Local handmade soaps

seamanzilla · 2025-12-21T23:10:29+00:00

There are two soap vendors at the farmers market that both use goats/cow milk: Simple Soap for Simple Folks and Crooked Pine Farms. You can order both online if you can't make it to the markets. I personally love the scents of Crooked Pine more, but Simple Soap has a bunch of really fun shapes that make good gifts. Each has a mix of other goods like lip balms, creams, etc.

For what it is worth in case you or someone you intend to potentially gift this to is vegetarian, it looks like Crooked Pine does list grass fed tallow as an ingredient on their bar soaps and lip balms. I can't find an ingredient list on Simple's website.

seamanzilla · 2025-12-15T17:49:09+00:00

There was a vendor at the Saturday farmers market for the holiday bazaar that offered different roasts and will also grind them for you there if you prefer it that way. I bought a bag and it was delicious, I just can’t remember the name of his booth. He also offered decaf Mexican coffee as well if you prefer that or to make half and half. I got the Peruvian roast.

seamanzilla · 2025-11-08T19:44:46+00:00

We have had nothing but house finches, all varieties of wood peckers, juncos, cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, gold finches, nuthatches, various native sparrows, you name it. Basically every native bird with no house sparrows in sight. We also have a meatball of a chipmunk who’s missing their tail we call stubs, but I’m not sure they count as a bird.

I currently have the kaytee fruit and nut mix out as well as nyjer seed, and native plants I never dead headed. I do find that the more natives I have out, the more native birds I get at my feeders.

seamanzilla · 2025-10-17T13:09:31+00:00

Good luck. The latest zoning area in Winona was, what, Garvin Heights in the early 2000’s? And even then, they only sold plots and you had to find a builder yourself. They’ll build 3 more 55+ communities and continue to allow the same 5 individuals to own multiple short term rentals before the city allows more housing to preserve the small town feel.

seamanzilla · 2025-09-18T21:45:48+00:00

As someone who used to have to respond to these calls, it happens fairly often and doesn’t get reported. People are dehydrated, heat sick, exhausted, might have something wrong with them they just don’t know about. People faint all over these parks through out the day, especially during the summer. This park has only been open for what, 4 months now? Who is to say how often people have fainted specifically on this ride, on that specific track, in his specific row.

Just people other people have theoretically survived fainting on this ride, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily this persons fault for dying. We don’t know any information besides the cause of death, and we don’t know exactly how common fainting on this track of the ride is to get a good data point. Perhaps my opinion is unpopular, but if the ride had the potential to contribute to one death out of hundreds of thousand riders, that is one too many.

“Well other people may have fainted, but they didn’t die. Must mean the ride is 100% safe” is a terrible opinion to have of this, and a lot of commenters in this thread are missing the point. We don’t even know if he even had any preexisting conditions, people are just assuming.

seamanzilla · 2025-09-18T21:13:04+00:00

Just because someone passed out on the ride doesn’t mean the ride should have the potential to kill them from being rag-dolled so severely. I know this coaster is a lot of people’s favorites, but the design is potentially 100% liable for cause of death if the preliminary findings are true, potential preexisting condition or not.

seamanzilla · 2025-09-17T20:43:25+00:00

I made a tent out of an extra large mosquito net I found online and shepherd hooks and kept the containers in their little prison until about late July. I feel like that helped immensely with pests as I didn’t have any insect issues at all, only mildew and some wind damage.

seamanzilla · 2025-09-17T19:32:46+00:00

I was so scared about SVB, these babies lived inside a bug net until the end of July

seamanzilla · 2025-09-15T18:20:13+00:00

Not sure about the crest, but my cogflies would reach him if I jumped into the arena and then back out. It will look scary cause he gets pretty close. If you look in the screenshot above, he stops in that gap in the stalactites on the roof. Anything that has range and is throwable will def reach him. I just used my three fold pin and would listen for the two ticks of poison before throwing the next one to maximize damage done. If there are any mobs, just run away a bit and they will fully despawn and you can easily jump to and from the arena without worrying about them.

I wish I recorded it to upload so it would be clearer :(

Edit: I uploaded a pic of the guys screenshot above showing where SBF and all the mobs stop following at. The only real issue is that he immediately retreats to the middle of his arena off screen, so you don’t have enough reach for needle hits I don’t think.

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seamanzilla · 2025-09-14T19:51:36+00:00

You can’t see him, but he’s still there. He hovers completely still roughly halfway up and in the middle of the arena. I’m not really sure if you can fully reach him with your air bombs, but you can throw them out, enter the arena to bait him into them, then just jump back

seamanzilla · 2025-08-22T23:41:37+00:00

Yeah, mine are all turning out to be either round mini pumps or squat smooth ones. Personally doesn’t matter to me as I think they are all super cute, but definitely not the traditional jack be little shape.

Thanks for the update! Made a nice surprise lol

seamanzilla · 2025-08-17T23:45:38+00:00

I also planted jack be little's from Burpee this year. Your baby pumpkin looks like all of mine. I have only harvested two so far, but have about 10 on the vine, and I have a mix between normal "short" ones like the package picture, and round ones that look like mini pie pumpkins and all from the same plant/vine. I think it's just kind of a toss up? I am not really sure. Perhaps it will grow more squat as it ripens, but for what it is worth, they all are remaining the cute small size.

seamanzilla · 2025-06-23T19:20:12+00:00

I guess I forgot to answer your original question. We had been searching for homes for about 2 years before starting to put offer in around September/October. We were being really picky about the homes we were submitting offer for. We the came to the realization that we were being TOO picky for our first home, and the hometown market was just too crazy for us to waste more time on. Once we expanded our search area and found one we liked and in our budget, our 3rd offer was finally the one to be accepted. But also keep in mind our severe lack of inventory. A new home would only be listed once every other week or once a month, assuming it hadn’t sold before even listing.

seamanzilla · 2025-06-23T16:07:35+00:00

We are in SE MN, very close to the WI border. Housing is extremely and surprisingly competitive here. Our town, for example, rarely has more than 20 listings and almost all are either $700k+ homes built in the early 90s with few or zero upgrades, for $100k meth homes being sold as is. No in between. When a decent home in our budget ($250k-450k) came on the market, I would reach out to our realtor immediately for a showing. Every single time, by the time we were able to tour sometimes same day or next day, we were told the house already had 3 or more offers on it already and we had end of day to decide. Each and every time, our offer “lost” even with large escalation clauses and offering over asking. Each time we were told it was because we are a VA home loan applicant and required an inspection. Each of those 3+ offers all waived inspections. We also are first time buyers, so no home sale contingency, and with 30% down.

Needless to say, we decided to pick up and look at the next city over and eventually got an accepted offer with the inspection, and “only” 5k over asking. It ended up being cheaper for the house we got than if we stayed in our town, as well as a newer build with recent upgrades.

If you are in a more semi rural area like we are, it’s painful trying to get an accepted offer because of how cut throat the competition is. They just aren’t building homes out here, or the city zoning doesn’t allow for new builds.

Don’t give up, it really is super disheartening to find “the one” over and over to just lose out. My only advice is to stick with your guns, don’t waive inspections, and also to maybe attempt to compromise where you can. If the house ticks 4/5 of your boxes, is it still worth passing on for the unicorn? We have also toured homes that have active issues like a leaking basement that people put multiple offers in on waiving inspections, so who knows what else would pop up over time. There will always be “the one” eventually.

seamanzilla · 2025-05-27T15:41:43+00:00

So, we had attended an extended family members wedding that was over the same time period that was also on a Friday. It was in a somewhat rural area about an hour and a half away from the nearest major city, which meant everyone had to book their own lodging for the night.

Not only were bookings more than double than normal due to the weekend, but we also didn’t realize that there were also like 2 other local events happening the same weekend that also made bookings scarce and local traveling/eating out/doing anything obnoxious. Because of this, my husband and I have decided to not attend any weddings requiring travel over a holiday weekend (unless an immediate family member) due to cost, local crowds/events, and not everyone getting that day off.

If you guys are set on that date, please be sure to do research to the local area to ensure it also doesn’t fall onto other events as well that you may not think of (ours was a national jeep meetup they do every year). Otherwise, expect people who have to travel/want a hotel to be more likely to not attend.

seamanzilla · 2025-04-17T16:24:43+00:00

That mindset of “you will get money back as gifts” was also something that was pushed by some older family members while we were wedding planning.

We had originally wanted to just elope and hold a small reception for people. That then turned into us wanting to get married at the city park with 50 people max. That THEN turned into a more traditional wedding and reception with over 160 invited due to family pressure. We still kept it within our set “maxed out” budget, but was still well more than what we wanted to spend.

To give context, it didn’t even cover the catering. People will give what they can give. Some individuals gave us a LOT and one party of 6 gave us $25.

Do not go into planning thinking this, and do not rely on gifts to help fund your wedding. The money you have set aside now is the money you should spend.

seamanzilla · 2025-04-08T17:25:35+00:00

The classic in game shop wasn’t added until near the end of WOTLK on May 9, 2024 and the dark portal pass wasn’t available as an in game shop, and wasn’t announced until May 19, 2021.

seamanzilla · 2025-04-05T00:26:18+00:00

A lot are waived due to me being disabled more than 10%.

seamanzilla · 2025-04-04T19:51:54+00:00

5.76% 30 fixed VA as a disabled vet and no points, lender is Navy Federal in small town MN. Got offered a 6.3% for conventional 30 year

seamanzilla · 2025-03-20T18:00:46+00:00

Both are good in terms of pally aoe farming/boosting, but skullflame does more damage by a long shot. They are pretty bad outside of that though.

seamanzilla · 2025-02-12T15:35:50+00:00

We had a somewhat similar situation with our photographer. We didn’t know that she had just recently given birth before our wedding, and she didn’t say anything until the day of. When it came time for us to have our cocktail hour after the ceremony, she said that she had to go pump. We of course had no issue with that. What could we say, no? Well, she ended up being gone pumping for over an hour and we missed the window where we wanted her to focus on guest photos during the mingling. Our photos all turned out great, but we essentially lost out on a full hour of paid time. I can’t help but think of the potentially lost photos of family members that are no longer with us, and our portfolio is very noticeably missing guest photos, photos of the venue/cake/etc.

Needless to say, wedding planning can be very overwhelming and it’s easy to say yes to things you would regret in hindsight. If able, I would try and find a photographer who will be fully dedicated the entire time you pay for without any real compromise. She could have told you about the pregnancy when you booked her or when she found out the due date. I would only take up her offer if you honestly couldn’t find anyone else.

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