Author Archives: Joel

Haiti actually is a shithole. Always has been. It was pretty much designed to be, as far as I can tell. I wasn’t aware that was a secret. I heard the biggest groaner of my life on the Jeep radio … Continue reading →

…so I won’t say anything, except that I roared. 😀

Due to overwhelming (okay, one) demand, here is the definitive Joel’s Bread Recipe. This recipe went through a lot of changes at first while I was learning, but has gotten to be pretty stable over the past few years and … Continue reading →

Overnight I got six frames of the least spooky coyote I’ve seen so far at the watering station…

Would you like a house that fills your bathtub – at the precisely correct temperature – when you just tell it to? Warms your toilet seat to your preference as well? You can have it! And all it will cost … Continue reading →

The first rainfall of any substance since Monsoon, and only the second …well, since Monsoon. Which ended sometime in September. Early September. Far too warm for snow, it hasn’t been cold in a month… …in fact I was thinking this … Continue reading →

Two million pageviews, baby. Yay me. Hey, I take my entertainment where I find it. ETA: And it only took nine years. 🙂

GOVERNMENT: About 50,000 pistol permit holders haven’t recertified in Niagara-Erie. Jastrzemski said the state has mostly failed to to make permit holders aware of the re-certification deadline. Between 2013 and January 2017, he said, only about 4,000 permit holders re-certified … Continue reading →

A small hawk with other small birds in the frame. I think those are black-throated sparrows, and I think – but not really sure – that’s an immature red-tailed hawk. Several frames of him and one doe. The only deer … Continue reading →

How did the Government Accountability Office end up running an anti-gun entrapment scheme? Isn’t that ATF’s job? Dem-ordered study to expose illegal online gun sales backfires A Democrat-backed study meant to expose illicit online gun sales instead seemed to show … Continue reading →

…why does it seem like so many animals are perfectly aware of it? Does it flash, or… Seriously, the thing is actually quite well camouflaged at the moment. But the bucks frequently look right at it, and then last night … Continue reading →

Yes, the deadly gun show loophole, favorite trope of gun-grabbers since I don’t remember when. According to the Legend of the Gun Show Loophole, any skeezy frood just out of slam and itching to pack heat could just stroll to … Continue reading →

You know, when somebody goes to the trouble of writing a book calling you an unstable moron, it’s possible that rushing out to act like an unstable moron won’t refute the charge.

Still not feeling totally well but at least I have enough energy not to drag whining through my chores. It rained overnight, the overcast caused global warming, which resulted in Al Gore becoming more rich and me not bothering even … Continue reading →

Deer come to that watering station all through the dark hours, and apparently never in daylight. So far, for the two nights I’ve been watching, a family group has shown up right at dark and then there are pix at … Continue reading →

And if I stick with it, will teach me a lot more than I knew about what the game is up to. Finally got some decent pix from the game camera… During the day it was just a hundred pictures … Continue reading →

Though this quote will have me chuckling all morning long, even at someone else’s no doubt painful expense… “From a scientific stand-point, there just isn’t enough research into the causes of nipple chippage beyond the fact that it’s colder than … Continue reading →

Unless there are any nearby dogs or small children we can wantonly shoot, in which case I guess that’s our purpose. Police officer’s shot misses dog, injures girl in home The officer tried to shoot a dog that charged at … Continue reading →

Saw an email from Big Brother this morning… Iguanas are something you don’t remember from your Florida days, because they hadn’t happened yet. But thanks (probably) to some exotic pet owners who discharged their obligations by releasing their unwanted Iguanas … Continue reading →