the shower stall and then in the shower stall, we’re raising the … Continue reading →

You know, I’d bet if I searched the platform of any of the other politicians I keep on my “despised” list I could find at least one item with which I didn’t completely, absolutely disagree. No examples come to mind … Continue reading →

Say what you will about the weather in the high desert, it isn’t usually namby-pamby. If it isn’t absolutely beautiful in every measurable way it’s trying to kill you. Yesterday dawned cloudy, which was not good news because I managed … Continue reading →