Once again, The Southeast Old Threshers Reunion
The Southeast Old Threshers Reunion has been held during the week of July 4th forever, so you know it it’s going to be hot. But…
Thanks for being my guinea pigs
I’m trying out a new theme. I want something substantially like the old theme, which has unfortunately had some serious under-the-hood changes at some point.…
Joe Biden Replacement Theory
There are a lot of rumblings about the Intertubz that Ol’ SloJoe was set up. The people who put him in office by hook and…
Potato Chips Anointed in Blood
So…Mrs. Freeholder decided she wanted burgers and chips for supper. No grocery store chips in the house, but I’m a prepper. We have potatoes and…
Well, that’s an hour of my life I won’t get back
Good grief. In a move that’s rather out of character for me, I watched the first hour or so of last night’s Presidential debate. I…
“A debt crisis is coming. This time won’t be different.”
We don’t know when and we don’t know how. We can’t estimate the impact. But the Sword of Damocles hangs over us all, and that…
Report from the OP, June 16, 2024
Today makes a week I’ve been working on this post. One way or the other, the Publish button is getting hit tonight. Starting with the…
D-Day + 80 years
It’s hard to imagine, especially for someone who grew up with a Dad who was a veteran of the war in Europe, that it’s 80…
Happy Killdozer Day
(Sorry I’m darned near late to the party. Fuzzy this morning from yesterday’s migraine and then the Intertubz decided to take the afternoon off. It…
War
And if you don’t think it’s a war, you’ve not been paying attention the last few years, I’m tellin’ ya. The latest Intellectual Froglegs is…
How bad is it…
…when you steal your inspiration, which is desperately needed because you still feel like crap most days, from a guy who is undergoing multiple procedures…
I had a pleasant post planned for today. The Sun had other plans.
I’m coming off a two-day migraine, and I had a nice, fun post planned. The universe has other plans. Just in case you haven’t seen…
“Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door”
Actually quite a few visitors. In addition to the one in the image, I’ve had visits from the following: and 36 other IP addresses. J.…
The Yuck is a gift that keeps on giving
So… Yesterday morning at 4:30 I woke up, jittery, shaking and anxious for no observable reading. I lay there a minute, taking stock. That list…
Stop The Bleed Month
May is Stop The Bleed Month. Stop The Bleed is a program of instruction aimed at teaching bystanders how to save lives by preventing exsanguination–you…
Health Wars Episode V: The Yuck Strikes Back
Since I last posted, I’ve gone from feeling better and getting back to it to slowly feeling worse. For the last two days, Mrs. Freeholder…
In which Ma and Pa Freeholder buy a tractor
A tractor? You bought a tractor? Seriously? Yes, yes we have. And while I can make a good, reasoned case for such an extravagant purchase,…
The Yuck is still yucky but less yucky than it was–plus a teaser
I’m making progress, but it’s slow progress. The NP at the doc-in-a-box declared this stuff to be sinusitis with a side of sinus infection, but…
The Yuck
It never fails that someone gets some variant of The Yuck at this time of year. This is a banner year for Yuck, as the…
The hummers are back
We hung the hummingbird feeders Friday morning and saw our first customer yesterday. I expect it was a transient, just stopping in for gas and…
Armageddon Refrigerator Says
I think it’s been watching Easy Rider or something.
Report from the OP, March 18, 2024
(I want to let you in on something of a cosmic joke. After writing of my medical issues of the recent past, I thought I…
And this is why I don’t monetize this site
(As found on Gab.) Because I can tell companies like Google to go pound sand, at least up to a point. Meet the AI-Censored? Naked…
Ever heard of microschools?
Neither had I until today. I’m filing this one away for when the grandsquids are old enough. The Microschool Movement Is Taking Off in Tennessee
Froglegs, Intellectual, Qty 1 each
Now in stock. Sorry about the ads, but Rumble has to get paid somehow. There are skip buttons a few seconds in at the bottom…
Dark mode is working
I had to go to a new plug-in, but there is now a working dark mode for the blog. Don’t know why the old one…
Life in the thrall of migraine
I think I may be nudging up to the edge of normality, although events of this week make me wonder. But I know that people…
Blasted software
It seems my “dark mode” plugin has crapped all over the bed, rendering images invisible when in dark mode. For the time being, it’s been…
Pardon my absence
I’ve been fighting a(nother) war with the migraines. Winter is usually a bad time, but this winter has been a test. My neurologist and I…
Predictions for 2024
Perhaps the fifth try is the winner. Seriously, this is (at least) my fifth try at writing this. I get interrupted to help with the…