Someone else’s dreams
Many of the things I own have been owned by someone before me. It seems to be how my life works now. At one time,…
Month: October 2020
Fine Art Tuesday
A Dash for the Timber, Federic Remington, 1889 Frederic Remington was New Yorker of French Basque descent whose art celebrates the beauty and ethos of…
Watching the news
As we approach Election Day, it seems news outlets are pulling out all the stops to frighten and, I believe, intimidate potential Republican voters. The…
Sunday Reading
Reading time is still limited, so I went for “short and pithy” this week. “The Little Red Book of Cowboy Wisdom” is a collection of…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 28: The madness continues
I had the iThing playing music yesterday and this came on. Blame Apple for this post. Indeed, the madness does continue and has gone one…
I guess summer is officially over
I’ve been feeding birds for many years. I get pleasure from watching them, infrequently though I get to do it. But I never fed…
New feature
I’m instituting a new feature over on the sidebar, “Pages”. These are stand-alone pages of things I don’t want to see submerge in what is…
Fine Art Tuesday
Madonna with child and St. Anne, Dirk van Hoogstraten, 1630 Born in 1596, Dirk van Hoogstraten was from a family of Mennonite refugees from the …
The barbarians win
In the dead of night on October 9, our Confederate memorial statue here in the Bitty Burg was taken down. Where it is being stored…
Sunday Reading
Reading time has been in short supply this week. I have not picked up a book the entire week. “Working” at Republican Part HQ, a…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 27: How did I get in this basket, and why is the breeze picking up?
Every time I write a “Life in the time of Wuflu” post, I feel like it can’t get any worse. And every time, I’m wrong.…
1911 Boy Scout Handbook
1911 saw two big things happen. John Moses Browning’s iconic semi-automatic pistol was accepted by the US military, and the Boy Scouts released the first…
Making electricity while the sun shines
I have been considering just how to convince Mrs. Freeholder that we need some solar power in our life. This is not solely for what…
Fine Art Tuesday
Landscape with Rainbow, Robert S. Duncanson, 1859 Born in 1821 in New York, Robert S. Duncanson was a descendant of freed slaves who practiced in…
Happy Columbus Day
(Link via Rantingly) I’ve never been one to celebrate Columbus Day, but since it seems to piss off all the right people, I’m going…
Sunday Reading
Not my copy. Mine is rather more worn. Time for reading has been short, so I went with a book I’ve read a number…
It’s a sickness, I’m tellin’ ya!
Zenith Transoceanic, Model B600 Yes, I should be putting the money into something useful, like ammo. If there were any. I justify it as an(other)…
Building a Home Distillation Apparatus
It may not be legal to do it now, but some time in the future you might want to have this manual on the…
Fine Art Tuesday
Sunset, Odilon Redon Odilon Redon was born in 1840 in Bordeaux, France to a prosperous family. He showed an early talent for drawing, but at…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 26: About that supply chain thing-and a warning
Mrs. Freeholder and I went grocery shopping yesterday. This is unusual. Normally, one or the other goes. However, Mrs. Freeholder has passed some non-verbal…
Sunday Reading
This time it’s not so much reading as browsing. My recent purchase moved me to pick this book up. I’ve had it for a…
A Saturday quickie
You know, ya’ll got some dirty minds… Not that kind of quickie. *sigh* Normally, when the weather is good and there is no migraine, Saturday…
Prudent Food Storage FAQ
Reaching back into my archives, I find a copy of A.T.Hagan’s “Prudent Food Storage FAQ v4.0“, Running up on two decades old, it’s still…
Acqusitions
Zenith 9-S-262, manufactured in 1938 Remember the old Lays potato chip commercial-“You can’t eat just one!” I’m not much on chips but old .22 rifles…