The Red-Headed Woodpecker (also know as the “flying checkerboard”) is one of the four species in this country that stash food to eat later.

just used public records to find the property owner who didn’t go through the property management company to replace the windows that weren’t square and thusly wouldn’t close and lock. property manager balked for over a month, then i asked who the owner was, “we don’t give out that information.” even threatened to pay…

We run our main room fan all 12 months blowing up. Why you ask? well we have a vaulted ceiling and a 2nd floor opening to the main room so we can cycle 2 floors of air around far faster than the HVAC system.

I was gifted my Sister’s dumb washing machine around 10 years ago. Four wash cycles, plus a 15 and 30 minutes soak. Three water levels and three heat levels. It works fine, and I have only had to replace the part that the cycle select knob attaches to and turns because the teeth wore down. $110 part I got off appliance…

About 10 years ago I inherited my parents 1976 Maytag washing machine. It’s still working fine and to the best of my knowledge never been repaired. My daughter in laws 4 year old Samsung washing machine had a fault code show up on it’s screen. It turned out to be a bad vibration sensor,available only in a set of four…

Like in many situations, it depends. My wife and I dipped our toes into the world of EV ownership back in Spring of 2016 after test driving our friend’s leased Fiat 500e. We looked into lease one for as low as $49/month, but the $1340/yr insurance was too much to swallow. Instead, we opted to buy a used…

They’ll get all the vaccination confirmation they need when the nanobot 5G signal alerts the metal detectors of your Marburg virus zombie status.

As an attorney the urgency one could be a problem for me and spam.  The number of urgent e-mails I need to send to clients or to emphasize the urgency of a matter is quite significant.

It will never happen because of lobbyiest/payouts/corruption, but Congress really should pass laws that better controls this corporatization of renting and home ownership. Politicians claim to care about the American Dream but if home ownership continues in the direction of something only corporations can do, then if…

A few months before covid hit, I moved back in with my parents for two reasons: to finish my graduate degree while saving money to buy a house. I was a year away from graduating, and figured that I would be in the market for my first home probably in 2021 or 2022. All I wanted was a small home in a safe, walkable…

ikr I was so enamored with this bunch I spent an hour with a toothbrush lovingly cleaning each piece. Not even the store specimens I’ve purchased have looked as good as these.

cruise lines are the post children for this strategy 

Last year I was booking a family trip and they wanted to charge insane fees like $150 per person if we wanted to sit together, even though we were traveling with a young child. At the last minute I remembered that my employer (state government) has a travel agency that employees can use, so I called them. It cost me…

Mmmm, interesting. I will be doing this. I just pulled a batch of oysters off a stump in my BIL’s yard yesterday so I’m making soup tonight. And mushroom dust, it appears.

Think to yourself: "Am I expecting a package?" If the answer is "no", it's probably a scam. 

With rising sea levels, Orlando will be a beautiful tropical island in the future and the governor will be under water.

I do and I’ll write it up soon!

There will be reasonably safe and habitable places on Earth for millenia.

The simple fact is that there is nowhere to hide. Why do you think that idiot Musk is so fixated on Mars? The solution is obvious, but would require some sacrifices that many of us (particularly the rich and corporate) find onerous. So, too bad for future generations. This is IT.

I do the same thing, but I lie dryer sheets on top of the racks. Even the most burnt on stuff wipes right off, and you don't even need to get a rag dirty!