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 a bathroom break, but it does my world outlook good to...
View ArticleThe 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 GrandThings and I all have it. Unbelievable mucous production and coughing seem...
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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 I’ve never had sinusitis hang on this hard or this long....
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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, I can also make a good, reasoned case that we’ve lost our...
View ArticleHealth 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 has informed me that I was going back to the doc-in-a-box...
View ArticleStop 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 stop people from bleeding to death by the use of...
View ArticleThe 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 of Levaquin side effects was on a playback loop in my...
View Article“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: 65.78.53.203 (Philadelphia, PA) 185.4.76.56 (Normandie, France) 37.191.32.216 (Toeroekbalint,...
View ArticleI 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 this, we have 3, possibly 4, CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections) coming at...
View ArticleHow bad is it…
…when you steal your inspiration, which is desperately needed because you still like crap most days, from a guy who is undergoing multiple procedures to save a kidney? Or a guy who is slightly older...
View ArticleWar
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 live. Go watch.
View ArticleHappy 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 never rains but it pours.) Marvin Heemeyer was a man...
View ArticleD-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 years on from D-Day, but it is. An 18-year-old kid who hit a beach at Normandy...
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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 global situation, I think I’m starting to see some “wheels within...
View Article“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 thread is fraying pretty hard now. But it will break, right when we least...
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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 could have watched the first five minutes and arrived at the same...
View ArticlePotato 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 we have ourselves one serious gee-whiz manual...
View ArticleJoe 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 crook are now ready for him to leave, and he just isn’t willing to accept that...
View ArticleThanks 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. I don’t care for them, so thus the search...
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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 good Lord, does it have to be this hot? Temps in the mid- to upper-90s...
View ArticleReport from the OP, July 28, 2024
Yeah, I’ve been gone for 3-ish weeks. The migraines broke out again. Uncooperative weather and not enough sleep are the culprits, I think. In doing some research into a possible link between migraines...
View ArticleComing soon to a country near you
The best $2/month you can spend. Somewhere on this blog I wrote about how a civil war in the US would not look like the Late Unpleasantness, but more like Beruit. Multiple factions, multiple alliances...
View ArticleHappy Hummers
It’s been busy around here. The hot spell has broken, thanks to Hurricane Debbie, and I’ve been trying to get some things done around here. The head is still an issue, but I’ve got a fresh load of...
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Once again
I give you Intellectual Froglegs. Sorry, it’s not an embed. Can’t seem to get that to work this time around.
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How much is your privacy worth?
(Apologies for the prolonged absence. Migraines again/still. I’ll go into that some other time, perhaps.) We have an ever-decreasing amount of privacy left to us. Between Big Government and Big...
View ArticleThis was supposed to be a Report from the OP
I started a week ago writing it. It’s now saved as a draft, and hopefully, I’ll get it finished in a day or three. It seems that getting old sucks far more than I ever expected it to. It doesn’t help...
View ArticleDayum
First, thanks to all of you who have inquired about our well-being in the wake of Hurricane Helene. We were only brushed by the storm, getting 1.5″ of rain and had some gusty winds. The power...
View ArticleMeta doesn’t shadow ban Trump
They gave the job to their AI. This is what I got when I was invited to try to have their AI imagine “anything”. Shocked? I’m not.
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Hurray! The Government’s here!
Bear in mind that title should be read as caustic sarcasm. I’ve been listening, probably rather obsessively, to the W4HTP ham radio repeater via a Broadcastify feed. Those guys are doing some yeoman’s...
View Article“We’re from the government, and we’re here to keep you helpless.”
A week into the greatest natural disaster in North Carolina’s history, the Feds are still trying to find something useful to do. Now mind you, they’ve done a lot, like getting in the way of folks who...
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