The .72 caliber Brown Bess Muskets fired a HUGE projectile (relatively speaking) and are just as deadly as the AR’s 5.56 cartridge. The AR has greater range and is more accurate. But make no mistake, both will leave you just as dead with just as grisly of a wound.

Man, oh man! The writer of this article is in DIRE need of a week long cruise! 

The only reason I can think of that you should want to avoid an urge to vomit is when you temporarily delay for the extra precious needed seconds to get to a bathroom, sink, trashcan, bush, etc. Otherwise, you should allow it without delay. Your body is desperately screaming at you to expel something bad. Oblige it!

Yep, depending on your gardening method, it can take many, many years - if not decades - to recoup the costs to where they even get close to comparable (if they ever do at all). But the costs were not the focus for us; it was the capability.

For me, external calorie sources are generally the stuff that we don’t want to grow on our own (mostly grains, meat & dairy).

You can grow enough food to feed one person for a year in four 4'x8' raised beds. Presumptions: You know what you are doing, what to plant, when to plant it, how to maximize yields, how to preserve your harvest (can, dehydrate, freeze), etc.

It makes no sense for me to pay even a penny for Paramount+ when it excludes “Yellowstone”. Last time I tried to find a streaming option for Yellowstone during the season, I could only find $60+ bundled subscriptions. And I despise bundled subscriptions. 

For most folks, I don’t think the cost factors into the decision. It surely didn’t for me. I was under no illusions. I fully realized and accepted the fact that those were going to be *THE MOST* expensive veggies to ever cross my lips. I knew from the start that I would likely never, ever recoup the initial and…

Open your dishwasher, take the bottom rack out and with a flashlight, look at the screen over the drain. Anything half the size or larger than that mesh (which may be quite small depending on the brand/model) is going to build up over time and impede the drain, if not block it and starve the pump. Grease buildup can…

Eh, counting you (doing the math here), that’s like one out of a gazillion. 

YES! Provide your own “amenities and services”, something we have never once regretted. Of the friends and family we know who are under the rule of an HOA, we only hear complaints.

If you can’t control your over-active pareidolia and instead continue allowing it to control you, consider seeking professional help. The rest of us will go on about our lives just fine.

The feature, “Sign-Out Everything”, is so well hidden on my Amazon page, I’m starting to think it doesn’t exist.

The combined net worth of Gates, Bezos, Musk and all the tech titans put together has absolutely no bearing on my potential for success or how much I earn. That is all on me, my drive & ambitions, my knowledge & skills, and my ability to perceive opportunities and act on them timely and appropriately. Sulking through…

People will believe anything these days.

Find a gray plastic shopping bag and stuff it with other shopping bags and hang several around your house eaves during Carpenter Bee Season (spring/early summer). The idea is to make the bees think it’s a hornet’s nest (enemies) and give them a reason to go somewhere safer. Results may vary, but it’s cheap to try.

What’s the word for the personality type who volunteers as a hall-monitor for personality types and writes excessively long articles about imagined personality-type faux-pas that no one else gives a shit about?

In the deep south, I have to change the feeders every 3 days because it begins to ferment. So you may want to smell your feeders when you open them to clean & refill and check for that sour liquor smell to get an idea of how long they can sit out in your area before they start to turn. The number of days can vary from…

This is meat-smoking blasphemy, but I’m going to confess anyway because it’s da’ bomb: I only smoke my briskets until they sear over or get the look I want (usually 3 to 4 hours), then I pull it out of the smoker and put it in the kitchen oven. I’m told (and I’ve found it to be true) that once the bark sets, little to…

Bottom line: The less I say now, the less I’ll have to apologize for later.