Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

It looks like one of my blogrollees has gone off the air. Purely Politics can no longer be found. It has been deleted from it's host, a...

In one more week "Hard Magic" will be out. I'm just wondering if Amazon will get it delivered before I can no longer resist t...

I hope it was a good day for everyone.

He's been awake and bushy-tailed most of the day with the occasional nap after feeding. He's not a fussy kid at all, which should b...

Damien Ray Mickelson, born by C section because the docs figured 20 hours of labor with no dialation was quite enough torture for poor Mom. ...

It takes a special sort of scumbag to dig through the rubble of someone else's life to see what you can steal. Burning in hell is too...

So as not to be upstaged by Cousin Baylee , it looks like Damian Ray may be making an early appearance. Middle Daughter's water broke t...

The hibiscus in the Memorial Garden did not survive the winter. It's probably my fault, I didn't do anything to prepare it and it m...

Youngest Daughter in Wyoming delivered her third daughter this morning at 5:01 AM (7:01 AM North Carolina time, which means I had not even l...

Schoolhouse Rock - The Shot Heard Round the World by Missing-Pieces It was on this day in 1775 that the Shot Heard Round the World was fire...

For those of you that might have wondered, here at the Refuge we got a lot of rain and wind but nothing serious. The bad stuff happened sou...

Today I did two things that I had been planning to do and one that I had not been. First was to get the Firefly washed and waxed. Originall...

I was supposed to be going to the unfortunately named air force base in Goldsboro with the local Mustang club so that we could display our ...

The IRS sent me two letters in separate envelopes to let me know that they were allowing all my deductions, so I don't owe them any mone...

Yesterday afternoon I looked at my weather channel bug and saw that it was supposed to be clear and dry until Tuesday afternoon. I pulled th...

Yeah, it's Hanson. Bite me. The Blues Brothers tribute is a nice touch. Bonus points if you can name the guy on the tamborine.

Sis held a baby shower for Youngest Daughter yesterday afternoon. She had been planning it for a while and managed, with Son-In-Law's he...

I reciprocate links, so if you have a link to me and I don't have one to you let me know in comments so that I can add you. Welcome, in ...

I find it not humorous at all that ensuring welfare payments get sent out is a higher priority than making sure our servicemen and women get...

It is somewhat humorous to me (in a gallows humor sort of way) that the government's idea of compromise is reducing the amount of money ...