i do love cooking pizza in the wood oven. but i think my favorite part is heating water in the fire as the coals get ready for cooking, and making french press coffee outside on a fall day. kinda perfect

This morning my daughters asked why are there white people in Southern Africa.

I started at mountians in Turkey on google maps. Went all about the Mediteranean coast. Showed them Asterix comics and the Roman Empire. Showed the Gibraltar passage and Pillars of Hercules. Told them about Marco Polo and the silk roads history. Then I explained how fucked Portugal is in the whole trading with the East deal. How Bartolomias Dias halfway circumnavigated Africa planting crosses all along the coast. Then I used a tennis ball as Earth, light bulb as polaris and a pencil for the southern cross. They loved scurvy. Then I had to throw in the Suez canal but I digressed. Went on to Vasco De Gama being the first european to reach India by boat. And then The Dutch East India company, Jan Van Riebeeck closed the deal. I also had a tangent on tundra, rainforest and desserts, weather, oceans and currents.

To put it simply.

When I finally finished they were like.

Cool, makes sense.

That was supposed to be a Bible study.

Quality of sleep: Physical vs Mental Exhaustion

I've worked both very physically demanding manual labour jobs and very cognitively demanding jobs, emotionally taxing and complex work.

The best sleep I get is after being physically exhausted, not mentally exhausted. I find after a day of physical labour or activity, even if I'm wiped put, I sleep so deeply. Conversely, after a being exhausted by a mentally demanding day my sleep is terrible, takes me a long time to sleep, bad quality, bad dreams.

Certainly I feel happier and as though I've earned it after working physically.

#grownostr

GN 🧡🔥🙏

They will winter and you can bring them back out in the spring

What radicalized you anon? If it was a squirrel, welcome, but you are behind the curve.

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Peppers are perennial in the tropics. You can keep this thing forever given water, light, nutrients, and non-freezing temperatures.

Putting the slow cooker through the ringer this weekend. Chili yesterday, now ham and beans today. All the legumes.

they don’t know. 😆

we average 4ft of rain per year. all between October and May.

Good morning!

We sure didn't get that much rain. I did hear a couple of guys on the radio talking about what sounded like a squall line around Spokane yesterday afternoon though. Glad to hear you didn't wash away.

At least it doesn't cause bad accidents and traffic, wait...

Lol. The little bit of rhythm I had. At least the weekend is a bit longer