More Christmas gifts arriving in the mail.

You know what my house smells like today 🫠

I wish I knew about this game when I was a youngin’ playing baseball. Holy shit does this get you dialed in!

Jesus:

"Take up your cross and follow me!"

Christians:

"You mean, wear it as jewelry, riiiight? :padme:

My neighbor is Venezuelan and they have a big family and lots of parties. Fucking great neighbor. I know him better than any other neighbor.

Yesterday he had a party and my kid and his friend played in their blowup slide jumpy house.

The men played a game like baseball where the pitcher throws a bottle cap at a can behind you and you have to try to hit it with a broomstick. It was fucking bananas. I hit .500, I am the boss of hitting things with sticks.

I love these guys.

Also: I just ordered 300 orange bottle caps from amazon.

I spent a month outside the country and probably saw less than five noticably obese people.

I've been back in the US for an hour and I couldn't keep count if I tried.

New year sofa pillow fort

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You know you’re in America when you can’t see someone’s leg because it’s so well camouflaged.

I’ve done the large Pekins - these are great! We had to pivot out of them as hubs is not a fan of the duck dispatch. They carried a lot of meat though & are very tasty. We also had 2 Muscovy that were the best tasting duck I’ve ever had, they’re small though.

Chickens are a gateway drug. They’re super easy to start with as they’re really hard to err with, and their turnover is easy so if you do have something catastrophic happen you can reboot easy. I like buckeyes, but I like buckeyes because I am in OH, my chickens walk in snow & need to be cold hardy, yours don’t. Buckeyes would be unhappy in your land. You need to find a heat tolerant breed to start with. What do you want? Meat birds? Laying hens? Dual use breeds? Look into heat tolerant birds who fit the bill. If you’re going dual use I recommend an incubator so you can grow some out if your females don’t go broody.

For sheep - I currently have shetlands which are gorgeous! They are also a wool sheep. Hubs & I have discussed switching to Khatadins over the next year, but I currently have no experience with them.

I like a California rabbits. I’d like to restart my rabbitry, but hubs has a real problem with rabbit dispatch so all I have right now is a male that I keep around for rabbit manure for the garden. If you go this route I’d recommend 3 does & a buck to keep you in dinners year round.

No experience with goats at all.

That includes you nostr:npub1ghcetnluhryhynhuyj8s2pazldjm27wl40nu6dfeskvpv09twcnsneygat 😂💜

Start with one animal. Build infrastructure for one animal. Give it at least a year & if you do good with that animal add in a second one. Build the infrastructure for the 2nd animal & give it a year. If it goes good add in a 3rd animal. I can’t stress this enough. If you try and do it all on day 1 you won’t be happy & neither will your animals. Take the animal from start to finish to make sure you have it in you to go all the way. For fruit trees I kinda winged it. They’re all over. Fruit trees, but trees it’s chaos out there. I’ve not been as successful in that realm as I have with the animals

Start with one animal. Build infrastructure for one animal. Give it at least a year & if you do good with that animal add in a second one. Build the infrastructure for the 2nd animal & give it a year. If it goes good add in a 3rd animal. I can’t stress this enough. If you try and do it all on day 1 you won’t be happy & neither will your animals. Take the animal from start to finish to make sure you have it in you to go all the way. For fruit trees I kinda winged it. They’re all over. Fruit trees, but trees it’s chaos out there. I’ve not been as successful in that realm as I have with the animals

Thanks J3 - I love it!!

Bought two BTC burger meals with fiat and received $10 in BTC total sent to our fold wallets. Boom!

Morning Nostriches!

Morning pond report is that the snow is back! We had a brown Christmas & we’re soggy all weekend long. Yesterday the temps finally dipped and my rain turned to snow and I am in a snow globe again. Love this! I could stare out the window all day.

#coffeechain