Ron Helwig

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I finally got around to ordering a keyless door lock for my bedroom door. I've been meaning to get the bedrooms more secure; with all the traffic we get through the house being able to lock bedroom doors with something that can't be unlocked with any old key is a good thing.

And I'm in it!

OK, so far there's only a glimpse of me for a second. It was at the illegal manicure civil disobedience event, which was also my and Otis' first activism in the Free State . Since then I've participated in many events of many sorts, but "Otis the protest dog" now mostly protests children.

For more details about the documentary, see their website at http://www.candid-world.com/ .

The First Church of the Gun is doing well. We've had many parishioners over the last few weeks. The video shows one of the newest, a visitor from a far away land, partaking in the sacrament of the flintlock.

Thanks go to Anthony for bringing his holy device. Thanks also to Jeremy for his help in preparing the sermon. Finally, thanks to Kate for providing the repast.

After being sick for over a week, I'm finally getting into Spring. We got the boat out, and Otis has been enjoying standing on the prow while we do all the work. We're going to start working on the range again soon, probably this week. Today we had more people over for the "church of John Browning", including some kids who got to shoot under the supervision of an NRA certified trainer.

This is the little Minnesota variation on a Latin American staple side dish - we make a big batch of it at a time and keep some in the fridge or freezer all the time.

[recipe still in development, pending final debug]

It has been just over a week since I ran out of drugs. Things are going about as good as can be expected, although there are some issues.

The kind of buns a man likes!

Ron asked for some really manly, hearty buns for his burgers, so we went to work on it in the lab (Lil' Minnesota's kitchen).

First, we got a recipe from Bread University online for Rustic Whole Wheat Walnut Bread and tweaked it a little with each batch until this 6th evolution, where Ron says we've arrived at perfectly manly buns.

The yield says 6, but you can almost get 7 out of this recipe.

This recipe also will make 2 small loafs for sandwich bread or a big honkin' round bread cooked on a stone.

Well, we finally have a "real" address. It seems that once a road has at least three houses on it, it needs to be officially named for emergency services reasons. Since the newest neighbors have finally gotten their house built, it is finally time.

The new official address is:
6 Freeses Pond Road
Deerfield NH 03037

Of course, the post office still won't deliver mail to this address; so you'll have to continue to use the PO box when sending snail mail. (I can hardly wait until we can end that monopoly!)

Back when I was in the army, I could have gone "hard-core" and been a gung-ho soldier. Thankfully a friend of mine had introduced me to Arlo Guthrie in high school. I spent a lot of time listening to Arlo's music, which I contend saved me from a life of soldiering. I considered Arlo my personal saviour.

Somebody posted my favorite skit, performed by Rowan Atkinson , on one of the forums that I frequent. I hadn't even thought to check YouTube for it.

I first came to enjoy Mr. Atkinson's work through the fantastically funny series of series known as Blackadder . If you haven't seen it, you are missing one of the few things to prove that television is actually a good thing.