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…
Situational Awareness Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits Whistling Past The Graveyard
We’re standing on the precipice
To some extent, I’m going to echo other bloggers, such as Bayou Renaissance Man, who is echoing yet other bloggers. Things are bad. *President Joe…
Didn’t we used to talk about guns here?
Blue Collar Prepping has a nice article on chamber casting. It’s a pleasant read after all the Afghanistan stuff today.
Fine Art Tuesday
Clogging is the national dance of Appalachia, and has its roots in England and Wales sometime before the 15th Century. It’s an enthusiastic form of…
Report from the OP, August 16, 2021
It’s amazing how 2 days can change so much. We went on a long-scheduled group RVing trip (you can’t call it camping when it has…
Bailing out for the weekend
We’re off to somewhere more elevated in search of a couple of days respite from the heat and humidity. Report to follow.