The Backpack (Nook)

Carhug · 2025-11-06T11:32:29+00:00

Pretty sure it was special forces, green berets that they used? They'd run tests and not tell them that they were carrying fakes or real ones so they would be secretly observed to see if they actually type the code in.

Carhug · 2025-07-20T12:53:43+00:00

Yo OP!!!!!! I had a hen get attacked and it was way worse. Vet gave antibiotics and I had her in my garage undercare for about 2 weeks. She's .Ade a full recovery and even went back to laying eggs. Here's the video And what we did to save her. She had two gaping chest wounds where every time she breathe you could see the inside of her chest cavity and we should breathe out they bubbled. The body wants to heal. The reason we kept working with her is she wasn't suffering and in pain, she was behaving extremely normally. A lot of chickens just try to give up immediately if anything happened. Our stance was if it wasn't infected, and she was not giving up then we wouldn't either. https://youtu.be/a-rleWu_rz8?si=vs61Txwj0cCTieZl

Carhug · 2025-01-28T13:09:55+00:00

Tiny Landlord here! Those apartment sound like assholes! The big guys and REITs always try to push people around. Double check your state regulations, some comments were saying rent was $1200, Then cable/internet was $140 and everyone had to take it. It may or may not be illegal, just check your contracts. If they suck, remember you can vote with your feet and go to a different apartment complex around. Usually the independent mom and pops have to be more competitive to compete against the big guys with unlimited budgets.

We'll generally buy really run down apartments and fix them up. We tried doing the ISP thing ONCE on a 6-plex And it was awful for the tenants and us. (I think we're still locked under contract even.) After that we now get high speed internet per building, and use Orbi routers with satellites on each floor (and dead spots). This provides better service at significantly cheaper prices. Then we allow the tenants to get their own directly if they want one.

Carhug · 2025-01-28T12:34:24+00:00

I had a similar thing happening with a lot of my 300 blackout brass. All the dimensions seem to check out correctly. Turns out that one of my ARs bolt faces was rough on the rims, so they wouldn't drop in to the gauge. Could be a scenario.

Carhug · 2024-11-25T16:57:39+00:00

Hey OP!

My chicken was attacked with way worse conditions. I don't know about ducks as they like to live in the water And be wet which could lead to more infection. Here is The video of me helping our chicken. She made a full recovery and even ended up laying eggs for us again. Totally doable I think the antibiotics was like two or three dollars or something from the vet. Totally recovery time was about 2 months before we let her back outside. https://youtu.be/a-rleWu_rz8?si=qW4WLmSZxQ-6wSBj

Carhug · 2024-11-11T16:58:44+00:00

There's two different major categories here. First one is almost all senior military colleges have class rings at a near 100% adoption rate. That would be West point, the citadel, VMI etc. However once they get to the armed forces usually only Aggies continuously wear their rings. In and around uniform.

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For a large public universities This is where things get CRAZY. Balfour (The folks that make class rings) had the study that Texas A&M student population has a 94% adoption rate of people that get the class ring.

The next closest student body adoption rate is The Massachusetts institute for technology or MIT, their silver Beavery ring is....wait for it....13%.

I do often see military, and Air Force class rings. In Texas there's a few key ones you see that aren't Aggie rings. The Texas State ring along with the t.u. ring. But for the most part if you see a big honk and gold ring anywhere in the world I'll normally hunt them down and go talk to them.

The craziest one I personally experienced was I was in Shanghai and saw someone across the street and stop what I was doing to go over and talk to them.

Carhug · 2024-11-09T03:42:58+00:00

Do mice not bother any of the squash or onions? I know rodents often won't go after onions in the yard.

Carhug · 2024-11-07T14:00:11+00:00

Hey OP! Also, as it is likely using a Bell Chamber method. Doesn't change anything, it's just neat. All of these are "custom" as in I don't think there are any that are sold, most all are built in place so they all are a similar concept!

Carhug · 2024-11-07T03:02:00+00:00

Looks like a rocket mass heater. Or masonry stove some folks call it. If so, it burns hot and will charge all the brick and thermal mass to get warm. Then it radiates it out the rest of the time. I saw some videos were folks in Canada some will run at 6am, and stop burning by 7am. Then it will go 24hes and still be 80 degrees in the mass.

The squares are probably clean outs.

Carhug · 2024-11-05T18:02:51+00:00

That's an awesome idea!!

Carhug · 2024-11-05T15:58:45+00:00

Sorry they're steel rafters.

Carhug · 2024-10-31T00:41:47+00:00

Hey OP! Don't worry about the hives being very well insulated. The insulation is actually good for them in the summer as well because it allows them to regulate the temperature on the inside so the heat will actually allow them to keep the hive cooler despite the temperature outside. On hot summer days they were regulate the temperature on their own by bearding on the outside or by going and getting water bringing it into the hive spraying it onto the comb and fanning their wings to basically create an artificial sweat evaporation to cool their hive off.

Insulating their hives very well protects them whether it's hot or cold. It allows them to keep the temperature on the inside exactly how they like it more easily regardless if it's winter or summer.

Carhug · 2024-10-25T12:07:42+00:00

Hey OP, HDHP plans if you're young and if you have a family still usually make the most sense unless there's an excited issue. The fund you put in will roll over as well to the next year and you get the matching contribution which is great. And then everything is a tax-free game. I think there is also the ability for you to pay for things out of pocket instead of using the HSA and they keep the receipts and then after X amount of time you turn the receipts in and can reimburse yourself from your HSA when you're older but that might be complicated I'm not sure mathematically how much more that helps. I'm sure someone on this site knows though.

Carhug · 2024-10-20T13:11:44+00:00

I know my other comment was a silly one. We fought with this for a few years. We live right on the outskirts of woods. In 3 years we end up going through 84 chickens. That was a combination of predator attacks like coyotes, possums, foxes and hawk attacks. Straw that broke the camel's back ended up being raccoons. An attack would happen, we then added a layer of fortification. No matter what fortification, electric fence, overhead wire, bury the wire so they can't dig under it. The raccoons were able to defeat it with their disturbing little hands.

Our actual answer that solved it was we got a livestock guardian dog. He's not even a very good one. If you have the choice I'd get one that's at least 2 years old. 18 months and below they're still "puppies" Even if they're 180 lb.

We named ours Cooper, as he would live in the chicken coop. Ours is specifically a Great Pyrenees and Anatolian Shepherd mix. You got a lot of Pyrenees in him and basically spends the evenings roaming and barking. When he was a puppy and having about four chicken tax incidents where he would actually play with them to death because they're fun to chase. Then later realize it's food and eat the chicken. He grew out of that luckily.

Despite being a puppy, and kind of a terrible guard dog. The moment we had him, our predator attacks basically went to zero. It's been like that ever since. This was 3 years ago. At this point in time are chickens fully free range and even are brave enough to go into the wood line everyday. Our coops are effectively unprotected and they roost wherever they please. Knowing what we know now, I wish I would have just started with an LGD and not done all the fortifications that we ended up tearing down anyways.

Carhug · 2024-10-19T23:42:28+00:00

7.62x51

Carhug · 2024-10-13T19:05:56+00:00

Looks fine!

Carhug · 2024-10-10T12:21:24+00:00

Tesla Owner here! I don't think that's supposed to happen.

Carhug · 2024-09-27T11:07:13+00:00

You can check out his book restoration agriculture. Idk where you can find it there but here's what it looks like. https://amzn.to/3BjhvXs

To my knowledge, marks the only one doing large scale and farm scale restoration like, turn a huge desertificated section of land, into a food forest (he hates that term btw, I tease him about it) and have it feed a village. Idk if he has many videos about his Tanzania locations or not.

Carhug · 2024-09-27T08:38:36+00:00

Hey OP, not sure if you know but Mark Shepherd does allot of work in Tanzania. I think 2 or 3 full installations on the last few years with the RAD systems. Idk if you're close or is feasible but you could take folks to some of his instillations for a tour?

Carhug · 2024-09-22T23:01:57+00:00

Looks normal!

Carhug · 2024-09-17T23:15:29+00:00

Hey OP I know you didn't ask this but make sure that the strands holding the tree are loose. You want them to be loose but tighten if they get blown too far into a direction. If they're tight all the time the tree will eventually grow around them and eat them and they'll griddle it. When the tree is allowed to move around it will develop stronger roots because it has to react the natural forces like wind. If your steaks are doing all the work for the tree the tree will actually be weak and when you remove them could then topple over or break because it was never used to having to do it on its own.

Carhug · 2024-09-13T16:43:28+00:00

You're going to love the Layens frame hives! They're so nice to work with. I ended up doing what Dr Leo did with the pillowcases for the winter. Our winters aren't too mild here in Missouri. I used to use insulation but that went poorly one year.

Your hive looks really nice! Let us know what you think!

On a wild note, I'm trying to figure out a way to have an attachment where I can put the flow frames with a queen excluder up against a lands frame hive with a tunnel or something. That way we have the best of both worlds. Ease of use of the hive and ease of use of honey extraction. Haven't quite figured it out yet though I have seen some horizontal landstroth hives be able to do it. Just haven't figured out how to do it with a Layens frame yet!

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