Nick Mick

I have an extendable ‘roof rake’ which I use on my single story house to get snow off the panels. It’s basically a snow shovel on a really long colapsable handle that you pull towards you. I think I got it at Home Depot but I don’t remember. If you can reach it maybe put a tarp over it before snowfall .

I’m a carpenter and I wear wrangler Riggs work jeans. Doing interior work they last about 3 years before they get to frayed. Not sure how long they would last doing concrete or steel work but they are only like $50 bucks.

I have seen some neat mats made from old fire hose which I believe were heavy canvas. Not really a rug but if you need a heavy duty mat that’s an option.

Mullein likes poor soil (think abandoned lot or construction site) but will grow most places that are not too wet. You need two apple trees for cross pollination to get sufficient apples (even a crab apple would work). All of the peach trees that came with my house are dying left and right from disease and pests invade the fruit, I don’t know the variety so I hope yours is disease resistant. Blackberries and raspberries are very easy to propagate by weighing down the branches so they contact soil. Once the roots drop and are strong enough you can leave it to spread or cut the branch free and transplant the rooted cutting.

My pants are held up by what it’s covering.

Kidding, I use a belt even when the pants fit.

There’s the fun ones and then there’s the practical ones. I got three weird ones. First is ‘instant adaptation’ power, second is ‘genetic modification’ power, third is ‘accelerated aging’ power. I like the idea of the accelerated aging one cause then you can make trees and veggies grow overnight. Instant sourkraut, instant vintage wine, instant fat pig for the freezer, instant established ecosystems, instant trash disintegration, instant compost, instant oil spill and radioactive contamination dissipation.

Considering that the pond gets murky again after it rains tells me that it’s more of an erosion problem than a fish problem (unless the fish are a destructive enough species ) perhaps a swale around the pond at the highest water line will stop sediment from washing into it. Lilly pads in the shallow areas will help stop sediment from being disturbed by softening the blow of rain drops. Rocks, crushed stone, logs ect will also help reduce runoff going into it if applied to the shore (between the swale and water even better)

A flamethrower that runs on methane from the septic tank. Kidding. I have a tractor with front end loader and a snow blower. However I have learned a good chunk of my driveway clears itself if I just expose a small portion to sunlight and let thermal mass take care of the rest.

Benedict Bosco wrote:You can also disable Autoplay in the browser (this is Brave, which I highly recommend; it's Chromium based so Chrome, Edge, and the rest should have the same option). You can get to site-specific settings from the left side of the URL bar > Site Settings. The global setting is in Settings > Privacy and Security > Site and Shields Settings under "Additional Permissions"

Yeah I use brave as well, I like it.

I turned off the feature labeled ‘auto preview’ where the video plays without you clicking on it, hope it helps.