I am building a platform for the kids play set to add the slide to. My daughter really wanted to help, which I am not good at. So I took this evening and precut everything so all she needs to help do is line things up and make sure we are square. I am also hoping this goes quick enough it holds her attention. If nothing else I’ll get it done faster. It has been a learning experience for me to try to include my kids in projects. We will see how it goes. #grownostr #diy #woodworking

Got the container leveled finally. Had the time, weather and tools. Only took an hour but now I can load it up and get crap out of my shop. If you are looking for a legit company I took a chance on

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and it worked out. #grownostr #homestead #sweating #diy #oklahoma

We are going to have a few tomato’s at some point. Glad to see these are finally growing. #grownostr #homestead #garden #diy #oklahoma

I just spent the last 2 days replacing the radiator on our mower. It is now changed and running, but wow did it suck getting it going. Also extra aggravating that 2 days of my vacation were spent on this. Hopefully this is the last fixing of the season. I am going to put some more time into getting my cub running so I have it as a backup. #grownostr #diy #oklahoma #homestead

So I graduated in my DIY. I ran the wiring, wired an electrical socket, and added it to the breaker all by myself. TBH you can’t tell the difference between my hookup and the electricians. Now on to replacing the radiator in my mower. #grownostr #diy #oklahoma #homestead

Good times! We get home from our camping trip and I sit down to relax and find out our media server died while we were gone. Only found this out after finding my hydraulic bottle jack in my truck died and leaked in the floor. #grownostr #diy #stuffbreaks

This is the state of our camping trip. Our outdoor shower broke a handle so now we can’t use water until we get it replaced. Off to Lowe’s for parts so we can use water. This thing really needs a central manifold so you can turn off water to each location. This has the reverse it branches everywhere. #diy #camping #grownostr

The complete differences between my work life and non-work life are stark at times. Today I did a planning session to modify an Open Source project to do better-automated load testing for our infrastructure. As well as some meetings around a microservice re-architecture. I also have been working on researching Solana contracts development in rust, and understanding NFTs data structures on Solana for future integration into work systems, hopefully someday. After work. I am going to be working on watering my garden, moving my chickens and hopefully working on my tractor. Just two very very different worlds. lol.

I ordered a rebuild kit for my Cubs carburetor. I haven’t rebuilt one in nearly 30 years and that was dad showing me. It shall be fun. I also ordered a new lever for the starter so I don’t have to press the button on the starter itself. Moving forward. Hopefully I’ll get some time next week to work on it since I’ll be on vacation, but I have so much other stuff I doubt it. #grownostr #diy #oklahoma #farmall #tractor #homestead

Went over to the in-laws to see about borrowing their RV for the weekend. Yeah… it needs some work before we leave. Hopefully we can get it done before Saturday afternoon when we need to roll out.

I got part 1 of my next video recorded tonight on a bit of an overview of drip irrigation that uses spray emitters instead of straight drip. This is my first time going this route and I am liking it. Next I need daylight to install. Then b-roll and edit. I also converted over to a 4 port water hub for automation instead of 4 individual ones. I needed more and the weight was a bit much for the individuals. #grownostr #diy #homestead #gardening

The favorite joke is if AWS is down the internet is down. Though cloudfront having issues is crazy.

I have been reading a history book on farming. It has started with how land was apportioned before and after the revolutionary war. That part is surprisingly interesting. What caught me is they had a blurb about “Manifest Destiney”. It got me thinking with has hard as the concept is pushed in high schools, college history, and sjw’s. I wonder how true and all encompassing it really was? I have come to learn in reading history, post school, that the things pushed the hardest in high school, while true, wasn’t quite as significant or bad as described. After all the best lies 90% the truth. I now have another topic to research. #grownostr #questioneverything #history

Whole family just went to urgent care. We all tested negative for strep, but we have some sort of viral infection. I am about to go scorched earth for the next couple of days on cleaning and quarantining the family. So tired of this.

So a happy accident. We move our chickens around the property in a ChickShaw, and we throw them food scraps. Well our mower has been broken down for the last 5 weeks, so no mowing, I haven't been too disappointed about it. Well we finally got it going again Tuesday night. Well, my wife did not want to wait for the weekend, for me. She took it out mowing and found a bunch of areas where volunteer vegetables are growing where chickens were. This is kind of cool. She went around those areas so we have extra garden spaces that are fertilized and growing, that we didn't even work on. Kind of a cool thing. We shall see how they develop. We might wait a while every year before mowing to see what kind of stuff pops up. #garden #grownostr #homestead #oklahoma

Sometimes I wonder if it is worth learning some things. I just spent $80 on 2 books that is the complete history of the internal combustion engine, and the development of the diesel engine. There is literally no reason for me to learn the history of engines. Even if it has been a curiosity for years, I gain no value in learning it. To work on an engine I don’t need to know the history, society is moving to electric engines so the future value is negligible. I have read about 8 history books in the last 3 months on agriculture, tractors, and farm tech. Most of it does not gain me anything. So is it really worth it? #history #grownostr #philosophy #continuingeducation

I made another attempt at the cub tonight. I am pretty sure I got the points gauged right, but still no start. I tried some ether, but I kept having to jump from one side to another really fast. I need to check on fuel flow, carburetor, and replace the distributor cap. All I really want to do at this point is get it started so I can move it into my shop to do more work on it. #grownostr #homestead #diy #tractor #farmall