Terry

✝️believer in Christ Jesus, veteran, Idaho native

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

John leaned on Jesus' chest at supper.

Stayed at the cross when every other man ran.

Outlived all twelve. Beaten. Boiled in oil. Exiled to a rock in the ocean.

Thirty years later, Jesus appeared to him in glory.

John didn't worship. Didn't kneel. Didn't lift his hands.

He fell at His feet as dead.

As dead.

Peter did the same thing. After the miraculous catch - boats sinking under the weight - Peter didn't celebrate.

He said: "Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord."

Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up. Seraphim crying, Holy. And the prophet said: "Woe is me! for I am undone."

Job argued with God for 37 chapters. Then God showed up. Job said: "I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes."

Every tough man in the Bible who saw the living God had the same reaction.

Not awe. Not worship.

Collapse.

Now look at us.

Walking into church with coffee. Nodding at sermons. Shaking hands in the lobby. Forgetting it by Tuesday.

We think we've been in God's presence.

If you'd been in God's presence, you wouldn't walk out the same way you walked in.

The men who saw Him couldn't stand.

We can barely be bothered to sit.

When Jesus returns, there will be no more heroes. No more performers. The hero and the villain will stand equal at last - empty-handed, bare-faced, finally free to be merely beloved...

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Greatest president of the 20th century

Also the most under-rated

It’s not even close

[Terry @leerawhide]

@S100Dfan @VitalVegas he has more blocks than follows

[Terry @leerawhide]

@Pennys4Vegas wise decision, shade and AC!

[Terry @leerawhide]

@MohammedAlo please explain physiologic LDL for us dummies

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Getting carded by a smoking hot bartender at Gypsy's in DeBary, Fla. "I only want a club soda!"

[Western Civ Maximalist @brian_lenney]

A trillion-dollar company, up +207% this year, +56% profit margins, sitting on a permanent Idaho tax break written for somebody else in 2008. Plus $6.2B federal. Plus zero sales tax on the build. And they filed 573 H-1B applications last year.

Idaho kids get the traffic and the housing prices.

[DON G @KINGGGE_]

I turned around. He said, “You had to drive back here because we made the mistake.

That's the least we can do.” The whole thing took maybe 12 minutes.

Nobody argued, Nobody made me prove I hadn't ordered the extra meal. Nobody acted like I was trying to get something for free.

They made a mistake,They found it And They fixed it.
And honestly, that's the kind of customer service I remember.

[Terry @leerawhide]

@JoshAndRachael Vegas?

[Rep. Russ Fulcher @RepRussFulcher]

Just one more reason to love Idaho.

[Terry @leerawhide]

@Vegas_Advantage thanks

[Matt Edwards @TrueMattEdwards]

🚨MISSING IN IDAHO - Please help.

[Kevin → Plant Daddy @KevinEspiritu]

Every time egg prices spike, someone posts "just get backyard chickens" like it's a financial hack...except it's not. Your backyard eggs WILL cost you more than store-bought, probably for years (or forever). But chickens might still be one of the best things you ever add to your garden, and the eggs are the least interesting reason why...

Let's do the math first so we can stop pretending this is about saving money:

A basic coop and run for 4 to 6 hens runs $300 to $800 if you build it yourself, easily $1,000+ for a prefab. Mine was $12k but I'm stupid and MAXXED my coop. Chicks cost $3 to $5 each, but they don't lay for 5 to 6 months while you're still getting them through the chick -> pullet -> hen stage

Feed runs about $15 to $20 per 50-pound bag, and a small flock will go through one every month or so. Add bedding, feeders, waterers, a heat lamp for chicks, and the inevitable "I need a better coop" upgrade (you WILL fall prey to this), and your first year is somewhere between $700 and $1,500 before you see a single egg

A laying hen produces roughly 250 to 300 eggs per year in her first two years, then production drops. So your first-year cost per egg, even being generous, lands somewhere around $3 to $5 per egg. Store-bought eggs, even at the crazy prices we saw during the bird flu spike, topped out around $0.50 to $0.75 per egg, MAYBE $1.00

You will never, ever "save money" on eggs with backyard chickens, at least not in the way people mean when they say it

So why do I think more gardeners should have them?

Because chickens are one of the best tools a gardener can have, and almost nobody frames it that way

Start with pest control. A single chicken can eat 150+ bugs a day. Slugs, snails, beetle larvae, aphids, grasshoppers, ticks, earwigs, even small mice (as a flock, at least)

We spend so much energy in the gardening world talking about organic pest solutions, neem oil, diatomaceous earth, companion planting. A small flock of chickens patrolling your yard will outperform much of it. I've watched hens clear a slug-infested bed in an afternoon, scratching and hunting their way through every inch of it

You do need to manage them though. Chickens in a vegetable garden without supervision will eat your seedlings and scratch up your mulch. The move is controlled access: let them into beds AFTER harvest, or run them in a "chicken tractor" (a movable pen) across sections you want cleared. They eat the bugs, scratch up the top layer of soil, and deposit fertilizer as they go

Speaking of fertilizer...chicken manure is one of the highest-nitrogen organic fertilizers available. Fresh chicken manure runs roughly 1.1% nitrogen, 0.8% phosphorus, and 0.5% potassium. For comparison, cow manure is about 0.5% nitrogen, roughly half the concentration. One laying hen produces about 130 pounds of manure per year. That's a LOT of free fertilizer, BUT...

The catch: fresh chicken manure is too "hot" to apply directly. The nitrogen content is high enough to burn plant roots, and raw poultry manure can carry pathogens. You need to compost it first, usually for 3 to 6 months, mixing it with carbon-rich material like straw or wood chips

But here's what makes it all click for a garden: coop bedding (straw and wood shavings mixed with manure) IS your compost. The chicken coop becomes a compost system. Every time you clean the coop, you're building the next season's soil amendment. You stop buying bagged compost and bagged fertilizer. The chickens make it for you

We run a deep-litter method in our coops at the @epicgardening test garden. You layer carbon material on the coop floor, the chickens add nitrogen through their manure, they turn it by scratching, and the whole thing slowly composts in place. Every few months you shovel it out and it's nearly finished compost, ready for a final cure in a pile before going into beds. It's one of my favorite looped systems in the backyard

But to me, the biggest benefit is psychological: chickens give you a reason to go outside every single morning

Checking on the flock, filling water, collecting eggs, making sure nothing got into the run overnight. Takes about 5min. But those 5min pull you into your garden, and suddenly you're noticing your tomatoes need staking, there are aphids on your cabbage, etc. Chickens create a daily rhythm that makes you a better gardener, not because they do something magical, but because they make you show up

So no, backyard chickens won't save you money on eggs.

But they'll eat your pests, make your fertilizer, build your compost, improve your soil, get you outside every morning, and quietly turn you into a more attentive, more connected gardener...AND you'll get some of the most nutritious eggs you've ever tasted...

That's worth a lot more than $4 a dozen :)

[Terry @leerawhide]

@RogueLou18 yep

[Terry @leerawhide]

@deadcolletti ❤️💎♣️♠️

[Barry McCaulkiner @deadcolletti]

You know at one time @4QueensLV was a “Live” jazz mecca. Alan Grant’s “Monday Night Jazz” was a powerhouse show, some of the very best played there. I just listened to Emily Remler’s “Cooking at the Queens” if you like jazz do a deep dive on this, lots of recordings out there!

[Terry @leerawhide]

@deadcolletti @4QueensLV where the hell was the French Quarter lounge at inside the Queens?