Stonekettle Station

Folks, my day isn't starting out all that great, and as such I'm going to be offline for at least the morning. Beastly and I moved s...

As most of you know, I'm not big on religion. I'm also fairly doubtful as to the existence of any kind of supreme being. But on ...

Hope you all have a good 4th of July, those of you who are Americans, and those of you who are not. I'll be grilling out, BBQ chicken an...

A couple days ago a package arrived in the mail. I regularly order products and tools for the shop and both Beastly and I are expecting a ...

Well, well, well. George the Decider signed a bill this morning officially removing Nelson Mandala from the US Terrorist Watch list. You kn...

I'm sick of politics and I don't have any funny cat stories today. A while back I asked if there was anything you wanted me to tal...

As noted in the previous post we spent yesterday in Anchorage at the Elmendorf Air Force Base Air Show. The parking was every bit as bad a...

We're off to the US Air Force's annual air show at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage today. Whee. Seriously, a bunch of military transp...

And speaking of lyrics, how's your knowledge of 80's music? Me, I suck. 33.35%. But in my defense I was living in Europe and on a ...

Folks, my brain is nonfunctional today. Migraine. I knew it was coming yesterday. The usual symptoms, lethargy, depression, lack of coordina...

Brought To You By Lovers Toy Stores Gorillas? Large Sharks? an Elephant ? I'm confident that I could fend off a mildly irritated declawe...

As most of you know, I'm a die hard Mark Knopfler fan - I think he's one of the great musicians of all time and I can listen to his ...

I was talking to a good friend yesterday afternoon. We were discussing my last posts regarding gay marriage. Since he's currently in...

I've been giving the same-sex marriage issue a lot of thought lately. If it hasn't come up in your state yet, it will. Sooner or l...

What's it been now, a week since gay marriages were legalized in California? So what? No, really, so what? I mean, as far as I can t...

Logging in via wireless cell connection. The power's out. Apparently yet another squirrel has decided to immolate itself in the transfo...

Dammit, George Carlin is dead. I'd say rest in peace, George, but I really hope that you don't. I hope that if there is a heaven, y...

  Dear Conservatives , "If you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear." Right? I've mentioned this ...

I am happy with myself. Really. Just so you know: I don't need any of my tools to be bigger, larger, longer, heftier, electrifying, mons...

Folks, Beastly and I are off to Anchorage for the morning. I have to deliver a load of finished products to a customer and we need to run by...

It's a basic precept of mathematics that you can't plot a curve from a single point. In fact, you need at least three points to plot...

  Kid's, they don't float...   ...so, they must be witches !     --------------------------------- Sorry, it's ...

Well, The Whatever stole my thunder this morning. I was going to post on the subject of gay marriage in California, but that bastard John...

I meant to do this a couple of days ago, but I've been swamped lately and the time just keeps slipping by. I got a postcard from Anne ...

Usually I cook, but yesterday Becky made lasagna for Father's Day and Beastly made cheesecake. Tonight Beastly made Ruben sandwiches. I...

2003, Afghanistan: Goat herder and livestock trader Kakai Khan was arrested by coalition forces and detained on suspicion of planting bombs ...

Now, you all know what I'm going to post about this morning, right? ----------------------------- There's a reoccurring theme in...