Author Archives: Joel

This is a first. As docile and damn-near sessile as those Cornish pullets were in life, they had a lot of strength and they did a lot more than twitch when we nicked off their heads. I’ve never been this … Continue reading →

Came upon this bit of fun from last spring. Sometimes I love Youtube. Woke up with a song in my head I knew for a fact I hadn’t heard since sometime in the ’60’s and no way it’d be on … Continue reading →

I mean in a “not just scut work” kind of way. Met with D this afternoon at a neighbor’s who had some telephone poles he wanted rid of. L wants to build a horse arena, and phone poles make excellent … Continue reading →

Because that fairy tale just never gets old. A Philadelphia plainclothes narcotics squad had barreled into the immigrants’ bodegas, guns drawn. They had cut the wires on the stores’ video surveillance systems, robbed thousands of dollars from the cash drawers, … Continue reading →

For flooring materials received last autumn, I owe D&L many hours of labor which will be burned off mostly helping D put a veranda all the way around their new house.They’ve spent several-going-on-many years building their wonderful strawbale-and-earthbag extravaganza. Remember … Continue reading →

Now this is some chicken stew.After we gorged on roast chicken, Ghost and Little Bear tearfully watched me push the still-meaty carcass into a pressure cooker full of water. Or they would have, if dogs could cry. They’re very good … Continue reading →

I’ve converted some things from .pdf to epub, including George Potter’s Symbols Flow. Alas, when I did a search for “free epub readers for Linux” I fell into that twilight zone of “It’s easy! All you have to do is … Continue reading →

Guffaw in Az meditates on the circumstance of one’s gear getting that experienced and lived-in look, when you can’t afford to replace it with nicer gear. You can lament it or you can celebrate it. No law says you can’t … Continue reading →

Relatively quick trip to the big town about 50 miles away this morning, for my part to order a new pair of glasses and finally put this long-standing vision crisis behind me. A friend sent me $20 as a 60th … Continue reading →

One of the fun things about gungrabber propaganda is the mindlessly relentless way they focus on their nemesis and arch-enemy, the vile, cruel and heartless (cover your children’s ears if you’re reading this to them aloud) National Rifle Association. It’s … Continue reading →

There are reports that the idiotic Bloomberg poster below is a too-subtle fake. Maybe yes, maybe no. The web site it advertises certainly seems realistically anti-gun. So I dunno. Just saying, might be fake. The world has become a pretty … Continue reading →

Here’s Victor Davis Hanson, suggesting that those federal SWAT guys could have more properly found a target much closer to home, had they been inclined to do something right for a change. …we are not threatened by the likes of … Continue reading →

Seriously? Fear driven by ignorance is usually unreasoning fear. Not the sort of thing on which common sense laws are built. And these “Everytown” people have certainly wasted no time demonstrating their ignorance. H/T to Thirdpower. BTW, for a beautiful … Continue reading →

Shortly after writing that I planned to sit around all day, I got restless and wandered over to Landlady’s place. There’s always something to do if I rouse myself to do it. Right now Landlady’s Big Chickenhouse contains what amounts … Continue reading →

Absolutely no motivation to do anything but putter today. Expect no deep thoughts. I’ve got two paying gigs I should be on, but if all goes according to plan neither will progress today. I vant to be alone. Putz in … Continue reading →

To those awake to the problem, “militarized cops” aren’t exactly a new topic. But I’m seeing a flurry of more mainstream sources writing on the subject as if they’d only just noticed. Washington Post, of all places: The disturbing messages … Continue reading →

So Harry Reid tottered to a microphone, shook his wizened finger and wheezed that what went on in Nevada was “domestic terrorism.” “They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists,” he repeated, because repetition proves it’s true. The fact that it came … Continue reading →

Passin’ it on. Looks like Oathkeepers are taking the point here. Which is good, because according to Vanderboegh there’s also a heavy presence of those-you-wish-weren’t-on-your-side.

Up near the county road, miles from here, there’s a big herd of calves running around. Every time I see them they wander farther from the water tanks, looking for grass. This morning it seems I had one in my … Continue reading →

Sorry about that – I gather from the traffic numbers, or lack of same, that I wasn’t the only person who couldn’t get on the blog yesterday. TUAK piggybacks off another site, and sometimes I think the provider got the … Continue reading →