Another Fine Mess, 2012 Edition

March 13, 2012 Government

So now the Obama administration is wringing its collective hands over the latest war atrocity – the apparent fact that a U.S. soldier went ape-shit and murdered 16 Afghan civilians – and wondering aloud whether they ought to order withdrawal of our sons and daughters from this moronic war. But their conclusion is “nah,” we [...]

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Opposite Day

March 12, 2012 Brazos River

On SpongeBob SquarePants they had one episode where it was Opposite Day, and everything you said or did meant the opposite of what it usually means. For us here in semi-South Texas, this is Opposite Year. By about this time last year it was beginning to become clear that things were amiss. The rain faucet [...]

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Who Hates Women More Than Rush?

March 8, 2012 Politics

As most of you know, Rush Limbaugh recently felt it necessary to reunify his core listenership by reminding them how much he hates women and the idea that women might find using birth control advantageous to their health and well-being. But it turns out there are many who hate women at least as much as [...]

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Free Will vs. Divine Transactional Intervention

March 5, 2012 Farm

A year ago, after our deal to buy a farmette fell through, I felt ruderless and a little lost. I thought those few acres in Wharton County represented a diamond in the rough, and a sign from Above that we were on track to do something worthwhile, maybe a fruit and produce venture that could [...]

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Unbranding

March 1, 2012 Writing

It’s not that I haven’t had anything to say these past few weeks, just that I haven’t had anything to say under the Southern Homesteading label that literally had been hanging over my head in this space until this morning. A blogger acquaintance had warned me about this, and he was right: I’d become boxed [...]

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Green Beans In Paradise

January 24, 2012 Uncategorized

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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Cluck-Cluck Henhouse Calling

January 18, 2012 Critters

Believe it or not, I’d never been butt-dialed before, although my wife has so I knew what it was. Still, I was unprepared. When I answered my cell phone “This is Bob,” I heard a light, muffled almost-nothing in response. “Hello?” I asked, listening harder. It was faint, but unmistakable: I heard the gentle cluck-clucking [...]

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