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[WildBill]

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When did you work at the Sonic?

 

[Badfinger]

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will no longer be using our high-powered t-shirt cannon to deliver biscuits.

 

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[Son of Hobbes]

Was born and raised in North Dakota. A friend of mine from there posted this last night. Northern Lights were out.

 

[Mike20132]

I love this guy!
He can be quiet quite brutal!

If you have virgin ears, Don't bother, You'll burn them off watching him!

The guy is quite an entertaining storyteller. I do learn quite a bit of crazy Obscure facts about various things that he covers, mainly military.



Speaking of really obscure Military History factoids. I thought I had already watched Just about every World War Two documentary, including the first color Films. It was probably on some network that I wasn't subscribed.

It's The Pacific War in Color (2018)
It has quite a bit of unreleased film by major character players during World War Two in the Pacific.....on both sides.
It is filled with little known trivia about various aspects of the Pacific Theater.
I think I gained a lot of perspective from this series also. I see it from my heart, They will always be the Greatest Generation and I'm proud that my Father was one of them. When he tried to enlist with his brothers, because of his injuries to his arm a few years earlier, they would not take him. We also told him they would not take him anyway because of his job. At the outbreak of Pearl Harbor he was At the North American plant Building planes. Right after Pearl Harbor he became a line supervisor. He had a tiny little office with a small desk and a cot, where he slept....catnaped for months at a time. The time away from the plant was few and far in between. All my Mom and Dads brothers we're in the military in World War Two. Thankfully all of them came home. Two had a bit of problem of adjusting to civilian life after witnessing what they had to witness and do. They did what you did back then, Grin and Bear It and Pretend It Doesn't Exist. I've seen how they react to unexpected fireworks how to backfire on a car ...etcetera. The eyes tell it all.

I really hope that we never have to do it again. I don't think it would happen. Maybe for a short time. I severely doubt long-term.

Geez! Sorry about the darkness. This will eight episode series will make you think.

The Pacific War in Color - streaming online

How and where to watch "The Pacific War in Color" online on Netflix and Prime Video – including free options.

www.justwatch.com

Heh - I just got done watching this in my feed

 

[Mike20132]

nini!

 

[WildBill]

You sound like me talking to the county extension agent back in the 90s!
On my little farm, my garden area Was probably 3 or four times the size of what you shown shown in the video...... At least that's what it ended up being after the second year.
Nice deep sandy loam, but more sandy than loamy. About 3 or 4 feet down there was a light clay area.
First cover crop was just Elbon Rye and Inoculated hairy vetch. Amazing amount of vegetative bulk the rye root system has. The roots go pretty deep. I could tell areas where the clay was a little bit more shallow. The roots were getting into the clay in pulling up those micronutrients you were speaking of.
That Soil just absolutely eats carbon!
I've used feed turnips. I've left them in the soil and then I have also turned the cows loose on them. The cows absolutely love it! once they eat the greenery, they will dig up the turnips and eat them too.

My microbe program back then was pretty primitive and must have been indigenous. With the soil's voracious appetite for carbon, I made compost on quite a large scale. Started with an old Chevy dump truck with a big block. I got really serious with a twin screw Ford with a 12yd bed.
The damn sides were too tall, so I had to buy a bigger tractor with a loader!
I knew all of my inputs. I knew the farmers where I got the manure and how they raised their animals. I think that's become more difficult in today's world.
I also raised quite a bit of worms. I did grow a mixed bag. I grew worms for fishing and I grew composting worms, Red Wigglers. I grew the local indigenous worms for fishing. They were not really all that good for making Earthworm castings for the amount of input. When I did do my clean out I distributed quite a lot of those worms to my regular vegetable garden. In the areas where I was mainly using Ruth Stout's techniques, I did add the composing worms. With as thick the mulch layer was, It was easier to maintain proper moisture level and reduced soil temperature so the worms could do their little business. Plants don't like really hot roots either.
The worm castings were the other part of my microbial program. Compost, worm castings and Medina horticultural molasses make for a simple but effecive compost tea. I made LOTS! 500 gal tanks with coils of copper tubing with ENDLESS tiny holes drilled. I finally made a version where I used spray rig jets screwed into the copper. It was just a nerdy experiment!

The Regenerative techniques you're showing there are simple and relatively inexpensive and actually work. Keep on doing what you're doing and learning! Always strive to find different methods to make improvements. Think out of the box and learn to take advantage of something if it's dropped in your lap.

I loved being the steward of the land on my little farm. I definitely left the entire place better than when I found it after 25 years. They have let the pasture into my old garden area and you can see exactly how much it encompassed . Kind of sad seeing it going to waste on growing grass .


Love the subject matter and the video! Keep it up!

 

[Fermented_Fruitz]

When did you work at the Sonic?

I actually did when i was 16 but skates were optional! I used to do competitive roller skate speed skating when i was in elementary and junior high and started inline skating at the skate parks in high school so i coulda skated just fine but roller blades made for a half pipe had no brakes and only 2 of the 4 wheels touched the ground so not exactly safe! Plus I was always too stoned to mess with it!