Lots of people, me included, lashed out, figuratively, against the Goldmans and BOAs who colluded to turn the nation’s mortgages into casino chips before essentially robbing U.S. homeowners collectively of about 40% of their built-up equity, on average. Needless to say, that episode, in which virtually none of the robber barons have been held responsible, [...]
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Last night the members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass legislation already approved by the Senate and the President which, among other things, prevented hundreds of thousands of middle-class Americans, including my family, from having to pay out several thousand dollars to the IRS in the form of a so-called Alternate Minimum [...]
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It was as I suspected. It’s often impossible to accurately gauge the quality or value of a particular item unless or until one obtains a similar or closely related item with which to compare. For instance, soil. We have some; plenty, really, piled up over the millennia along the banks of our Brazos River out [...]
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Getting our second household together continues to be a big, multifaceted job, occaisionally slowed by the fact that our primary residence, a.k.a. the One Acre Ranch, is a very old house that needs repaired and renovated from time to time. Like the section of drywall that had to be torn out because the guys we [...]
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The Polka Farm came equipped with a new stove, new microwave, new refrigerator and an old tractor mower that, it turns out, literally is held together with zip ties. The zip ties hold the steering arm in place so that you can mow after a fashion, except that you can only make a few u-turns [...]
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This year I’m nearly two weeks late with my spring tomato seeds, having stuck them in the ground only on Saturday, along with some jalapeños, sweet peppers and Puerto Rican eggplants. We took a quick trip to St. Croix, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, which disrupted my usual spring seed plans. But it was [...]
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That which we have been praying for is here! After at least two months without seeing anything like this, you forget what a real downpour looks and feels like. We got one! and more headed our way from out west of Austin, moving right over some of the counties hardest hit by wildfires. My rain [...]
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