My solution was to put the outdoor hydrant upstream of the home’s pressure reducer. I get a full 100psi at the hydrant. I have to buy heavy duty hoses, but it’s worth it.

I’ve never had it but I’ve seen a couple stores in my area make them and I have no desire for it.

No one is off limits. I’ll boycott dealers, but not manufactures.

I had to do the math. Couldn’t not.

the employees’ delivery was so chipper and genuine, they really sold the whole thing.

It’s 3-strikes for us. An EV is going to have to be our primary vehicle due to the expense; we can’t afford this as a secondary around-town car. Given this fact we have to insist on hitting three metrics all at once and no EV seems to hit them all simultaneously: price, size, and range.

Our weather station has been reporting 10 a few days this month, but the temps have only been in the 70's or 80's with solar power being in the mid 800's.

We did a AR-CA and back trip recently. We were in a Camry which didn’t have as much space for everything wanted to take on the trip so I bought this trailer from a guy who used to pull it with his Harley. It had a platform on the tongue we strapped a cooler on. It was awesome. Snacks and cold drinks for days,…

BUT DAAAAAAD, HE WON’T KEEP HIS FEET ON THE HUMP!

No AM/FM radio. We’ve all got devices with access to bottomless vats of static-free and mostly commercial free music we can pump through the speakers. I refuse to allow endless searching through the bands of noise to get maybe one, or less, good song before the channel disappears into the static or next local…

I had an hour long drive the first time I was in the rain on my daily driver bike and I was not dressed for it. I’d never been so cold in my life to that point and since then only time I’ve been colder was from a long soak in the Pacific in December.

Isn’t it a little weird that an event that is won by means of extreme conservation (fuel, rubber, momentum) is celebrated with extreme waste?

Time to un-pimp ze auto.

Of course my gut reaction would be to think it is wrong to penalize people for reducing dependence on fossil fuels and lowering emissions, but then the other side of it is that it gets the state started down the road of obtaining tax money from non-oil sources, thereby reducing their own dependence on fossil fuels.…

If you like history and have some serious miles ahead of you, like a cross-country trip, then Fall of Civilizations is what you’re looking for. The episodes are long but informative and the length makes eating up the miles while remaining conscious much easier and somewhat enjoyable.

I distinctly recall flying in 2003. STL to LAX to HNL to ITO and back. The experience sucked every bit as bad two decades ago as it does now, and for all the same reasons. Nothing has been lost. You have to go back much farther in time to find significant changes in quality and when you do you’ll find significant…

And with this you have tapped into the root of the entire issue: kindness.

...most people can also remember that it used to be a hell of a lot better and we got a hell of a lot more for the money...