The local county emergency services administrator has issued a ridiculous and overweening Declaration of Emergency , one forbidding travel o...

  As usual, Right Click|Open in Separate Tab to get a larger image. Merry Christmas, all. Eric Hines

This is the first year I've seen caps with ears that flap. I found them irresistible. This is one on my nextdoor neighbor's visiti...

 

How about this one? I was sure we’d have chimney fires, and we may yet, but none happened today. Since we didn’t have any fires to fight, an...

Since the power is out, I made cowboy coffee this morning. I had meant to put the ham in the refrigerator this morning, but that should stay...

Last night the rain came in heavy for the last hours before the Arctic blast dropped temperatures thirty degrees and far below freezing. Nat...

I sliced some lemons and left them in the dehydrator overnight. They came out great! Here’s one hanging from my neighbor’s tree. They’d p...

In a true Dad move -- I mean my Dad especially -- I just stuffed my wife’s and son’s stockings with tire puncture repair kits, tire pressure...

John Cleese has published a short book about creativity . In a recent interview he cracked me up, as usual, with a throwaway line: I'v...

Yuletide is upon us with the arrival of the Solstice. Preparations for the nearby Christmastide are well underway. 

 It is possible, I said, to make a distinction between moral philosophy and rhetoric, which is to say a distinction between the pursuit of t...

In the comments to last week's post, Tom raises a concern that the discussion did not point to a way forward. I thought it had; my sense...

In truth almost nothing I’ve ever done was as humbling as my Swiftwater rescue technician certification. I earned it, but I earned it the ha...

 

 

If I did a chart of frantic media messaging on COVID (or, increasingly, random respiratory disease panic) over the last couple of months, th...