That's what I like to call maintenance drinking!

Same. I have even thought through the sleeping arrangements if there were a bunch of extra people in my house. I socked away a few camping cots, just in case.

Improvements in agriculture technology would have eventually ended slavery without killing 655,000 people.

I broke out the tilther today and amended the annual bed in my greenhouse with biochar, compost and organic 4-6-2 ferilizer. I usually use 4-4-4, but my nursery man said he can't get it this year. That tool sure makes light work of it.

The Death of Stalin, with Steve Buscemi, was pretty good.

What are your thoughts on the mouse incident at UCLA? Bioattack?

https://odysee.com/@S2Underground:7/the-wire-special-report-april-30,-2024:5

Columbus day was started as a mea culpa for Parish Prison lynching. That has long been forgotten.

Just ditch Columbus day and don't replace it. The feds get too many paid days off as it is.

Spending $84k on a vehicle is nuts. I have owned 4 cars, 2 trucks, a van, a tractor and a motorboat over the last 25 years. They cost less than that combined.

Thank you!

Why it be illegal to shoot your own dog?

I have a decent grasp on electronics from the classes I took in engineering school 20 years ago. I found the service manual and schematic online. This board converts 110VAC into 12VDC and 5VDC to run the control circuits. The trouble shooting procedure in the manual shows you where to test for these voltages. 12V wasn't present, so I put my nose on the that area of the board and smelled the distinct odor of burnt electronics coming from an IC. There was also some visible charring. I looked up the datasheet for that IC and it's function is voltage conversion, so it seemed like the probable issue. I replaced it and it didn't work. Either that wasn't the only problem or I damaged something while soldering. I broke down and bought a whole replacement board off ebay and the fridge is up and running. In retrospect, I should have used an external power supply to feed the board 12VDC and see if everything else worked before declaring it solved.

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Yes, both sugar water and pollen patties. The hives are about 20' from our greenhouse, there will be things for them to feed on in there pretty soon.

I wasn't able to repair the board, so I threw in the towel and installed a used one off ebay. It's back up and running.

It's quickly melting. Here is what it looked like 10 days ago.

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Nice. We set our bees out last week. There is not much for them to eat yet.

Watts are watts. Take the wattage of your existing hot tub heater divide it by the wattage of the S9 (1323). If I had to guess, I would say 7.

Wow. The last time I was over that way, it was 100.