The White House animals have a Twitter account. Cloth measuring tapes can be wrong out of the package. Like, vastly wrong. Off by an 1/8″ per inch. Better measure them against a known ruler when you open them up. You can look at the original topo maps of Switzerland! This is fun. I may not …
Monthly Archives: January 2021
What I Learned in 2021 Week 3
If you use a magnetic locator to find your property pins in the woods where someone in the past erected barbed wire fence but now it’s mostly buried…you spend a lot of time digging up barbed wire. Nevertheless, success. Griffin and I found the really important propert pin (!!!ppf!!!) that will define the edge where …
What I learned in 2021 Week 2
Goat rental is both effective and very entertaining. We’re probably paying a 10-20% premium over what we’d have paid for people to rip out our English ivy, but this is way more entertaining. It’s worth the extra. Bret Deveraux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, @bretdeveraux) is a four-square awesome writer and historian. He is one …
What I learned in 2021 Week 1
Griffin calls the examination table at his Dr. the “healing table.” I is ded of cute. I can’t go one day in the new year without screwing up the date. There’s such a thing as self-healing concrete, and that titanium dioxide added to concrete will make it self-cleaning “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg says he’ll do something …