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Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on June 3, 2024 by JeanJune 3, 2024

I didn’t post on the thirteenth month, but I was aware of it.

Work has started on the garage. Boards on the North and Wasteland wall will be turned the proper way, and primer is being applied to the entire garage.

The lanterns will be going to their new home soon. I emptied most of the 14′ trailer yesterday.

Soon, I’ll be moving the contents of the larger trailer so lanterns can be packed in it for their trip to their new home in Georgia.

I’ll be taking my inaugural motorcycle trip this month — an overnight to Shreveport and back.

Posted in Property, Transitions | Tagged House, Shop

Fishing Shirt

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on April 1, 2010 by JeanFebruary 11, 2016

It’s not a jacket, but it is lightweight, vented, and has long sleeves.  It’s a Magellan Lake Fork Fishing Shirt, and I found it at Academy for $19.99.  It should serve to protect my arms from foliage  as we work to clean up the overgrowth behind the shop.  We’ll see.

Yesterday, we reinforced the ranch road with about 50 buckets of pea gravel and tree shreddings.  We also reclaimed the Jeep from the rat (who had rebuilt her nest and had three babies since we were out there).  She was not interested in leaving the Jeep.  We could not have a rat in the shop, nor did we want to remove her from the ranch.  Since we could not convince her to relocate, we had to forcibly remove her from the Jeep which resulted in her untimely demise.  We were sad to have to do that, and I rather admire her resourcefulness.  But, like snakes in the house, rats in the shop or under the house are not an option.  Rats in the wilds of the ranch?  Just fine.

The Jeep is now safely ensconced in the shop, where it will have to have an entirely new wiring harness installed, since our dear rat chewed everything.  In one positive view on this, hubby has always planned to make this Jeep a show Jeep, so it would have needed a new wiring harness eventually anyway.

We still have the motorhome, an enclosed car trailer, the tractor, a VietNam era jeep trailer, and the tractor implements to “rescue” from the ranch and nestle into the shop for safekeeping and restoration.  The motorhome has not fared well during it’s time parked at the ranch either.  Hopefully, nothing’s been eating it’s wiring.  (Dreading that thought!)

Posted in Property | Tagged House, Ranch

Shotgun Post

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on April 22, 2009 by JeanJanuary 8, 2021

I should make multiple posts, I suppose, but I’m taking the shotgun approach and putting the current ideas all in one.

First, the upbeat part, Darlene Ryan‘s Five Minutes More is an excellent read.  Darlene writes YA novels, but I enjoy them anyway.  Five Minutes More‘s main character is a teenager whose father has committed suicide.  We enter at the funeral planning stage and continue from there.  We have multiple relationships in play from boyfriend to best friend to half-sister to new found male friend, to mom who’s devastated by the death too and too distracted to help.  Darlene seems to handle it all well.  While there’s a happy ending, it’s not a perfect future, and I appreciate that more realistic approach.  There are threads I’d like to know more about, but there wasn’t a realistic way to pursue them in the novel.  I have a minor quibble that the “five minutes more” theme did not continue or reappear after the opening scene.  It seemed like it might have a been a touchstone for D’Arcy to use or be reminded of to keep or bring her back on track as she faced some of her trying moments.  Minor quibble though.  I highly recommend this book.  It’s one of my favorite of Darlene’s works.

I’ve fought to disbelieve the notion that the NBA doesn’t like the see the small market Spurs in the playoffs.  I’m not saying the Spurs are necessarily contenders this year — but I won’t discount them either; I believe they have the talent and the heart to pull it off.  I see a lot of non-calls in the refereeing of the game that makes me wonder sometimes.  There’s also a dearth of reporting at the NBA.com level, including zero tweets from @nba (except for one tweet the day the Spurs announced Manu was out for the season and post-season).  Let’s just say my suspicion about the NBA’s disingenuousness is increasing.

Finally, we have Earth Day.  It’s been around for years.  It’s designed to encourage us to pause and reflect upon what we can do to take better care of our planet.  Now that there’s been an administration change in Washington, the people who want to take things over the top seem to think they have free reign to implement the most far-fetched of their desires.

On a small scale, at least locally, there’s talk of a seven cent tax on each plastic bag used for purchases.  I believe this is intended to encourage us to use reusable shopping bags.  I have several problems with this.  First, I don’t WANT plastic bags.  They’ve been shoved down my throat.  I prefer paper, and it seems the only place I can get them easily is the military commissary.  If my local authority decides to tax me for plastic bags I don’t want, I’ll be spending even more of my money at my local commissary, where I can get earth-friendly paper bags.  Second, if they’re going to charge me for plastic bags, I had better not find them doing the one item per bag and frequent double-bagging I see now.  I better not have the extra one that came off the rack by accident either.  Third, if I do use a reusable bag and happen to train myself to remember to bring it, impulse shopping will diminish.  If I take one bag in with me for the items I plan to pick up, I won’t have room for the three other bags I pick up as I browse the store.

What do I do for “greenness”?  Hubby and I maintain 100 acres of woods and hayfield.  Twelve of the one hundred acres are hayfield.  The rest are natural woods.  Eighty-eight acres of continuous birth, growth, death, and decay.  We have numerous wild animals:  racoons, deer, hogs, foxes, bobcats, snakes, armadilloes, squirrels, rabbits, numerous varieties of birds, and the occasional errant cow.  We collect the leaves from our other three properties and spread them on the roadbeds to mulch into the sand and reduce erosion.  We grind up tree debris (about half of it) to also spread on the roadbed.  We use fallen trees from the ranch for firewood in our fireplace. What has Al Gore done except have a “for show” Prius while he drives around in several SUVs kept running while he gives his “save the planet” speeches?

Which brings the whole carbon credit scam to mind.  Mr Gore claims he buys carbon credits to offset his jetsetting and other polluting ways.   That consists of claiming someone who isn’t polluting balances out someone who is.  It’s a joke.  For now, somone’s profiting from it, but it sure seems like a ripoff to me.

Our Central Texas house, built in 1900, has high ceilings and transoms designed to naturally cool the interior.  Modern “greenies” would do well to study pre-central air conditioning technology homes for the natural heating and cooling capabilities.  Instead of painting over the transoms and tearing out the adjusting mechanisms, they would do well to consider the advantages offered by those capabilities.

Mostly I resent the implication that only the radical environmentalists care about this planet and only their methods will save it from ultimate destruction.  Radical environmentalists seem to have some kind of god complex that only they can stop mother nature from her appointed rounds and reverse the natural tendencies of the earth’s heating and cooling cycles.  If everyone doesn’t do as they say, we’re all doomed.  I hate to break it to you, but we’re all doomed anyway.  If not environmentally by a leadership dead set on mortgaging our great-grandchildren’s economic future.

I’m not going to tackle my outrage at the apologists for America.  At least not today.

Posted in Property, Reading, Sports | Tagged House, Ranch, The Spurs

25% Through February Already!

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on February 7, 2009 by JeanFebruary 11, 2016

Where has the month gone?  I haven’t been doing anything exciting, but just in case you have been wondering, here’s what’s been up:

  • I’m experiencing a wave of spam.  I’ve noticed spam goes in cycles, and this is an up cycle.  Akismet does it’s job and catches nearly all of it.  The rest goes to the cue for approval, so, fortunately, you’re not subjected to it.
  • Central Texas weather has been gorgeous.  But we desperately need rain.  Lacking rain, I’ve been taking advantage of the beautiful weather and have been doing yard work.  Maybe I’ll take some pictures.  Mostly, I’ve been thinning and trimming hedge trees.
  • We made two trips to the ranch this week.  On the first trip, we removed a fallen tree from the road, dropped off leaves, and retrieved the car trailer, the cement mixer, the chipper/shredder, and the 7kw generator.  We also loaded the utility trailer onto the car trailer, so nobody got left behind.  The chipper/shredder has been making tree debris clean up MUCH easier.
  • On the second ranch trip, we replaced a damaged roof vent on the motor home, cleaned up some trash.  A mouse or mice has/have taken up residence and have not been very neat.  I do wonder if they thrived on the can of Comet cleanser they chewed into or if that gave them indigestion.  We brought the two younger dogs, and they enjoyed the opportunity to run free.
  • Yesterday, I trimmed half the hedge trees.  Today, after running around with hubby in the morning, I shredded about one-third of the tree debris pile.
  • Mafia Wars on Facebook has captured my fascination for the moment.  It’s kind of fun.  If you want to play along, please send me an invite or let me know, and I’ll send you one.

I haven’t completely neglected writing.  I’m reworking Scene 16.  It’s another one to be rewritten from Valencia’s POV, and I’m seeing some better ways to do it.

Posted in Pets, Property, Twilight | Tagged House, Ranch

What’s New in Your Neck of the Woods?

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on January 8, 2009 by JeanFebruary 11, 2016

Not much here, so you can keep moving if you want. I’ve been trying to learn how to read my web site logs and error messages, because, apparently, they tell me something that I could use to fix problems. I’ve been trimming bushes and bagging the debris.  In San Antonio, … Continue reading →

Posted in Pets, Property, Twilight, Web Stuff, Writing | Tagged House, Ranch

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