Ah man, sorry to hear. Pets can be a bigger deal to our kids because they’ve been with them for a huge chunk of their lives, or their whole life. Sounds like you have a great family!

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My guess was dishwasher door was open at night and it came out and crawled in there and hid in the bottom.

We have the same raw milk jars and handle for the jars. 🤙

A picture of what happens when you separate education of children from their parents. Turns out children are very complex and it’s best to align the incentives in their education to those who care for them the most. “But what about parents credentials and qualifications?” 😂

The fear of God and obedience to his commands will lead to a rightly ordered life. Everything else is downstream of that. Proverbs 9:10 (ESV): “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.”

You spend decades learning how the world works and then come across bitcoin which leads you to question and relearn everything. I used to be in the appliance space and once wrote an essay on how appliances used to last 50 years. Now I’m looking at the government mandating energy efficiency through the lens of them trying to obfuscate energy inflation. These policies also significantly decreased the quality and performance of appliances. Rereading the essay (from 2015) my observations on the quality of appliances was accurate, but the cause of the problem I missed because I didn’t yet understand the pernicious impact of fiat on everything. I will work on an update. https://ryanfinlay.medium.com/they-used-to-last-50-years-c3383ff28a8e

My son Elijah made this video with Ed and Marty from TFTC. Awesome work! 🤙

My son made this, working with Ed and Marty now! 🤙

But it can absolutely be worth it. We had not even an acre in Hawaii, but it was enough land (and trash trees) that it became a perfect training ground for my boys to learn how to work hard. The land itself can be like a school for our children to learn many valuable lessons when they’re young.

Teach them everything we know and have learned, and encourage them to be even better stewards than us.