Author Archives: Joel

You know what? I’m changing my tune. I’ve asked over and over for lefty women to keep their *&^% vaginas out of the political conversation, and all I’ve gotten by way of reply is more vagina. (I’m putting the rest … Continue reading →

I haven’t had a full night’s sleep in nearly a month, and it was starting to wear on me. I really miss some of the things I could do when I was young, like shrug off sleep deprivation. One of … Continue reading →

Via Claire I read this terrible news… I won’t be involved [in Price of Liberty] any more because I am dying of an aggressive cancer and have little idea how much time I have left. I am blessed with a … Continue reading →

Hey remember this kitty from February? Well, that’s not this one from last night. Or if it is, it’s all growed up now. Geez, that’s getting into shark-hunting class. Except we haven’t got any fish.

This is what you get when police chiefs start thinking they’re feudal lords. h/t

…on the first properly hot day of the year? How about work with iron plate? Ian showed up on Saturday, … …which reminded me that I had intended to shorten the chains on the lower three targets. Not that important, … Continue reading →

A fellow could really grow to hate cattle. A couple of days ago I moved the game camera out to the target stands, where it could look out over the loop in the wash. Might take a while to build … Continue reading →

TUAK will turn ten years old in December and in that time, though readership has slowly increased it has never showed itself in any danger of getting into Tam or SaysUncle numbers. I’m perfectly happy with that: It started as … Continue reading →

The season being what it is, D&L prefer to spend the mornings with their horses while it’s still and relatively cool, so the Monday water runs have been knocked back a bit. Neighbor D took one look at the gigantic … Continue reading →

Social justice warriors are very tolerant and practice peace and love, and that’s why they hate you and want you dead. Because you’re evil. Wichita Restaurant Sparks Outrage With Pro-Gun Stance [Owner Paul Cohlmia] said he was surprised by the … Continue reading →

I haven’t been shooting a lot in the past year and a half because of that fall I took in October 2016 that tore my rotator cuff and turned me into a lefty. Shortly before that accident I had gone … Continue reading →

Ian and Landlady were up at the same time, something I didn’t anticipate. And they came bearing not only care packages from TUAK readers but also a gift… And it wouldn’t have been the first time the three of us … Continue reading →

How weird. Only yesterday I wrote, “Now if only we had an Ian.” Look who showed up in the wash this morning, quite unexpectedly! And he likes his new target range. And he had a historic old rifle to sight … Continue reading →

This will forever be remembered as the Day of the Water Bottles. Three different people sent me water bottles, in answer to my complaint of a few weeks ago that I couldn’t find any locally and Little Bear started drinking … Continue reading →

Now if only we had an Ian. A scrounger should never say “I don’t have any” until he’s searched behind every shed. I don’t have any chicken wire per se but I did find a roll-end of some stucco backing … Continue reading →

Several days of leaving the game camera alone, and this is the most exciting thing that passed in front of it. Lots of cattle, and when the cattle are common it seems nothing else ever is. In that very location … Continue reading →

You ever read one of those clueless books where the author has a character draw a revolver and click off the safety? And you thought…aw, you know what you thought. Yeah, Ian’s seen those books too. But in answer to … Continue reading →

My family background is kind of redneck. My own personal upbringing, to the extent that I can tell because nobody ever told me anything when I was a kid, was sort of redneck-once-removed. I myself was a bookish white boy … Continue reading →

It’s supposed to get hot today, and I wanted to get the work in the sand out of the way before it did. But first I had to finish laundry – my work clothes have piled up in the past … Continue reading →