Author Archives: Joel

He’s not my favorite person. He’s not even my favorite Attorney General, and how high a bar is that to clear? Fact is, I despise the man. But this is ridiculous. AG Jeff Sessions used the phrase ‘anglo-American’ in a … Continue reading →

S’true! Let’s say you’re a bunch of good ol’ boys out behind the Dairy Queen (no offense, Milo) and the battery in one of your pickups is dead. Anybody got jumper cables? No, I thought you brought the jumper cables. … Continue reading →

Not that there’s anything wrong with that… The folding stock is not a lot of help with the red dot, so I’ve been searching all over the gulch without success for an unattached wooden one. Ian used to have literal … Continue reading →

Nine or ten years ago Ian and I painted up a pink AK for a photo shoot and later presented it to Landlady as a sort of joke – because, you know, a woman would want a pink rifle. We … Continue reading →

We’re actually lousy with bobcats, but you could live here your whole life and never see one. They’re mostly but not entirely nocturnal, and quite shy. I’ve been hoping the game camera would catch one in the act of being … Continue reading →

I built all the Lair’s cabinets – under Neighbor D’s watchful eye, but still – my work. So of course it’s imperfect at best. And one side of the overhead cabinets has been sagging for some time and getting worse. … Continue reading →

Landlady came up this weekend, and we spent an hour cutting the plywood and then laying out the boards for the kitchen counter in Ian’s cave… That’s an old cast iron double sink, weighs a ton. Similar to the one … Continue reading →

I’m heading for my weekly trip to town and actually kind of in a hurry, but I was struck with a sudden thought… Imagine: You’re a Korean factory worker, trying to figure out what the hell a curling team is … Continue reading →

If you keep camo patches to repair your summer everyday pants… I keep saying I’m going to retire my summer surplus BDUs, some of which are more patch than pants. But a friend of the blog gave me some much … Continue reading →

You may already be aware of this but I just saw it. That big SpaceX launch a couple of days ago? I heard it went well except that they didn’t get the center booster back. They did indeed launch a … Continue reading →

No, it doesn’t work. 🙂 The efficiency of the new space heater would certainly benefit from a fan right there, but running an electric fan overnight – though I don’t think it’s unfeasible – is just instinctively bad medicine in … Continue reading →

Quite abruptly around 2 PM yesterday, just when the weather started to change. Since September I’ve gotten all my internet access through the iPhone Landlady gave me (and pays the rent on, so don’t think I’m complaining.) It works perfectly … Continue reading →

Ignorant diseased savages. Don’t they know who’s pushing this so-called “second amendment?” See, this is why Americans need to be ruled. They just won’t stop picking at their ringworm scars long enough to learn what’s good for them. And now … Continue reading →

And if I may presume to speak for “rednecks” for a moment, we’d appreciate your leaving us out of it. Presented for your consideration, an adventure in missing the point: I detest Trump, but a ‘redneck’ fixed my Prius with … Continue reading →

Automotive vandalism, for example… The drunken antics are funny enough, up to the serious head injury, but the color commentary is hilarious.

Slow day at the Gulch. I’ll probably go out and dig at the sewer pipe for a while after lunch but you don’t need more info about that. Private to that guy who left me a bunch of food in … Continue reading →

Okay, this is the problem I set out to fix… I had to leave that section of sewer pipe between the cabin and the septic tank above ground, because that’s where the outflow ditch from the gully behind the cabin … Continue reading →

Yup. The cattle are back. h/t

Went to swap the game camera’s mem card, only to find the cattle watering station had been taken over by…cattle, of all things. I thought I had another month or so of peace. Many tons of McDonald burgers, some assembly … Continue reading →

For the first time since sometime in November, and not a moment too soon. We’re headed into another warm afternoon, which is good because what I worked hard last summer to achieve is actually becoming a small first-world problem at … Continue reading →