Took a break from the internet for a number of reasons. First, lightning zorched my ethernet card and I hate using the wife’s laptop – or any other computer for that matter. Too busy to deal with getting a new part.
Another reason for being gone is that now that summer is here and my wife and son are home all day to take care of critters I’m working on the rental house rebuild all day every day – even camping out there a couple nights a week to save on commute time. The T&G flooring is all done (1700 sq ft of the shit), sheet rock hanging will be done after tomorrow’s festivities, so I’m down to trim, paint, cabinets and setting fixtures. Of course I’m too cheap to just go out and buy trim – I’m making it out of the old flooring I pulled up. Rip it on the table saw, cut it with the chop saw, router the edges and grind with the belt sander. It’ll hold paint anyway, and trim being way over a buck a foot that’s a pretty good chunk of change to convert into tractorage, ho ho!
As long as the hole in the gulf keeps burping up shit there’s no reason to do anything but ramp up for heavy economic jolts to ‘merica’s non negotiable way of life, so I bought my boy a single shot Daisy .22 rifle. Little twirp has a tighter 3 shot grouping at 20 yards than I do! We went to a Jake’s Day Field Event a couple of weeks ago and he shot 6 out of 6 targets on the .22 range – first time with a 22 so it was time to gun him up. Also, after one throw to get his distance he stuck the target every time with a Tomahawk. Proud father, eh?
Thanks for all the comments on the last post – I’m going back into the tunnel for a couple more weeks until I have to pay bills online again. Enjoy cheap gas courtesy of demand destruction while it lasts, and buy more beans, canning lids, ammo, seeds, and other doom stuff before the next wave of people wake up and say Folgers.
It’s going down. Going down hard. The eurozone is fucked, and now Japan is on the verge of default. The Gulf is fucked, and will be for decades. On the good side, our garden is going ape shit. The terrorist farmer’s wife has been a canning fool, and we’ve been eating squash and zukes with every meal for two months now. Just waiting for the corn to mature. Watermelons coming on strong, ‘maters out the ying yang, peppers, cukes, lettuce, beans of many varieties…Ready to swap the neighbor for some beef when he butchers a cow. And swap another for eggs/chickens. We got it goin’ on….
Sounds like you’re making a lot of headway on the burn-out! Tractor will soon be on it’s way…yeah!
Garden finally taking off, got in a little late this year, but making up for lost time. Yo-Yo weather isn’t making things any better, though. Worked a deal to hay all the vacant parcels out here, plus my west pasture, 60/40 split and I end up with about 21 4X5 round bales….that’s a lot of hay…Just hatched about 20 chicks, and a batch of guineas, probably gonna sell most of the guineas…a handful should be more than enough!
See ya when you emerge from “The-Tunnel”