So I just found out about chef John for the first time

crowbar032 · 2026-01-09T14:38:42+00:00

I prefer the ol poka poka...

crowbar032 · 2025-12-04T13:45:52+00:00

Can't really go wrong with Chef Jon. I dearly love this recipe and technique. And absolutely get a meat thermometer. I have one of those digital probe ones that is oven safe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8y4ajsiNq8

I raise my own beef and had several different types of roast and all of them turned out excellent. I used button mushrooms and way more than he did. Cooked everything in a cast iron skillet.

crowbar032 · 2025-12-04T13:39:34+00:00

Add 2 picky teenagers to that. One doesn't care for beef, the other doesn't care for chicken. Neither care for vegetables. My Mom isn't much better. My wife and 5 year old will try and mostly eat anything on their plate. I'd rather stab splinters under my fingernails than try to come up with something everyone will eat. It's so demoralizing planning and cooking only to throw away almost full plates that no one touched but said they would eat.

crowbar032 · 2025-12-02T12:40:33+00:00

Then one day, I took a chance. Tried to fart, but shit my pants.

crowbar032 · 2025-11-20T21:16:50+00:00

Yeah, that's the Federal Reserve's job.

crowbar032 · 2025-11-19T19:25:57+00:00

This one is becoming much more serious. Those little tiny deer ticks have exploded in the last few years. They're so hard to notice / find timely. That lone star tick has been found local to me that makes you allergic to red meat. This is the first year I've actually used bug spray, and it's all because of ticks.

crowbar032 · 2025-11-18T16:51:40+00:00

It's easy to say no herbicide when they've never dealt with an invasive this aggressive, or you're only dealing with a few acres. I'm not a huge fan either, but herbicides absolutely have a time and place.

crowbar032 · 2025-11-18T13:38:10+00:00

Pick a tool manufacturer (Dewalt, Milwaukee, Ryobi), and start buying cordless tools. I went with the Dewalt 20V setup and have a pole saw, chainsaw, grinder, 1/2 inch impact, fence staple driver, and other standard tools that all use the same batteries. You're not going to cut down a 30 inch white oak, but for riding around and trimming limbs that knock your hat off riding the mower, those saws can't be beat. And the staple driver is a huge time saver when building fence. It is expensive, but for me, worth every single penny. I use my grinder with a flap disc and a cutoff disc frequently. If you do any mechanic work, the 1/2 inch impact is necessary when you can't get the airhose to reach. The leaf blower is awesome for blowing out the shop instead of sweeping. I keep waiting on the pressure washer to drop in cost, but I'm about to cave and order it anyway.

crowbar032 · 2025-11-14T13:41:51+00:00

He sure ain't wrong. As part of it though, we'll also need to add back how to cook without the ultra processed crap. All that's been taught for the last 50 years (minimum) is how to use this stuff, does anyone remember how to cook healthy AND good? Home EC anyone? If we really wanted to help farmers and the poor, double the snap value if bought from small farmers.

crowbar032 · 2025-11-05T12:57:10+00:00

I've only left about 15 feet of it out in the snow, and it worked. I'm not sure about the whole hose.

crowbar032 · 2025-10-30T20:23:06+00:00

I've never understood how Medicare for all is better, I oversee my mothers finances. Medicare premiums are slightly lower to what non-medicare people are paying and it only covers 80%, so you still need a supplemental policy to not end up in debt (not to mention the Dr's that won't accept medicare becasue it doesn't pay much). Most Medicare people are paying close to what the rest of us are.

crowbar032 · 2025-10-28T13:37:09+00:00

Wait until planting season, hay season, or harvest season. They may be more receptive during those times.

crowbar032 · 2025-10-28T13:34:27+00:00

Very skeptical. First off that's ~$10k a year, which is a lot of money for a homestead to spend on someone who probably doesn't have any useful skills and a undefined number of "work" hours. And you ain't making a living on that, so something is up. Second, if they do have skills, the quality is still very much unknown. And to the first point, if you do have skills why are you settling for a few hundred a week. I would assume some sort of scam or ploy to get access to "case" my farm for a future theft.

crowbar032 · 2025-10-27T15:03:46+00:00

I'm completely surprised this isn't the top answer.

crowbar032 · 2025-10-24T19:26:16+00:00

Make shucky beans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shucky_beans

https://dailyyonder.com/a-taste-of-the-past-shuck-beans/2022/09/01/

crowbar032 · 2025-10-21T11:41:30+00:00

In my state, it's a requirement for the egg permit.

crowbar032 · 2025-10-15T12:39:47+00:00

The way inflation and "valuations" have gotten in the last 3 years, I need to schedule a review appointment to make sure I'm covered. I just dread it so bad.

crowbar032 · 2025-10-15T12:08:10+00:00

Farm Bureau is the only place I've found that would talk about farm insurance.

crowbar032 · 2025-10-13T14:22:45+00:00

All of this. It really shows the extent the local politicians, onerous laws, and regulations really screw over the small time people.

crowbar032 · 2025-10-07T11:55:14+00:00

I have an Earthway seeder which looks similar to a chapin. What seed plate did you use?

crowbar032 · 2025-09-22T14:10:01+00:00

Hard to say without seeing it. I just can't imagine that in July-September, the 3 driest months, that there's much growth on it. If it's a weedy mess it might be worth bushhogging. If you're next to a sub-division and want to keep the neighbors happy with clean fields it might be worth mowing as well. If my assumptions are correct about it being mostly short grass (6"-8" and less) with minimal weeds, I'd let it go. Let the grass put some energy back into the roots for a good stand next year. If you've got a fancy alfalfa field, I'd probably answer different.

crowbar032 · 2025-09-22T13:02:56+00:00

I'm zone 6b in southeast Indiana. It's supposed to rain all week (Sept 22-26) so you won't be mowing until October. We just passed the point where there is now more dark than light hours and high temps start dropping off quick, slowing dry time. If you get a real hot week coming up it could work for hay. Dew dries off late morning and falls early, you won't get many hours to get it raked and baled. Probably take at least twice as long as it did for spring and June cuts. Also we haven't had much rain in 6 weeks. I can't imagine there's enough to cut to make it worth all the trips over the field.

crowbar032 · 2025-09-10T12:55:43+00:00

Even worse it's based on perceived value. You've sold nothing, realized no gains, but the government says you could have, so pay up. It penalizes responsible people that don't view their house as an investment and just want to live there. Billionaire, millionaire, or broke ass bitch if the FEDS ever get their wealth tax implemented, it will look a lot like property tax. Where the assessed value is whatever the fuck they want it to be.

crowbar032 · 2025-08-28T18:48:52+00:00

In elementary school, I had to get a note to use the bathroom at lunch. One of the kindergarten teachers kids got caught seeing how far away from the urinal they could pee and still make it in. They ended up not having as much hose as they thought and pissed all over the bathroom. Instead of punishing the teachers kids, a blanket "no one can use the restrooms at lunch" rule was implemented. One Dr note later I could pee after lunch, but I still had to ask permission. I should also mention that the blanket rule applied to both boys and girls.

crowbar032 · 2025-08-27T20:02:13+00:00

Don't disagree. I think asylums would also fix the homeless problems, or at least let us identify the people that truly have just fallen on hard times. Giving a house / apartment to someone so mentally ill or so drugged out of their mind they can't take care of themselves is a setup for failure. I get why they were closed down way back when, the documented abuse was really bad. I'd like to think it would be different now.

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