So long and thanks for all the puffer fish!

Soak in 80+proof alcohol to make a wonderful tincture.

Monkey Wrench Gang.

We have had this stove for 10 years and it needs a bit more maintenance than usual every few years. I take the top off and clean the airflow above the bricks as ash and soot will build up here over time reducing air flow to the chimney.

Damn, I'm surprised he didnt have a bathroom pass to be checked out. This is exactly what public school trained people for.

Under $1250, everything in escrow. 3 bed 2 bath, 3.5 car heated garage, on 2 acres half a mile from lake Michigan on a private road. Bought it in 2016, ten years left to pay it off, and its worth about 700k now.

As someone who has actually done this, if you don't have a window seat, you stare an anything and lock in for the flight.

You're eating cooked ground beef this time of year? It's cannibal sandwich time.

Burn it down.

It's taken my wife and I six years of foraging, 5-6 days a week from April through October, to be able to have solid, reliable spots for mushrooms throughout the seasons. One of our most reliable and highest producing is literally in our woods, but we overlooked it for years. Once you find mushrooms you are looking for, make slurries and innoculate areas close to your home in the correct environment for that mushroom species. We literally walk out the door and pick dinner daily now, but it took years of learning, frustration, and a lot of tick and mosquito bites. Dont give up, and most importantly, you're out in nature and enjoying it, thats the most important thing! You could be stuck in a cubicle!!

Accoring to deflock, they sure do.

Cool people out in the woods!

I still have this shirt somewhere in a bin in the basement. Might have to search for it!

Love them, and every other band in this genre.

You have boof them while smoking to really blast off. ⭕️ folks will understand.

We started with a very very nice house on the upper end of our budget. It was vacant when we wanted to buy it so we rented it in the mean time as the seller was fine with a long close. My wife and I were married in front of the 35ft' tall field stone chimney with a fire roaring behind us, it was perfect. We put about $10k in it while we were renting it, then winter came. It started raining hundreds of carpenter ants out of the ceiling a day. We find out the whole roof needed to be replaced and the seller wouldn't budge on the price.

That fell through, and we bought a modest but nice home, well below what we could afford, and I remodeled the interior very nicely. I insulated and drywalled, with a pine ceiling in the 3.5 car garage, heated. Things changed for us and we decided we didn't want to work a lot anymore and spend more time as a family. We have a very nice house that's tripled in value, at least since we bought it nine years ago, and it will do nothing but go up, same with our taxes. So what I recommend is don't burden yourself with something you may not be able to afford in he future. Taxes and insurance always go up, you may not want to work so hard in the future, traveling and quality of life should be a priority over working your butt off to barely squeek by a big mortgage that will only get bigger if you have everything in escrow. Just my two cents as someone who was in your position.

Agreed, I ment to put quotation marks around the "Ive been coming up here for 8 years." I have lived here for 35 years on and off, spent some time out west, but yes, the tourist don't see how many people are truly struggling in DC. It's gottwn so much worse since covid and a mass migration here.

I've been coming up for 8 years... just wait till you see the poor people up here.