Recent content by Dave Shepard

I've got a split-pea soup in the InstantPot. First time. I might get lucky, or I might have a big pot of :barf:

Back at my sawmill to use wifi to watch some YouTube. Laptop, just taken off charger, goes black. It's this a thing, sudden laptop death? 2025 is really shaping up to be a pos.

I'm sitting here at the sawmill using the internet. It's absolutely perfect out right now. I just heard a big tree go down somewhere on the neighbor's, and then a very ticked off bird making a racket. Not sure what that was all about. All kinds of wildlife drama going on around here. The rats...

My pt did wonders. I hope it works for you, too.

Up at the sawmill barns, it's nice soil with clay/muck underneath. Down in the meadow it's 4' beautiful topsoil, with endless fine gray gravel. Ten miles to the south, they tried to drive 40' concrete piers for a bridge. Then 80'. Finally, the 130' found something of substance to sit on. The...

Been there a time, or two.

In a past life, I had reason to learn Dutch. I can do many complicated things with my brain, but apparently learning Dutch wasn't at the top of the list.

Did I say that out loud?

We always called it a flush or basal prune.

Gave it up years ago. No need to bring it here.

I saw a sasquatch gaff himself in his upper thigh once on the hook. Common practice, I just had no idea that guy could bend like that.

I just started again.

BP running very high for a long time. This evening, 114/69. Waited a few minutes, 115/70. That's cool and all, but makes me a little nervous.