Episode 8: They must have really good chicken wings here

On this week's episode, we look a little deeper into the origin of Bob's anxiety with regard to his restaurant pet peeves. Turns out, he had a couple of uncomfortable church-related experiences and it's not what you perverts are thinking.

On the homestead front, we talk about how you have to plan for a deluge of food items intermittently throughout the year and how your homestead superpower is possessing the knowledge and skill to convert today's produce into tomorrow's value-added item.

The goats have names and so does the single successfully-hatched chick from our first run on the new incubator.

We have a sourdough starter... started... just in time for both of us to abstain from wheat for a month.

Sara started her new phase of 75 Hard yesterday, so you can call her GI Jane and I won't slap you.

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Episode 7: 99 panels and a bitch ain't one

This week, Sara and I run down our top 4 favorite things about living ye olde homestead life. Sara did 6 because she's pretty.

Here's a link to the Top Four Podcast by Marco and Tiff Arment.

We talked a little more in-depth about our massive solar panel installation. We have two arrays, installed roughly 3 years apart. The first is a 10kW array consisting of 40 250-watt panels, each with their own micro-inverter. The second array is 59 325-watt panels that feed into three batch-inverters.

The photos on the social media post for this episode are of the two arrays.

We resist the urge to put in a big, glass victorian-style conservatory greenhouse. Greenhouses are like the European sports cars of the out-building world. Super sexy and cool, but a nightmare to maintain and repair.

We were a day late this month, but in April, we'll head out to Uniontown to check out the poultry swap meet. We gonna get a pterodactyl.

Shout out to our favorite Chinese restaurant, Bean Curd. Come for the general tso's chicken (this is the platonic ideal general tso's chicken that all other general tso's chicken tries to emulate), stay for the hospitality. This is the first time I've ever even looked at their website and it kind of sucks, so that means the food is extra special good

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Episode 6: 9/11 wasn't about you

In this episode, we discuss a TV show neither of us has seen to refute misconceptions about the motivation to be rural eccentrics.

Jimmy the Goat is getting a harem next week, Sara's been sitting on these eggs for 12 days, and Bob's bleeding out a bunch of trees in pursuit of comfort and fulfillment.

We don't get anything for linking to products (yet), so the only incentive for doing this is to share in the body of knowledge of how to do stuff. This is the incubator we're using after years of using flimsy styrofoam box incubators with rickety egg turners: Top Hatch Incubator

Additionally, referral links are active. If you go to your Memberful account (tabardfarm.memberful.com), on the left side you'll have a list of things like Account, Subscriptions, Podcasts, etc. The last link is Referrals and it will have your personal referral link. Go dump that in the public waterways and anyone who gets infected just bagged you 2 free months of treatise on a wood pile.

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Episode 4: Yes, come get it.

Sara got a text from someone on Facebook from the next town over asking if we were missing a goat. This lead to us acquiring said goat. This week was also our big wine tasting session to see if we could discern a $200 bottle of wine from a $14 bottle of wine. In between, we ordered some chicks, broke a deli case, and laid out a plan to stop our creek from consuming our house. Every day is getting busier and busier as we transition from business owners back to homesteaders. What a time to be alive.

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