SteevyT @ SteevyT @beehaw.org

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Landscape fabric would probably work, although I have the litter bags on hand already. The soil under the beds is pretty decent (used to be farm land) so letting stuff shoot roots down should be fine. I'm just trying to do just enough to keep soil from spilling out between boards when it rains.

Also, turns out my city has a partnership with a place that sells compost from the yard waste the city collects so it isn't completely insane to fill the beds with compost. I'll probably do some more poking around to see if I can find anything else though.

Built some garden beds over the weekend at 0 cost by reusing old wood I had laying around using nothing but an electric chainsaw and an impact driver.

2 beds are something like 6' x 2' and the third is something like 10' long. I have no clue what the exact dimensions are since I just eyeballed everything.

Kinda debating whether to cut up some old cat litter bags we have to make a liner just to keep dirt from slipping out through gaps.

Also managed to go on the first good bike ride of the season over the weekend. Just under 30 miles.

Going back to a maiden name is the easiest way to get the birth cert and current ID to match i suspect is the um... joke?

In the office that I work in, I'd be surprised if I'd need more than one hand to count how many people would understand this.

Did a search, found some video.

My county has(had?) some sort of rebate for both rain barrels and rain gardens, but neither has been updated in a year or so.

We went to a gardening class put on by the library and local Purdue extension office this week which was pretty fun. End of the month is one focused on fruit trees which we are looking forward to.

The beds themselves we were going to build out of some old deck boards that we still have laying around from some work a few years ago, possibly along with some old bike inner tubes to seal up gaps to keep soil from eroding out between boards. They are in decent enough shape for that. Hardest part for us is probably going to be figuring out a source for soil. We don't have a spot in our yard to dig out from.

Poking around on market place it looks like I can get some 55 gallon plastic barrels for like $10 each, then it's just some small modifications to make them rain barrels so that's easy enough. Might spend the money to put a pump on it, it might be nice to be able to run a sprinkler off it.

First year my wife and I are going to try some small garden beds.

We have some spaghetti squash that started sprouting in a gourd we were having for dinner one night so we threw them in a pot to see what happens, and we are attempting to propagate some celery hearts.

Hopefully at some point in the near future the weather actually holds out in a way that I can build the garden beds.

Our main two things to figure out are where to get soild to fill the beds, and where on earth to actually get a not stupidly expensive rain barrel.

I have no clue whether any of those are real ¿songs? and I think I'm ok with that.

Maybe they can get a couple of chatbots and a rural PTA member into a Signal group chat this time.

Man, watching them try to figure out what the fuck is going on and who's even real could be entertaining for a bit.

Is the place you live anywhere in the US? If yes, then it doesn't matter because they have the money. If no, then honestly you probably actually have sane laws.

I thought that was just for porn?

My little sister in law just got her letter saying she's been accepted to Purdue!

Actually, nevermind, I need a pick me up.

Honestly, the 85 percentile rule, when actually used, is about the same as RNG, but with a bias for higher. Iforget where I saw it, but from what I remember seeing even the 85% rule gets deemed as too resource intensive so a speed limit from a "similar" (for some random definition of similar) road's speed limit is used.

I feel like it was something in the vein of a Strongtowns or Climate Town video.

Edit: Which now that I think about it, I'm reasonably sure the video also referenced the MUTCD.

It's bad road design. US roads are nearly all designed to encourage high speed travel by being mostly straight, perfectly smooth (well, until weather happens), and super wide. Then we slap a random-ass speed limit sign down and say "job's done." If roads were a bit less wide, even if just painted narrower, not dead fucking straight, and if you want to get fancy use something like how the Dutch use bricks for lower speed road surfaces, the road design alone would encourage lower speed driving.

Huh, yeah that actually is above my reading speed assuming 1 token = 1 word. Although, I found that anything above 100 words per minute, while slow to read, feels real time to me since that's about the absolute top end of what most people type.

Ah, it learned the Ash Ketchum strategy.

Well, the SIM card died today. I had been using that thing since at least my Note 3 (maybe even the HTC Thunderbolt, cant remember which). Luckily the new phone has a eSIM so they could just activate that remotely.

Is it just archive.is that's an issue, or do all the archive.whatevers have the same issue. I tend to use archive.ph.

After 7 years, finally decided to get a new cell phone. I'm hitting app compatibility issues.