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At the beginning of the year my plan was thus: Finish the library. Finish the cat fence. Move into the Cross House. But life came along…as it is wont to do…and smacked me upside the head with a cosmic 2×4. At the end of April, just as I finished the Library, the city slapped me…

As y’all know, in August I discovered that I had lead poisoning. I learned that 3.5 is normal. Anything above 5 is considered a concern. And mine? 13.4. I abruptly stopped scraping off old lead paint from the Carriage House. A month later I had another test. The number had dropped to 11.6. Today I…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                               The morning headlines: Ohio Voters Approve Abortion Rights Ohio Becomes 24th State To Legalize Recreational Weed Democrats Flip Virginia House And Hold State Senate Trans Lawmaker Danica Roem Wins VA…

I am 66-years old. And Joe Biden is the best president in my lifetime. Ironically, he was sooooooooooo not on my list of preferred candidates in 2020. But, wow, has he impressed me. Yet, surreally, none of this is obvious looking at his poll numbers. His Gallup approval is a paltry 37%. And, yesterday the…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                                     Found this online. I could not have said it better:        

  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,…