Tag: Idle chatter

The joys of installing a new HVAC system

  A short while ago, I noted: We recently got paid a useful sum of money that’s been owed to us for some time.  If we put it in the bank, the inflation rate would reduce its buying power by double digit percentages every year; so we’re going to put it to work instead, by… Continue reading The joys of installing a new HVAC system

No Saturday Snippet today…

  … because life has gotten in the way.  I’m tied up with the domestic rearrangements I spoke about earlier, making preparations for a great deal of work to be done by contractors over the next week or two. Please amuse yourselves with the bloggers listed in the sidebar.  I’ll try to put up my… Continue reading No Saturday Snippet today…

So, what am I doing to prepare for what’s coming?

  I’ve written a lot in recent weeks about how the emergency that a lot of preppers talk about is no longer remote – it’s already here, staring us in the face.  Food and other commodities are in short supply and skyrocketing in price, and there doesn’t look to be any short-term solution to the… Continue reading So, what am I doing to prepare for what’s coming?

State of the author at the end of January 2022

  It’s been a very, very busy month. My latest Western novel, “Wood, Iron, and Blood” (first in a new series titled “The Annals of Ash”) was published on January 11th. As of the time of writing on January 31st, it’s attracted 114 reviews and ratings, almost all very positive, and is selling steadily.  Needless… Continue reading State of the author at the end of January 2022

State of the author, and my latest book

  Thank you very much to everyone who’s so far bought/read “Wood, Iron, and Blood“, my latest Western novel and the first in the new series “The Annals of Ash”. It’s been published for two weeks now, and is proving popular – so much so that it’s been the #1 New Release in the Amazon… Continue reading State of the author, and my latest book

Heads up: This blog will be on vacation between Christmas and New Year

  I’ve tried hard to post to this blog every day, and mostly multiple times every day, since I started it on January 1, 2008.  I’ve mostly succeeded, apart from a couple of spells in hospital or while traveling.  However, that’s meant I’ve had less time to do other needful things, and less time to… Continue reading Heads up: This blog will be on vacation between Christmas and New Year

Looking for input from readers about garden office sheds

  Miss D. and I live in a relatively small house.  It’s perfectly adequate for our needs, particularly since both of us have suffered serious injuries in the past, and aren’t as mobile and limber as we once were.  We find that, working together, we can keep our home neat and tidy;  but a larger… Continue reading Looking for input from readers about garden office sheds

Thoughts after being cut upon

  Yesterday afternoon I went to our Palace of Pain (a.k.a. local clinic) for a minor procedure under local anesthetic.  I collected several bits and pieces of shrapnel, bullet fragments, etc. over the course of several years “up the sharp end” in Africa, and now and then they still work their way to the surface… Continue reading Thoughts after being cut upon