Look at that face...Her first waterfall. 😍 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️

My wife just showed me a deck of cards she got from Temu. On hte face of each card are different knots. So when the SHTF and you are bored and playing cards, you can study the knots.

I really appreciate David the Goods approach to composting. Here is one video of his on YouTube on composting, but he has a bunch. He has a book called Compost Everything which is a non complicated real world approachable ways of composting.

Personally I have a 3 bin system made with pallets. I just throw all my kitchen scraps and chicken poop in, and throw a layer of leaves on top when I think it looks like it needs to be lightened up. I alternate layers until the bin is filled, then I start a new pile. I never turn it, but if you do, it speeds it up. After 6 months minimum rest, I’ll start using the first bin, screening it and tossing bigger chunks into the second bin. Repeat.

Using a 3 bin system makes it easy to always have a new bin, an in process bin, and a finished compost bin.

You don’t even need a bin. You could just throw it on the ground in a pile and cover with a tarp if heavy rain.

My advice, learned from David is don’t make it hard.

https://youtu.be/4xG5Z4ZV438

Oh boy! Its been two months of cutting trees down and today we finally finished the fence around pond.

So the horses have been sequestered in the top pastures for the past two months. I tried calling them down to the back pasture that's now open and they wouldn't come to me. So I took a 16' gate panel and carried it down a hallway in the fencing to push them... they would move a foot at a time.... so finally I just started yelling and clapping my hands and they ran toward the gate open to the pasture. For a moment they stood there in disbelief.... kind sir, there was a gate here an hour ago..... after a short pause they stepped thru into the new pasture. As I walked back to the house one of them was racing around one of the debris piles kicking in the air.

Nerds only....

Guys, I've been watching this guy for months. This video is gold. He had some hydro engineer from Finland model a water turbine for him and he made a dyno using a bike brake and a load cell. The first hour of the video is his dilligent construction methods... so the meat and potatoes starts at the 1 hour mark.

This is exactly the hands on stuff that we need to understand and visualize power generation and the way the turbine causes cavitation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHXrdzIt38

We decided to change the front gate to two 8' wide gates. Hung them yesterday. Today's project was to water jet a piece of conduit under the drive way to not disturb the rock. So I carefully marked where I remembered burying romex last year and promptly hit my wire with teh backhoe. I was digging a pit on one side of the drive way so I could get my jetting conduit level. Soooo.... now I'm trying to jet and hit something hard the first foot. Dug it up... about an 18" diameter peice of a stump. Tried again... hit a rock.... gave up and hand dug a trench across the rock driveway. I'll have to borrow some extra crush and run from another part of the drive way to camouflage the trench I just dug.

Anyway, while in there I ran 2 conductors to run the gate actuator and 2 conductors for the photo eye. We laid another piece of conduit in the hole for 120v so wife can put Christmas lights on that side of the gate too.

I’ve been meaning to try it. Here is a recipe

• 1 1/2 tablespoons rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol, preferably 70% to 91%
• 1/4 cup (four tablespoons) Dawn dish detergent or Dawn Powerwash dish detergent
• Water to fill bottle within 1″ of top, distilled preferred (about 13 oz)
• 8 drops of essential oil of choice, optional

How to Fix a Square That’s Not 90°.

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