Thanks for this. I have been meaning to call them. I know they do stuff like this.

Okay, cool, thanks. I know conservation will provide a seed listing, if nothing else. It’s just a big investment. I didn’t say this earlier, but I’m definitely going to do a test spot this year and see how it goes. I’m not able to drop serious cash on seeds without knowing how it’s gonna go, to some degree.

I’d be interested in trying some plugs. I’m just lucky enough to have some equipment, so I can turn over some ground pretty quickly.

Rough about the septic, comrade. I replaced mine last year.

I actually don’t know how much I need in terms of weight, but something around 300k - 350k Sq ft for that field. I don’t know what I’m doing with the rest yet, but that’s where I’m starting.

Also, this xerces guide is neat, I’m looking through it. And thanks for the seed place. They pretty reputable? I don’t want something invasive mixed in.

Yeah, that’s the direction I’m in. One thing is that I don’t know a ton of places like what I want to do. I’m worried about if I just let it grow if there’s something that should be in there that isn’t, or if something invasive will take over.

I really don’t know much about local resources beyond department of natural resources and conservation. Although, I’m sure there are some bee groups that might know of something I don’t.

Well, it only gets cut like once or twice a year now. There’s some stuff established, but it’s really big for me to be going through and taking clippings. Possible, for sure, but with a few small kids, my time is at a premium.

Idk, really. I’ll see who gets back to me from local offices.

I do have a tractor, which I absolutely love. Unfortunately, my beautiful old gal is going to the tractor doctor, but trying to get her ready to plant this fall.

Yeah, I talked to a department of natural resources guy at the state fair, and received a free packet of wildflower seeds, but I need like a few hundred pounds of it. I gotta email some people.

I’ll check these links, hopefully find a good seed mix.

God, I have a ton of lawn. Few acres of it, really. Got quite a bit more of other stuff. I gotta figure out what I’m gonna do with it.

Right now my back field is just all grown up and a guy cuts it for hay. I’m planning on a wildflower meadow back there, and keeping some bees. Gotta get my tractor ready and all planned out to see what I’m gonna plant and how I’m gonna do it.

The lawn portion I’m not sure. My food plot will go there certainly, but that’s only so much. Maybe I’ll tear it out and do all clover at first. Idk. I’m open to suggestions.

I just really don’t want my kids around any dogs, which is why I disagree with just letting any of them roam. A dog snapped at my kid’s face and now we’re both afraid. Dogs just aren’t people. They get upset and bite. I don’t mind people having them, but yeah.

Seriously. This will be a controversial issue to a handful of freaks online that will mention it in the same breath as litter boxes in school restrooms. I put this under: guaranteed I will never see this discussed offline category.

If I’m not mistaken, this is referring to a bill that requires tampons to be stocked at Minnesota public schools free of charge, which is nice,. My wife is a teacher and we buy certain things to keep stocked in her classroom: tampons, deodorant, blah blah.

The kids really use em too. I don’t care to buy it, but I’m sure it’s much nicer to just have it done through the school.

I really think this country is too crazy to really determine a motive. Why do people shoot up elementary schools? It seems so easy to think it’s politically motivated, but I’m not convinced he hated trump, really.

Well, I think he was recently on the 700 Club saying that Roddy Piper called him from beyond the grave. So, he seems to be doing really well these days.

Did they play Real American for his entrance music?

Oh, this really small obscure town next to my parent’s tiny obscure town has a great retro furniture store with a town of nice mid century stuff at reasonable prices.

If I were you I’d try there. Other than that, it’s fast fashion for furniture, and I hate it so much.

Shit, apologies. I see the W now.

As far as I know, pegging isn’t mandatory, and Janesville is not the KKK capitol of Illinois. Benton had a klan rally in the 90’s, though I don’t know how it was received.

Yeah, when I got my degree, the coding aspect of it became much easier as time went on. The math and shit gets more complex, and whatnot, but after getting some kind of base of understanding, it was easier.

Now I’ve been doing it professionally for years and can consistently Google how to instantiate arrays in a variety of languages with success.

It’s probably useful to differentiate between Amish and Mennonite here. Mennonites I know use mad technology for business, including planes. The Mennonite homes I’ve been in (not many, but a couple), did not have electricity in them, and had root cellars, oil lamps, etc.

An Amish dude did some windows for me and I didn’t see any vehicles at his home, and used hand tools, near as I could tell. But idk, this probably changes so much between different communities and shit. Every time I go to town to get groceries, I see Mennonites in aldi. I don’t believe I’ve seen Amish there. The only interactions I’ve had with the Amish I had to drive to them.

Always slightly uncomfortable.

Well said. I live close to some Amish and a ton of old order Mennonites. I’ve seen one too many children’s stools in front of rocket stoves and suspiciously young girls with babies.

Generally seem to provide for the other members of their community, but the organization of that community isn’t great. And that’s what I know about them, which is little given how insular they are.

I did have a sit down meeting with a Mennonite business owner about doing a website for his company, which was one of the strangest encounters of my life.

No electricity in their homes, but I guess for businesses they break that rule?