Christopher Weeks

I’ve seen some anti-mullein sentiments online recently so it was nice to see this.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this thread progresses. I spent a semester in high school and another one in college taking welding classes. So I feel like I have a lot of the movements needed -- I can push a puddle of metal in tiny circles with my flame or start an arc with a stick and keep it without welding my stick to the work surface, but I'd need to walk into an already put-together welding setup and get a refresher. Neither class equipped me go to the hardware store and figure out what I need to buy.

I use Thai enough that I grow it year-round in the very limited space I have to keep things alive through the winter. Lemon basil is a nice-to-have.

Lambsquarters

According to https://foodstruct.com/food/lambsquarters, lambsquarters has 43-47 Cal/100g. I'm not sure what the difference is between regular and "Northern Plains Indians" but it grows here in a context similar to the latter, so I feel OK taking the average of the two values and going with 45.

So for the 307g that I have pictured here (it looks like I failed to weigh the stalks of this small first batch) that's 138 Cals.

I think I'll have to powder this to have room for all of what I want to harvest.

They don't always pick the smartest spots to do their thing...

How far can you hear traffic?

My wife has an online knitting friend who used to rent an old farmhouse in the boonies and when we visited I noticed that I couldn't hear anything but the sounds of the fields. It was wonderful. So I was looking forward to that when we were going to move to "the country". Sadly, we failed to actualize that particular aspect. We live 1/2 mile south of a well-used state highway. I can almost always hear traffic from that road during the day. I get up at 0300 and the traffic at that time is quite sporadic so I also know what it sounds like when that road is silent. At those times, I can hear the interstate which is through about 3.5 miles of woods, as the crow files. The interstate is quiet -- a murmur even, but constant. Having had this experience, it seems like what I have is the most noise I could stand and I wish I'd bought somewhere more remote.

But how remote do you have to be in order to get the noise profile I'd like?

This is a neat thread, but I mostly don't know my neighbors well enough to know, but I can also only see one other house from our house, and one other house if I go into the woods to our property line.

south of us: nurse and truck driver/mechanic/equipment operator
south of them: home-scale timber and cattle guy with history as a thief
NW of us: livestock zoo (cattle for annual cash, chickens for eggs and weekly cash, bulldog breeding for cash, alpaca/swans/pea-fowl/guinneas/etc for fun)
west of her: her mom attends events at every church in the county, no idea if she had a career.
north of us: he does something handy
here: software development/general IT and teacher/writer

I don't have any kind of background in optics, but I think what's happening is that the prisms are bouncing the light back and forth so that a relatively short lens gets to act like it's three times as long, enhancing the magnification effect in exchange for a slight loss of fidelity. And I'm pretty sure the replacement I bought doesn't do that. It's longer in the hand and seems like a straight shot with no room for the extra channels. It's also crisper but maybe a little slower to focus. Hopefully that last bit is just a matter of getting used to it.

I dropped and broke my wife’s binoculars. That’s not cool, obviously, but after doing some research and buying an upgrade replacement, it was time to throw the old ones away. So of course, I took them apart to see how they work.