Category: Reports from the OP

Let’s do this by going from micro to macro. I’ve seen the orthopedist and the news is mostly good. I’m to continue doing my exercises…

Here we are, celebrating (well, most of us are) the 246th birthday of our country. You can be forgiven for wondering how many more Independence…

It’s been a week of dragging around the injured ankle/leg, which really crimps your style. However, the new brace is far more comfortable, and I…

(I’ve been trying since Wednesday afternoon to get this post up. It goes up today, complete or not.) I had to go to the chiropractor…

On the health front, I’m pretty well recovered from the bout of the Wuflu, especially in terms of energy. Unfortunately, the blasted “Covid Cough” is…

I felt up to keeping my chiropractor appointment, so I did. That allowed me to see a few things. Chiropractor’s office was almost empty. One…

It’s been a busy few days. Let’s do a micro to macro thing. Locally, it’s primary election season. I’ve been working the polls, doing retail…

I don’t know what concerns me more-what I see or how people are reacting to it. I took that picture on Wednesday. It’s just one…

Time to get back to abnormal around here. This is Day 9 of “No migraines”, something for which I’m very grateful. I have no idea…

This report has both good, meh and bad news. Bad news first, meh second and good news last to cheer you up. Wednesday I had…

I’m still “out and abouting”, so you get another report. Of course, if gas prices continue to rise, I’ll have to rethink things. It’s up…

It seems that this is a week of medical tests and errand running. However, it does give me the opportunity to get out and see…

Let’s see if this head full of mush will function for a few minutes. From the Good News Department, I have not had a migraine…

(Behind in my reading? I’m behind in everything at this point. I started this on February 10 and you’re just now seeing it.) I hope…

(Two housekeeping notes: One, while I’m not ready to show my real face, I think I’ve dropped enough information that someone could figure out the…

Remember, collapse is a process, and that process can move slowly or swiftly. Right now, it feels like we’re picking up speed. I feel a…

Today, in the Piedmont area of North Carolina, all eyes are on the weather. After two winters of no winter precipitation other than cold rain,…

(I’m in the second day of a migraine, so if this gets a little “off”, there’s your explanation. As Mrs. Freeholder put it this morning,…

Well, this can’t mean anything good. This is one of the two cat food aisles at our local big box pet store. The missing brands…

We’ve had another outbreak of unseasonably warm and dry weather, and as a result if I haven’t had to run errands, I’m working. It seems…

In the midst of a Wuflu quarantine, you can’t go out in person and see what’s going on. But the Internet provides. Mrs. Freeholder is…

Let’s look at the current local observations. Gasoline is having multiple personality issues. Depending on the station and the day, it’s either $3.18 or $3.30/gallon.…

It seems that things are deteriorating at an increasingly rapid rate. Of all the, let’s call them “pundits”, that I regularly read, the ones with…

This one is going to be a little different than usual, so bear with me. It’s almost like a mental tab clearing. Mrs. Freeholder, Old…

For those of you following the firewood saga, there is no major news. I carried perhaps 1/2 cord Friday. I had today set aside to…

On this day last week, Son and I took the RV and headed up the Hillbilly Highway, also known as I-77, to West Virginia in…

I’m taking something more of a view from 35,000′ this time around. No links because my time to write this is short. I think you…

What a week. Seriously. Let’s start off with Hurricane Ida. Here in the Piedmont region of North Carolina (if you look at a map, it’s…

I’ve said before that our situation, which you may or may not choose to think of as a collapse, is a process, not an event.…