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Planting a Second Mulberry Tree
Now that the chicken pen was built it was up to me to plant the trees that i had an opportunity to have help with but shifted off due to something else being more important and requiring finished first. I was way more confident that i could dig holes for trees than i was that …
A Country Solution
I’m currently covering my coworker’s maternity leave which means i’m seeing her patients and my boss is seeing his and my patients. We are one man down so i cant exactly call in and say i need a day off to go handle a dog thing. I usually order my flea and heart-worm meds from …
Constructing the Second Chicken Pen
I should probably start at the beginning. The chicken coop was about 5 and a half years old at the point where it began sagging around the nesting box area and pieces of wood on the front of it as well as parts of the door began falling off. I knew the carpenter ants had …
The Chickens and Their Jack-O-Lantern
I saw a trend floating around the internet where you could take a screw driver and poke out the outline of a jack-o-lantern face and then give the pumpkin to your chickens and let them go to town carving a pumpkin for halloween. Wherever they could smell the contents of the gourd or pumpkin they …
This Year’s Orb Weavers
Unfortunately it was an absolutely prolific breeding year for the praying mantises. This year’s praying mantises were almost exclusively male so hopefully next year will be a less prolific year for these iron fisted demons but this year it was a full time job killing 5 or 6 praying mantises a day just in the …
Thoughts on Finances
I found this paragraph that i’d jotted down on an introspective day earlier this year. “Jesus teaches us that there are things that are more important than money. 1. Love for thy fellow human being. 2. What is right and just in the eyes of the Lord. Both things are more important than money. Money …
Orthodontic Assholes and DIY Everything Because Humans are Assholes
I had braces at some point. Therefore i will need a set of retainers for the rest of my life. In anticipation of this fact i asked for them to make me two, which i was willing to pay for, considering that one would probably not last the entire span of my life. They refused. …
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Antique Turkish Pepper Grinder
I just dont understand why we bother inventing newer and less efficient ways of doing things. Does your pepper grinder render peppercorns ground this finely? All i had to do was turn the little handle at the top and it made pepper dust.
Vegan Vodka Pasta Sauce
It was delicious and there was no cream!