I'm building a small clay bake oven as a project for Northern Lights. There are a couple different ways to do it; the one I'm going with is going to be portable (for obvious reasons). Gode Cookery has several good primary images of this sort of thing. This is the one with the best detail.

It's a basic clay form, constructed over a wattle framework ( Read more... )

So, let me tell you about my afternoon. I just spent an hour casting bullets for the various rifles and pistols we have. This was, of course, after Ekk & I killed some time by drilling a hole in the big ice sheet we have in our driveway and setting off some homemade blasting charges to try to break it up. It didn't really take effect, but was ( Read more... )

It's March, and that means one of the essential signs of spring is here: the local gun show. Ekk & I went last year, and since Barb is down in NH again, just he & I are going this year, too. Time to see what interesting people have emerged from their winter hibernations, and what sorts of entertaining firepower they have to offer ( Read more... )

Vermont towns vote to arrest Bush and Cheney

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported.

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... You'll possibly appreciate this. I got bored today and was looking up my town in the old Google Books. I hit gold.

Mary Elkins Gardyne wrote a little book of poetry called "Oup in Ole Vermont," a fantastic little collection of poems circa 1920. Ordinarily, I don't like poetry, but this reads just like the stories any one of my neighbors' ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed that me & Hugh Laurie were hanging out in the bayou with a couple of the Egyptian gods. (Yeah, I have no idea what brought that on.) We were sitting on a weedy raft somewhere in a swamp. Thoth and Anubis were on the raft with us, and Ammut floated in the waters. The whole dream had a hallucinatory near-reality feel to it - the ( Read more... )

My Latin sucks. I can read it, but I fail at translating *into* the language ( Read more... )

It's -18*F outside right now (probably around +20*F inside). We have two pieces of wood left for the stove until dawn. Dawn is more than nine hours away.

It's going to be a cold night.