Yep... I'd be willing to come into the office a couple times a week if they bumped my salary up by $50,000 or so, but lacking that I'd be quickly on the job search if they pushed it.

I used to live at that 21st and Main intersection and really expected it to be on this list.. I was there from 2015 to 2018 and I recall at least 3 that I saw with my own eyes and figured that I wasn't around for several more. I'm very surprised that there wasn't more than 6 between 2015 and 2022.

Edit: Nevermind, I looked at the image better and see that these are crashes involving pedestrians... I don't specifically recall anything happening with pedestrians there, though I certainly would require more than my two hands to count the close calls I personally had as a pedestrian.

Gotcha.. It's definitely nice knowing where your meat came from. I hate factory farming but I'm definitely not made to be vegetarian (much less vegan) so hunting has become something I am more and more interested in. We're also going to start keeping meat chickens this spring to try to cut back on our reliance on grocery store meat too.

Honestly I'd be cool just giving some away. Like I said above, I hunt them primarily for population control and tend to end up with a glut when their population is high. We don't eat them super often so there's usually a bunch still in the freezer by the time I need to cull them again (we even still have some frozen Brunswick stew from the last time we cooked any, actually).

If your goal is just to get some squirrel and you don't care to hunt it yourself, I've got more than half a dozen cleaned and vacuum packed in the freezer that I would be fine with sharing.

I've been hunting the squirrel in my yard for a year or two now as a method of population control because they are so destructive. It tastes very much like turkey.

I've been fully remote since 2015 and will find a different job if they try to get me to come into the office ever again. I don't miss it in the slightest. Maybe if I had a private office I could tolerate it, but we had moved to an open office plan so we didn't even get "private" cubicles anymore. It was torture.

Yep, very nice out here in Moseley. I live in one of the neighborhoods from the 80's. Three acres of wooded land, nice sized house, extremely low traffic and great schools... We couldn't be more happy here.

No questions, but Flemish red was my absolute favorite style of beer back when I drank. 10 years ago I would have been very jealous of your current position as it was really hard to find in the US.

I was too... But I figured if I need to fix it, it's already broken anyway. Worst case scenario I need to fix it a little more.

Nobody would have ever called me handy before I learned to do the stuff. There's no natural skill involved. You just have to start. You'll make mistakes, but there is very little in home improvement that can't be fixed by trying again.

>get yourself the right tools for any job

I can't stress this enough. I'm pretty frugal and back when I didn't have much money I would just make do with whatever tools I had or could fashion from what I had (and I still fight this instinct on every job even though I can afford tools now). Things are so, so, so, so much easier when you have the correct tool.

You don't need to go buying the most expensive high quality tool you can find, though. Harbor freight is great for those tools that aren't used too hard, but you really need. I wouldn't get anything that takes a lot of stress from them, but their stuff is just fine for regular homeowner jobs.

No one ever taught me that kind of stuff as a kid either. Honestly I just searched for tutorials online and otherwise winged it until I figured it out. I'm pretty good at it now, but it did take several years to get there.

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to how that intersection will be once the Sheetz is done. I figure the other 3 gas stations won't last long, though, which sucks because one of those stations has the only Bullet's that I know of that still exists.

They're building a Sheetz at the corner of Genito and Charter Colony (at the crossroads above the 'E' in 'Brandermill') at the moment, too.

Whatever grocery store I happen to be in at the time. Sometimes Food Lion is the closest, sometimes it is Publix. Very, very rarely it'll be Kroger.

We'll get some produce from New Grand Mart when we are there, but largely I have been disappointed in it. A lot of their stuff is just fine, but things like strawberries and raspberries are consistently less fresh than anywhere else I normally go so we usually stick to the more exotic produce from them.

Waiting for the kids and wife to wake up to open their presents, then headed to my grandparent's house for Christmas breakfast. Christmas breakfast has always been one of my favorite parts of the year, though that fervor is a little stunted now that the vast majority of the people who were there when I was a kid are no longer with us. Even with the additions to the family over the years, population has been steadily dropping.

Also for squirrel tacos. My wife is more partial to those whereas I prefer the stew.

Yep, that's exactly what they did with mine. Nothing would deter them so I decided to cull them. I have a personal guideline that I will use as much as I can from anything I kill so we began eating them. My wife was making leather from the skins as well but she stopped because there's just not that much we can do with it.

My primary issue with them is that they eat most of the produce out of our garden (especially tomatoes; the second there's any red on them at all, they take them). They will also nest in the house if they can make a way in, though that has only happened once (to my knowledge) so far.

In moderation squirrels aren't bad at all. I am quite fond of them, actually. Around my house, though, their population was outrageous. To put it into perspective, I have taken around 50 just out of my yard over the last 2 years and there are still at least a dozen just directly around my house, without needing to even go into the woods or the other yards in the neighborhood. I am fine with this population, though, as they are no longer a nuisance so I only cull to keep the population in check anymore.

Edit: Sorry, forgot to answer your other questions. Yeah, I use a pellet gun to take them. They make a surprisingly gelatinous stock but I havent tasted it, honestly. I would expect it to be similar to chicken stock, though, judging by the smell and color. Turns to jello when you refrigerate it.

Yeah, I've got at least 7 or 8 more in the freezer right now. I periodically cull them throughout the year so I usually have at least a few at any given time.

I find the taste and texture to be very reminiscent of turkey or dark chicken. After I pick out the bones, there's about 3-4 ounces of meat on each squirrel. I get them from my yard or the woods behind my house. They are stupidly over-populated out here so the meat is a side effect of culling them so that they aren't so destructive.

Today I finally got around to creating a recipe for Brunswick stew to use up some squirrel. It turned out really good.

That's what I figured too. A shame.

I wonder if you'll be able to buy a roll of just the Main Street station stamps. I don't have a lot of interest in the others.

Check out Kid to Kid and Once Upon a Child as well.. They usually have bows and accessories.