Mood-setting and motivation: Russian war in world’s ‘breadbasket’ threatens food supply | AP News Let’s talk first about Design Creep. Although we have yet to eat a single plant from our 20-foot by 10 add-on Garden Room off the recording studio, it has sure been a pleasure in terms of “build.” Honestly, some of the … Read More
War? Victory Gardens? Biden Gardens? We’re in the timeframe when a “survival garden” such as we began working on in November of last year, may not seem so far-fetched, after all. The parts have continued to roll in for the highly experimental automatic veggie garden. Another small piece of the project this week was the … Read More
Our major shop projects are on hold. A combination of weather delays (Ure doesn’t work outdoors under 50F if he can avoid it) and supply chain issues. The local lair of the Home Despots was out of the polycarbonate panel mounting strips for the Studio Grow Room. So, we await deliveries and a change in … Read More
I suppose there was a time when four-score and six (86) would have been an acceptable old age for a curious soul to reach. Not enough now. Back then? Books were semi-precious. Knowledge had a useful shelf-life. Travel was slow. Telegraphs worked and phone calls were likely to be on a party line. Between market … Read More
Does Ure want a new top-of-the-line PowerMatic or Laguna, or StopSaw to whip out cabinets and have on hand when G2 gets here (eventually) and puts on his “house-building on the off-shift” pants? But, to tell you the truth, at age 72 even a “convicted tool-slut” (in the Court of Wifely Opinions, no less!), it’s hard for me … Read More
The arrival of spring! This weekend has really ramped up the workload around the old rancheroo, though. Among the projects in our household right now: Finishing up a visual theme in the master bedroom. We decided to theme it as an art studio. (What goes on in there approaches “art” [sleeping, lol, perv!]. That led … Read More
Welcome to another in our series of idiotic time (and taxpayer money-wasters) from the mean-spirited Congress. Which will gavel in today to another distraction to keep Amerizuela fired-up so as to avoid the plebes asking questions. Like “Where the F is our stimulus checks?” Much more important that getting bills beat-back, roof over the head, … Read More
Interesting times we’re in on the “snooze front..” But, we’d rather be in the shop, pursuing Art, or up gardening. Instead of “whining” about “distancing.” These lower-level “contact times” are great time for getting projects done that have long-term tangible pay-offs. Today, we table three simple ideas -yours for the taking – that will increase … Read More
We have a lot of “moving pieces” going on around here. Market futures point to a big rally in stocks, the cases keep climbing and there’s big doings in the greenhouse today: This is “planting day…” Disinfect Your Surfaces! Report out this morning (based on cruise ship follow-up) suggests CV19 can remain active on surfaces … Read More
I don’t reference the “Donner Party” lightly. Because prepping and survival are the most serious topics a person can address; even more so than money or mating. As we laid it out on the Peoplenomics side earlier this year, the ideawas that I would put in a simple “two veggetables” garden and conduct “The Great Tomato Race.” … Read More
We have too damn much news in this country. ‘Cept it’s something else. And that being so, you have to realize, there’s often a lag between reality of the here & now and what the news aggregator sites say. Machines do a crappy job of being current. Day 2 after hernia surgery and I couldn’t … Read More
As you may know, I set up and operate a website that simply reposts headlines (including breaking and financial) onto a “clean” website with no ads so Nostracodeus project whizGrady has something he can use as “clean source” when dialing-in word frequency analysis of the news. I can point my old copy of Nostracodeus at … Read More
The strategic question all investors – regardless of where you roll the dice, BTC’s, stocks, commodities, ForEx and such – is when (and how) does this puppy ‘flame-out?’ To be sure, since the Christmas Eve washout, our Aggregate Index (which averages multiple market benchmarks) as soared from 19,841 to the Wednesday close to 25,377. Since … Read More