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  I have had four calls. The first caller only spoke Spanish. The next two spoke some broken English. In a town where 1/3 of the population is Mexican this should not be surprising. So, I am going to add another spec list written in Spanish. Caller #4 lives a block away and wants a…

Last month I got a blood test to see if I had lead poisoning. I did. Fuck. Normal is 3.5. I had 13.4. Today I was 11.6. Ross happy.    

  Got two calls today. One caller spoke only Spanish. As I could offer no reply, they hung up. Another caller wanted to know the price. Now, in order to get my phone number they had to stop by the car, walk over to it, and take down (or photograph) the posted phone number. Adjacent…

  Today…at last! at last!…I got my 2010 Town & Country presented for sale. In 2010, the car had a base price of $28,425. There were $7,700 worth of options added, for a total of $36,125. In addition, I installed a tow hitch, and a NOVERO audio system. I have poured almost $4800 into getting…

I have an Epson printer. It takes #126 ink cartridges. But, I purchased a new printer. So, I now have no use for TEN #126 Epson ink cartridges, never used and still in their original packaging. Can you use them? If so, please let me know. I’ll ship them to you for free.  

  Recently I posted the above image. In the lower center can be seen a green bowl, sitting 8-feet above the ground, and adjacent to my cat fence, for squirrels and other small creatures to have some water during the recent DRY heat wave, and…this is vital…safe from my cats. Tonight, I’m highly pleased to…

Still hot, here. No rain. This afternoon I was in my fenced cat yard and saw a squirrel atop the fence, laying flat, head down, and with its paws hanging down the sides of the 8-foot-high fence. It looked dead. Oh dear. Then I noted it was just above the fish pond. And I thought:…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down…                                 Yesterday, while speaking on the campaign trail, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, said this about federal employees: “We are going to start slitting throats on day one.” I kid…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down…                             If you get your news from FOX you are, no doubt, certain how badly President Biden has destroyed the economy. If you listen to any Republican politician you are, no doubt,…

This is a political post. Please scroll down if interested.                                   From the NYT: A story in the New York Times today by Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage, and Maggie Haberman outlined how president Joe Biden and his allies are…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                                         If you support democracy, this is a must watch:        

This blog thingy had a glitch thingy and people were not, I think, getting email notices about new posts. So, you might have missed this. And this And this. And this.      

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                               From Heather Cox Richardson. My bold: “New manufacturing construction is growing fast and is on pace to be close to $190 billion this year. In the entire decade of the…

Across the nation, Republicans are doing everything they can to demonize the LGBTQ community. My community. By way of contrast, President Biden today announced that he will host the largest-ever White House Pride Month celebration. The difference between the two parties is stark. Democrats HELP Republicans HARM    

Prepare to gasp…                                             This is the Alexander Black House, in Blacksburg, Virginia. It was threatened by demolition for a parking garage. The city though did something extraordinary: they saved the house. It was moved…