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The saga of my back injury continues. Not healing fast enough, I started hankering for a good Chiropractor. Note: I was not wishing for an AMA-licensed drug-pusher or knife-wielder as neither seemed the right prescription for what I am pretty confident is a badly bruised or squished disc and muscular-skeletal reaction to it.
I was much more interested in someone who would actually LISTEN to me rather than TELL me. I have plenty of experience with both types calling themselves “Doctor”. One can be quite useful, but the other is worse than useless as they are simultaneously annoying, incorrect […]
at Amazon for $30 – $45 is one of the great bargains in radio communications today. Older models are still available just over $30, while the new ones with nice, but non-critical upgrades are about $45.
As an entry-level amateur radio, it is incredibly affordable for new FCC ham radio license holders. For all licensees, it offers an inexpensive hand-held that can be used in risky environments where its low replacement cost is a major benefit.
It gets excellent reviews and works in both the 2-meter and 70-centimeter bands, easily toggling between them with the push of one […]
This is an inspirational project that is worth looking in to. I would love to see one working, to work on the construction of one and to have one in my home … if I could only find the space for it … we appear to have downsized ourselves out of this possibility.
Nevertheless, YOU should watch the video. It is a cute family production a bit off center when you first see it, but it grows on you and does a good job of showing how to build a rocket stove.
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Here is an excellent website on […]
Inadequately recovered from my back injury, I am unable to build up my share of the firewood needed to put heat in our workshop this winter. A cold shop is no more useful in a Montana winter than a tool storage unit. Problem!
A recent deal turning troublesome bull into a full freezer has us with so much ground beef that we need to eat 2.77 one-pound packages every week in order to have it gone while it is still fresh. Nuther Problem!
My neighbor scratches to feed four hungry mouths doing various odd jobs. This time of […]
In the category of “note to self” is the article below. I’m nearing the end of my 5th month of back pain and getting darn fed up with the handicap, not to mention the pain.
Every once in a while the combination of icing it two or three times a day, a few ibuprophens a day and weeky massage therapy get me to thinking I’m almost good again. Then my empty little head takes that message and puts the body to work … carefully, of course … and, probably much worse, eliminates the icing, ibuprophen and physical therapy.
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Owning, operating and publishing costs money – out of my pocket money. I do it for much the same reasons that chickens lay eggs: I simply am compelled to (communicate).
This stuff is inside me. I need to express it. Primarily, I feel it my calling to offer counterpoint to the inane, anti-logic and counter-common-sense that fills the mainstream media today.
You and your enterprise can be known for supporting these websites by […]
May work – may not. Winter lettuce and bok choi in little planters now decorate our entry.
Today’s planting project was removing the window boxes still hanging on the sides of our house. Then, what the heck, we have soil, boxes and a crowded patch of seedlings I started in my first three boxes.
We filled a fresh one and transplanted into it. One down, three to go. Gotta let tonight’s freeze go by first.
Once upon a time I had a house built to my specifications… on 7 acres, south facing hill, creek optional. Taking advantage of the southern side with plenty of glass, I heated it with the only choice I had built into it – a wood stove. On cold nights (Sonoma County cold where it actually gets TO freezing) I would drink extra water before retiring for the night and refill the woodstove when I got up to relieve myself in the middle of the night… somewhat a semi-auto thermostat.
In every house since then, heat has been electric or […]
In March we accepted an offer to store our stuff in a hanger 7 some miles away from our new home while we got shop space built and organized ourselves in our new world. The offer ran out and we had to move out.
It has been a bit of a rush all along, but the last week was a serious push. A huge amount of dry storage has been a prize and a great gift. We will forever be grateful to Merl for what he gave us. We certainly owed him the honor of getting the heck […]
Bitterroot Amateur Radio Club is presenting classes in the Darby Library
Saturday, October 5, 12, 19, 26 scheduled from 2:00 – 5:00
At the end of the class session, perhaps the following Saturday, there will be FCC license testing for Technician, General and Extra licenses.
There are no class fees, but the books cost $29.95 and the testing is $15 to the FCC.
The instructors who normally hold their classes in Hamilton and Stevensville are bringing their school to Darby for the first time. This is wonderful for us and very nice of them. Again I mention, they […]
Autumn weather is here – solidly. Winter is right there on the visible horizon… I wrote that metaphorically, but living in the shadow of the Bitterroots, the snow in them-thar hills put the coming white blanket in the forefront of my mind.
It was the end of March when Missy reported her job was untenable. That triggered a MAJOR life change. One more a realization of our deep-felt wishes than transportation to a new life. The results, however, have been dramatic. The pluses are huge. The challenges pale in comparison. We regularly realize our cabin on the river is […]
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