Blue Truck, Red State: Rodney and Jake

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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Rodney and Jake Roof the Coop

Or, Rodney on a hot tin roof. Just a simple backyard job, easy-peasy with power tools.

Bonus: The guys install a new super-duper theft-proof mailbox:

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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

M.P. tipped me to this video by a couple of guys down in Austin who are real handymen. Rodney takes us on a tour of their custom-made chicken coop and run, all very well built. What really aroused my, um, interest is Rodney's cut-off shorts that always seem about to slide right off his slim, supple body. If they lived closer, I'd offer to lend a hand and help him out. Boy howdy!

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Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu