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Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I love the idea of a winter hobbit hole and summer tree house.


I'm trying to solve the logistical issue for good, safe, and cheap way of accessing the treehouse at 50ft.


One thought is that once the tree house is built you could attach a top rope to an anchor ...

I see @theanimal counted items listed for sale which I originally wanted to do, but I think I'll only count things that leave the house, lest I end up with nothing leaving and then lose momentum due to no progress being made.


I gave everything i listed here 2 weeks to sell or I'd have to get ...

We make pesto from our carrot tops, I shared our recipe here: viewtopic.php?p=294494#p294494

I'd recommend reading David Lancy's work for those interested in this topic, notably his book "The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattle, Changelings". As the subtitle hints at, there has been a significant shift throughout history in how children are viewed by adults. These can vary by ...

@Scott, what do you say when people ask you what you do? If you give an answer that talks about something non-work related, what do you say when they ask what you do for work?

I resonate with what @AH wrote in that section. I have found I don't feel much of a status boost in saying that I'm ...

@Henry has made it abundantly clear throughout his posts that he is long NVDA and TSLA. I don't hold that against him and keep that in mind when I'm reading what he writes. I don't often agree with him in this realm but I find it useful to see other perspectives to see if there's something I might ...

Since anything you add up there is not structural, you could glue this for better aesthetics, or use something like pocket screws and fill in the holes after.

I'm not sure what I was thinking here. You'll be covering any of this with your finished ceiling material as Stasher mentioned, so just ...

You could add something like a collar tie directly below the truss connector plate.Take a 2x board and run it across with the ends of the board butting up to the edges of each rafter. Similar to the ones you already have in place (the horizontal boards in your photo above) but much shorter and with ...

I have followed Andy on Twitter for at least a couple years. He has buit up a large following (~40k) posting on this theme and about his travels hitchhiking as a vagabond. He is really passionate about upstate NY as that is his home and has tried to get his followers to move there to create a ...

@AH's progress with the murphs has been impressive over the last year. The last 1/4 mile he was flying in. It won't be long before he does the whole thing weighted.

I improved on last year's time by 2 min 15 sec, down to 34:52. I think working out with someone else definitely helped improve my ...

That heart rate zone chart is nowhere near what I think people currently mean when they say “zone 2”. Iirc, it’s going to be in the range of 80% of max heart rate so prolly in the 140s.


Zone 2 is generally considered to be 60-70% of max heart rate. An unofficial way to test this is via talking ...

Thanks for mentioning the pallet shingles. I hadn't heard of those before. I need to put a roof on my woodshed and have been hoping to piece together tin sheets. After watching probably the same video as you, I'm going to give the shingles a go.

19 more things out the door for Week 19.

Week 19
-Light winter Jacket
-2 styrofoam coolers
-Winter hat
-Front rack for bike
-Hydroponic pebbles
-Dog brush
-Misc trim pieces
-Can of spray glue
-4 threadbare tarps
-Ratchet strap
-3 arrows (to friend)
-Sill foam
-Copper pump faucet with tubing

1,200 shingles! You'll be a pro by the end of it. That's a good approach to making them as long as you find it interesting to avoid burning yourself out quickly. One of the summer residents where I used to live in the Arctic wasa forester in New York and loved working with chainsaws. He was known ...

You make a great tour guide Jean. Mrs. Animal and I enjoyed watching it. I'm convinced that raclette makes up the majority of your diet.

Sonotubes would be easy but are not possible and/or viable in ground with permafrost and ice lenses.

The lateral movement you’re referring to is in regards to the pad or the house itself? I’d be very surprised if the house moved. It seems more likely the concrete blocks moved, which would simply involve just moving them and centering them back into place.

Another distinct possibility, given the ...

Week 4: We did five 4 minute rounds broken up into 2 components.Each round was followed by a 1 min rest. Part 1 was 20/10 tabata intervals for 2 min on the airdyne. Whoever wasn't on the airdyne did AMRAP 30 sec for each exercise of the following:
Rd 1: Clean and Press/Pushups
Rd 2: Kettlebell ...

Over the summer the only real choice I have is to attempt the 6-minute walk test that Oura has built in. I did find one option for a sort of flat sort of straight course last summer. Another option is to wait until I get home and do the 2k row and punch the time into the calculator, but that's a ...

Dang, that's quite an ingredient list!! How do you power your blender?


It sure is! My supply is much larger than I thought. I am still going off that initial batch 3.5 weeks in with more jars still in the freezer.

The blender is electric. We just plug it in to an outlet that runs through an ...