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Savings account interest is so low! I wish it would earn a little something.

My bank is offering a short term money market. Minimum $10K at 3.75%. I have to keep a fairly decent amount of ready cash to purchase calves and crop inputs - but for that amount of time I can put a fair amount in. I am looking at buying calves in December this year (usually March or April) and I buy all my agronomy inputs in December - so I can't put it all in.

I honestly didn't see it. I don't know if my browser hadn't refreshed or if I just missed it.

I have this small one that suction cups to the countertop. It is just amazing! It has a thicker grater, a fine one (works great for carrots, for carrot cake!) and a slicer.

I ended up buying one for each of my kids and they absolutly love them too.

I grate most of my cheese. I also do potatoes for hashbrowns. This gadget is cheap (ish) and you can pop it apart and put it in the dishwasher. It doesn't take up much space.

I have a big food processor that can grate things - but I always use this one!

Rotary Grater - no knuckles will be abused!

I'd only be concerned if you have a frost free freezer. Those have a constant cycle of warm/freeze to keep the frost out, which is why you should never have one as your long term storage deep freeze.

Ah cool!

4.3 million last night - wow.

I am lucky enough to own a large amount of river bottom ground. It is pretty cool to be out in the meadows and timber to see all the different birds. Spring and fall always bring some neat surprises.

When the pelicans come through in the spring, it's an event!

I get mine from the Vet. LOL Our vaccines come packed in them, so my farm freezer is FULL of them. They are the soft plastic ones.

I like them, and the thicker they are, the better they last. Super thin ones do not stay frozen long.

My advice - double bag it in heavy freezer zip lock bags. They seem to get small holes in them and leak. Having the heavy zip bag around them helps a lot.

I watched a TikTok of someone getting their nails done and had a translation app on her phone. They were talking about how fat she was. She really felt awful afterwards. Kind of the laughing, but sad tears sad.

Are you cutting all the way through the backer of the HTV? You should only be cutting the HTV, and not the backer it is on, so the mat really won't be a factor, as long as it is sticky enough to hold the HTV in place so it doesn't slide around.

You could try turning on Line Segment Overcut. This is in the send panel - check the box for it there. That makes the blade lift and turn, instead of pivoting around as it cuts angles/corners. You get cleaner cuts and it is less likely to pull stuff loose.

I was (and still am) very concerned about a rail strike. We are moving into grain harvest as I type. The grain storage is becoming more limited in my area due to failure of older elevators. One near me partially collapsed this year, and had to be torn down. There is still storage there, but much less - which means grain has to be shipped out via rail much quicker.

Harvest won't stop - grain will have to be harvested. So it is scary to think about what will happen to it.

I heard they are removing them every 12 hours, to allow space for the fresh.

Maybe they can just resell? (Just kidding).

I too think it is wasteful, but understand the want for it. Just think if a person could just give a few dollars instead, what could be raised for a charity. Virtual flowers for a donation.

That is clean compared to what we have daily! Farm life - stuff just doesn't get washed that often.
Gravel travel is the only way to get around. And when it rains, it's mud.

I do have my 'town' truck that I keep pretty clean, but even it suffers during harvest. I try not to drive it often, and have my 'work' truck that I use most of the time. I can usually see out the front windows in my work truck. Back windows are solid covered in mud/dust.

I feel this deep! I just paid my property taxes and I pay 10's of thousands in land taxes. I know I am supporting my school district and my fire departments with it. I know that those monies do not cover it all, so the need for fundraisers is a necessary one.
I hate the ones where most of the money goes to the fundraising company - and you are getting JUNK in return. Around here we do a lot of fundraising dinners and concession stands. I try to support those.
If a group is selling something I really like, I get it. Butter Braids are my weakness. LOL They are SO expensive, but I always get a few and keep in my deep freeze. They are only available by fundraisers - the company does not sell them in any other way. The quality is SO GOOD! Whenever I bake one up, everyone goes nuts for it!


I went to battle when my kids were in elementary school. They had an awful fundraiser with kids selling absolute garbage. JUNK! And the kids that sold the most got a special day at school that started with limo rides, a special meal, basically the whole day off from school.
I said if this happened, I would raise the biggest stink the school ever saw. I would get a lawyer and shit would hit the fan. (I never ever complained about anything at school). The fund raiser went one, but the big "day" for the top sellers got dropped. I know kids got (junk) prizes for selling amounts, but no outright private party at school for it. But it was SO damn unfair to kids that didn't have a big parental network and those with limited funds.

I knew that I had to put myself behind some fundraising efforts, if I was going to make that big of a stink about it. I asked if later, we could do a different kind of fundraiser. We put a couple small ads in the local paper, and did a small mailing with a letter that asked for a straight cash donation. Basically the wording was "we won't try to sell you garbage, in return for a small donation" The money would be spent on field trips, so that all kids could go for free and other "extra's" at school so that ALL kids could have the same thing, without having to pay.

Guess what fundraiser made a LOT more money that went directly to the school - without paying a middle man. My idea. Older people in the community that had no kids in school, and did not want any more junk gave generously! Many gave anonymously.

I also recommend, if you are involved in your school fundraising, to ask them for a confirmation of the amount of money deposited and for them to report the account balance to your organization at least quarterly. Our school administration tried to 'restructure' where the money we raised went. I caught them in that act. Our playground fund was getting siphoned into a sports account.

That is something you can say!

I would tell my kids that Yes - it does get better with time, but that doesn't help you at all right now. I also told them how I wanted to help them, like when they were little, but it was something they had to deal with. I validated their feelings, but also wanted them to know what hurts so bad now, slowly does get better. Validation, open communication and NOT TOO MUCH communication is the path I followed.
Never say bad things about the former partner.
Don't bring it up all the time.
An occasional "how are you doing" is good.

I ALWAYS return the cart!

Even when I had babies and toddlers with me.

I am finding myself now taking a cart in with me, when I walk through the parking lot. Either out of the cart corral or if there is a a stray one, I definitely grab that one. I figure it is one less cart they have to wrangle inside.

If everyone would just take a cart back inside with them, it would save the stores a lot of effort, since they seem to be employing less and less people.