Living in the high desert off-grid comes with some unique parts of living that aren't discussed much outside of our communities. One of these is water hauling, which we had to do today. It's pretty cheap, it's about $2.50 to fill an 330 gallon IBC tote and the fill area is about 25 minutes from our property.

We'll eventually have a well drilled but it's a hefty price tag, going rate in our are is $50,000 for a 300ft well. So first we'll put in rainwater catchment, better for our garden then the we'll water anyways, not anywhere near as hard as the we'll water is.

#grownostr #homesteading #plantstr #offgrid #waterhauling

I swear they were small once. Clyde on left (now 2yr/145) Norman on the right (now 2yr 175) Always been best buddies.

#dogsofnostr #dog #grownostr

Alright I'm done time to go through what I missed

#pleblog

Nostr Log Day 29:

#moviestr

Movies. I watch a lot of them.

I like good movies.

I like "bad" movies.

Here are some of the movies I've enjoyed. In no order.

Ravenous

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Castle in the Sky

The Man with the Screaming Brain

Unforgiven

Army of Darkness

The Birdcage

Beetlejuice

Swiss Army Man

My Cousin Vinny

Uncle Buck

The Burbs

Birdman

Waking Life

Little Miss Sunshine

Blast From the Past

Commando

Face Off

Saving Private Ryan

Reservoir Dogs

Casino

Life is Beautiful

Gladiator

- for those who think Peter Jackson just made hobbit stuff these three:

Dead Alive

Bad Taste

Meet the Feebles

Tombstone

Jackie Brown

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Nope

Falling down

Duel

The Thing

Santa's Slay

Fargo

There Will Be Blood

Catch Me if You Can

The Fly

In Bruges

The Banshees of Inisherin

Thank You for Smoking

The Weatherman

Defendor

Kingpin

Tommy Boy

My Name is Bruce

Dog Day Afternoon

Plus many more.

This seems sufficient for now.

Throwback Thursday to a year ago when I won this amazing coffee from #[0]​

It was so delicious. And my barista daughter is a coffee snob and she adored it, too

#grownostr

This crazy thing is starting to actually look like something.

#woodworking #custom #fabrication #grownostr

The lab thinks he's coming with us to haul water!

#grownostr #waterhualing #offgrid #homesteading #dogstr #nostrdogs #dog

Homeschooling Parents (or those with strong-willed children) - How do you maintain patience?

This is the first year my eldest is in Grade 1 (we opted out of Kindergarten due to COVID BS), and I finally feel like I have a bit of breathing room. However, the plan is to resume homeschooling by Grade 3 when I'm better prepared to take on the responsibility. There is too much to juggle right now but I’m actively streamlining things.

My 6-year-old tends to be quite challenging and we often engage in power struggles to accomplish daily tasks, even as simple as getting him to wear underwear or pick up after himself.

I want to homeschool again, but I'm afraid I might become resentful if I don't change our approach. Managing my own motivation for house duties is already tough enough, so I'm in need of new strategies to prevent us from constantly butting heads in the day-to-day.

Does anyone have any helpful tips or resources? #homeschool #grownostr #strongwilledkids

Nice! My husband makes pickled quail eggs, very tasty.

Well that looks nice. I do miss a nice warm beach

Okay #grownostr and #nostr friends, I have a question. As I look closer into accepting Bitcoin payment for room reservations, WooCommerce offers the option through something called HAYVN Pay. I KNOW it is kyc, and many people are opposed to kyc. However, my question is if you have ever heard of HAYVN and what have you heard?

I'd like to get this part resoved on my way to working out a plan for a more confidential exchange of Bitcoin for room reservations.

There are certain items I have a list of that I would love to take out into a town square, hand to GenZ types, ask what it is and just record their answers. This is one. Others would include flash cubes, 110 film, plastic adapter for the big hole on 45 records, what else can you think of?

Does the handle have a purpose?