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    what on earth does electricity cost near you?

    Long as you are un-jabbed.;)
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    what on earth does electricity cost near you?

    Nope. Never had hail like that.
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    what on earth does electricity cost near you?

    My current credit is $321.
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    Where I was when the TBN lights went out, Feb 26 2021

    OK...now tried it again...and it does show the text. Lag time ?
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    Where I was when the TBN lights went out, Feb 26 2021

    But I tried to edit the post to say "yes it works", and all I see is the photo, not the original text above the photo.
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    Where I was when the TBN lights went out, Feb 26 2021

    Can't see what I wrote to edit.....only the photo shows....so to edit, have to make a new post ?
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    Where I was when the TBN lights went out, Feb 26 2021

    Well let's find out. New layer of compost in hoop house.
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    Quarterly flipping of the compost

    I built 3 compost bins while back, 10'x10'x4' high in the back on a concrete base and keep two of them filled with a mix of horse manure, sawdust, chicken manure, cow barn cleanout, wood chips, wood ashes, leaves, etc and flip one into an empty bin and flip the other into just emptied bin. I...
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    Personal weather station

    Just put some new AAA's in it, and haven't reset time/date, but the readings are from right now (9am Sat morning). You GOT to love a wood stove !
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    Round bale feeder

    Years back, I got tired of replacing those thin wall pipe feeders....seems between me moving them with the tractor and the cows shoving on them, they would last me a few years, then end up in the scrap metal pile. So I set out to build "The Last Dang Round Bale Feeder". Worked good for 10...
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    Makin Bacon

    So Tuesday last week, killed one of the pigs. Got everything cut/wrapped and in the freezers. Put the bellies and hams in crocks of brine to cure on Friday. Pulled the cured bacon out Wed, and put whole slabs in freezer because it's easier for me to slice if partially frozen. Pulled them out...
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    IF you own a freezer......

    You might want to be aware of an inexpensive fix if it quits running. Freezers are an integral part of our food storage setup, we have 6 smaller (7-9cuft) chest models. Our way of using them is fill, use (keep a good inventory on top the lid) and condense them down as we eat out of them. Idea...
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    Boy, how they grow

    We've gotten Duroc feeder pigs the last couple years, and they seem to out grow about any about any breed we've ever had before. Here they are the first week of May....couple of 30lb weaned piglets. Our Border Collie is around 50lbs by comparison.....and trying to herd them. Killed the...
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    Update/maintain shop building.

    Original shop built 1983. 24x36. 8' ceiling downstairs, storage loft overhead. By 1995, had outgrown it, so tore most of it down, added 50' to the slab floor and built new building. 14' ceiling in the main part with 1/2 the original loft of the old building left in the back end with couple...
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    Ever had a battery just flat die on you ?

    Battery in my tractor died today. Been starting just fine, no hint of being low voltage, nothing. Turned tractor off a minute, went to start and heard one little "pop" sound, and then nothing.....nothing electrical on the tractor would work. I thought "Huh?". Got a test light, check the...
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