Walter Pierce

I hear ya. We planned on doing an equinox camping trip out in the cville area but not sure now.

My spouse filled up the truck for super cheap at BJs in Mechanicsville on Wednesday, they were doing 50 cents off per gallon if you spent $150 or more at the warehouse. I think it ended up being $2.19 or something after discount. Now I don't want to drive anywhere.

Hell yeah!

Rex crossed with flemish. Little bit of New Zealand in there as well.

Ugh getting them to pull weeds...

My spouse and I ate a lot as a teenager, and shit's only gotten more expensive since then... Why do you think we started growing most of our own food 😅

A young child with a smiley face emoji covering his face mashes beans in a cast iron on a gas stove with the burner off. Also on the stove are a covered stainless steel pot behind the cast iron skillet and an orangish/red Dutch oven to the left. You can see some jars in the background that contain rabbit stock and bacon fat, and a whole slew of other stuff bc we live in our kitchen.

Not soup, but I've got the 5yo helping mash some pink beans for refried beans because he loves helping in the kitchen. Our kids will know how to feed themselves when they leave us.

Similar here with our teenager. He loves legumes. I used to make a pot of beans with 1 lb of dried beans, it would last a week, including bean burgers. Now we're lucky if the beans & burgers (if I can even have time to make them) last more than a few days. At least our kids are eating healthy foods?

Companies sell convenience... My spouse and I started our journey of gardening and raising our own meat as underpaid students procrastinating our studies to dive into the various issues of the food industry, and wanting (but not being able to afford) to eat luxurious food.

That is such a cool experience. Hell, I'd like that experience in my 40s!

Yeah my soup experience up until grad school was basically Campbell's condensed soups - 1 can of soup, 1 can of water or milk, heat on stove, eat. It got me through, but learning how to make soup (and other stuff) really opened my world.

I used to be terrified of making (and fucking up) soups. Then I made one, a potato leek soup, and was like holy shit this is delicious and not that difficult! Steffani's thread is great, as are her others on basic stuff I wish I knew and 20 years ago!

Congrats!

Good luck!

I feel ya!

We got a mix of Silver Laced Wyandottes, production reds, and easter eggers for a good mix of colors. We've had varying levels of success breeding our own, but for numbers' sake we just buy from the hatchery.

Not entirely sure 😅

We had around 40 hens, then got 153 day old chicks delivered from a hatchery. A few of them didn't make it, and we've sold maybe 50 or 60 of the remaining.

People love their farm fresh eggs and we kept running out last year!

Side view of a wrinkly-skimmed gray baby bunny in the palm of a hand with its eyes just barely opened.

Rabbit Rabbit! Happy first day of March everyone (is it really March already?)! Spring is coming soon, warmer days ahead. Looking forward to new growth this spring! #SmallFarmLife 🐇

Hell yeah, congrats!

I almost outrage-shared the article. I decided not to because I’m trying not to do that type of thing over here. I can’t believe people are still asking questions like this in 2026. You don’t get props for saying “vegetables are nice 😊” if you are simultaneously dismantling vaccine infrastructure.

A few dozen chickens of various colors red, black and white, gray, brown, mottled, speckled gathering around multiple feeding dishes. You can't see the feed or the dishes because of all the chickens.

Indeed

I visited Goddard back in high school and interned at Langley back in college, haven't made it out to Wallops yet but it's on our list.

Might plan a camping trip out there to line up with a launch later this year, tbd...

View over a field with 2 lighted dots in the sky. There's an arrow pointing to one of the dots with the word "rocket" next to it.

I love living in a rural area with limited light pollution and a good view (when it's not too cloudy) of rocket launches from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility 🚀

We got to see Rocket Labs' launch of their suborbital hypersonic rocket from our front yard? How fucking cool is that?

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

Oh shit!

Yes! Baseball is BACK!

Acuña hit a grand slam earlier. WBC starts next week. Gonna be tough to beat 2023's WBC but I'm excited nonetheless!

He loves cooking, has always helped me in the kitchen even when he was like 3 or 4. His older brother, 13, is in charge of sandwich loaves a couple times a week. The hardest part is getting them to clean up 😅

22 cookies cooling on a wire rack inside of a baking sheet on a gray countertop. The cookies are chocolate crinkle cookies, the powdered sugar coating contrasting with the dark cracks and crinkles of the chocolate cookies

I love getting pictures like this from the 11yo 🍽️

Totally. I'd rather give something away to someone who can use it than throw it out. Also prefer bartering over cash if we can.

Oh of course! But had she not shown up when she did those expensive windows would be in a landfill right now. People, especially in this country, are so wasteful.

Fucking rich people... Probably $2k worth of windows they were just going to throw out