This is not mine, just sharing it, passing it along.
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When I turned 65 , I sat in my favorite chair, looked back at my life, and whispered to myself,
“So… this is the beginning of the final stretch.”
And slowly, the truths I had avoided all my life began to surface.
Kids? They’re busy writ...

A while back I wrote about getting our non-working smoker up and going again. Only it's been revealing an apparently built in flaw; a wildly inaccurate temperature controller. From what I've read this is a real problem with many smokers and the advice is to use an independent thermometer. So I've been doing that, and learned what a problem this has actually been from the beginni...

Given the less than normal winter in most areas, does this seem to be effecting the spring thaw and planting, of just planting in general.
Here spring is having trouble taking hold, we had a warm spell in late march early april, that started pulling the surface frost, then a pretty good dump of wet snow, which mostly soaked in. since then the surface freezes most nights. Ou...

This is a link to a man called Fred Dimnah, who used to go around the UK looking at how things were made or operated in the 19th century onwards. Canal boats, Steam engines, steelmaking, blacksmithing, all there. Some winter watching maybe.

Meant to share this last week. Love to see tech being used in a positive way for a change

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