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Walter Pierce

@wpierce.bsky.social

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I raise children and farm animals, love cooking and gardening, write code to pay the bills, & play music in my limited free time. He/Him/His. VA, USA. Banner: 5 guitars on a black couch Profile: white dude, salt & pepper beard, blue shirt, faded green hat

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hi to all the new folks! My spouse and I, along with our children, live in rural Virginia where we raise goats, rabbits, & chickens (& sometimes hogs) as well as most of our own produce to provide our family with clean food while minimizing our impact on the earth. #SmallFarmLife

Black and white nubian billy goat with floppy ears standing in some hay and staring at the camera with his rectangular pupils. A retaining wall made of cinder blocks is to his left, and you can sort of see the torso of a black kiko nanny goat behind him.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 4h

Hell yeah! That thing is massive! We've still got a couple of weeks before ours are ready.

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 4h

Not sure I can do "proper" but I can get close!

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 4h

No worries!

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 5h

There's a storm bearing down and not enough room for all the goats in the barn so we had to put one in the fridge 😅 #SmallFarmLife

(There actually was room but this guy was ready to go anyway)

A woman holding up a brown, black, and white goat hide standing in some grass with peach trees and a shed behind her. The trees are losing their leaves.

Inside of a refrigerator - top shelf has buckets of feta on either side with some pickled peppers in between. Middle shelf has freshly harvested goat legs and loin. Bottom shelf has fresh goat ribs still connected to the neck.

Closeup shot of goat legs and loins on butcher paper on a shelf in a refrigerator

Closeup of goat ribs and neck on butcher paper in a refrigerator

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 5h

Heck yeah, I can't stand food waste! Plenty of good uses for it even if past its prime for human consumption.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

I used to have a '97 Blazer, pretty similar other than the body to your '95 s-10, I feel ya on the rear drums. I loved that old Blazer. Sold it and bought a Subaru just before child #2 was born in 2014.

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

The main brakes on this truck are disk on all 4 wheels thank goodness, so it's pretty easy to swap them out, but the parking brake was a bit of a bear. Haven't had to deal with drum breaks in a couple decades. $75 and an hour of my time, better than $500+ plus a tow from a shop!

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Yay now I can use my truck again. The little civic coupe is great but it can't tow or haul worth shit 😅

Driver side of the rear axle of a truck with the wheel, brakes, and rotors removed. A freshly installed parking brake sits behind the wheel studs, clean springs holding things together. The brake caliber rests on the leaf springs further under the truck.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah we would challenge our friends to freeze their food waste for a week and we'd come pick it up and they were quite surprised at how much they wasted just on a family level. Restaurant waste is a whole other level.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 2d

The best!

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 2d

Alongside your kale!

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