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dalekg

Drives me crazy that people don’t do this, they must love neck pain.

I’ve been an “urban chicken farmer” for ... 11 years. Just some things to note from my experiences: build a secure coop & run using a fine gauge hardware cloth to wrap everything up (raccoons can tear through chicken wire like tissue paper). Chickens poop. A LOT. Get used to it... and keep this in consideration if you

Assume I don’t want to engage in conversation.

TSA PreCheck, doing whatever you can to get in the earliest boarding queue so you don’t have to worry about gate-checking your carry-on (I don’t trust airlines with checked luggage), and always aisle seating. I hate announcing I have to shit in public. “Excuse me, I have to do something disgustingly biological, could

I raise with Giant Hogweed

English Ivy is the worst thing ever.

It’s worth pointing out that the Easter egger chicken “breed” can produce one of several different colors. You don’t know which color until they start laying, and they lay that color for the rest of their lives. The two Easter eggers we’ve had both produced baby blue eggs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egger

I too have an inexplicable love for Gremlins 2. “Cartoon-like chaos” films are super rare, the only other one that comes to mind is 1941.

I just eat more cheeseburgers.

Chickens eat and eat and eat. They also shit and shit and shit.”. Can confirm. They are also hilarious. Our current flock consists of a 10 year old yellow Buff Orpington thats an aggressive bully and will steal chips out of your hand, one is a 3 year old very wee but *very* intelligent and headstrong brown Easter

I got a bag of these spring-clasps, makes tie-back masks easily adjustable!

I’ve done a little experimentation and using a powered USB hub as an extension (pc - hub - camera) worked for me with a couple different Logitech cameras, but YMMV  

I realized I’ve been doing a version of this all my life, but instead of a “do nothing day” I block out 2-3 hours in the evening on a daily basis as “do nothing time”. Read a book? Sure. Play a video game? Why not. Fart around on the internet while the TV is on? 90% of the time, yup. Daily might be considered excessive

I recommend using wet-erase markers or Sharpies so you won’t have to worry about smudging. If you use Sharpies instead of wet-erase markers you can clear the ink off by tracing over the lines over with a dry-erase marker, it acts like an eraser. You can also use clear packing tape as the laminating material in a pinch.

Wrapping paper can be pulped in a blender and turned into cool looking sheets of paper if you have a vat and a mould & deckle (check local craft supply stores for hand-papermaking kits). All the color & shiny bits become flecks in the paper. Oh, and never use that blender for food again.