Saturday, October 03, 2026

Fixing Cornell University

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Veterinarians and hunters know how to sort out the Cornell University gang rapists.  One or the other?   Why not both? The real question, ...

Coffee Is Not the Only Magic Bean

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Imagine scores of thousands of these scattered in your yard, each one a magical bean that provides oxygen, food, and shelter.  Truly a marv...

Great Field Sport Books a Click Away

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Coch-y-Bonddu books in Machynlleth, Wales is a great bookstore with a lot of field sport books of all types.  Great service , good people, a...

Fewer Cows, But More Milk

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I mproved efficiency in milk production has enabled the U.S. dairy industry to produce 237 billion pounds of milk from 9.71 million milk co...
Friday, October 02, 2026

The Lost Battalion of WWI

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The photo was taken October 2, 1918 of Americans bogged down in the Argonne Forest. From Wikipedia:   “The Lost Battalion is the name given ...

After the Computers Drop 2,000 A-Bombs

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I’m So Far Left, I’m an Eisenhower Republican

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I’M SO FAR LEFT, I’M AN EISENHOWER REPUBLICAN I’m an Eisenhower Republican , which means I support killing Nazis, funding national construct...

Happy Birtday Graham Greene

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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melanc...
Thursday, October 01, 2026

Cespitose Mushrooms

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A cespitose cluster of Jack O’Lantern mushrooms . The term refers to mushrooms or cushion plants that grow in a dense, cluster from a common...

Kayaking With the Wee Wolves

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Our protocol on the Potomac is that we paddle the kayak down river, and then peddle the bicycle upstream on the tow path in order to retrie...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

An Air-pruning Propagation Bed

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I made an air-pruning bed to start up some tree seedlings and cuttings.  An air-pruning bed is an elevated, mesh-bottom propagation frame ...

Native Ground Cover

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Creeping Charlie  ( Glechoma hederacea ) is commonly known as  ground ivy , and is sprawling perennial weed belonging to the mint family.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Dance Interlude

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The Problem Is the Genocide

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If you do not understand the difference between the fascist political cult of Zionism and the accent foundational religion of Judaism, you ...
Monday, September 28, 2026

The View From the Tool Shed

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It’s getting colder , and so I moved a folding camp chair into the shed, where I can tuck in out of wind, rain, and snow while watching the ...
Sunday, September 27, 2026

From Naked Cannibal to American Grifter

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Another great American Horatio Alger-type story. From the description at ABE Books (Advanced Book Exchange): No Date, Circa 1960?; 5-1/2...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Another Small Stack of Oak

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   Four stacks of wood for my neighbor now.

It’s Public Lands Day

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IF YOU ARE AMERICAN , this land is your land. You own it. Never forget it. Always protect it. Public lands are a public good.  AND YES, T...

Cleaning Out the Shed

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   Cleaning out the shed before sectioning the tree I dropped yesterday. Th e Wee Wolves supervised.
Friday, September 25, 2026

Got an Extra $850,000?

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Stopped in at the local Frederick County, Maryland Fair.  This little number is a Case IH Axial-Flow 8260 combine with a base list price st...