The Impulsive Farmer

wishsteria:

seekanewerworld:

(via An Interactive Map of Regional American Accents, With Audio)

This is the culmination of Rick Aschmann’s years-long “hobby” of collecting dialects. It’s a comprehensive and detailed map of the dialects (and sub-dialects!) of English-speakers in Canada and the United States.

I love stuff like this!

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mildlyamused:

You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.

But then, then comes the fateful moment where you find out that all this time, he’s only seen you as a potential girlfriend. And then if you turn him down, he may never speak to you again. This has happened to me time after time: I hit it off with a guy, and, for all that I’ve been burned in the past, I start to think that this one might actually care about me as a person. And then he asks me on a date.

I tell him how much I enjoy his company, how much I value his friendship. I tell him that I really want to be his friend and to continue hanging out with him and talking about our favorite books or exploring new restaurants or making fun of avant-garde theatre productions. But he rejects me. He doesn’t answer my calls or e-mails; if we’d been making plans to do something before this fateful incident, these plans mysteriously fail to materialize. (This is why I never did get around to seeing the Hunger Games movie. Not to name any names, but thanks a lot, Tom.) Later, when I run into him at social events, our conversations are awkward and lukewarm. This is because the moment we met, he put me in the girlfriend-zone, and now he can’t see me as friend material.

I must say that I find this really unfair. I mean, I’m a nice girl. I have a lot to offer as a friend, like not being a douchebag and stuff. But males just don’t want to be friends with nice girls like me. They can’t help it, I guess; it’s just how they’re wired, biologically. Evolution conditioned our male hominid ancestors to seek nice girls as mates and form friendship bonds only with the other dudes that they hunted mammoths with. It’s true—I know this because I studied hominids in my fifth-grade science class.

So what’s the answer? Should I take up mammoth-hunting in an attempt to appeal to the friendship centers of men’s primal lizardbrains? Should I keep making guy “friends” and then prevent them from making a move on me by subtly undermining their self-confidence? Should I just give up on those manipulative, game-playing, two-faced bastards once and for all? I don’t know. I mean, I’d really like to have a true friendship with a guy someday, but it’s so hard to trust and respect them when they never say what they mean—and you never know when you might be relegated to the girlfriend-zone.

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I know this because I studied hominids in my fifth-grade science class.

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It’s so muggy and hot outside today. I don’t want to do anything. I need to clean up the house, though, before Emily the Mennonite gets here to watch Tanner. 

There is a free vermicomposting class at a local library we are attending with the In-Laws. I hope it’s air conditioned. 

vapupas:

KAREN YOU NEED TO DO THIS WITH PIPPIN!

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did-you-kno:

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NO NO AND NO.

An Easter Egger is a mixed breed or hybrid chicken who lays colored eggs an Araucana is a purebred. Araucana and Ameraucana are specific non-interchangeable breeds of chicken. An EE is normally a mix or hybrid derived from one or both breeds. 

More info

parvifolia:

nice milk moustache lil buddy

continueplease:

nbcnews:

Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds

(Photo: Intel)

Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.

Read the complete story.

Everybody, remember this face.
Remember this name.
If this becomes a commonly used & highly lauded discovery, at some point a White guy is going to take credit, even if he has to word it like “Improved upon a previous…”
No no no
Fuck that guy.
Remember this brown girl.
Remeeeemmmmmberrrrr

(via lilybells)

I finally found my clicker today. I’ve been looking for it since we moved.

So I got started on training the pigs to back up. It’s the only “trick” I train them to do. I mean if I wanted to I could train them to do all sorts of tricks, but it’s not really needed. 

Sandy and Reba got it right off. I need to work with Bianca one on one. The two older pigs kept shoving her out of the way so I wasn’t able to work with her. 

They’re pushing 200lbs now and it’s getting hazardous to be in the pens with them during feeding time. Teaching them a trick or two will help keep us safe when we are handling them as they get older and bigger. 

I will try to post at least once a day, but the next few weeks are going to be insane.

College is technically starting this week (although I’ve already started doing some work with my mentor). 

My mother is also flying down this week,

She is then riding back up with me the week after and I’ll be in upstate for 5 day.

Then the week after that our realtor friend is probably coming down for a week. 

All of this plus trying to get the garden planted is not going to leave me with much free time. 

I have to pick my mom up from the airport in Erie at 10pm on Wednesday night. There was a flight that came in around 5pm, but she waited until the last minute to buy her ticket and the prices went up. 

At least the traffic shouldn’t be bad.