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Showing posts with label The village bestiary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The village bestiary. Show all posts
May 27, 2015

Eviction

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Provincial luddite life is delightful.  Occasionally,  though,  our  solar dryers challenge us. This one was courtesy of pretty brown wren w...
Jul 30, 2014

The Thousand-Dollar Morning

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There aren't many  days when I blow through $1,000 before breakfast. It all started with New Dog Libby whose food supply was down to 4...
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Apr 20, 2014

Resurrection Day, 2014

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Religious feast days can be difficult for non-celebrants, particularly apostates living among the faithful. Even hard-logic skeptics, howeve...
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Apr 7, 2014

A once and future life

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Three days ago, in the deary morning: A little later that day; A few minutes ago: j In a f...
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Feb 26, 2014

Singing to the dog

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A man with a shelf of books and a curious mind is never bored. Except maybe sometimes, rarely, he might be something like bored. I blame i...
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Feb 14, 2014

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Much evil and confusion exist in our world. The center may not hold. I understand my duty to explain it all, but sometimes it's better j...
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Jan 7, 2014

Bunny Porn, Gun Porn

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Yesterday was a savage bitch. In a fit of compassion at minus-17,  I fed Peter Rabbit a little of New Dog Libby's chow. The ingrate stil...
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Jan 3, 2014

What gun for cougar?

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Our informant is utterly reliable. It's a cougar on my friends'  old family farm southwest of here, not too far from the pretty litt...
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Dec 6, 2013

Winter havoc

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Twelve below this night. And me with only one dog. I know some of you guys don't believe us when we talk about bigass continental ...
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Oct 30, 2013

The Gore of the Season to ye, Mate

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The Smugleye-on-Lake village zoning inspector dropped by to make sure I wasn't making wind without a permit or something.  New Dog Libby...
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Sep 28, 2013

Waiting for the varnish to dry

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Turning rough oak planks into an acceptable floor has its interesting challenges. They end about the time your patience with sanding exhaust...
Jul 28, 2013

Death Dawn

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About that time of day I'm a little sleep-drugged and wobbly. Chore One is to set the Mr. Coffee gurgling. In my altered state, that re...
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Jul 1, 2013

Reflections on the maddening science of physics

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The motivation: Yet another effort to tourist-proof the dock before the Independence Day invasion. The method: Double the designed load-be...
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May 1, 2013

M'aidez, 2013

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Mar 6, 2013

Yesterday's loaf

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I found a nice recipe for 100 per cent whole-wheat bread.  It was even better when I decided to substitute butter for the vegetable shorteni...
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Dec 2, 2012

Incoming!

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This is what happens when a guy yields to his tender feelings and starts pandering to an orphan. (And also when the auto-fuzz feature on his...
Nov 29, 2012

The outsider

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Nature made her to be an outside cat -- and me to inhabit a catless house. Who am I to dispute Nature no matter how pathetically she gazes...
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Nov 20, 2012

As a public service...

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...I post the following because the internet is desperately short of cute kitty pictures. I think this is the sole surv...
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Aug 12, 2012

Speaking of home invasions

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A threat yesterday to the Camp J Transient Officer Quarters But ever-vigilant New Dog Libby to the rescue. A few s...
May 26, 2012

G'mornin' Mama

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Mid-morning on a holiday weekend isn't the best time to cross the road in these parts, Woman. Trying to nest your eggs in the gravel adj...