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Just in case y’all think I don’t do any work in my retirement!
Our farm house is a definite fixer-upper. We tore down the awful drywalled ceiling in the living room our first week here, and ordered new tongue-and-groove bead board from Meade’s Do-It Center. It...
View ArticleSchadenfreude! Salon can’t pay its bills
From the New York Post: Salon struggling to pay its rent By Keith J. Kelly | August 3, 2017 | 10:0 PM Salon, the struggling digital publisher, is having trouble paying its rent. A landlord who late...
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But, but, but, Obysmalcare is working!
From Insider Louisville: Insurance premiums for Kentucky’s Affordable Care Act customers to rise By Boris Ladwig | September 6, 2017 | 5:13 pm The Kentucky Department of Insurance announced on...
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How am I supposed to blog . . .
. . . with two cats asleep on the computer desk? Click to enlarge That’s Xion on the top, and Pluto on the desk itself.
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Instead of the NFL . . .
The first step was to repair the split wood on the top. This view is of the underside of the top.. . . I worked on cleaning up an old cedar chest. My darling bride’s father made this, back in high...
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October Court Day!
When I was growing up in Mt Sterling, Kentucky, there was a tradition called October Court Day. Court Day is the third Monday in October, and it was when the rural folk would bring all sorts of their...
View ArticleThe cowardice of the Lexington Urban-County Council.
From the Lexington Herald-Leader: In a surprise move, Lexington removes controversial Confederate statues By Morgan Eads, Karla Ward And Beth Musgrave | meads@herald-leader.com | October 17, 2017 6:46...
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My view at home
This is the ‘mountain’ across the road from my house, in the Daniel Boone National Forest: And this is how it looked after Yorkshire got done with it: Click either photo to enlarge.
View ArticleSome nice lady paid for our breakfast
Elaine and I were having breakfast at the Old Timer’s Market in Ravenna, and a young woman paid for our meal. We had no idea until I got up to pay, and the manager said the previous customer, a...
View ArticleThe United Auto Workers want to unionize Toyota’s largest American plant....
From the Lexington Herald-Leader: Toyota tells Georgetown plant it needs to cut costs or else, media reports say By Trey Crumbie | tcrumbie@herald-leader.com | November 22, 2017 03:20 PM Georgetown:...
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I want some global warming!
It “warmed” up to 0º F by the time I took the picture; this had registered -1º F when I first saw it, a few minutes earlier. Maybe if I think of it as 255 Kelvin it won’t seem so cold.
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How the mighty have fallen
From the Lexington Herald-Leader: Louisville’s 2013 national basketball championship stricken from history as NCAA denies school’s appeal By Jared Peck | jpeck@herald-leader.com | February 20, 2018 |...
View ArticleFinally! I have power back.
I humbly apologize for my absence from this site, but we had a heavy, wet snow in eastern Kentucky, and we have been without electricity from 2:55 AM on Monday, March 12th until 4:54 PM this afternoon....
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Chris Flynn for Estill County Sheriff
It isn’t often that I endorse a Democrat! My Fellow Estill Countians, I would like to take this opportunity to announce to all of you that I, Christopher Shawn Flynn, have officially filed as a...
View ArticleKentucky teachers are demanding what Kentucky taxpayers cannot afford
Kentucky is a poor state. The median family income in 2016 was just $46,659. As is the case with so many government employment systems, the Bluegrass State vastly overpromised public school teachers...
View ArticleHomeowners’ associations: just the kind of thing you’d expect in liberal cities
From the Lexington Herald-Leader: Lexington neighborhood is told: No Danes, pit bulls, huskies and more By Morgan Eads And Cheryl Truman | April 08, 2018 08:03 PM People living in a Lexington...
View ArticleI should have written something today
Instead, I scored 220+ used bricks, to make — eventually — the walkway from my parking area to the West side porch, worked in the shop, and picked up more material for the new West side porch. All...
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Matt Bevin is right
Of course, the left are excoriating him: ‘We’re getting soft’: Kentucky governor says America is weak for closing schools as a deadly arctic deep freeze wreaks havoc with record-breaking low...
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