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- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Early Retired: The First Month
- Replies: 47
- Views: 19103
Re: Early Retired: The First Month
The Unknown! Directly affecting the finances was spousal unit needing cataract surgery last year. Knew something was wrong when her eyeglass prescription rapidly deteriorated after only a year. We opted for the cadillac surgery, where the installed lenses are tuned with ultraviolet light before bein...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Early Retired: The First Month
- Replies: 47
- Views: 19103
Re: Early Retired: The First Month
<big time gap as the routine is settled> One Way to Live Chatted with one of the subsistence locals while I enjoyed a gin & tonic in the outdoors at a Seaside bar on Friday afternoon. He did custom upholstery in Yakima until retiring a year or three ago, then came out to the coast with his RV, a...
- Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:58 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Loving your job = FI?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2306
- Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:04 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7414
Re: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Today we are fearful about viruses, but not fearful about nuclear bombs. The pattern of nuclear bombs in fiction echo how public fear has shifted through the decades: 1) What if nuclear war breaks out on purpose? 2) What if nuclear war is accidently started? (madman, system malfunction) 3) What if ...
- Tue Mar 15, 2022 7:13 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Early Retired: The First Month
- Replies: 47
- Views: 19103
Re: Early Retired: The First Month
Congrats, George! Please keep us updated on your racing adventures. A year passes... so last year I won 3 of the 4 National Tours I entered, slightly down from where I felt I could perform. Then I sucked during Nationals, partly due to lackluster driving and partly due to an error in setup after sw...
- Tue Mar 08, 2022 5:51 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: the animal's journal
- Replies: 1059
- Views: 265644
Re: the animal's journal
Yowza!
- Tue Mar 08, 2022 5:36 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Garden Log
- Replies: 974
- Views: 314429
Re: Garden Log
Have any of you put wood chips down in your yard? Did you run into problems? Wood chips I have down do not appear to attract any pests. Termites prefer solid structure, like a tree, to keep out predators. Birds, particularly bluejays, know how to scatter wood chips with a side swipe of their beaks ...
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:58 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Garden Log
- Replies: 974
- Views: 314429
Re: Garden Log
Friggin birds! Found two of the young seedlings uprooted. It's gotta be the bluejays doing it because there aren't any crows around lately. I thought, by not offering the birds a trellis to perch on, that the seedlings would be safer. Grrr. The freshly acquired 6AH battery does give me up to 30 minu...
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:17 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Garden Log
- Replies: 974
- Views: 314429
Re: Garden Log
Peas are up. Not the ones I sowed in the ground on Jan 19, but ones I germinated indoors and planted. 13 out of 15! Time for another planting, aiming for the continuous harvest. It's been too cold for the carrot seeds. I just might try germinating them indoors, like the peas, but those seeds are soo...
- Wed Feb 09, 2022 5:01 pm
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4317
Re: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
EDIT: I think it's useful to point out that a lot of the illnesses we are worried about in this thread strike a lot more often in the 40+ crowd. I'll reiterate this point. Seemed like half of my coworkers over the years had some major health problem between age 40 and age 60. Colon cancer and breas...
- Tue Feb 01, 2022 11:11 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: the animal's journal
- Replies: 1059
- Views: 265644
Re: the animal's journal
Practically partaking of pickled pike!
- Tue Feb 01, 2022 11:05 am
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Emergency fund in I Bonds?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1416
Re: Emergency fund in I Bonds?
It's what I used until reaching retirement.
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 3:05 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Garden Log
- Replies: 974
- Views: 314429
Re: Garden Log
The cordless electric brushcutter is working as expected! I ordered the Ryobi ONE+ 18V brushless Expand-It trimmer without battery since I have ONE+ 18V tools(*) & batteries for my autocross activities. With a 30-day return offered by Home Depot, I considered this a low risk way to determine if ...
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:53 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Rebuilding Atrophied Desire (to win)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5327
Re: Rebuilding Atrophied Desire (to win)
I think there is something to be said for activating a more "feminine" or "sensory/emotional" approach to "winning." When it came to instructing/coaching women in racing, I realized a change of wording was needed. Telling a man they can be more aggressive works well be...
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:10 am
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Psychological withdrawal rate
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3017
Re: Psychological withdrawal rate
Didn't know of the 4% rule until recently and kind of perplexed how many accept this as a reliable estimate when so many parameters used in the estimation will not be constant in the future. Realize that Bengen developed the 4% rule only for a 30-yr retirement at the standard age of 65. It's been c...
- Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:33 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Garden Log
- Replies: 974
- Views: 314429
Re: Garden Log
8 days later and I put about 25% of the garden space (300 sq ft) back into shape with a shovel. Ground is dry enough now I switched to the tiller and knocked out the remaining 900 sq ft in 1.5 hrs. Ah, the joy of power tools! Rescued plenty of garlic, possibly more than I need. Planted some peas and...
- Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:23 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Garden Log
- Replies: 974
- Views: 314429
Re: Garden Log
Site photo isn't mine, but very representative. Yes, the tri-blade is the cutter I'll use. *** Luther Burbank introduced this variety of blackberry to the west coast in 1885 in an effort to hybridize a good commercial blackberry. It has very prolific berry production, large seeds, mediocre flavor, a...
- Tue Jan 25, 2022 12:26 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Garden Log
- Replies: 974
- Views: 314429
Re: Garden Log
Short of owning a tractor with bucket or backhoe, a real brushcutter, with a steel blade, is the answer. I'm leaning towards a cordless electric model rather than a gas powered buzzbomb. Battery life of the cordless models is around 30-40 minutes, which is as much work as I likely want to do in one ...
- Tue Jan 25, 2022 12:12 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Garden Log
- Replies: 974
- Views: 314429
Re: Garden Log
Mowing would be desireable, but the canes pile up on each other and are often over 6' tall, sometimes as much as 10' tall. The riding mower will usually push them over if they're under 4' tall, so the established patches cannot be mowed down. The riding mower also won't push over a thick clump of 4'...
- Mon Jan 24, 2022 8:57 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Garden Log
- Replies: 974
- Views: 314429
Re: Garden Log
Why not just eat the blackberries? We do, but the canes just spread everywhere, growing into massive thorny piles if you let them. They're like kudzu or english ivy, choking out whatever they can, only one notch less invasive. https://gardenerspath.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Rubus-Armeniacus.jp...