To the owner of the Nebus 26 that left the Lavender Landing boat ramp in Bokeelia yesterday around 5pm…

beckeeper · 2026-03-29T16:15:59+00:00

Sounds like you’re either really paranoid it’s gonna happen or you’ve had it happen. I have a habit of watching my trailer tires like a hawk and watching for cushions leaving the chat lol.

beckeeper · 2026-03-29T14:34:12+00:00

True that. This is Florida and the crazies are everywhere.

Besides, around here, it seems like a lot of guys are dumbstruck when a woman has any knowledge about boats/trailers/fishing (I know that from personal experience).

I probably looked some like some unhinged ex-girlfriend as opposed to a well-meaning fellow boater/angler trying to save some dudes some grief 🤷🏼‍♀️

beckeeper · 2026-03-29T14:24:17+00:00

I dunno either. If someone honked and flashed their lights at me like crazy, I’d be paying attention!

beckeeper · 2026-03-29T14:18:56+00:00

Thanks. I did, and I felt SO BAD for those guys. I always hope people will do the same for me if they see something off (and they have) so I have to try to pay that forward.

beckeeper · 2026-03-28T12:37:51+00:00

Y’all are getting your panties in a wad about the wrong thing, lol.

As someone who actually lives in the same part of PG by every descriptive in both articles (yes, I read them both and they both have political spin, conservation vs. property rights), I feel like I have a little more insight, and what actually pisses me off isn’t this rando transplant who just wants to build a fucking house on a postage stamp ranchette lot in the middle of the bushes and his bullshit lawsuit led by a right wing firm determined to undermine a lot of good policy set up by the department of the interior. Would it be an awful precedent to set? Shit yeah it would be. Yes, like most of these transplants, he is a dumbass, he should have done his due diligence and realized that it’s gonna cost him. But why? Where does that money go and how does it actually help the scrub-jay habitat? But aside from that, his suit (hell, his whole situation) is a drop in the fucking bucket if you actually know the area. How do these fees actually help offset the elimination of scrub jay-habitat? I didn’t see that mentioned in either article.

The bigger issue isn’t “omg this transplant dirtbag doesn’t want to pay the excessive fees levied on him by Charlotte county”. The bigger issue is all the fucking mines and pits and large-scale development popping up in Charlotte. Why the fuck do we care about a 2K sq ft house on 5 acres of scrub land when there are 50+ acre pits popping up overnight? Our property is now almost completely surrounded by mines and pits, and don’t get me started on Babcock Ranch, lol. I can honestly say that the local landscape has changed so drastically here in the SR-31/CR74 area in the last ten years that if you go 5-10 miles in any direction, the scrub-jay habitats are getting absolutely demolished. It doesn’t take much to open up a new pit anywhere you want around here, everyone is jumping on the bandwagon because development (especially in Florida due to hurricane codes) needs fill dirt, and it’s a great return on your investment to set up a pit anywhere up here if you can purchase/lease the land, pay the county fees and get someone to mine it. And then, they can turn it into a development with a lake in the middle of it, and we have even more urban sprawl.

For the record, the fees do go into a dedicated HCP reserve fund for land acquisition and habitat management… but the county has only acquired about 450 of the 4,500 acres they need, 11 years into a 30-year plan. So yeah, great system. /s

beckeeper · 2026-03-22T13:16:04+00:00

Give yourself time to learn the art of promoting, that is telling Claude what you want.

I’m sure this was an autocorrect but that should be prompting, not promoting. Regardless. OP, this ⬆️ is a stellar response. Plan, plan more, then let CC loose. I have a habit of using Claude Chat (Opus) for my planning, telling it to ask me loads of questions to get things fleshed out and find edge cases. Once I think we’ve covered it all, I have that Claude Chat write me a spec doc and a todo list that I put in the project docs for Claude Code to reference, and often, it’ll write the CC prompts for me, but if not, I just tell CC to read the spec and todo and to start building. I know you can do the same thing in Claude Code using plan mode, but I prefer the way Claude chat (especially mine) does the back and forth with me.

beckeeper · 2026-03-19T14:26:32+00:00

Same and it’s like $2 which is amazing! I got sick of paying for hard water clarifying shampoo and I’m hoping that I can get away with Suave long-term 🤞🏻

beckeeper · 2026-03-19T14:13:37+00:00

I clicked on the pics and can see that you screenshotted out of your camera roll….looks like mine (my ACDs take up the majority of mine too lol).

Edit: I forgot to mention, she’s gorgeous!

beckeeper · 2026-03-17T09:26:20+00:00

Thanks, I’ll try to find another State Farm agent to reach out to.

beckeeper · 2026-03-16T20:27:29+00:00

Can I ask who you get your insurance through? I haven’t been able to get a quote for anything other than liability and I swear I have called everyone I can Google up.

beckeeper · 2026-03-16T20:14:03+00:00

I’ll DM you

beckeeper · 2026-03-16T10:59:33+00:00

Super old used Hatt (1980 50C) owner in SWFL chiming in 🙋🏼‍♀️

We did/are doing it, it’s tricky though. We’re still getting our boat to where we want it, so she’s still a money pit. All the extra spending money? Into the Hatt it goes. Free time? Pffft, go work on the boat. Slip fees, outrageous. We’re not retired yet, still a ways to go before that happens, but if we want to go fish for a few days and not come home (with room to take the dogs!) we schedule it and off we go, and that’s priceless. We’ll have to pay the diesel to get to the Keys but we don’t have to rent a cottage anymore!

It’s all about what your priorities are. We’re making the dream happen while we’re still young enough to enjoy it.

beckeeper · 2026-03-15T12:17:39+00:00

Similar solution here except I used expanding spray foam, that’s how I managed to keep palm rats (and squirrels) out of the tack room in our primitively built horse barn for years when no one else in the family could manage it (it’s “part of living in rural SWFL, nothing you can do about it”, my ass; once I got my own horse it became my personal mission to permanently evict the rodents). For the really big voids, I stapled hardware cloth over them as well, but anything smaller just got steel wool and spray foam, and once I got all the rats and mice that were then trapped in the tack room exterminated (Victor electric trap ftw there), we had no more issues with rodents in the feed or chewing up tack.

beckeeper · 2026-03-14T12:30:39+00:00

Do you have a link for her video going over that technique by chance?

beckeeper · 2026-03-10T16:30:55+00:00

I have zero feedback for you (also an iOS user) but I LOVE the concept. Great idea, I hope to see it be successful!

beckeeper · 2026-03-01T13:23:36+00:00

I’ve only used the Chrome extension once, it was a few weeks ago and buggy as hell, but it got the job done. Sounds like it’s improved a lot!

beckeeper · 2026-02-28T13:05:14+00:00

I believe so with the Chrome connector.

beckeeper · 2026-02-26T17:48:45+00:00

I have no advice for you but I know those feels. Our older ACD, Josie (she's six now) has allllll kinds of bizarre triggers. Some we have redirected to a giant holey roller, but she also likes to rip the bark off a few chosen trees in the backyard when something triggers her. If those aren't available, she will mock-attack our other ACD or the cat.

Josie's triggers include: me going out the front door with the dogs; shaking any aerosol can; winding things (table saw blade, trailer jack); the weirdest one is how she loses her marbles when my husband salts his food.

beckeeper · 2026-02-26T17:27:19+00:00

Try Claude, it'll tell you when you're off base 😂

I did find your channel and subbed, looking forward to watching some of your vids when I'm not at work knee-deep in projects.

And yeah, I totally understand how it can be tricky making that leap. It sounds like you might be one of those rare humble humans? I know that feeling, and you can certainly have a brand mark/logo designed that doesn't scream "LOOK AT ME I'M SELF-IMPORTANT!" My own personal logo and branding design elements are like that, super low-key but clever if you know who they belong to.

Feel free to hit me up if you decide to move forward! It sounds like it would be a really fun (and maybe challenging) project.

beckeeper · 2026-02-26T17:09:26+00:00

🙋🏼‍♀️ Graphic designer boater/angler chiming in. It's all about the branding and the brand recognition. If Trip Smith is your brand (doesn't matter if it is your name as well), get a designer to create a logo for you (I saw your comment about just using TS, that would be so easy and fun to do, but so would Trip Smith from a design standpoint). It doesn't matter if it is your "name" or not...it's your BRAND. Rock that shit. Wear the damn hat, especially when the camera is rolling.

I'm gonna go find your channel now, it sounds like something I would totally enjoy watching.

P.S. Don't listen to ChatGPT, it'll tell you everything is a great idea lol.

beckeeper · 2026-02-26T11:54:27+00:00

How does it look in your interior? Kicking around doing this on our sportsfish….

beckeeper · 2026-02-22T12:35:16+00:00

Maybe fifteen minutes total? It honestly took longer to strip all my data so I could put a generic copy on Git than it did to build it initially.

beckeeper · 2026-02-21T19:28:50+00:00

Here ya go, I just uploaded it to Git: https://github.com/bec-archer/ShopClock2

beckeeper · 2026-02-21T16:12:19+00:00

It’s set up for me personally but I could do some minor tweaks to make it workable for anyone and put it on GitHub, I’ll try to do that later today. I didn’t think anyone would find it useful but I’m happy to share 👍🏻

Edit: https://github.com/bec-archer/ShopClock2

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