It's not too late to plant for fall. The single most useful thing you can put in the ground right now is the stuff that blooms after everything else gives up.
By late summer, most gardens are running on fumes. The big summer flowers are spent, and there's a stretch in early fall where a bee or a butterfly can cross a whole neighborhood and find almost nothing to eat.
That gap lands at the worst possible time. It's exactly when the migrating monarchs are passing through, trying to pack on enough fat to make it to Mexico, and when next year's bumblebee queens are fattening up for hibernation.
Two plants fill that gap better than anything else: goldenrod and asters.
They're the last gas station on the road. Goldenrod alone feeds well over a hundred kinds of caterpillars on top of all the bees and butterflies working the blooms, and the seeds carry goldfinches into winter. Asters do the same job in purple.
Plant them together and your yard becomes the loudest, busiest thing on the block in October.
The best sauce I've ever made and still make:
Oil up 4-5 red bell peppers
Broil on high turning every 2-3 min til the skin blackens
Cover and fridge
Saute shallots+garlic, add 2 tbsp tomato paste
Peel, chop, add peppers
Take off heat, blend
Add cream, parmesan, pepper flakes
Tragedy of narcissism. Dying because modern medical intervention goes against your influencer based ideology and "birth plan", leaving your child without a mother and the father to raise the kid alone is not noble. It's completely pointless and avoidable tragedy that modernity has helped lessen.
This is an extreme case but there is a cult of narcissism in some of this anti-modern woo-woo stuff. When it's only you you are talking about it might be stupid but when it's others it becomes worse.
Built a sauna in my back yard, 100% Finnish:
- feet above the stones
- multiple air intake vents
- mechanical exhaust below the bench (game changing airflow)
- full cedar
It is a fundamentally superior experience compared to an American sauna that is hard to explain if you have never been in a “real” sauna.
American saunas, in contrast, feel like you are sitting in a car with no AC at 100 degrees outside.
Finnish saunas have airflow, hot air is sucked in from the vents above and below the heater, rises, then washes over you down and out the mechanical exhaust below the seats. CO2 is expelled and the air is fresh.
10/10 recommend, especially if you want to learn carpentry.
Total cost: ~$10k, will do a breakdown if anyone is interested
The Great Lakes hold 6 quadrillion gallons of fresh water. Enough to cover the entire continental USA to a depth of 10 feet. 🌊🌊
My native apex predator of the deep (Lake Trout) would not like that tho
250 thousand white girls raped and trafficked by Muslim immigrant pedophiles in the UK. Industrial scale sexual abuse and torture inflicted on the native inhabitants by barbaric foreign gangs who were welcomed into the country by the government. One of the worst scandals in the history of the western world. It really is that bad. Anyone who ignores this story is forever discredited going forward. Watch especially for the people on “our side” who look the other way.
Remembering Maple today - it was five years ago on this day we said goodbye, yet it still feels like yesterday. I miss you every day, Maple. What a wonderful world it was with you ❤️
A child and a donkey together. The world holds nothing sweeter. When my final day comes, let me be watching my grandchild like this, and I will close my eyes softly.
Gentlemen listen to me.
Life is not complicated. It’s just a battle between Good and Evil.
Pick a side and then fight like hell for it.
And when they carry you off the field, think of your wife and kids.
That’s all this is.
If people don’t want kids I’m okay with it.
People who don’t want them shouldn’t have them.
I’ll just keep enjoying one of the greatest experiences a man can ever have.
When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education.
46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.
We now know Dr. Fauci had deep ties to the intelligence community that predate the COVID pandemic. Think about what that means. When the question of whether this virus came from a lab first arose, one man was positioned to shape the answer across science, intelligence, and public opinion.
He steered the narrative away from the lab leak theory because he knew the NIH was funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.