What’s your thoughts on top and bottom pictures.

Personally I like both and try and incorporate a wild flower part in my garden.

Here in the UK we don’t have to worry about snakes in long grass.

Often times when we upgrade a house to solar, we want a critical loads panel. What I've found is that it is usually easier to insert a new 200amp panel ahead of your existing panel. You can then move one or two large power devices out of the original panel box instead of moving all those wires to a new panel.

So..... the point of this post is to remind you that electric code says neutral and ground can only be bonded at one point in a system and that point is the first means of disconnect. This means that the NEW panel you install ahead of your existing panel will have the neutral ground bonded. And your existing/old panel which is now 2nd in line should have it's neutral ground bond REMOVED.

One more note... when you select a new main panel to install upstream from your existing panel box, make sure it has what's called "feed thru lugs". You'll thank me later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v_vcTqD6zk

It's only dumb if it doesn't work.

Custom corn planting job for a rancher

Draw your own conclusions.

Tailgate hack

GM frens, who's ready for a long weekend? Happy Friday! 🙌🏻

Just had a conversation with a cattle guy near here. None of his cows are tagged, he doesn't sell the meat. He might sell you a cow and then help you install it in your freezer though. But the jist of our conversation is what farmers spray. There's no avoiding the over spray, aerosolized chemicals will waft in the air. His neighbor's field gets sprayed with roundup before the harvest and ends up on his land. He's allowed some hedge rows to grow to mitigate the drift from the spraying.

Now I can understand some "bean counter" telling the farmers they're only paying XX per bushel for soy/corn/beans. Those guys are money motivated and detached from the "how".

What I cannot understand is the number of farmers who go along. These guys interact with the chemicals. I was working with the spray drone last year and even though I wore chem gloves half way to my elbow, I still got some pesticide droplets on my arm. That spot was numb for over a week. I asked one of the farmers about it and he said "yup, it'll do that" without another thought.

We spray roundup on soy/corn/cotton as a desiccant. It's easier to harvest with a combine if the plant is dead and crunchy. So we poison our food supply at the 11th hour to make mechanical harvesting easier? It's all the rage now, everyone has a gluten allergy... but mankind has been cultivating wheat for 5000 years. Why do we suddenly have gluten allergies? Because it's not gluten its the gylophosphate.

Since the effects of these chemicals is cumulative, the farmers don't notice. Yeah the old timers have parkinsons. Ya think it has anything to do with using paraquat? How about the 50 year old with eczema? Naw, his gut biome is just disrupted from the chemicals he uses on his soy beans.

Anyway, for the life of me I cannot understand why the people closest to this are so blind to it?

Here's the ingenuity of the Fins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owy6sAPusoc

Tomorrow is Drinking with Chickens Day. lol

Swiss Steak