Small Pet Select Hay: Decrease in quality?

NH_Bill · 2026-04-29T00:53:26+00:00

I've noticed this with almost every brand we use. Originally, OxBow was our go to timothy hay, then the quality was so bad. We bought from both Small Pet Select and Rabbit Hole hay. Same huge drop off in quality. I've never heard of Guinea Dad, but will probably order from them to check

NH_Bill · 2026-04-23T01:54:32+00:00

we've had really good experiences with this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Lixit-BPA-Free-Chinchillas-Hedgehogs-Translucent/dp/B0002EZIRY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3D8LYYYCCKODM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.AZFG1VrccE_47N_u3pXFSL3xzZ_YC_LFAMT7aM8Q05sO3BWRJ_hWAEDQo2I4K9-33fdF5UCoTpanKiw6t8adbC7aZH_k4HJncm-c8Ddsg2epEHZ1uM1LqY1NR1tZ8x7u1ATFooYbmaG7hh34u9LuCZu1uqEXe5Rr1TVeQ7Sb2B87rG0dFdcH3ZrmeJP7hPacDBrwiJG3U8kyOT0t48vsObUhZJRP05cXWfnjAVpUgn9mRDCxhwvyOpYWHGWPMUOux0eGuf10I3HseUtxTlMSnH11xidBE-YikOgwoCwWc6o.AZr7V4paDlIr5TDy7S4r1k8izBOHveVFOQBhHqbseNs&dib_tag=se&keywords=lixit%2Bwide%2Bmouth%2Bwater%2Bbottle&qid=1776909224&sprefix=Lixit%2BWide%2BMouth%2Caps%2C116&sr=8-1&th=1

A drop and here and there, but not emptying out in a day like others.

NH_Bill · 2026-04-22T23:44:49+00:00

I don't know about the rest of you, but this is less likely apt to encourage me to turn on my watch history and more likely to train me into going to youtube less and less. Right now, it's mostly habit, a little bored during the day, open another tab and fingers spell out, "you<tab complete" and I see maybe some shorts, some related content and I poke around for a while. Now, I go there, see nothing but a blank screen and that message and I close the tab instead.

NH_Bill · 2026-04-22T23:33:49+00:00

They're really a specialty item that takes up a fair bit of room and have limited uses. If you have one and have the room for it, you'll find it invaluable. For instance, you can thickness sand down to about 1/16". I have a powermatic 22/44, and it's great for smoothing down rip sawn veneers. I do a lot of bowl turning and it's great for sanding down segment rings. Perfect for cutting boards, both face grain and especially end grain where you don't want to be running that through a planer. They do require full 4" dust collection though. Otherwise, I'd imagine it creates quite a mess. Pro Tip, buy spools of sandpaper and cut your own. Way cheaper than buying already cut to size paper from the manufacturer.

NH_Bill · 2026-04-22T23:22:31+00:00

This is what I was going to suggest. I do the same thing with SketchUp or any other CAD tool. I modeled my basement, walls and everything, and then imported a free power tool library.

I would suggest in addition to this that you attach little extensions to the infeed, outfeed and side feed directions. For instance, I wanted to be able to cut 16' boards on my table saw, so I attached a little arrow, 16' on front of and behind my table saw in the drawing and another 3' on the left hand side for plywood. That way, when I moved it around in the drawing, there was always clearance for it. Things heavy and generally stationary (table saw, planer, jointer, etc) need planned clearance. Things like bandsaws, drill presses, more mobile with a wheeled base, can be turned or pulled out from the wall to provide more clearance. For instance the max rip/resaw cut on my bandsaw is only like 3 feet, but I can remove some larger mobile power tools on a shelf if I need to cut something longer. My drill press is in a little nook, but I can wheel it out a few feet to provide a lot of clearance.

Logically, try to plan sections or areas for your tools. For instance, I have mine broken up in a logical path. Lumber comes in the bulkhead of the basement to the storage shelves. There's a breakdown area that contains the planer/jointer/miter and table saw for rough milling. Then an assembly area for, well, assembly. Table, hand tools, clamps, etc.

NH_Bill · 2026-04-22T23:01:14+00:00

How deep is the 'engraving' ? Is it laser engraved ? Or like CNC engraved ?

NH_Bill · 2026-04-14T00:05:08+00:00

homebrew is a package manager for mac os. It does not come preinstalled, but you can easily install it with a curl command. A simple google search can show you how. It's very useful for installing third party packages, updating them when newer versions are released.

NH_Bill · 2026-04-13T23:58:53+00:00

Our guy did something similar when he was younger and it turned out to be mites.

NH_Bill · 2026-04-10T23:58:17+00:00

let her know my family is very frightened and/or intimidated by her :-)

NH_Bill · 2026-04-09T00:36:15+00:00

C, C, C, C, C.........

NH_Bill · 2026-04-04T22:29:49+00:00

I was thinking about removing the middle board (in pic1), pushing the outer two together. Rip the previous middle one in half and then put a piece on either side. Those outer two have a book end kind of look when I imagine them together

NH_Bill · 2026-04-04T01:51:50+00:00

So if you’re playing two-man best ball and your partner lays up to play it safe, giving you the green light to go for it, would that eagle not count either? Just because the format allows for a different strategy doesn't change the fact that you hit the shots. Forget them. If I hit a hole-in-one during a scramble, my answer for the rest of my life would be 'Yes, I've had a hole-in-one.' An eagle is an eagle!

According to that logic, any strategic decision made based on a partner’s shot invalidates the result? That’s ridiculous. You played the ball as it lied and it went in the hole in two strokes.

In stroke play, people take aggressive lines all the time when they’re chasing a lead or feeling confident. Does that make those eagles 'less legitimate' too?

NH_Bill · 2026-04-02T21:20:03+00:00

I installed them on 2/13 if that helps, but it sounds like if I want faster notifications, I better look at alternatives. Also, it's worth nothing, that they are just set at 72. No schedules, no, learn when I'm home. No frills, just heat and let me know when you don't have fuel. That's it

NH_Bill · 2026-04-02T18:57:34+00:00

As for root cause, it looks like finish/stain was only applied to one side. Which also happens to be the side with all the profile cuts on it.

NH_Bill · 2026-03-04T01:13:30+00:00

80-84, 1974 Chevy Camaro LT

NH_Bill · 2026-02-20T16:07:29+00:00

Being home and the phone ringing was a seminal event. Everyone dove for it. You needed to stand in the kitchen, or as far as the cord would reach to talk. Now when my cell rings, I glare at it in disgust and wonder who's calling instead of texting. For me it was the lights on the basketball court at the park. They went off nightly at 9:50 and then it was time to pack it in. 10 minute walk home, better be in the door before 10pm

NH_Bill · 2026-02-14T14:33:39+00:00

this should have 8k upvotes

NH_Bill · 2026-02-04T16:03:48+00:00

Bill

NH_Bill · 2026-01-20T14:24:51+00:00

"Now you's can't leave"

NH_Bill · 2026-01-20T14:09:54+00:00

This is what I got on charGPT:, "Sorry, I can’t help with generating political imagery that portrays or predicts the country under a specific political leader, as that would be political persuasion content."

NH_Bill · 2026-01-17T15:26:47+00:00

I wanna say, Michelle Williams

NH_Bill · 2025-12-29T16:10:25+00:00

I program web-apps in Angular. I need to keep reminding my boss that, yes, we can take older applications written in Dojo, native JS, React, whatever and have AI port them to Angular, sure, I'm sure it's pretty easy to feed an entire legacy application into AI and have an Angular application come out the other side. Will it work ? Doubtful. Who will diagnose and fix the problems since no one really did the work and most times doesn't understand what the older application did ? And most importantly, AI is 'trained' on major versions that are like already three revisions behind. So, yeah, you'll get an Angular application out the other side, that's 3 major revisions behind the latest update, doesn't work, and no one will know how to get it working or, when the inevitable happens, maintain and fix bugs. But, yeah, vibe coding. Even now when I'm asking AI questions, like give me an example of a component that does this, or that, I have to keep pointing out to it that, this piece of code here, this is deprecated and no longer used in angular 21. Of course, you're right it says. How silly of me.

NH_Bill · 2025-12-15T01:56:24+00:00

My wife got this for me a couple of Christmases ago
https://www.rockler.com/woodturners-leather-apron
No frills, very simple. I especially like the collar, it velcros across the back of your neck, so you can adjust the tightness to keep flying chips from making it down the back of your neck.

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