John F Dean

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In the early 1980s I quit a secure job in administration, bought 10 acres, and began homesteading. At some point we decided to relocate to an area with more job opportunities and in a warmer climate. We presently live on 11 acres. We have Nigerian Dwarf Goats, KuneKune Pigs, bees, and an assortment of chickens. Our driveway is the boundary between zones 6a and 6b. Annual rainfall for us is at 46 inches. We have been together 50+ years.

We don’t consider ourselves to be an expert on anything. For some, homesteading produces serious income. For us, it is fun. We are thoroughly enjoying ourselves in the adventure we created for ourselves.
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I woke up from my nap with my wife screaming at the TV…”Don’t go in there!! Your life will be over! Get out of the church!!”  I expected to see Jamie Lee Curtis.  My wife was watching our wedding video.
1 day ago
As a broad comment, I have found that hospitals seem to have an All or Nothing mindset.  In terms of the present topic, degrees of lactose intolerance does not seem to be understood here in the USA in the hospitals I have encountered. Either all milk in all forms is removed or it stays.
3 days ago
Stay safe.  I’ve known too many who died or were seriously injured being foolish during challenging weather.
4 days ago
Interesting.  I wouldn’t be caught dead on a pink bike. All the ghosts would laugh.
4 days ago
I lived in northern Minnesota for 4 years.  There are few things as pleasurable as stepping out on the front porch, coffee in hand, drawing a deep breath of the morning mist, and inhaling two lungs full of mosquitoes. Then there is the process of dropping to one’s knees…and eventually on all fours….and wrenching out the contents of one’s lungs.

5 days ago
Hi Eric,

As I was preparing to clean out a stall, I got to wondering if I could grown mushrooms in it.  It sits below a skylight … so it does get limited light.
5 days ago
Huh!  I am already growing Wine Caps near the garden.  What kind of fungus should I grow in the bike?   Maybe Eric will have an idea.
5 days ago
I seldom wear gloves in the garden.

The bike is pretty sophisticated.  Today it would cost in the 1000+ range.  Anyway it uses magnetic (maybe electromagnetic) resistance via 4 D  batteries.   I am not sure if the distance between the magnets changes or the power to the magnet change.  The later seems like a stretch with 4 D batteries.  But it has maybe a dozen route options.  Within those routes other modifications can be made.
6 days ago
In Amityville Horror the house was on an old Indian burial ground.  My house is behind an old cemetery.   While in the basement and closer to the graves the bike may have been used as the vector by malevolent spirits.

6 days ago
My wife and I are coming out of a little over a week of extreme fatigue and brain fog.  We get out very little, have had zero visitors for 2 weeks, so we were left wondering about the source and vector of our illness.  As we compared our activities prior to getting ill, the body of evidence began to build.  For a solid week prior we had used the exercise bicycle I had dragged up from the basement.

It seems to be pretty conclusive, once I got sick, I stopped exercising, and now I am feeling much better.  It seems as if I had banished the Machine of Death to the basement for a reason.
6 days ago