They say envy is the thief of joy. Give me back my joy!!! That’s a beautiful view. I would love a yard like that.
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Taxes suck.
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Can you file for a cauv agricultural exemption where you live? I do and it reduces my property tax by 80%. Here you need at least 10 acres or make $ 2500 profit from your land. You should look in to it. 
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I’m not registered as a farm. We don’t produce an income, if I don’t eat (or smoke) it I just take it to work and give away to the other teachers.
Just income taxes suck. Our property tax is stupid low. STUPID low. It’s all tobacco farms and tobacco ain’t doing so hot. I only own one acre. Where my house sits along the road. I hope to have the opportunity to buy the old tobacco fields that surround me.
The 88g13hp are such squat ladies. I’m wondering what to expect for their stretch.
Hurricane Helene is murdering my outside plants. The plants look like wet dryer lint. Just… 
But here’s the shorties
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Good to know there are still a couple cool teacher’s. 
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Hello from a fellow adhd’er! I chuckled really hard at “Anywho. No one wants to hear me yap they want to see blurry pictures”
I hope your outdoor plants pull through, and that you weren’t affected too badly by Helene. I look forward to following your progress!
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I took the day off for the dentist so I get to futz with my plants. Outside plants are ded. I need to chop them up for compost.
The weather has been miserable and I hate to complain because we I have been fortunate compared to my neighbors in Dry Fork VA where a tornado tore up something like 10 miles and a number of homes.
Western North Carolina is in dire need of aid. Lots of hollows have been completely cut off when the road washed out of their passes. Private pilots are air dropping supplies via helicopter. If you are a praying type, please put them in your prayers. If you have the means, Blue Ridge radio put together a list of groups doing good works you can donate money, supplies or time.
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Trimmed up 88g13hp not yet 2 weeks into flower. Wider than she is tall.
Appalachia getting ready to go solo in big girl buckets. Might move a couple rooted clones in so they can get more light.
My clones could look better. The seed heat mat I use is being wild. Stone cold than too hot. Also my spouse keeps changing his mind if he wants the air on or the windows open, and I keep coming home to too hot or too cold clones. 
I’ll add a pic of them after I scrub buckets
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Zero to negligible.
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Even if your losses are little in comparison losing something you have poured your self into always hurts. Glad you are safe @AppalachianBiscuits.
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@AppalachianBiscuits . I cant believe I did not pick up on this earlier. I have chickens in a coop and the coop has a fenced-in area outside it. This fenced- in area has a wooden deck and a dirt area. Twice a year I clean out the coop and throw it all on the dirt area. I also throw all my kitchen scraps in there for the chickens to eat. The chickens dig and turn it constantly and by late fall it is mostly fine powder. Then I spread it on my garden bed. It goes through a final composting in place and when spring arrives it is perfect. Anyway, thats how I do it.
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Pretty much what i do. Easy peasy.
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So far that’s how I’ve been doing it too. I’m stumbling over just a few items. I may decide to put them in the trash, but I hate that idea.
I’ve been looking at mechanical composters. That dehydrate and agitate stuff down to compost. What I don’t like about them is the price tag.
Onions and vines are my big issues right now. I need to destroy tomato and squash vines because I have a very real squash bug problem. Grass clippings and leaves come in second, just because of their volume.
I struggle with balancing the greens and browns too. I’m trying round wire compost piles. See how that goes.
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Exactly why I never had a successful compost heap. Lots of browns, far too few greens. So frustrating!
I think the idea of wire enclosures is good. Good luck!
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Did they get into your goodies?
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No, my husband let them out. They like strange stuff like the south side of the house and black cars
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Wild Turkey make that Putt ! When they go into alarm mode. It means you have a second or two before they are gone.
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The more background noises sound almost exactly like one of my guinea pigs when she’s complaining at her sisters about things (we have 3 total). My partner refers to it as “flootle-ing” (I consulted him about how he’d spell it since it’s his word, rhymes with “poodle-ing”)
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Both Mrs. mota and I raised guinea pigs when we were young. We both love their little noises!
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