I took the startup role for $15k less, and it taught me more about risk and resilience than any corporate training ever could. Anyone else face a similar fork in the road early on?
Three years ago, I would have had to rig it in three sections, but after practicing with a 20-ton port-a-wrap, I dropped the whole 80-foot trunk between two sheds last week with only a foot of clearance on each side. Anyone else have a go-to piece of gear that changed your game for big trees in small spaces?
We were watching a movie and a character said 'be kind, rewind', and my 10-year-old just looked blank. I went up to the attic and found my old yellow Sports Walkman from maybe 1993, with a cassette still in it. Showing him how the tape actually moved and the little rewind gear spun was a weirdly cool moment. Anyone else have a story about explaining a totally normal piece of old tech to a kid?
He'd been driving it like that for a month, said the whistle was 'kinda neat'. Ever had someone ignore a sound that bad for that long?
I borrowed my buddy's Garrett Ace 300 last weekend and found a 1923 wheat penny about six inches down near my fence line. It made me wonder how much history is literally under our feet. What's the oldest thing you've ever found on your own property?
Has anyone else found they need to adjust their pressing time based on the weather, or is there a better trick for dealing with humidity?
I brought my grandma's beef stew to a work potluck last Friday. A coworker kept asking for the recipe, so I gave it to her, but then she put it online as her own family secret. What do you do when someone steals your recipe like that?
He described flowers opening on the same date each year, but now it's all over the place. How has plant timing changed for you?
