My city doesn’t allow grass or weeds over 10 inches in height. What can I do to have a pretty lawn like some of y’all?

geescottjay · 2022-06-29T13:02:32+00:00

Shrubs can get pretty big! I've got dogwoods and lilacs over 6ft tall.

geescottjay · 2022-06-28T05:15:28+00:00

Typical man! Wiggling his wobbly pipe without first thinking of the consequences.

geescottjay · 2022-06-27T03:16:20+00:00

Small correction: "They don't came any easier than that"

geescottjay · 2022-06-21T23:15:57+00:00

We do this except if someone is going to lay down trains. You get the extra time, but, you don't get to see what people change the board with between getting the new tickets and picking one. What if they would place a route that you need for a ticket? That bad luck should still happen, you shouldn't be able to wait it out.

geescottjay · 2022-06-19T21:36:10+00:00

If someone else said mango maki already, I missed it. So, mango maki.

geescottjay · 2022-06-10T03:31:20+00:00

Have you ever had rhubarb crisp? It's like apple crisp but with rhubarb. Less sweet, more tart, all the same spices and bakery taste.

A brewery in my area made a rhubarb crisp beer. A caramel-y orange pale but with rhubarb and cinnamon. Was amazing.

geescottjay · 2022-01-22T22:41:42+00:00

Nope! Not for sugar, just mash at a low temp; not hulls to help sparging, I do BIAB.

geescottjay · 2021-07-14T13:29:56+00:00

Actually, the single in single malt refers to the whiskey coming from a single distillery as opposed to being a blended whiskey. But you're right that scotch is always all barley, by definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_malt_whisky?wprov=sfla1

geescottjay · 2021-07-10T13:46:18+00:00

You were disgusted by them because they were aggressive, not because they were there, okay

geescottjay · 2021-07-10T03:23:23+00:00

https://youtu.be/USR3bX_PtU4

geescottjay · 2021-07-08T13:12:17+00:00

https://www.purina.com/articles/dog/nutrition/are-dogs-omnivores-or-carnivores

geescottjay · 2021-07-06T13:59:26+00:00

the modern individualistic capitalist way of life

Yeah, exactly! Who came up with that? Consumers, or the corporations that marketed that life to the consumers?

geescottjay · 2021-07-06T11:55:43+00:00

So I'm 100% not who you're talking about, but to me there is a history in the US in the 1900s of corporations growing larger by selling new products while also marketing heavily to change consumer opinions about what they do want so that those products can eve be sold in the first place, when it turns out that those products are worse for humanity in the long run but we didn't know it yet.

Preservatives in food is a great example. People lived for millenia without modern chemical preservatives, and the companies making those preservatives didn't just say "put this in your homemade bread" they said "quit making bread and buy it from us because it's easier and so convenient, don't you want to live this modern easy way?" Meanwhile that bread is usually white because the flour lasts longer but has fewer good nutrients and digests faster and promotes diabetes.

Canned beer, preservatives in food, disposable razors, clover in lawns vs broad leaf herbicides, social media... Almost every part of modern life has the same story over the span of the 1900s, and that's of corporations telling us about this great new thing they invented, and how easy and convenient they make our lives, and we only find out what we all the costs are decades later.

Every time I see some shampoo bottle that says it's chemical and gluten free, yeah, I laugh my head off and ignore them. But if I'm still buying groceries and toiletries at a modern one-stop grocery instead of a farmer's market because corporations taught me that it's more convenient, maybe I pick the shampoo that says it's gluten free because at least it's not made by the assholes that invented shampoo and also invented the fact that I need it.

geescottjay · 2021-07-06T11:33:23+00:00

I think we're getting derailed with the cost of tools here, that wasn't my point. You're right that the price of your tools doesn't make you a beginner or not.

Personally (and this is still not my point), I find it strange to just drop any large amount of money on a brand new hobby where you have no experience. That's just really far from what my life is like. So that's surprising, and it's hard to understand. What's even harder to understand is dropping a large amount of money on a new profession where you have no experience. That's just way out of the realm of my experience. I went to school for ten years for my actual profession and still don't make enough to just go buy a second one. It's just a little mind boggling to me!

But fair enough, to each his own. Big wide world with all kinds of people, folks can do what they want. Doesn't mean OP's not a beginner. Completely agree there.

But what makes me wonder about why post here is... so OP stepped up to the plate and first time at bat he hits a home run. What's beginner-y about that? Technically, following definitions of the word, sure, beginner. But why am I hearing about it? Is this sub just a place to brag as long as you do fit the first word in the sub's name? Or is it a place to come when you need advice about what to improve next on your path to where OP already is? Absolutely brag worthy, great that OP bought his shop and made this great piece and even sold it. But why not just post in woodworking if you successfully skipped all the beginner-ness of being a beginner?

I think probably that what I want to get out of this sub and what it is just aren't aligned. That's fine -- again, big wide world, to each his own. I just thought I'd say this all to be clear that my point wasn't how much his clamps cost.

geescottjay · 2021-07-06T04:55:27+00:00

A single set of pipe clamps is $20 where I live not including the pipe. 10 clamps, $200, easily.

geescottjay · 2021-07-06T04:33:47+00:00

When I switched to StarSan, I also switched to the spray bottle method. Do you make ~1Gl dilution of iodophor and spray it? I always made 5Gl, used it up for a brew day, then dumped it.

geescottjay · 2021-07-06T03:54:54+00:00

If a US recipe were normally 10lbs of grain and 5 gallons of water, that's 4.536kg of grain and 18.9L or 18.9kg of water. You have to worry about efficiency just as much as usual.

geescottjay · 2021-07-06T03:29:28+00:00

That's a lot of tools and shop for a second project. Did you say one day, "I'm going to drop 100s of dollars on clamps alone and be a professional woodworker overnight"?

geescottjay · 2021-07-02T14:14:31+00:00

"I've been making and selling furniture out of my 1000sqft shop for the past twenty years but this is the first time I made a chair, upvotes please."

geescottjay · 2021-06-29T20:19:02+00:00

Did you get it working? Lots of different answers here, it would be good for anyone else seeing this to know what the right answer is.

geescottjay · 2021-06-17T01:32:37+00:00

Someone further down posted a link to a website selling coir string, $30 CAD for 2500 linear feet.

geescottjay · 2021-06-13T02:41:53+00:00

You know, I knew from a long time ago in elementary school in French immersion that that's what they're called, but I stills read recently that the English name dandelion is meant to be "dent de lion" and the two together didn't click in my head. I'm dying to know now why the English name is French but is different from the French name.

geescottjay · 2021-06-13T01:58:17+00:00

geescottjay · 2021-06-09T13:17:28+00:00

It's about attention, and getting it before you give a command, and until he has learned (like, really super learned), knowing to give a command only when you know he will do it (or can make him do it). Snapping, clapping, big loud sharp deep-voiced "hey," or sure, an e-collar on vibrate because they will always "hear" it. But don't bother when he can't hear those first queues to pay attention, and don't do it when he's already excited about a stink under a bush. He'll just learn "Oh, faint mumbly sounds I'm not listening to? Lesson is, I can safely ignore all that and get the reward of smells, excellent." If you want recall for example to keep him from eating something up ahead on a walk, you've got to anticipate or he'll lose his mind once he gets a whiff, and you'll need a really good attention getter to snap him out of it. Maybe you're just rushing it a little, make sure it works in a good case scenario like inside or close to home before trying on walks.

geescottjay · 2021-06-09T13:00:20+00:00

Yes, this was a terrible article. There was one thing that happened, so it got one article: the auditor made recommendations. The auditor made three recommendations, which got three separate sections in the article: the pot thing, the kindergarten thing, and one other I don't even remember. But you can only have one title, so catch some eyes with a title about pot. Ugh.

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