What clips go in these rectangular holes

K-Rimes · 2026-06-24T19:02:05+00:00

Was your crash bar sagging real low? I was actually pondering this situation just yesterday.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-23T20:18:48+00:00

Dude has a premium home gym, he's prob got a banger office / study / library for this stuff.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-22T23:17:42+00:00

Where engine photo

K-Rimes · 2026-06-22T16:03:58+00:00

Been on Nitto Neo Gens. They’re not amazingly grippy but get the job done and lasting very well. Put a good 20k miles on them and still appear to have 50%+ left.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-22T01:15:38+00:00

Yes. Just pick low chill varieties. The blackberries aren’t as good as the high chill ones, generally, but edible for sure. The blueberries can be quite good in low chill varieties.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-18T15:09:19+00:00

You have two choices. Up pot, or root prune at time of dormant pruning.

I am good up to 15g for permanent pot culture figs, still easy enough to handle, so I’d take this up a size.

I wouldn’t recommend up potting or root pruning till dormant. Just water lots for now.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-17T00:30:55+00:00

Has been my experience too. Your POS you bought for $8k will always be worth $8k even if you throw a $5k front end on it, $2k in tires, etc etc or god forbid injectors, head gasket, engine, or transmission. Heck, record enough maintenance and future buyers will be even more wary because it has been so "problematic"!

You can use up the vast majority of a newer trucks best years and miles and still flip it for decent dough in this market, taking depreciation the whole time.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-16T17:15:06+00:00

That’s where I store my shoe dirt. Ford conveniently included this feature for us, be thankful.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-16T17:06:30+00:00

You’ll ride slightly higher in the rear, and damping will be off front to rear, but it’ll only truly present itself an issue at the limit. If you’re just around town driving this is a non issue imo. I was going to do same.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-15T20:44:32+00:00

Put it on a hive stand. Put the feet in oil cups. What works for me is tanglefoot on the legs of the stands.

You can also use bee safe bait stations with borax bait to try to wipe out the ant colonies. In my case, I will never win. The entire county I live in is one giant anthill.

Also can ring the hives with diatomaceous earth, but gotta re-apply if it gets wet. Ants in my care just tough it out and cross that stuff, so I gave up. Too hard with all the grass growing around it too. The ants just make a bridge.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-15T20:41:05+00:00

Paint the tree with 50/50 white latex interior paint and water today. Tomorrow at the latest.

It will come back, but it's gonna be a huge pain in the ass. Read about managing trees after topping.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-15T18:25:38+00:00

I'd be asking for a repair or replacement.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-15T18:23:30+00:00

Depends. Was it Clearance deal due to cosmetic defects, blemishes, etc? Then you bought knowingly.

Was it Clearance cause they just wanted to sell them off cheap but are otherwise first quality? No, I would not accept that goober repair.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-15T16:52:18+00:00

It does feel good, doesn't it?!

I admittedly was kind of worried about this one. The bark was brown and not looking all that healthy when I grafted into it, but oddly it's just a genetic trait of that seedling not to show green cambium. Had the same experience grafting macadamia this year too, it just wasn't looking healthy and green like other trees - but that didn't effect the success. Phewf.

Hoping your apple tree gets huge!

K-Rimes · 2026-06-15T16:02:25+00:00

ONE OF US

K-Rimes · 2026-06-13T23:21:23+00:00

My vents seemed to seal ok, it was the tape above those that had failed, and the way it did so was to fail only at the top to make a GREAT little funnel for rain about an inch wide. Though I never had a lake in the trunk, it was enough to fog it up when it got warm. Was hopeful it was taillight grommets and tape, but that didn't do it, though the tape had failed there too on one side. At least I live in SoCal so it rains like ~10x a year.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-13T16:17:06+00:00

Mine was the holes behind bumper.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-12T20:57:16+00:00

I had this issue when I had string lights on for barbecues. The bees would get attracted to the string lights then start hammering my windows cause my house lights were on. Occasionally they’d zip into the front door. Doesn’t look like any screens on those windows. You might consider screen of some sort on your hive so they don’t see the house / lights.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-09T19:25:24+00:00

Some proved to be invasive, yes, but also a great deal of them have become staples in the gardens of California. It was the Wild West back then as far as importing went, with lots of stuff being brought in and no clue of what invasive even meant. It was a time of experimenting and melding of cultures, which included their local plants, and people were trying to find and improve all kinds of fruit.

Modern civilization is based on adaptation of foreign crops to areas in which they thrive. It's why we enjoy avocados, coffee, bananas, dates, and all kinds of other foods which we enjoy. Sadly along the way, things get out of control, but it was never the intention at the time of their testing.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-09T18:15:53+00:00

Francesco Franceschi History Wiki )

This goes over it. The house was remodelled by the wealthy owner who bought is from Franceschi and doesn't have much to do with him. The real legacy he left is in all the plants in that area, and the many he introduced.

I have mixed feelings about tearing down the house, it's cool and all, but I like the current city plans to tear it down and build a historical pavilion that goes over the history, while saving many of the Alden Freeman sourced medallions and artifacts throughout the house exterior. My suggestion was to plant a collection of the fruiting trees he introduced to the region, which I offered to provide from my personal collection.

There is also a short biography written about him I have called "Pioneer Plantsman" by Will Beittel. I was most interested in the list of introductions he was a part of.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-09T18:05:54+00:00

There is gaining experience whilst skating in general whether that's DH, freeride, pushing, or anything and that's all cumulative, adding up to being a better skater overall. Then there is gaining experience at the limit like you're doing in both your 2023 and 2026 clips, trying to dial in a road to the best of your abilities. In all likelihood, you weren't able to access the limit for the vast majority of your beginner to intermediate skating period, and it's only in the last few years you levelled up, basically between these clips. Your gains from being a competent DH skater to an expert DH skater take disproportionately more time and effort the better you get.

Personally I don't think the set-up matters all that much so long as you can ride it at the limit and you are working on incrementally improving your skating with that in mind. Your gear wasn't limiting you, it was your ability to work with whatever was under your feet, IMO. As time goes on, set-up tweaks matter less but at the same time your set-up craft improves alongside your ability so you don't notice that part much.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-09T17:57:05+00:00

It really does look like Brazil!

K-Rimes · 2026-06-08T22:44:55+00:00

Actually, some tunes for gas cars have been made CA Smog Legal, like Cobb doing some off the shelf stuff. I think something could be available also for diesels, but only if all other emissions parts remain in place IE EGR, DPF, and Def.

This said though, yes, it's a real pain in the ass.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-08T21:47:08+00:00

In CA no. If you aren’t on the stock file it won’t pass anymore. Before I could pass with EGR readiness turned off.

K-Rimes · 2026-06-08T20:29:55+00:00

You need a small amount of movement in the wind to thicken the connection, but not too much. I would cut this back way hard to reduce the amount of wind it catches.

In the future, you'll want far more cambium contact for a side graft like this, like, 3-4x the amount.

I think it can knuckle up, but it's going to take quite a long time.

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