I spent a long time sitting on a stool today picking bugs off my squash. I orderd BT from amazon yesterday and htye promised it would be here today and it was not. So liquid sevin and some neem oil and the bugs slowed down enough... I guess i'm fortunate becuse we are doing the IBC totes and only one of them had the infestation. I literally killed hundreds of them today and got the eggs out from under all the leaves.

Thanks to all you for the advice yeterday. I'm a fart smeller but I can't know every thing.

Well now we know whats getting my chickens. I did have a coyote decoy but it was just outside the barnyard fence due to the goats recently being in the barnyard.

I have now moved the coyote decoy inside the barn yard.

Chain-Saw-Tasks-and-Techniques-1-1.pdf
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A neighbor's mech room is the last 8 feet in a shipping container. 3.5" of open cell foam on everything but the floor. The container is under a metal roof with a large air gap. The only issue is the west facing wall gets full sun in the afternoon.

He's running a Media 8k window shaker minisplit and uses about 5kwh per day (37.2 for the week). It's been between 95 and 100F every day this week.

I think he'll finish a carport / shade structure on that west wall this weekend, we'll see what the heat load is next week.

And those wondering... these DIN rail kwh meters are CHEAP and they work at 120v too.

My neighbor has 45kw of solar panels. I feel like this when I compare his system to mine.

Firedrill: You were bushhogging your around your pond and hit a stump and broke the shear pin in the drive line. Got one on hand? Seems it's a Grade 2 1/2"x3" bolt..... all my hardware store had was grade 5.

Got a spare in the tractor tool box? yeah me neither.

Why do you never hear about horse divorces?

Because they have stable relationships.

Haven’t had rain in a while. Time to clean the pollen and dust off my panels.

The state of new homes in the USA. Build your own.

https://youtu.be/-HyWTml7WsA

Oh hell yes I want one!

But I also want that dirt.

Here is a remedy from the 30s that Florida farmers used on livestock with screw worm infested wounds