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Just peanut butter, if I said baking soda it was a misprint.

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Exactly.

So many don’t want to work for what they want.

I’ll work and have what I need, and some of what I want.

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I love when people say “ don’t do things that enslave you”

Now, I wouldn’t want to disrespect anyone, but I would like to know what that means.

My parents are dead, for years now so the people who currently live in their house wouldn’t really just let me live in the basement I guess. It might get weird.

I’m not interested in living in a cardboard box under a bridge cuz, well it gets cold in the winter and there’s typically no shower or toilet.

To own a home and some acres , unless you were left money you typically have to have some manner of employment or way to generate an income. Honest or dishonest, that sort of makes you a slave to a working life right out of the gate. My parents taught me to work hard to get what I want, not to cry loud enough until someone gave it to me, which would make me their slave anyway.

Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do, I like where I live, I appreciate the fact that I have to walk a ways to get close enough to the fence if I choose to talk to my neighbor. I DO wish that it cost less to maintain that, but it is what it is. If I’m given the secret to getting money for nothin’ I’m there.

I’ll even write a song about it.

I don’t really feel like a slave because I have to work 5 days a week to maintain a lifestyle , although it does cut down on my video game time. I guess if I lived in somebody else’s house so I didn’t have to pay for it all, I wouldn’t be such a slave, but they probably would want me to at least take out the trash or cut the grass. That would kind of enslave me to a point.

My point is I guess, I just don’t know what people mean when they say “ don’t do things that enslave you”

I’m also curious as to the value of their assets and how they got them.

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Lots of discussion on paying off mortgages and being debt free.

In July, after 33 years of monthly payments, my house will be paid off.

Here’s the catch , the property taxes and homeowners insurance still go on.

At the end of the day the monthly payment will go down about 300 bucks. Kind of a buzz kill.

Yes I know I could relocate to a property with a 75 dollar a year tax bill, but that ship has sailed I can assure you. Do it while you’re young folks. If I knew all I know now when I was 30, we would have a whole different conversation.

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He makes a good video.

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If you’re in 6B you probably have a fairly short season so…

It may be time to get your peppers and Brussels sprouts at a minimum started in solo cups indoors about this time.

You could start lettuces, but be prepared to protect the, when you set them out.

Rusted Gardner suggests cutting the bottom out of milk jugs to put over lettuce plants in the early days to protect from unexpected frosts and add daytime heat to the plant. His experiment was a brilliant success.

Tomatoes in a few weeks

There are many charts online and at the farmers almanac.

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This I can assure you works well because I do it every couple years when the population grows.

Take a large plastic trash can, like one of the “Brute” cans and put in about a foot of water.

Smear peanut butter around the perimeter about 10 inches or so down from the top on the inside.

Run some Vaseline on the rim. ( not essential but doesn’t hurt)

Set in “ squirrel territory”

They can’t swim.

They also can’t sit on the rim and reach the peanut butter without falling in.

Bury near fruit trees.

Sometimes the tree rat has to get whacked.

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Funny story, kinda

I set a barrel for three squirrels in an attic. I thought I was getting nothing for days. Had about a foot of water. After about 8 days I saw a head cresting out of the water one morning. Finally I got one. Nope.

I kicked the barrel over and 17 squirrels poured out.

The peanut butter signal must be like the bat signal because it seems they came from out of town.