I'm riding around mowing and thinking. No one takes the time to ponder things in this day of instant entertainment. Up until the late 1800's western civilization used to build things from stone. Two years ago I rode thru southern Pennsylvania on my way to Reading... I saw 100 year old brick houses. But look out our houses today! Made for ever cheaper materials (particularly American homes). So in 500 years or even in 10,000 years when some future generation is digging they will find these stone homes and stone train stations but they will not find ipads or books. Our photos don't exist on paper anymore ,they are all digitized on a USB drive that won't last 15 years. Lacking any evidence of pretty much anything from 1900 onward, these future archeologists will marvel at the stone structures we built and never realize all the computer stuff we do today. Our last 100-150 years will be lost to time.

Now let that simmer in your brain for a moment and think about the pryamids.... we don't know who built them nor how. We don't know how advanced that society became when it collapsed on itself. All we have to look back on are the stone structures that survived.

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Sequatchie Cove Farm doesn’t just raise cattle! They also have a thriving chicken business producing around 300 dozen eggs a day!

4,000 chickens might sound big - but the way the Keeners raise their flock is very different from the industrial chicken operations with hundreds of thousands of chickens.

By following behind grazing ruminants, and moving frequently, the Keeners are providing healthy food for their community while building deep, healthy soils.

When you support local farmers directly, you allow them to work with nature - that’s good for everyone!

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Just had a discussion about standby generator with one of our members here. He has a Champion 8.5kw LP home standby generator. He's actually on his 2nd one. It appears they offer a 10 year warranty, but there's that word "limited". In this case Limited means when used for home standby. When used in an off grid application, all bets are off. He got 600 hours on it when an oil leak started. It dumped a valve at 750 hours. https://www.championpowerequipment.com/product/100177-8-5-kw-select-circuit-home-standby-generator-and-50a-switch/ .

So let's do some math... the unit is $2600, expected off grid life is 750hours... $3.46/hour. Costs you 1 gallon of LP per hour to run at half load, so $4/hr. Total cost to run looks like $7.46 / hr. It will generate 4.25kw at half power x 750 hours = 3187kwh in it's life.

Now let's do a little comparison... I just ran my home from 100% battery solar for 365days using 75kwh of batteries. What I found was that if I got 30kwh more of battery, I would never have had to run a generator. For the additive price of $3200, I just ordered 30kwh of battery. The amount in energy in/out of my batteries for the past year showed a cumulative cycle count of 160 cycles out of 4000 on the batteries. At this rate those batteries should last >20 years.

TLDR: I just spend $600 more than a generator would cost so that I never have to run a generator. Think in terms of cost avoidance.

The school system isn’t broken. It’s doing exactly what it was built to do: Condition obedience, punish dissent, and stamp out independent thought.

The EFF held a march and rally in Kimberley, South Africa, to demand the dissolution of Orania

They argue that the prosperity of Orania’s small Afrikaner community is an "insult" to Blacks in the region

There's a story to go with this... Mom fell off a horse and broke her wrist. Dad called and said he was taking her to the hospital and asked if I would come by and put the horses up. So my (now) ex wife and I drove up to their house. While I was putting the horses up, she took it upon herself to clean the cast iron skillet on the stove. She commented about how much crud was on it but some elbow grease soap and hot water and she had it pretty clean. My dad never forgave her for that.

This is from Colorado. Pull your kids from the public schools.

Finished the fake wishing well cover for our well pump today.

little guy's first day on the job

Also, we finished cleaning out a 40x40 barn on another part of the property. Filled up a 20yard dumpster in about 2 hours. Found a few mice. A skeletonized possum.... a 100 year old set of golf clubs.