No! :) I meant buy bars of soap or make your own instead of trying to refill containers.

Um, buy bars of soap or make your own?

And all you need are some light sensitive cells, not much in the way of eyeballs.

Our flashlights aren’t pumping UV, not like sunlight anyway. And just because it’s hella bright to them, I wouldn’t think our lights are energetic enough to damage tissue.

All depends on your climate. I haven’t mowed most of my backyard in two years, can’t even walk back there. That’s far more of a fire hazard than were it covered in mulch.

Sounds great! New plants growers always underestimate how much light a plants needs and is actually getting. Our eyes lie to us. Caladiums are a great experiment! Bet money they thrive with some direct light, yet spared noonday sun.

I planted some at my camp in the swamp. Even having 35-years of growing under my belt, I screwed up. Some straight died after two years of seriously low light, others are barely hanging in. Gotta dig them up and transplant next spring.

Don’t know how cold it gets where you are, but I wait until low temps kill my elephant ears and caladiums to brown mush. Seems safe to dig up the bulbs after that. You can just move your planter inside! Very nice.

Great plant choice for what I’m assuming is a low light environment.

Carbon steel pans are a thing? I only have knives.

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I would be honored if, in your head, you read that in Morgan Freeman’s voice.

And Mexico would build the wall.

Using a fake tree we found on the side of the road. Perfect size!

Also, learn to maintain a poinsettia or a Christmas cactus. (You probably don’t have enough light inside for the former.)

If the caterpillars are horn worms, and I bet money they are, you can easily find them with a UV flashlight. The cheap lights are best as they’re brighter (less real UV) than good ones. Little fuckers POP at night. (May work on other species, no clue.)

These are the best bang for the buck, don’t get the truly crappy ones with multiple cheapo LEDs. You may get away with using a 14500 battery for super bright results. AA is fine though.

Bonus: Some people fry 'em up. You do you.

We had a nice setup, quasi public/private power company. Prices were low and we voted on the governing board. Cool.

The the county sold us out to a strictly private firm and most people’s prices spiked 40%, literally overnight.

I’m not much of a socialist, government solutions carry their own issues and inefficiencies, but a service as vital as power (and water and sewage) should be public works.

Is your area not undergoing a massive expansion? I’m in NW Florida, hardly a hotbed of environmentalism, and brother, business is booming.

I fully expect the 20-miles between the edge of town and my camp to be covered in the next decade. Any non-residential and non-commercial land is getting bought up and covered. I expect to see solar panels all they way in the space between the interstate and the state highway, already a few spots where you can see clear from one road to the other over the panels. Very exciting!

Great example is Logitech solar keyboards. Never had one die unless it was left in a dark closet for 6-months, and after leaving on it on the porch for lunch, good to go.

Been buying these for my users for years, never had the battery crap out.

I was gonna say, these places are 1/40th of a pixel on the map, but those are some sizeable acreages! Pleasant surprise.

And think of the cost savings on maintaining all that land.

Uh, I was gonna say. Humans practice agriculture around rivers because they flood, fill the area with rich silt and organic matter. Nile delta anyone?

Got a couple of acres of swamp down in Florida. Fascinating seeing this on a microscale. From my tent and north, we got 1-3" of crappy topsoil. Heavy thatch of roots, then sand and some clay. Go 10’ south and its rich, black silt, the real sticky icky. 10-seconds with a trowel, you know what’s up, where you’re at.

Hell, the flora changes within 50-100’, just look up. Pine and oak to the north, cypress and the like to the south. Doesn’t take a masters in ecology to see the lay of the land.

“Let’s build shit here! Look how rich the soil is, surely if will never flood right next to a river!”

I am disappoint at the engineers who didn’t make those bridges taller. C’mon guys.

Even tiny fish work fine. I put a little pump in mine to circulate the water. It’s quite lively in there!

“The only real unifying denominator among preppers these days is people who are smart enough to be aware of what the world is like … and they have the gumption to do something about it,” Ramey said.

If you libs don’t pull your head out of your ass, jesus christ. We’re not voting our way out of fascism. It’s here. It’s now. Today.

Fuck me, the GOP is pulling every trick in the book to pull your vote. My registration has already been purged once. How about you? Ever show up and find out you can’t vote?

Anyway, I can run, hide and fight. Can you? Got a place to go? Got food there? Got guns you’re practiced with? Plenty of ammo? Water supply?

Keep making fun of us armed country folk. Jesus, at least you won’t have to fight your liberal city neighbors. I got Brown Shirts right here on my fucking street.

I’m 53 and never in life imagined this shit would happen in America. Never in life imagined I would be thinking this way. 80s me would be fucking appalled at who am I now and what I’m preparing for.