Author Archives: Joel

If some of these balusters seem to be kind of leaning one way or another they are. The inserts are complete, but not yet screwed to the railings. I don’t want them attached yet because tomorrow starts the painting phase, … Continue reading →

This is kind of cheating, because normally I do chicken chores near the first thing, like sevenish in the morning. This morning I wanted to get right on the porch railing and put the chickens off till noonish. They’ve got … Continue reading →

I’m outside working on the porch railing this morning. Kind of wanting some tunes I hadn’t heard a million times before I rummaged around on Youtube with the smartphone – didn’t know I could do that until recently – and … Continue reading →

Top. Men. The State of Florida Failed to Review Thousands of Gun Owner Background Checks Because an Employee Forgot Their Login. Florida state employee failed to review federal background check profiles on “tens of thousands” of applications for concealed weapons … Continue reading →

Ah, the good ol’ days, huh, Bill? 😀 And then the very next comment goes all “Okay, yeah, but at least he wasn’t Trump.” And people really do occasionally wonder out loud why I can’t take politics or politicians seriously. … Continue reading →

The Gospel of Browning. From the Book of Armaments, Chapter 3, verses 9 to 21:

Has this ever happened to you, Mr. and Mrs. America? Well, be bothered no more! Yes, whenever your chicken does some unspeakable thing no self-respecting dog or cat would ever consider… just remember these four words that will make it … Continue reading →

My morning was off to a grouchy start – nothing at all important… And then I found this and it cheered me right up.

Many many years ago while explaining his intention to move to more tropical climes than our native Michigan, Big Brother said, “Intelligent life can’t exist below the freezing point of water.” I’ve never entirely agreed: I personally believe it can, … Continue reading →

Since I built the porch, of course nothing’s entirely square or entirely straight. On the insert I built this morning, every single piece had to be a slightly different size. I anticipated that and just made everything too big. And … Continue reading →

Okay: I farted around yesterday and finally just declared it baking day, which it really needed to be anyway. But this morning I hopped out of bed and immediately got the heavy stuff out of storage, because today I was … Continue reading →

Every morning I wake up with a song in my head, sometimes clearly based on something I’d heard the day before and sometimes (usually) apropos of nothing I can imagine. Makes me wonder about what a rich dream life I … Continue reading →

This is hilarious… Rob Reiner made a couple of really good movies 30-40 years ago. If he’d stuck to that I’d be kind of fond of him. But as a lefty gasbag he’s comically over the top. Here he’s got … Continue reading →

“[T]here is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen.” The police do not exist to protect you. It isn’t their job. That “protect and serve”? That’s the state, society as a … Continue reading →

Finished what I originally wanted to do around one this afternoon and put all the tools away. That means dragging a lot of things, light and heavy, to the powershed. One of these days – not this year, that’s for … Continue reading →

I kind of pulled something in my back on Monday morning, couldn’t even say when or how but it started hurting a bit while I loaded water bottles into the back of D&L’s truck. Figured I’d give it a day … Continue reading →

Cut the tops of the posts off even and attached the bottom parts of the railings, that’s prosaic enough. The posts will get top caps, which I already have, and the end one on the corner of the porch stays … Continue reading →

I have reached the point in my current painful dilemma where 5:30 rolled around and only LB’s bladder problems got me out of bed at all. Somehow got my shoulder blade out of whack on Monday, it is now Friday … Continue reading →

…that David Hogg swatted his own house. Yeah, I know. It’s mean and unmutual and I totally can’t back it up. But really – que bono? Who swats an empty house? I’ve got nothing to actually blog about this morning … Continue reading →

I saw this at Wendy McElroy’s place and had to laugh… …Because LB thinks leather bones are the best things on earth. Give him one and he’ll just sit there and have it for a few minutes before crouching to … Continue reading →