Fine Art Tuesday
Rather than a single piece of music, this time I choose to go with a composer, John Williams. There is little one can say about…
The insanity that is California
In California, the belief is that pollution can be legislated away. The heck with the people who will be hurt in the process. California took…
Deep breathing
Yeah, I was pretty pissed yesterday. Thanks to those of you who reached out. It’s hard to watch your country flushing itself down the toilet,…
Fine Art Tuesday
Until I hit Eaton Rapids Joe, in my anger I had forgotten it is Tuesday. Today’s effort is music, in particular the music of John…
At the brink?
Yesterday John Wilder wrote that, by the definition he’s been using, we’re in a civil war. However, he believes that the US is at the…
Report from the OP, October 4, 2021
For those of you following the firewood saga, there is no major news. I carried perhaps 1/2 cord Friday. I had today set aside to…
Good wood warms you twice
I keep thinking about that old saying, and wondering if making an online transfer to the natural gas company or the electric company might not…
2 Minute Warning
This past weekend, we got our 2 minute warning in relationship to the change of seasons. While it wasn’t that cold (lows in the mid-40s,…
Fine Art Tuesday
In light of my recent journey to West Virginia, I thought an artist from that state would be apropos. Virginia B Evans was born in…
*sigh*
Today is either the third day in a row I’ve had a migraine, or Day 3 of a migraine. Sometimes, it’s hard to know which.…
Here we go again
Haven’t been home for a week and we’re going to be gone again. This time Mrs. Freeholder and I are heading to a nearby campground,…
Report from the OP, September 22, 2021
On this day last week, Son and I took the RV and headed up the Hillbilly Highway, also known as I-77, to West Virginia in…
Fine Art Tuesday
(Beware, today I’m stretching the definition of sculpture.) A creative mind wants to create, no matter the circumstances. What else could be the reason for…
Fish 3, Fishermen 0
Son and I spent 3 days trout fishing in West Virginia and got skunked. No matter, because we got to have a good time. There…
Probably nothing the remainder of the week
I’m on a trip with Son to West By Gawd Virginia in search of the elusive brook and brown trout. Reports from my spies in…
Report from the OP, September 14, 2021
I’m taking something more of a view from 35,000′ this time around. No links because my time to write this is short. I think you…
20 years
I wasn’t going to post anything about today. I’ve made my thoughts on 9/11 and subsequent events known on this blog, and I’ve got little…
Slowly I turn…step by step…inch by inch
A while back, all talk was about Civil War II (CWII), which many believed was right around the corner. I’m not much on making even…
The food weapon
Don’t think that those who hate us and want us to die won’t use food as a weapon. Hungry people will do almost anything to…
2+2=4
Can someone give me a good explanation why you would spend the money to develop a weapons delivery platform whose only reasonable use is to…
10 Weeks to Preparedness
I’ve had this sitting in a tab long enough that I’ve forgotten where I found it. It’s been about 13 or 14 years since I…
Fine Art Tuesday
Fortifications have a long history. The first was probably a rock shelter or a cave that was defended by some angry group of hominids. Over…
Report from the OP, September 5, 2021
What a week. Seriously. Let’s start off with Hurricane Ida. Here in the Piedmont region of North Carolina (if you look at a map, it’s…
A dark prediction
Hurricane Ida and the leftovers have done a number on my migraines yesterday and so far today, so I’m about worthless for anything around the…
Fine Art Tuesday
I don’t watch movies as much as I once did. I think our cultural ADHD has something to do with that, as does a lack…
Report from the OP, August 29, 2021
I’ve said before that our situation, which you may or may not choose to think of as a collapse, is a process, not an event.…
Has the “S” Hit The “F”?
Michael Bane has been talking about this subject or quite a while. How do you know when the SHTF arrives? In this podcast, he condenses…
In which we get the message
I knew that something like this would happen. I may not be a gardener (yet), but I know what things I can easily buy when,…
Fine Art Tuesday
Working is a musical, based on the 1974 Studs Terkel book of the same name. It’s a story about several different, mostly blue collar, workers…
In which I learn that dirt isn’t cheap
In response to this post on Wednesday, a couple of folks urged me to go ahead and start a garden, even if it’s late in…