WTF…nice work here brother man. 
Talk about self-discipline.
I wish I weren’t so soft…LOL
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the lack of comfort in grey areas is wicked bad for this next generation. how they cannot participate in either sarcasm or direct communication blows my old mind.
everything is too ‘awkward’ for them to cope with.
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It’s crazy right? The zoomers give me both hope and an enormous sense of dread at the same time. I just spent a few days with my partner’s family and she has two nephews… ones about to turn 10, the other is in 9th or 10th grade. Neither one reads, their hobbies are entirely encompassed by audio-visual entertainment, and getting them to express an idea or to sit down and talk and think together… well you’d think I was actually torturing them. It makes me feel so much older than I am trying to connect across that divide, and it’s exhausting. Competing with the attention robbing narcotic that is YouTube feels damn near impossible. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with YouTube… but when there’s a TV in both of their rooms that they constantly tune in to endless streams of inane streamer culture? Take a guess what kind of human that creates 
Bums the shit out of me too. The youngest one used to love playing with Legos and we would make music on the piano together. He actually has a knack for picking up songs and playing but this last visit, I barely even saw him. Just wants to watch YouTube and play Roblox. Doesn’t touch the Legos, hasn’t learned any new songs since I saw him a few months ago… waddayagannado?
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Wait them out…they’ll come back.
May take quite a bit of time, but they’ll be back.
Lob
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love this perspective 
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this is why more people should look into KNF, JADAM and other types of natural farming. Although JADAM seems to be king when it comes to spending less money like literally almost free!
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I’ve been thinking of inviting some worms over for the summer 
Lob
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my neck of the woods seems to be more inviting in the fall/winter 
seeing as its 101F today lol
on a more positive note its getting cooler in the morning
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My plants last spring/summer really seemed to dig the worm castings I added to my mix. I used 10%…and will stick to that.
I’m also thinking of grabbing some whole mackeral and making some fish fertilizer with some molasses.
Lob
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seems like a lot of growers love worm castings particularly for the high amount of nitrogen which helps with vegetative growth immensely but they keep buying worm castings for lets say $30 a cubic foot (build a soil prices) when they can save a shit ton of money by making their own worm bin all you really need is one of those plastic storage containers, peat moss or coir and some worms! in a few months they will have doubled in population and will continue to, till they fill up the whole container!!! also your fertilizer idea is very good and i think you will have great success implementing into your garden 
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magnesium also
I gave up watching the “news” in 2020. Now if I want news I will read it on my news feeds.
No doubt. Here’s hoping for sooner rather than later 
Manufacturing consent 
Watched the smartest people I know get fully duped the last two years. 
Like the frog in a pot of water. Straight SOS, stuck on stupid.
Try a water only mix 
, just keeps on giving for pennies.
Nature doesn’t need fertilizer. just the occasional piss or carcass… 
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I dont have a TV for 23 years. Fortunately, the wife is also arranged in such a way. My children have not seen commercials, idiotic series…
The result is two-fold - they are good children, empathetic, they think… and on the other hand, they are bullied by their peers. Not physically, they know how to break someone’s nose.
But what really gets on my nerves is that everyone has an opinion about everything. Everything is crystal clear to them, and it is obvious that they have a mediated opinion. Sometimes I make others uncomfortable when I state that I don’t have an opinion on something because I haven’t spent a minute thinking about it. That I don’t know and that I don’t care, but when I sit down and think about it, I’ll let them know.
Unfortunately, the right to one’s own opinion has become a caricature
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I try, successfully, for the most part, to limit the time I spend thinking/reading/listening to things that really have no impact on my or mine.
I frequently stop and say to myself “Does this really matter, or have any impact here?”…and move on.
That leads to what you’re describing. People ask about things in conversations, and I say “No…I don’t spend time on things that don’t impact me and my family.”
And yeah, you get some very confused looks…
Lob
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Their hearts seem to be in the right place but fuck are they stupid. Almost everyone I know under 30 is a complete moron 
, but when almost half the country is functionally illiterate I guess that’s to be expected.
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It’s been said above…but there’s a complete lack of critical thinking skills nowadays.
I’ve said this to school teachers in their 50s and they emphatically agree, it’s just not taught.
But it’s also not taught at home either, so it’s not just the schools, IMHO.
Lob
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exactly seems that children just arent taught at home what they should be and teachers seem to just be over paid or under paid depending on your perspective up to and including reading writing and arithmatic and respect my 14 yo isnt taught cursive writing at school but you can bet she is at home
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