strap in boys and girls, its storytime flash back to long ago, when i was but a small 5yo child my parents planted a garden. this wasnt your ordinary garden, it was a very very large garden. an acre, to start. for reference, suburban houses are often placed on ~2 acres of landhttps://twitter.com/imhinesmi/status/1257741105451470851 …
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also, michigan winters and solar panels dont mix well the panels were angled to maximize average sunlight exposure, which meant that snow would pile up on top of them they were 10-20 feet off the ground, we had to get an extendable broom to clean them off
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also also the batteries we were using kind of sucked we had a bank of 40 batteries but one of them exploded (giving dad a nice chemical burn) and several other were faulty, refusing to hold charge and causing the circuit to have critically low voltage all the time
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we managed to smooth things out afterwards, but man that first winter was rough my sibling and i moved out for college 2 and 4 years later, my parents got a new job across the country 5 years later, and now some of my cousins are living there
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some pictures the front the inside: note the curved wall and beams and the very good boy the back tunnel, featuring some storage roomspic.twitter.com/fHK11ttVc1
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by the time i left, the garden had doubled in size and people were paying us for the right to pick our vegetables for their own use we were supplying a dozen families with fresh veggies
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the jokes were on point too "how havent you heard of <x> are you living under a rock or something" "yes" hobbit jokes: we almost put up a sign saying "party business only" lots of prepper jokes
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also it turns out that being surrounded by rebar is the same thing as being surrounded by a faraday cage, so we had to go right up to the windows to get any cell reception
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