Awesome Brother…Very Well Deserved…Good Things Happen to Good (Great) People
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Cheers Brother…It looks Spectacular!!!…
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Something I’ve been working on for the past couple of years and starting to have something to show for it, slowly.
Back in the day I studied environmental economics, but never worked a day in that field - I graduated around GFC and was working in banking at the time, there were no jobs in my field so I stuck with banking and have done commercial property finance for the past 11 years or so.
A few years back it started to look like the time was ripe to start pushing for more environmentally conscious ways to go about commercial real estate and construction, and finance is one of the main ways to unlock / encourage uptake - so it was sort of a way to potentially merge my values with my professional experience, and try to make a difference in a small way.
I did a qualification last year, which helped a lot in understanding climate science and the various avenues to try to change things for the better within the confines of our present system and its shortcomings - and on top of my day job I’ve been developing a suite of green loan products for property and construction. These encourage energy efficiency, lower carbon materials, electrification and such - and we’re now getting to the launch and rollout stage, which is great.
They say nothing worth doing is easy, and that is certainly true…but I know why I get out of bed every day these days and that’s darn nice.
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Brother @schurem - that is beautiful cottage garden.
Brother @Bearhedge - they say if you love your job, you never work a day in your life. I am so happy you have found it.
Thank you both for sharing.
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follow the rabbit! nice!
high five to all here, didnt chime in here in a while.
so the sim ride you mentioned in other thread @komemiute , @Freak , @schurem , was actualy on the same sim I did my type rating on. cool stuff!
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AH! Yes indeed!
Yesterday I teamed up with my neighbor to clean our gutters. He had a big three-part sliding ladder, tall enough to get there, I had the balls to climb it and his neighbor knew how to position the ladder safely.
I ended up taking 8 buckets full of dirt out of his gutters and his neighbors gutters. Even without tools that properly fit inside the gutters, I managed to remove another half a bucket of dirt from my gutter, though I had payed €200 to get it cleaned not long ago. Never again.
It’s actually a very calm and relaxing job. The only problem is that it’s not scary at all to go up the ladder after doing it 6 times. And that I forgot to put on sunscreen since I thought I’d only do the neighbor’s gutters quickly.
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Sounds like you need a proper massage, not just a pat on the back.
My hat’s off to you, but sheep are too much work for me.
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Woolly mowers is how we view them. They keep the grass under control and ideally help the farm break even. We’ve only 60 breeding Ewe’s so little more than a hobby farm. If we had a proper number, it’d take me days and be much harder and stressful, I’d have to have contractors in.
Cows over here is a lot more work due to the continual TB testing. Coupled with restrictions on stock movement outside testing and it’s a nightmare.
It’s a relief one of the summer jobs is ticked off now, just some fencing, bit of saw work and then hopefully the rain will stop long enough to get some hay. This “summer” has been very wet so far.
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Ahh, opposite of here then. Annual drenching and vaccination every two years, other than that it is all about making sure the fences are in good order.
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Yes, but the good news is you can hire “The Hoof GP” to trim their hooves, which he will inevitably make a youtube video about, and leave one or more of your cows with a block on their foot with his signature florescent green glue. So, less work for you there.
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It’s strangely compelling viewing, I can end up spending ages watching cows hooves being treated 
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I know right?! (I had a bad joke but I’m self censoring here- pls appreciate the effort)
Although, personally, I do love all videos about people having reached master-skill level of proficiency.
Pottery? Iron welding? Powder painting? Restoration of rusty toys 
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Animal care though has a special fuzzy warm feeling to it… (pun intended)
Like- humanity is supposed to do its best to help lesser animals.
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Absolutely. Its good content. Probably why I joined “The Dull Men’s Group”. I just love that stuff.
Fun fact, did you know that HGP sells those blocks with glue on them? and people buy them…a lot. Incredible.
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I could watch (and in fact have watched) hours of YT Videos of woodturning.
I don’t own a lathe or have any skills in woodworking, but those are just magical. A lumpy stump of some random old swamp wood in the beginning of the video becomes a beautiful work of art in the end.
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OMFG don’t start me on Lathe Youtube! I could watch that stuff for YEARS!
Or also the Hydraulic press! 
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then you go into anything that uses resins especially the dioramas 
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The views that those channels achieve are staggering.
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