Saturday, April 26, 2025

Adding Nuclear Hives and Trapping Bees

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These are “nucs” or nuclear hives , each containing five frames. The hive on the left has a jar fitted into the top hole, which can be fille...

Wee Man Cooking

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Friday, April 25, 2025

Awkward Youth

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The Bald Eagle nest is crowded with the two chicks growing rapidly.  The male and female perch in a dead tree several hundred yards away; c...

Coyote Salvation

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Coyotes have killed exactly two people in the entire recorded history of the United States, while vehicle impact with White-tail Deer kill ...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Sectioning a Chestnut Oak

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I sectioned the smaller Chestnut Oak today. These bigger bottom sections will be quartered.  The rest of the tree is this amount of wood in...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Dropping a Tree With a Hollow Base

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This dead Chestnut Oak (a type of white oak) was hollow straight through the bottom foot, but surprisingly solid above that. My tree guys ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Oak Pollen Coming Dosn in Drifts

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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Easter Cookies

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Too soon?
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Most Evangelicals Hate Jesus

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On Sunday , many will celebrate a liberal, long-haired, brown-skinned, non-English speaking Jew who hated wealth, loved the poor, and pro...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Every Friday Is Good Friday

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Thursday, April 17, 2025

You Don’t Fight Mussolini With Funny Hats

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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Logs Off the Hill

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These are from my neighbors . Hat and glasses at left for scale.
Monday, April 14, 2025

Wee Man Picking Up Groceries

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Sunday, April 13, 2025

On This Day in 1955

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Wood Ducks In the Yard

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I was just out feeding the dogs and walking them around a bit as I checked over the yard, when I noticed two larger birds winging through...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

The God of the Bible Killed a Lot of Babies

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  It’s Passover — the annual week-long reminder that in the Bible, “God” killed a LOT of children. A lot. Oh, you did not know?  Huh.  Have...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Press Release Science Is a Hell of a Drug

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Careless People

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published April 10, 1925, a hundred years ago today. "They were careless people, Tom an...

Corruption, Incompetence, and Greed

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Wednesday, April 09, 2025

The Classic Long Con of Donald Trump

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From James B. Greenberg: The confidence game doesn’t begin with a lie. It begins with a story—one so emotionally resonant it feels like trut...
Tuesday, April 08, 2025

It Hunts Us All

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Monday, April 07, 2025

The Day the Nazi Died

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Chumbawamba singing it live in Düsseldorf, Germany. "The Day the Nazi Died" We're told that after the war The Nazis vanished w...
Sunday, April 06, 2025

5 Million Join Protests Across US

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Saturday, April 05, 2025

The American Age Is Over

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Jonathan V. Last writes: “The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it…. “We cannot overs...
Friday, April 04, 2025

A Musical Play About Psychosis

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Thursday, April 03, 2025

Watch How the Republic Dies

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CHARLES PIERCE WRITES : “In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richar...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Bald Eagle Watching Over the Nest

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Tuesday, April 01, 2025

An Unlikely Pairing That Works

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Tom Jones on lead vocals and Dallas Taylor on drums and Greg Reeves on bass! This was the Déjà Vu ...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Another Load to Move Around the Yard

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Fifteen cubic yards of wood chips is getting soaked by rain at the moment, but no complaints here, as we need the rain. I will move this ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

The Model for Cruella DaVille?

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This contestant and her three Dalmatians won first prize at the London Dog Show in 1929 with an outfit that looks suspiciously like it wa...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Birds In the Yard This Morning

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This Public Service Ad is From 2002

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We are already here.

Y’all Going Back to This?

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No?  Then RESIST!
Friday, March 28, 2025

Another Generation of Bald Eagles

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Bald Eagles generally hatch one egg a year, though I have known three to hatch, and two to survive to fledge and fly off.
Thursday, March 27, 2025

The Ideal Puppet

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between f...

The Police Work for the Rich

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The police work for the rich.  They will not protect your Social Security or pension, your Medicare or Medicaid.  If your landlord does not ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Living in the Ever-present Now

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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoo...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Bang Bang

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Some folks can do it LIVE in front of the world! And for you kids in the back , there was another great song, with the same title, by Nanc...

Into the Woods Alone

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Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.  I don’t re...

Greenland :: A Movie Plot

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The philandering Vice President of the United States sends his ethnic wife to visit Greenland, uninvited, after the senile and overtly raci...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Peregrine Love Is In the Air

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Peregrine Falcons this morning near Point of Rocks, both male and female. They are paired and mating. but not yet broody or spending time a...