I decided since we live so perilous close to the edge out here in the pucker brush that needful action is in order for 2014. It is not just the blowdown winds, big hails or buzz tails as big as your arm and long as your leg we gotta worry about doin’ our gate guard thing. King Obama could unleash the hounds of hell on us most any day as well . I think it Continue reading Two Ways 
The Front Yard I am late coming to solar power. Shame on me. As much as we have been off grid over the years, I shoulda done better. I was trying to think the last time I plugged into a pedestal and I am thinking it was maybe August of 2011? The Princess Palace is not set up as well for offgrid boondocking as the Old Girl. No big battery bank, no onboard Continue reading Juice 
Double Cat Bone Zune Moment this morning……. You Can’t Always Get What You Want by the Rolling Stones from the Let It Bleed cd ca. 1969 For What Its’ Worth by Buffalo Springfield from their debut cd somewhere around late ’67 or early 1968
Yep, that is Stephen Stills in the hat before he really was Stephen-Stills-as-we-know-him. Even a shot of Neil Young later in the video before they even would let him Continue reading No Bar Too Far 
Another Saturday morning in South Texas Brush Country. Unremarked and quickly lost in the whirl of over 100 sunrises Tuco the Dog and I have watched from the same window looking at the same mesquite tree. Sanity conservation and silly habits ensue during long and interminable oil field gate guard assignments like this one. It is the week end, marking a change of wardrobe from Wranglers and long sleeves to shorts and t shirts. The Continue reading The Fabric of Life – Post Paucity  |