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> And yardwork. Ugh. I hate it. I'd happily live in a house with a postage-stamp of a yard with 1/4 the total sqftage of our current one. The best use for a ya

by zeveb 10y ago

> And yardwork. Ugh. I hate it. I'd happily live in a house with a postage-stamp of a yard with 1/4 the total sqftage of our current one. The best use for a yard is to turn it into vegetable gardens and animal pens. Make it productive, not just pointless, wasted space.

tjic 10y ago
I live on a 50 acre farm and work (mostly) remotely. Most of the farm is hay fields and woodlot, but on 5 of the acres we raise pigs, sheep, and chickens, have a 1,000 ft^2 greenhouse, a vineyard, a berry patch, and two 3,000 ft^2 crop gardens. If you're going to say "hey, I've got a solution to the hard work of mowing a lawn", we need to have a long conversation. ...perhaps while we remove rocks from one of the fields and use them to build a wall? Beverages are on me.
- zeveb 10y ago
  > If you're going to say "hey, I've got a solution to the hard work of mowing a lawn", we need to have a long conversation. Heh, it's not a way to reduce the hard work, but a way to actually get a return on all that work. Also, I am completely envious.
- GregBuchholz 10y ago
  Completely off topic, but what happened to Smartflix and its assets (DVDs)? Is there a writeup/explaination somewhere (since the website is no longer available)?
  - tjic 10y ago
    Around the time I moved to a farm, I sold the firm to an employee for a nominal fee, she ran it for another year, and then shut it down. As per the sale agreement, when it did shut down, I ended up with most of the DVDs. So now, on the farm, I've got a tractor, hay baling equipment, a chicken scalder, a chicken plucker, an industrial meat grinder, a welding rig... and 40,000 DVDs on various how-to topics. :)
    - GregBuchholz 10y ago
      40,000, wow. I guess it would be a lot of work to auction those off on ebay one at a time. Maybe you could bundle them up in ~10 DVD bundles for specific topic areas, like metalworking, etc..
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by zeveb 10y ago

tjic 10y ago

I live on a 50 acre farm and work (mostly) remotely. Most of the farm is hay fields and woodlot, but on 5 of the acres we raise pigs, sheep, and chickens, have a 1,000 ft^2 greenhouse, a vineyard, a berry patch, and two 3,000 ft^2 crop gardens. If you're going to say "hey, I've got a solution to the hard work of mowing a lawn", we need to have a long conversation. ...perhaps while we remove rocks from one of the fields and use them to build a wall? Beverages are on me.

zeveb 10y ago
> If you're going to say "hey, I've got a solution to the hard work of mowing a lawn", we need to have a long conversation. Heh, it's not a way to reduce the hard work, but a way to actually get a return on all that work. Also, I am completely envious.
GregBuchholz 10y ago
Completely off topic, but what happened to Smartflix and its assets (DVDs)? Is there a writeup/explaination somewhere (since the website is no longer available)?
- tjic 10y ago
  Around the time I moved to a farm, I sold the firm to an employee for a nominal fee, she ran it for another year, and then shut it down. As per the sale agreement, when it did shut down, I ended up with most of the DVDs. So now, on the farm, I've got a tractor, hay baling equipment, a chicken scalder, a chicken plucker, an industrial meat grinder, a welding rig... and 40,000 DVDs on various how-to topics. :)
  - GregBuchholz 10y ago
    40,000, wow. I guess it would be a lot of work to auction those off on ebay one at a time. Maybe you could bundle them up in ~10 DVD bundles for specific topic areas, like metalworking, etc..
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