Yuk. it didn’t look fun
sorry Christian.
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Who ever calls on the Name of The Yehovah A mighty God for help He will hear him. And for His Name Sake He will help you. God promises this in His Word. His Son Yesuha the Savior is prove of it. And that means everyone who calls.
I find that some the things that happen to me, is because I forget to do this daily, call on The Yehovah God. The older I get the more I learn and receive Wisdom from His Spirit.
Also what Mike said never give up. God has blessed you by your hard work, we can see this. But He will also test us all, to see if we will trust Him and call on His Name. Peace Be With You and your family.
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The struggle is real. Been at our new place not long and now the garden is worked suddenly have deer and elk daily checking things out. Stepped on and broke a few squash and cucumber plants already…
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Yes, I think all of us who grow have our trials, here it is the neighbors’ sheep that eat our flowers and our vegetables.
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For all the reasons you guys have mentioned and more is why I’m transitioning to growing in a controlled environment. Animals don’t seem to have gotten the memo that they are only supposed to take 10 per cent and bugs have no limitations placed on them. Weather is only to get more erratic and as Kristijan has shown it only takes one storm to ruin a years effort.
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What others said about your tomatoes, Kamil. I’m impressed.
@KristijanL, I’m sorry about your disaster. How much of it will survive do you think?
Was that hail part of the Kroatian storm we heard about on the news? Were you affected by the wind as well?
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The weather didn’t spare us either, otherwise the hail wasn’t too bad, but the wind did some damage to the roof of the house, the speeds were over 100 km/h and the gusts made the roof tiles bounce… I have work at height waiting for me.
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Oh my, I am so sorry to see your farm looking like this, Kristijan. I felt this way last year when those stripped beasts eaten my potatoes.
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Being in love to “Eggs and I” since my youth, I would say that I envy your chance to live within it. But reading this post, I invoked my second thoughts and make me look to that idylic life also from the different point of view.
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Hi All,
Our landline Internet has been down for 56 hours. So catching up.
Kristijan I am sorry for your losses. The fish pond expanded save you from hail damage? Rice maybe?
The first two weeks of July I’d been commenting on the lack of hornets and yellow jacket bees this year. Mistake. Mistake. Mistake. The last seven days they have become active with a vengeance. Every dog, kid and the Wife now stung multiple times. Everyday it is spraying a new found crevice nests. Me? only one sting so far. Knock on wood!! C-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y.
Hot July sun sanitizing; and lots of sprays and the tent camper is now the girls fairyland:
Yes. A real working tone shoe-phone! Used to verify land line restoration.
Regards to all
Steve Unruh
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Thanks for the support guys.
Luckly, l am just at a transition where spring crops are mainly taken out and fall crops not yet planted so the damage was mostly on tomatoes, cucumbers and zuchinis. Most shuld grow back. Pray for it to be the last hail, we had a hail storm preety much each day somewhere in the country these days, and still forecasted.
I was fixing a float in our water reseroir when l got caught in the storm. The intense rain flooded it with muddy water so l spent whole yesterday fixing the mess… that was luckly the only material damage we had. We live in a valley so not much wind, but when l went to town for plumbing parts it was like a aftermath of a bombing. Every third house had damage on the roof, roadsides full of branches and broken tiles…
Ha, those Croats. They claim everything for them self 
yes JO these days storms start in Austria and Italy and travel trugh us towards Croatia and further south.
A big fishpond requires a permit and lm not too keen on those paper things, slecialy paying for them… but yes, its in plan.
I can protect the whole garden with hail netting and thats enaugh veggies for us. But the fealds l cant… potatoes, carrots, jerusalem chokes etc are hail resistant (to a degree) so l will focus on those and rather intensify meat production. Less pigs and other grain based animals, and more grass eaters.
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Government overreach is on full display again:
“The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has proposed a policy that would remove nearly all existing portable gas generators from the market. The new rule restricts the amount of carbon monoxide that generators can emit by forcing these generators to switch off when they reach a certain level of emissions.”
I wonder would they would think of the fuel gas from gasifiers. 
God help us.
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Talk about beasts in your garden reminds me of this story about this rural woman who never saw an elephant before until one escaped from a circus and ended up in her garden. She called the sheriff and reported a huge animal in her garden and she said it was picking her cabbages with his tail and “you wont believe where he is putting them”
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A lot of generators have that now, it’s called CO-Safe.
It’s basically a smoke detector wired to the killswitch.
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Another law, which adds extra costs to products because a handful of people die each year from the lack of common sense?
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Dummies ruin it for everyone
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I’m kind of to the point, where Darwinism should have minority rights. We have so many laws protecting people from doing stupid things, we spend so much time creating and enforcing those laws, that kids are basically not allowed to do anything so they don’t experiment and try new things which stifles their creativity.
BUT they also don’t have any f’ing common sense, because everything is ‘safe’ so they don’t keep a watchful eye out for unsafe things, and because their parents grew up in a similar situation, they don’t know either.
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Apparently in the US, Taco Bell is sponsoring ‘sauce packet’ recycling with terracycle. You can send your sauce packets (from anywhere) to terracycle and get like 80 taco bell points (whatever that means).
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https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2023-07870
I could not get a cleaned workable copy-link to the full original CPSC proposal in the federalregister. Here is a summery. It is document number 2023-07870. Published 4/20/2023.
Open to comments feedbacks until June 30, 2023. TOO Late now.
As MartinS inferred it is about the actual CO levels generators are actually producing. 70% reduction in the smallest category.
And yes. Self detecting and self-shutting off when registered output levels are exceeded.
The Justification is in numbers of poising incidences, hospitalizations and, yes; even deaths.
This whole make products safer is a difficult one for me.
I’ve had older NOT drop safe firearms where you’d best never have a carterage under the hammer. Now have all revised made drop-safe. O.K. A bit more complicated. A tiny bit more stepped feels to their triggers. No so bad for the safety made.
I grew up pushing gasoline rotory blade lawn mowers. You had to get right down close with one foot and both hands to pull start crank them up. Always, alway had to have conscious feet position awareness. And I did do hilly lawns mowing. A slip and fall and those mowers would keep on running, chopping away.
So the changes later mandated there. The operator Must only be able to start it far away at the end of the push handle. Operator must keep an “I am Present” safety bar engaged. Engine/blade must self-brake to a stop quickly, NOW.
More complicated, sure. More to design, manufacture and maintain, sure. But not so bad.
It is when new regulations mandates are actually part of a step-by-step to killing a product or the freedom to use it that I have a problem.
Find and read their document. Which is it? A safety improvement. Or a stepped exclusion?
Steve Unruh
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