Congrats, Shyster! She's adorable.

I am beyond out of my element here. So please don't laugh at me.

Is that Oculus VR thing worth it? Was thinking of getting it for the SO for Christmas, but I have no idea if it's worth it and/or what configuration to buy.

@shafnutz05 , you have no idea how badly I needed a laugh today - and I guffawed. Thank you, sir.

Fine, you are a shitty beekeeper, there.

God damn impossible to be nice around here.

Just released the final 3 monarchs. It was a happy/sad moment for sure.

In the beekeeping world, 3 gallons is very little honey. That's essentially 7 frames of a 10 frame medium super. Hopefully next year, our additional 2 hives will start producing excess for us to harvest, and our then 3-year hive will produce even more. Also, to put it into perspective, ONE bee, over...

Awesome.

I should have mentioned - pics are crappy because of the mesh cage.

We all know I suck at embedding pics. Here's a link with a pic of my honey harvest and some pics of the butters. I don't think you can upload videos to imgur? I have a cool time lapse of one of the cats going to chrysalis.

Not sure where this belongs so I'm putting it here. I decided to try my hand at rearing monarch caterpillars this year. I had an issue with my milkweed coming up earlier this year, so the first go round I didn't want to risk having a food supply issue. I finally found the next batch on a different ...

People rarely come back from PIPs. It’s the beginning of the end of the relationship

I call it "Prelude to a Canning".

**** PIPs. That's just more salt in the very open, crusty wound that is being a manager in the first place. It's like additional punishment for having a terrible employee - now you can take time that you don't have to document a complete loser that's causing you extra work anyway. At my company they...

Awesome - appreciate the input, guys.

Need some help figuring out how to organize my garage. Can't decide between the following: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Flow-Wall-Modular-Garage-Wall-Panel-Storage-Set-with-Accessories-in-Silver-15-Piece-FWS-4812-12SB2/204181024 https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rubbermaid-All-In-One-FastTrack-Garage-Stora...

I hate tattoos on women. I want to ask every woman with a tattoo how long she worked as a stripper. Tattoos on men I don't really care about.

Wwwwwwwow. The first sentence, I'll give ya. The second sentence? Ya-hikes.

I planted milkweed last year (Asclepias) and salvaged the seed pods. I then started the seeds I harvested indoors, and my outdoor plant came back 5x larger. So I added my starters to it. And now I have like a 3x3 area of it, all from one single plant one year ago. Separately, I transplanted bee bal...

Yeah I started reading up on it last year after I started beekeeping - trying to figure out how to grow the population of pollinators and then learning about how fascinating monarchs are then, sadly, their major decline. So I bought a mesh habitat and planted milkweed. I got some caterpillars last y...

Not sure where this belongs so I'm putting it here. I decided to try my hand at rearing monarch caterpillars this year. I had an issue with my milkweed coming up earlier this year, so the first go round I didn't want to risk having a food supply issue. I finally found the next batch on a different s...

Do you let it rest for a few mins when it starts fighting back? Sometimes it just needs to relax.

No, I just used my knock-off-LeCreuset Dutch oven. The bread itself was terrible. I am determined to improve the next batch!

Sourdough update. Completed my first 2 loaves today. They look good on the outside and photograph well, but the inside was gummy. I added too much water during autolyse. I interpreted "until the flour is hydrated" as "all the flour must be well hydrated." Mad at myself because I think they would hav...

Speaking of bread baking, one bread recipe I would highly recommend is Japanese Milk Bread Rolls. https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/japanese-milk-bread-rolls-recipe My SIL says that these rolls are as good or better than the milk rolls she ate when she lived in Japan, which were a favorite o...

That looks great, @count2infinity. I'm going with JW's recipe to start. I'm also going to try Claire Saffitz's method as well. I made her sour cream & chive pull apart rolls and they were to die for.

I'm sure videos of this ilk have been shared here before, but they're still funny.

To death, yes.

They are alternating headliner. Crue is closing our show. I would go watch Nikki Sixx dig a ditch so I'll be there. The Crue is always a fun show, and I'll take it while I can get it. Def Leppard always sounds good - but their set list looks like a bummer.

I see we're all conveniently forgetting about Joan Jett/Poison/Def Leppard/Motley Crue on Friday. Where the weather is supposed to be spectacular. That's ok - more for me. Will also be at Metallica. Trying to figure out best place to park for both. We're doing a meet & greet on Friday, so we'll prob...