Christopher Weeks

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I steward 20 acres of Cromwell Sandy Loam in the north woods of Minnesota. I clear birch and aspen as needed to plant food sources.

I always have more projects going than I can keep up with which isn't really awesome but I don't know what to change.

I vote for Libertarians and Socialists because they know what it means to have principles and that matters more to me than the exact details of what they believe in. I'm a gun-toting vegetarian. I write code for cash and grow food because no amount of cash will buy real food these days.

I have a wife, two kids, two grandkids, and three cats. I've never had a dog, but I'm thinking about changing that. I hike, garden, read, play games, code, cook, spin and knit, putter, and play at arting.
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Carlton County, Minnesota, USA: 3b; Dfb; sandy loam; in the woods
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Electric Company, Sesame Street, and Mr. Rogers in the '70s. Then I lost track of PBS -- I think maybe they didn't have anything aimed at adolescents, so I watched lots of mainstream network TV. Then in the 90s I stopped watching TV altogether and didn't own one until I got married and it came with my wife. But in my early 20s (the early 90s) I faded away from listening to rock radio stations and started listening to NPR (which my folks listened to but it seemed weird to me as a kid) and that feels a lot more like 'my thing' than PBS.
We had (vegetarian) Dried Venison and Corn Salad from page 56 for dinner. I’m sure we’ll have it again.
13 hours ago
I think they're calling for compressed baker's yeast because that's what was available. If I were adapting those to modern times (and I am interested!) I'd either use wild yeast from raisins, raspberries, nettles, etc or just pitch a packet of wine yeast and give it some yeast nutrients. I'd expect the former approach to be the most "interesting" and the latter to produce the best wine.
21 hours ago
I love any plan that involves purposely growing creeping bellflower which seems to be the plant people around me are most crazy about vilifying. I've eaten young leaves and flowers but not roots from it.
21 hours ago
I think using AI to translate from a language that you know well, to a language that you're less fluent with is a perfectly reasonable use of the tool. My wife is writing a book where a lot of her source material is in French or Polish. She found that using two different engines to translate into English and then comparing the two results was a useful tool for helping to pick up on nuance in the original. Of course, an extra step is an extra burden.
I leave them standing as winter insect habitat where I don't harvest the tubers. Where I do, I either drop them nearby or toss them on a compost heap.
1 day ago

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must post:
- a picture of your comfrey leaf, freshly harvested
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- a picture of your completed salve in its permanent, labeled container/jar



To document completion of the BB, provide proof of the following as pictures or a video (< 2 minutes):
- Harvested plant material (either being harvested or just harvested)
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- Finished (strained) infused oil in its labeled jar



Thom Bri wrote:Other than as a personal challenge, or dire necessity, what's the point?


One point, I think, is getting ahead of looming "dire necessity".
2 days ago
One of my cats kills them and leaves mangled corpses. The other one eats them up.

But, the only rats I’ve ever had were pets.
2 days ago