Saturday afternoon leather project.
Sheath for a Ka-Bar Becker Remora with an additional pocket for a pry tool.
#grownostr #proofofwork #knifestr #edcstr #leather
Finished up a productive day
Friday tends to be my wild card day. Any gig is on the table, and sometimes, like today, several gigs.
Worked til 3 this afternoon at the woodshop job. Today we were installing hardwood flooring. Then a couple hours taking care of a yard I mow weekly. Then I had a call from a guy needing me to pick some landscape gravel, so I went by the farm supply, loaded a couple ton of rock in the trailer, and dumped it at the customer's house.
Still had some daylight when I got home, so I strung up some electric fencing and moved the cows.
#grownostr #proofofwork #beef #farmstr #getoutside
Great album all the way through, but I rank Lateralus at the top.
"for they love peace and quiet and good-tilled earth..."
J.R.R. Tolkien
#grownostr #getoutside #farmstr #tolkien
Maybe we need some kind of underground railroad thing for open source devs.
I have several acres of secluded timber where I could build some cabins, and I could use a ranch hand/ IT person. Rent payable with BTC and I don't necessarily need to know anyone's real name to rent them an off grid place to stay
GM, Nostr. Make it a great day.
#bitcoin #memestr
A good way to end the day, by the pond, touching grass, listening to the frogs, smoking a bowl of fine pipe tobacco.
(Cornell and Diehl miskatonic mixture in a Calabresi Italian brier)
#grownostr #getoutside #pipeandtobacco
Looks like barley or oats from the picture. Have to check the auricles to be sure.
In other news, I'm going outside. I have poly-wire to roll up.
#grownostr #getoutside #ranching #grazing
Here's what I might, possibly, hypothetically do. Only store the pin in my head, so it can't possibly be compromised.
Store seed phrase in 2-3 safe locations off-site. I also keep a spare, unused hardware device off-site. If something happens to me, my wife would be instructed to retrieve seed phrase and spare device, and restore from seed. If I forget my pin, restore from seed. If device gets stolen, restore from seed and transfer.
Simple-ish.
Movin' cattle.
#grownostr #ranching #beef #regenerative #proofofwork
Today's gig
In Missouri, residential, rural septic systems fall under the jurisdiction of the county health departments. They require a soil morphology evaluation from a registered soil scientist before they will issue a permit. I'm one of the people that does these evaluations.
A degree is not required, but you do need 20 hours of college soil courses to get licensed. As a result, soil scientists are the guys that took the college path. And of course, guys that operate excavators did not go through the college route.
When I first got licensed, I didn't get many calls because the few old established soil scientists already had longstanding relationships with the installers. So what did I do? I got my installer's license, partnered with an equipment operator, and we started installing our own systems. He owned the equipment and did the digging, and I had the license, did the evaluations, and designed the systems.
Since then, I've gotten more calls for evaluations, I've become a decent equipment operator myself, I've added a dump trailer to my enterprise, and as far as I can tell, I'm the only soil scientist in the state that will do their own digging.
I share this story because I was listening to this podcast on the way to the job site today.
They talked a lot about the younger generation getting started today and not seeing a worthwhile end in sight.
When I was in my mid-twenties just starting out, I had in mind that I just needed the required license for my chosen line of work and then opportunities would just show up. But it didn't work that way.
I had to adapt. I had to tweak my business model, I had to add new skills to my repertoire. I have by no means "made it" or accomplished all my goals yet. But, now in my mid-thirties, I have reached a point where my end goals are faintly visible on the horizon. So it is possible.
I guess to sum it up in video game terminology, you have to slog your way through the wasteland and gain xp before you get to level up, but if you keep playing the game, you'll get there.
#grownostr #proofofwork #soil
Well, that particular knife in the picture is one of a limited run that Ka-Bar did for a select group of users on Bladeforums several years ago. Some of them may have ended up on eBay for a high price.
But Ka-Bar has since put the BK-10 in regular production, so the standard model with the black handles can be found for under $100.
Good weekend to go outside.
My pond is full again after last year's drought, and grass is growing. I hope it stays this green all year.
Frost River haversack
Ka-Bar Becker BK-10
#grownostr #getoutside #edcstr #knifestr
Morel season is here.
Went out this weekend and ended up finding a couple dozen.
Brought along a basic haversack kit including water, knife, possibles pouch, and cordage.
#grownostr #knifestr #foodsovereignty
1. Lord of the Rings (Always. No question.)
2. Wheel of Time
3. Earthsea
4. Narnia
5. Harry Potter
6. Kingkiller (this would be much higher if Rothfuss would ever finish it)
Haven't read Stormlight yet. Trying to wait until Sanderson finishes them all. I have read the Mistborn series, and it's good.
Dump trailer side gig
Bought a load of mulch on my way home from work, hauled it 40 miles, earned some grey market income.
#grownostr #proofofwork #agorism