Wednesday Weirdness
Welcome to Wednesday Weirdness. This may or may not be an every Wednesday post, depending on how much weirdness I run into while cruising the…
Year: 2020
Fine Art Tuesday
The Shire Horse Elephant in an Extensive Landscape, James Ward Reader Jed is bailing me out again, this time on a day where my…
What I’m thinking about
Warning: Debbie Downer time to a great extent. One thing I’ve done for many years is thinking while I’m work on/at something. Whether it’s yard…
Sunday Reading
You would think that, with Christmas and all the goings on that surround the holiday, that there would be no time for reading. Wrong-a-rini. Orders…
Christmas in the time of Wuflu: An AAR
Due to some Covid Cowards in the family, we reorganized Christmas a bit this year. To save Daughter & SIL one stop on Christmas Day,…
Merry Christmas
From our home to yours, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. By the time this posts we’ve already celebrated with our kids and…
Winning the argument
( Via Bayou Renaissance Man) How to start taking back our country. It will not be fun (for some people) or pleasant (for some people).…
Fine Art Tuesday
St. Martin Canal, Alfred Sisley, 1870 Impressionist landscape artist Alfred Sisley was born in France in 1839 to wealthy British parents. In 1862 he began…
Sunday Reading
Would you be uninterested if I told you my reading for the week was ham radio manuals? I figured so. Enjoy your Sunday.
Be of good cheer
Seriously, I mean that. Be of good cheer. I’m sure some of you want to know why you should be. After all, with the election…
Fine Art Tuesday
Nerissa, John William Godward, 1906 I am a sucker for this sort of thing-I admit it. There is a terrible kink in my makeup that…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 35: Busy, busy, busy
Bonus points if you get the cultural reference I’ve been going at what passes for wide open this week. 20 years ago this would have…
Fine Art Tuesday
Sappho, Alphonse Osbert, 1888 Alphonse Osbert (1857-1939) was a French Symbolist painter. Sappho is in his signature style of “ghostlike Muses in mysterious landscapes bathed…
“I just did my job.”
Just like many thousands of others at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he just did his job. And made history in the process.
Concerned about EMP?
With all that’s going on in our own country, it’s easy to let it slip our minds that there are foreign enemies in addition to…
Sunday Reading
It’s been another hectic week, but I did make some time for reading. Not much, but some. April Fool by J.L. Curtis, known in blogging…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 34: This just in
So, two things today, in order of occurance. Thing One: Today was “Haul Trash to the Dump Day”. I know, it takes so little to…
Here’s a viewpoint to consider
Are we victims of a false dichotomv? I’ve used the Left/Right paradigm for most of my life, but it’s starting to look like it’s mostly…
Fine Art Tuesday
Under the Wave off Kanagowa, Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830 Also know as The Great Wave off Kanagowa or simply The Great Wave Katsushika Hokusai,…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 33: Impatiently waiting
Not where we camped, but a reasonable facsimile. It was an interesting weekend, to say the least. While I had pulled the RV out from…
Happy Thanksgiving!
From those of us still in residence at The Freehold, plus our extended family, we wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is different…
It’s a dangerous place out there
Monday, I had occasion to be in my firewall. Looking at the system log, I was a little shocked to see the volume of…
Fine Art Tuesday
Portrait of a Courtesan, Carrvaggio Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio was born in Milan in 1571, in the household of an official to the Marchese of Caravaggio.…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 32: Brother, can you spare a roll of toilet paper?
This would be amusing if it weren’t both serious and pathetic. This has been a week of being out and about, even when I’d…
Nailed it
(Via Splendid Isolation) Someone else who is picking up, packing up and walking out of an area in which they are no longer safe. I…
Fine Art Tuesday
The Arts-Dance,Alfons Mucha, 1898 Alfons Mucha (1860-1939) spent his early career in Paris, working in the Art Nouveau style, with much of that output being…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 31: Let’s be honest
Sorry to be crude, but fuck this guy and the horse he rode in on. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr.…
Sunday Reading
Honestly, I haven’t had time for reading books this week. Too busy reading things like this: Attorney Sidney Powell on “Sunday Morning Futures” said Trump’s…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 30: Up yours, Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the architects of the country’s ongoing nightmare, suggested Thanksgiving dinner could be a fatal event. Fauci, 79, and his…