Kiwis put their Weet-Bix in the super bowl.
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Patriarch Baseball
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My oldest son does all the gardening / crops so I'm not sure how many different ones we have... It's several though. We also have tons of chickens and two pregnant cows and one weathered goat...
YUM 18I loke your first suggestion of PWA, as mine is 7, so I win (until someone else posts their score). Let's just stick with that one, for that reason alone.
Unfortunately the moment any of us father a child with a second wife, PWA will reduce. But that should be a positive scoremaking event, not a negative. A stat that discourages polygamy might not be quite what you were looking for.
I propose YOUM - Years Of Undivorced Marriage. Total number of years spent married to women whom you have managed to retain until the present or until death (sum of all relevant marriage lengths). I know others will beat my score of 16, but I am happy to be fairly beaten by them. And this score rewards polygamy, doesn't penalise it.
Does an adopted child count toward PWA?
TCP, total calories produced.
Here is our breakfast from the homestead today, including our eggs, along with potatoes, zucchini, kale, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, onion, garlic, and basil from the garden.
We did cheat a little, using cheese, butter, oil, salt, pepper, etc from the store.
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Oh Geez I read thru all this and started to get really confused. I do remember a few sentences from college stats class. Correlation is not necessarily causation and a sample size of one or two is not significant. However a run of 5 to 7 strongly indicates a change. If more than 7 run from you then you need to change your stance or stay in the dugout(btw the dugout is where the dudes not up to bat sit and wait their turn). Remember not every pitch is worth your swing (with the obviously awesome bat) and so a sneer at the pitch can serve to rattle the pitcher. On base percentage is always important but NOBODY is one-for-two and the best ones are one-for-three but it still pays well at .250 avg and some hurlers are in the hundreds and we still applaud them because they are DEFENSE and not offense- they never score anything but get paid the best (weird I know)(I love run-on sentences). You cant watch EVERY pitch, you gotta swing sometime. The pitcher did his homework and knows you are just a looker and so will get agressive and drop it in the inside corner and maybe catch you up the bat on the fingers. Pain is always a motivator- either a bean-ball or a strike out. Train your eyes in the batting cage not on the field. Swingers are not hitters but you cant hit of you don't swing. You are at the plate because you CHOSE to be there- stop whining. Be a student of the game or forever guess. Now my mantra, "Swing batta batta swing!"
TCP - TCE = NEG
Cool. Mine was Total Calories Produced minus Total Calories Expended (either producing or eating) equals Net Energy Gained.
But to get at the true evaluation of that, we'd have to start taking into account how some foods, just by themselves, are net energy sappers simply by eating them, without even taking into account how much energy and resources it takes to plant, nurture and harvest them.
Relevant charts are available, and what is almost always at the top is brown rice, a wide variety of legumes and true red meat (cow, buffalo, lamb, goat, deer, elk, moose, reindeer, etc.).
Wow!
To be honest, I'd get a good score on number of different crops, but a terrible score on quantity of production...
I'll honestly tell the opposite story of a disastrously amusing day of home produced food here. When the children and I went for a walk today, we found a pile of Jerusalem artichokes, some potatoes, and a beetroot, that had been turned up in some ditchdigging I've been doing through the garden last week but unnoticed until now. Sarah wasn't feeling well, so I decided to make a soup. Threw all we'd found plus some other random veges and stuff from the cupboard into a pot, and added a bag of home-kill mutton mince and some sprigs of rosemary for flavour, plus a part-bag of dry spaghetti for bulk, then blended the result when cooked. If you're thinking that sounds horrific - it was. Don't do that. It looked like vomit and didn't taste much better. All the competing flavours seemed to cancel each other out. There's a reason Sarah usually does the cooking around here. But it was hilarious and the kids and I were laughing through the whole process of viewing the result and attempting to eat it. We've got plenty left for tomorrow too, and I'm not going to let it go to waste!
