comradescrump.bsky.social
Peasant polymath. Rather be spending my days growing apples & vegetables, making cider, fly fishing & learning fun things.
Probable future community quartermaster for the
Climate Wars To Come™
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Received one from the in-laws several years ago and never even took it out of the box. Nobody needs that shit in their lives.
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Along those lines, and not that I buy pants often, I've noticed I now lean towards Dickie's instead of Carhartt now, because I'd rather wear out/stain $40 instead of $95 ($Cdn) crawling around the garden in the same time period.
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Thank you!
I'm very rusty tying in general, and have never tied anything this small before last week, so it's been a fun-but-swear-filled process!
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Finally scored some partridge. Hack job by me - hackle stem broke three times - but what a difference compared to hen. Beautiful feather to look at. Now to attempt to tie another without so many swears.
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Much better luck wrapping the hackle on this one. Now to repeat it a few dozen times, and on a tad smaller hook...
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I was keeping an eye out for starling while at the local shop on Saturday, but I figure that's 3000-level soft hackle tying for me at the very least
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The third attempt was sufficiently worthy for head cement & a spot in the fly box.
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My biggest worry is going from #4 to #1/0 saltwater baitfish patterns to sz12-16 hook sizes, and whether my fat fingers and somewhat older eyes can handle it 🤣
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w.r.t. the above-mentioned soft hackle infatuation, things have, you could say, escalated quickly
I'm justifying it to myself (and my bank account) as it's my first significant, ahem, investment in fly fishing & tying stuff in 11-12 years, but...yeah, I've stepped into it now.
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We've had close to 15cm down since about 4:30ish. Not overly windy, not obnoxiously cold, the way winter *should* be :)
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Silver/grey over white is my go-to, I tie the other colours to give away - they work, too, but just enough for my friends to appreciate them 🤣
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thx! Just an EP baitfish, pretty much the only thing I tie at present
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I really enjoyed the episode & Wren's essay, but what really hit me was Wren & Inmn's conversation afterwards re: food + resistance. 'twas great!
It's probably better for everyone for me to be the Saw Gerrera of making soup & cider for everyone. My joints crack too loudly to be an assassin nowadays
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I'd say we're due for some old timey dumps o' snow in northern NB finally
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Waiting for the "Americans in Canada or near the border getting beat up" stories to be made up, to follow the other playbook 🫠
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I put in a couple varieties that, in hindsight, I don't really care too much to have, so will be topworking them over time. I say this with the caveat that I'm completely new to grafting and diving in headfirst.
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I've 10 B9 & 10 B10 on order for this spring, with plans to stoolbed 3 of each, one each to replace my Muscadet de Dieppe trees that failed in 2023, and the other twelve are going onto a diagonal cordon of various - mostly cider - cultivars. It's all rather exciting, somewhat nerve-wracking 🤣
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I've always liked John Michael Greer's "collapse now and avoid the rush" as a quirky saying to explain our frugality.
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The secret rules of engagement /
are hard to endorse /
When the appearance of conflict /
meets the appearance of force
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Yep, it won't stop. We need to recognize there's now a hostile foreign power next door to us, and adjust accordingly.
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Not to be overly profane but: fuck 'em anyways. He kicked a hornet's nest. I'm redirecting every dollar I can away from that crumbling empire of shit & corruption. Hopefully others will join in, too.
Hope Premier Holt keeps their shit booze off the shelves, too.
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Skinny cooks just have shitty bosses that won't let them have breaks or staff discount meals.
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Yeah, I spent too many years working in the industry, so I know things 🫠
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Canadian places mostly use the first "aioli" I mentioned, at least the ones I've been in 🤣
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"Chipotle Aioli" in pubs & restaurants = chipotle powder & mayo, unless you're in a primo bougie spot that cares about what aioli means.
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Baked sweet potato with maple butter is a staple in our household, but for a decent dip you can add ground chipotle in mayo
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Well - and this might be a radical idea - a person could argue one can't call the Marshalls if one is choking on their teeth.
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Lobster that costs 25% more now...
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It's one of those "be the change you want to see in the world" kinda moments...
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For those of you here for fruit tree nerdiness and not developing an academic background in guerrilla warfare, the Internet Archive also has RJ Garner's 'The Grafting Handbook' available to access. It's like the OG.
Support your local library, independent bookstores, and the Internet Archive.
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Other titles available for free on Internet Archive that may become useful in the future in Minecraft are 'War of the Flea' and 'Fry the Brain' and 'Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla.'
Of course, I'm just sitting reading The Apple Grower by Michael Phillips, so I know nothing about that other stuff