I've known quite a few dachshunds in my life. They have all been awesome little dogs. Never met a wiener dog that was a jerk.

No, you use the post pounder as a fulcrum. Lean it against the post, snagged under a tooth, then pull the top of the post toward the pounder. That forces the post upward. Repeat as needed on subsequent teeth to ratchet the post up out of the ground.

Here's another video showing the same thing:

https://youtube.com/shorts/HCqpRfj1KBs

Ingenious.

Guys, I'm fifty years old and only now just learned this technique for pulling T-posts out of the ground. This is clearly a failure of the educational system at all levels. I honestly feel a little betrayed by the whole of society that this exists and nobody told me about it. You all just let me sweat and grunt and wiggle posts back and forth for hours like a chump. I've pulled almost as many muscles as posts trying to extract them the hard way, when I could have been yoinking them out of the ground with almost no effort this whole time. Anybody who knows this trick should feel obligated to teach it to at least five other people.

#farm #tools #diy #garden #backpain #grownostr #themoreyouknow

https://video.nostr.build/34d60e8e3c0b92b4a58ff391825e3cc27c6809de47017711338fb9004e73acde.mp4

Looks like web worms to me.

Not much happened today, so here's some photos of the tiny feathered dinosaurs that patrol my orchard, converting grasshoppers into delicious eggs. This is a much better way to eat ze bugs.

#chickens #farm #eatzebugs #homesteading #grownostr

I don't think this would end the way Duke thinks it would if the fence weren't there...

https://video.nostr.build/00fe1da82c65558e3a953c4538def8211df9050325ee76d7e0dcac64121ad496.mp4

#dog #dogstr #farm #cows #homestead #grownostr

I heard you guys like #ballstr!

GM Nostr! Feels like it's going to be one of those days... This little butthole woke me up at 4 AM meowing outside the bedroom window wanting attention.

#tired #cat #catstr

How does it taste?

Stamping is easier if you have a big hunk of metal behind the washer. I put my washer and jig on top of a 25lb barbell weight and got good results.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who sometimes gardens in the dark!

This mushroom ketchup of which you speak... I'm intrigued. Tell us more!

They're a copy of the Winchester 1300 imported from China by Savage, with the quality that implies. They work, because pump shotguns are about as forgiving as you can get when it comes to guns, but the machine work is a little rough out of the box.

For about the same money, the Mossberg Maverick 88 is a better shotgun in my opinion. It's also a budget gun, but the corners are cut in places that aren't as noticeable as the corners that are cut to get the Savage down to that $200ish price point. The action is smoother, for example.

They're not the junkiest Chinese shotguns on the market, but unless you find a screaming deal on one, you can generally do better for the price.

Thank you for posting this. I lost my mom in the same way, suddenly and out of the blue. Then I lost my dad a few years later after a year of cancer treatments that ultimately didn't work. There's no good way to experience that kind of loss.

People often say that it gets easier with time, but I don't think that's quite accurate. It doesn't really get easier, you just get better at living with how difficult it is. Mom passed 14 years ago, Dad was ten years ago, and I still have moments where I'll think of something about one of them and feel this overwhelming sorrow at the loss. But that sharp, hard pain that would accompany such thoughts in the early years has dulled quite a bit.

Happy Mother's Day to you and all the other Nostr moms out there. My wife and I spent the day making cookies for all the moms on our street. Here's yours... 🍪😉

Marigolds will do fine in containers, you could just put some in pots around the outside of the garden, or use some kind of hanging/window box type planter on your fence. Or put them in pots and move them around the garden through the season wherever you have room.

You might lose a tiny bit of the companion planting benefits by not having them share soil and root contact with your garden plants, but the insect repelling benefits will remain.

Your videos have the best surprise guest stars! First it was the cat, now it's a dog with a stick.

If you want to keep deer off of new trees, you can make a deer repellent from eggs and milk. Beat a couple of eggs together with a cup of milk, add to a gallon of water and mix thoroughly. Cover and let it sit outside somewhere warm (not in a sealed container, though - it will pressurize and explode if you do that) for a day. It will stink, but if you paint or spray it on your trees, it's pretty effective at keeping the deer away. After it dries for a day or two, the odor subsides below the human threshold, but animals can still smell it. Putrefied eggs are the main ingredient in commercial deer/rabbit repellents like Liquid Fence.

You can add cayenne pepper or garlic (or both) to enhance its effectiveness, also.

In my experience, deer require a multi-pronged approach to control. Barriers, repellents, and startle mechanisms are all part of the equation.

Precious, indeed! Rock on, brother. Best of luck with your potatoes and whatever else you're growing this year!

Does the short season and harsh climate mean you don't have as many pest problems as more southerly gardeners have to deal with, or are the bugs just quicker at getting down to business up there?

Dang, Alaska and Texas could not be much more different, climate-wise! I'll be harvesting potatoes in a week or two, and the tomatoes are just starting to produce. It will all be dead by the end of June, though, murdered by my old nemesis The Sun...