J. Syme

Samantha Lewis wrote:

$5,800!

Thank you everyone for such a strong showing of support so early in the kickstarter!    

I'm Not sure how kick starter ranks interest, but I started at $1 then edited my bid over a few hours upping it slightly each time. Hope that works better than just one bid per user.
john

Lots of plants inside do help with the air quality, so I enjoy that part. My main issue comes when the ladies go away for a trip, and I'm tasked with allocating the proper amount of water to the plants. Orchids apparently drink less than lilies. My spider plant still like an occasional beer (had it since college days). Anyhow they seem to make my daughter happy so they continue to multiply. She is in the process of getting 20 acres of her own so after she gets her green house built, maybe I'll have less plants to worry about, maybe I'll have more, who knows. Nice to know others share similar plant issues. (grin)  john

Sigh, a reach out to the permies folks for a small reality check...  wife and daughter are kind of into plants and since we live on 20+ acres i thought growing stuff should start small then move outside. Well am i nuts to think 20+ plants per room is a bit much?  

poll, how many full sized plants do you have in the living room, kitchen, dining room... side note cactus don't count right since there is about 50 of those around here. john living in a lush jungle.

1st i would oil it, to slow oxidization. Then do a internet search on places that deal with those sharp cutty things, like https://www.scythesupply.com/    the scythe i have is 100+ years old. The metal has been hand honed and oiled, the wood 50:50 linseed oil/mineral spirits  rubbed dry then parked in the corner.  glad you found a cool blade.

I like salt, and munchies for me are centered around salty snacks. What seems to stave off the urge is to drink a glass of water then lightly rub a bit of salt onto your gums. I'm sure there is a reason not to do this but it does help keep me under 16 stones (225lbs). Good luck with the struggle.

I'd check for a local to you Habitat for humanity ReStores, or local recycle resell type store. Perhaps you can score a set of blinds. as for a longer term fix i would consider extending the roof line out a bit more to shade the summer sun, while letting the lower angle winter sun in. In the mean time do you have a set of white bed sheets you could pin in place??       John

also check out SearxNG, I personally haven't given it a shake down test, but it looks interesting.. coming from a old guy running a variant of Linux on a 18 year old pc take my geek advise with a grain of salt so to speak.


update: for the lazy searcher that want to get better results without Big Brother tracking you (as much)  try https://searx.space/  then pic a search interface from one of the selections, lets say https://baresearch.org/  then type in: willow feeder  or rocket mass heater into the search box, if you like the results bookmark that search engine's home page, if you don't like the results either modify the search engine presets or move on to another one from the list.  you can setup your own search engine (for obsessive compulsive types) using the following help guide https://docs.openwebui.com/tutorials/web-search/searxng/  ....   hope this helps ya'll save some time looking for things and gets you back to doing things that give you peace.  John

If i was a boastful person i'd say light the beans on fire toss them in my mouth grind them with my teeth them pour boiling water into my mouth and shake my head and swallow, but that would be a lie... usually i take the grounds put them in a tea ball screen thing and put it in my mug of hot water.  After trying some mushroom tea with uncle mud I have been switching my morning cup of Joe to some variant of tea... i try to find locally sourced stuff or better yet things my kid pulls from the garden to make the brew. Hibiscus, stevia with mint is my current favorite. coffee does not hype me up or calm me down, sadly caffeine does nothing for me so it has become more about the warm soothing flavor and not the exact beans.

About 8 years ago a chicken which eats our scraps decided to relieve itself just outside the garage between the doors, and well the nicest grape style tomato plant grew in the gravel... so now every spring it comes back or either my kids, wife or chickens keep the supply of surprise tomato seeds gracing the driveway just enough to grow every spring.  I take the excess seeds {dozen over ripe tomatoes} and plant them along the edge of my back fields and get about 20% success rate.

if i can't find what i'm looking for with startpage, or duckduckgo  and need google results i use https://udm14.com/ to search google search engine without the AI summary's and ads (a lazy way to append &udm=14 to the search terms).  the udm=14 results are more like old school google search engine.  hope this helps. John