If only for a day because you won’t normally eat it for breakfast? Or if you do it never lasts more than a day in your household?
What part of the US do you live in? I know plenty of successful people that don’t fall into that. I think of myself as successful and don’t fit those criteria, yet I have a life that provides everything I need, and my family wants for nothing.
This was quite poignant last night, where a friend was signing off lamenting the upcoming workday just as I felt my own emotions start to get excited about what was in store for my regular Monday today.
I think I made some good choices in my design.
So as a small scale builder, doing both speculative remodels or small development new construction headed straight to the real estate market, how else can I gear my products to be built with a better eye to the long term?
My biggest things so far have been to geek out on the building science aspects and try to build the tightest, sturdiest envelope I reasonably can, as well as aiming for no or low maintenance exterior surfaces.
I’ll have to think how to incorporate your points about density of design. I’d also love to put in the raw infrastructure for making the home pay for itself if I can find a way to do so that isn’t cost prohibitive when I don’t have the buy in of the final buyer.
good morning, #coffeechoin
guess where I am?
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The great non-state of Spirkonia!
And at that moment I didn’t like either option, cause they didn’t fit “my” character and I stopped playing.
People still use dryer sheets? I don’t think I’ve seen one in ~15 years.
You are doomed to live under the rule of fools. Your interest or lack there of in the affairs of your government is irrelevant.
Most of this will likely get added to the duck coop bedding or mixed in with the horse compost (we generate about 100yds a year after settling) so by the time it’s being added to our gardens and fields it will have gone through a compost cycle. Some of it will be used un-inoculated as a feed supplement freely available to the ducks.
So I will only have a small amount going into next years seed starting mix that I will need to find a way to inoculate. I’ve been considering finding a way to pump duck pond water through it, if it’s not so fine it will just wash out. I think that is life rich enough to work as an inoculated. But I’m guessing there.
Biochar burn this weekend. I keep wanting to build a retort to handle ongoing construction waste. But that’s a lower priority welding project, meanwhile the wood keeps piling up.
Been doing small burns in the “best biochar kiln” to get a sense of how a burn goes. Stepping it up with a 3’x2’x12’ trench. The small amounts done so far have been awesome in the seed starter and garden this year. Time to up the scale.
Did a property cleanup as we got into fall. 5 14’ dump trailer loads of wood run through a trench burn. Went quick, and burned hot. Less than 4 hours to burn through the lot. Even if I didn’t want the biochar, so much faster to burn that way than the traditional Agricultural burn pile.
Quenched with 3 IBC totes of water. Need to find a good way to bulk crush it, mag sweep for metal and then screed it now.
#grownostr #biochar #permaculture #yamhillvalley
@jackspirko Jack you jerk, got me started down this biochar path. Now I have a better use for an existing waste stream.
I moved out of the suburbs to get away from those nosy Karen’s peering through my windows!
You could make it 150 years and I’d still be hard pressed to come up with a national level question fixed by voting.
I vote every moment by how I spend my time and where I direct my attention and resources. Those votes matter. Those votes can move my life and my community.
I went to my pantry to check.
I couldn’t find any chips, protein bars, or protein powder. I found some very stale crackers left over from a coworker at some team builder that took place here. They were from the Asian food store, had nothing noteworthy on their US import label.
My wife occasionally makes cookies, but the jar was empty and it filled me with sadness. I bet there were some insects accidentally ground up in the local flour she uses, but not enough to make the label.
I final found a R&B mix, played it and got crickets, but I had it plugged into the wrong audio jack. Swapped it and the tunes came through…
That’s your list, my house came up short. I’m ok with this.
That is very true. I always have had my preferences and what I purchase reflects them, but I’ve had to do enough work on enough systems I can move between them well enough. The tribal hatred is not needed but people like to belong and be “better” than others. Any more than the occasional jovial joke is uncalled for though.
How many carpenters have you spent time around? My Martinez is far superior to my coworkers Stilletto, if we’re just talking about hammers. If mine is across the room and I borrow his it just feels wrong and I grumble about it. We do kid around about that. Although it pales to our discussion about Makita versus Milwaukee powered tools.
GM All. Time for more digging. Working on doubling the size of my shop to create more storage space for the construction company and some parking below. This will free up the pad of my shop for more homestead projects. Then I’ll just need to free up some time.
#construction #yamhillvalley #homestead #shop
#construction
Uh oh. Don’t jinx it for me. I just started to date a new person. And of course I’m worried that my NRE is stronger than hers. Which often leads to an imbalance and that sort of “sudden” breakup.
I don’t drink coffee in the morning, but without my shower I’m just groggy. And yes, I was my hair too.
I’d say about 30% of days I’m dirty enough at the end of a manual labor filled day to need another shower in the evening.
Unfortunately, I’m in Oregon. I don’t see such a split benefitting me in the short term. One of the highest concentrations of crazy live 30 miles from me. But I can keep my head down and it could result in increase freedom long term for everyone.