Author Archives: Joel

It says I have to issue the permit, not that I have to accept the application! Via Unc.

Landlady said her goodbyes this morning, with an admonition that I should check to see if the new chickens are using their waterer. She set them up with a five-gallon bucket with one of those push-to-drink nipples, and she was … Continue reading →

Afternoon thunderstorms rolling in. Ghost spent the whole long weekend with Landlady, and now just wants to hang in the Lair. I’m not feeling so hot (still haven’t passed that kidney stone) so I’ve been sitting around reading all day. … Continue reading →

And I knew it at the time, but had no real choice. The only place around here that sells tie-out cables for dogs is the dollar store. Hook Little Bear to a dollar-store tie-out cable, and he’ll stay hooked to … Continue reading →

I was fuming about the cattle situation earlier today. Whenever I get to thinking about something around here that bugs me, I always end up comparing it to the things that used to bug me when I lived in the … Continue reading →

…because this still always seems really cool to me. Every time Landlady comes up, I make sure there are eggs in her refrigerator. Since there are only three laying chickens, sometimes it’s only a half dozen but it’s as many … Continue reading →

There’s a herd of cattle in the area. It’s why I was so concerned about Little Bear disappearing yesterday morning, but I didn’t know they’d come so close to the Lair. This morning I saw their tracks on my road. … Continue reading →

No, seriously.

Like these clowns, whom Bitter pretty convincingly outs as yet another anti-gun group trying very unconvincingly to appear pro-gun – just, y’know, more “moderate.” As Robb Allen succinctly points out: In the age of the Internet, Internet groups can’t get … Continue reading →

In what must have been a fairly major effort, Landlady and Ian brought the new generation of chickens to their new, spacious chicken house. Still quite young, but fledging out nicely. (is fledging a word?) Landlady has told me a … Continue reading →

As we speak. I know nothing more than what’s at the link. Read the comments. I gather they’ve now confiscated his fiance’s guns. Just…because, apparently. Thus is Massachusetts. As somebody else said: For the irony to be any thicker, they’d … Continue reading →

by snapping the clip off his tie-out cable and heading for parts unknown. Ghost came back in a reasonable time, LB did not – which is why LB spends his days cabled to the Lair and Ghost does not. “You … Continue reading →

I was going to come up with something pithy, but Claire beat me to it. And did a much better job. So on this Independence Day of wars and surveillance and militarized cops and armed bureaucrats, and all the other … Continue reading →

A drug that ‘relaxes bladder muscles,’ and a mandate to drink at least three liters of water a day. Just sayin’.

I see from Thirdpower (lots of links) that, after months of anguish and angst as the Illinois legislature tried to hammer out a concealed carry law that wouldn’t be so painful as to cause them all to shoot themselves in … Continue reading →

How can it be possible that I feel just exactly fine this morning? In fact I felt fine most of yesterday. I’m being very conscientious about drinking water, and I’m taking the Tamsulosin that’s supposed to, um, ‘work by relaxing … Continue reading →

…when you’re not musical at all, is that the same subconscious which planted it there may also feel free to revise and extend the lyrics. And so Talks To Himself may tend chickens while muttering “‘What a daaay for kickin’ … Continue reading →

Hit today at about quarter to four. Very heavy rain, gusty wind, temperature dropped thirty degrees in a few minutes. It’s doing the same thing it did last year, really nailing the north side of the Lair. For some reason … Continue reading →

You couldn’t have posted the picture if you hadn’t taken the picture. A JFK Airport security supervisor has been fired for mistakenly sending out a mass e-mail blast — of his genitals — to nearly two dozen shocked underlings, supervisors … Continue reading →

…because neighbors kept showing up with heavy drugs. The doctor gave me a prescription for 20 tabs of 800 mg Ibuprofen, which i didn’t even bother filling. Began to regret that within an hour of returning to the Lair, when … Continue reading →