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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.

Banner: 5 guitars on a black couch
Profile: white dude, salt & pepper beard, blue shirt, faded green hat
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Happy challah-days, y'all 🕎🥖🍽️
2 delicious looking challahs cooling on a wire rack. The one on the left is a standard plain 3-strand, golden brown with no toppings. On the right is a 4-strand with everything bagel seasoning on top.
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Pasteurized a gallon and a half to use fresh and pressure canned the remaining 14 quarts for longer term storage #SmallFarmLife 🐐🍽️
14 quart jars of milk cooling on a striped towel on a counter
December 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Only one goat is in milk right now but she's giving us almost a half gallon once a day #SmallFarmLife 🐐
Milk in a half gallon jar on a gray countertop, stainless steel funnel with a paper filter on top of the jar
December 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Mmm snow kale cooked down in some bacon fat and rabbit stock 🌱🍽️🥓🐇
A mess of kale cooked down in a cast iron skillet on a gas stove, steam rising off the greens. A portion of a well-loved stainless steel pan, covered, can be seen on the back burner with another lid leaning against it.
December 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Supposed to drop down to 17F/-8C overnight with a few inches of snow projected so we'll see if these kale plants can hold on. Hedging my bets by harvesting a bunch for dinner later just in case... 🌱
Snow accumulating on kale in a garden bed
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Finally got it off the grill at 9:18 PM last night, it was a late dinner... 🍽️
Spatchcocked turkey resting on a rimmed baking sheet, just off the grill, with super crispy skin
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Day after Thanksgiving breakfast. Winter Luxury Pie Pumpkins grown from @sevenhillfarm.bsky.social seeds, hands down the best pie pumpkins we've ever grown 🌱
Slice of pumpkin pie on a glass plate
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Smoking this bird with apple wood chips and some apple cider in a pan underneath it. Couple more hours to go... 🍽️
Spatchcocked turkey on a Weber charcoal grill, breast side up, wing side facing the camera, browning nicely. The lid is slightly raised to check on the bird as it cooks, a probe thermometer is in one of the breasts.
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Haters (Steve) will hate, but our garden gives us and our rabbits fresh, delicious kale damn near year round 🌱
Stainless steel colander overflowing with fresh kale on top of a dark gray countertop, white tile backsplash in the background
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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It's always fun replacing the oven's igniter glow bar 4 days before the busiest cooking day of the year 😅

At least I was able to vacuum up a bunch of dusty cobwebs behind the oven, and also found an offset spatula I've been missing for over a year! 🍽️
2 igniter glow bars for a gas oven in my left hand. The one on the left is shiny and new the one on the right is well used and shows wear from the heat of the oven. Inside of an oven with the new igniter glow bar installed next to a metal tube with holes in it where the propane comes out to catch fire and heat the oven Double oven slid back into its place, white tile backsplash above it, gray tile floor underneath it. Ready for this week's cooking.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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BUY kale seeds? This is like 1/3 of my stash 😅
Clear quart-sized container, the kind you get delicious miso soup in from a sushi restaurant, mostly full of kale seeds and some empty pods on a black plastic shelf.
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The English language is amazing. So many different dialects and pronunciations but for the most part we can understand each other (and also give each other a healthy shit-talking about saying things wrong).

The correct answer is 1. No time for extra syllables...
Text message thread screenshot. Spouse: Shite, could you please send a kid upstairs w a towel? 😅🤦 Me: How many syllables does towel have Spouse: 😑
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Baby chicks are thriving, putting on weight and fluffy feathers for the winter #SmallFarmLife 🐥
Red livestock trailer with 2 tarps covering the top to keep out the rain. It's to the right of a concrete driveway with some white metal between the driveway and trailer. There's an extension cord in the foreground and you can sort of see another extension cord going into the trailer. Behind the trailer is a naked maple tree, a yellow false cypress, and some boxwoods. Inside of a red livestock trailer full of 150 or so 5 week old baby chicks, some under 3 heat lamps dangling, others hanging out beyond the heat. There are cinder blocks in the foreground covered in chicken shit, a red and white plastic waterer on a concrete block sits to the right of the frame about 1/3 full. The floor is covered in pine shavings.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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I'd love to hear/see the story!

We had a bridge get washed away by some flooding last fall 🙃
Creek in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Looking south across the creek where a bridge used to be, the metal of the bridge is to the left, washed out from a storm. The wood slats that were on top of the bridge are nowhere to be seen. On either side of the creek are concrete platforms where the bridge was anchored.
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Always a great night to stream Ian's show! I'll be enjoying the music with at least one whiskey sour.
Whiskey sour in a half pint mason jar on a gray countertop. Behind the drink, left to right, is a large bottle of lemon juice, a 1.75L bottle of Maker's Mark, and a bottle of agave syrup.
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This is the bed of my truck about 3 and a half years ago going to pick up pork from the processor. The next time we picked up the meat I put the freezers in the livestock trailer and towed it, made things a bit less stressful going up and down I-95 😅
A bunch of cheat freezers and big coolers strapped down in the bed of a gray pickup truck with the tailgate lowered
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Having your own goats is both great for and terrible for 10pm ice cream cravings 🍽️🍨 #SmallFarmLife
Inside of an upright freezer - bottom shelf has a dozen or so containers of ice cream, some pints, some quarters. There's a package of Canadian bacon resting on some ice cream containers on the left. The middle shelf is mostly full of quart sized containers of ice cream, with a box full of macarons to the right. The tip shelf is half cut off, but on the right is packages of hog fat and the left has a brown box with content unknown to the viewer. A scoop of chocolate ice cream and a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a blue bowl on a gray countertop.
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I let those peppers ferment with some onions, carrots, and garlic for almost a full month, strained it all then blended with some apple cider vinegar, a little bit of the fermenting brine, cumin, and coriander. I forgot I was out of bottles though so need to order some more 😅🍽️🌱🌶️🔥
4 plastic pint squeeze bottles full of green fermented hot sauce on a gray countertop. Behind them is a glass gallon jar about 80% full of the same green fermented hot sauce. To the right of the plastic bottles is a half gallon glass jar about 75% full of red fermented hot sauce.
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Everything's going to shit, but at least we have baby goats, cats, and the unbridled happiness and curiosity of childhood to keep us going. #GoatSky #SmallFarmLife
A baby goat stands facing to the right on a driveway. He is mostly black, with brown around the eyes, feet, and his belly. His ears are floppy, inherited from his Nubian father. His mom is Kiko, so he'll be a pretty solid dude when he's grown. A young child wearing a blue and red striped zip up hoodie sits on a driveway playing with a black and brown baby goat and a black and gray tabby cat. A young child wearing a blue and red striped zip up hoodie squats on a driveway as a gray and black tabby cat face boops his knee. A black and brown baby goat looks on curiously, body facing the camera but head turned to the left to see the action. A young child wearing a blue and red striped zip up hoodie follows a black and brown baby goat and a gray and black tabby cat playing on a driveway together. There's a gray minivan and a gray truck in the background. Off to the right there are some granite and marble slabs leaning up against a shed.
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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It's finally dropping below freezing tonight, so here's the last big haul from our summer garden. The fennel and Thai basil are making the kitchen smell amazing 🌱
Glass bowl on a gray tile floor full of various chili peppers: apocalypse scorpion, habanero, serrano, fish, jalapeno. To the right is a black plastic basket mostly full of cherry tomatoes with some small not quite ripe butternut squash behind them. To the left of the tomatoes is a steel stock pot with a boatload of Thai basil in it, some of which is flowering. Stainless steel stock pot on a gray tile floor with a bunch of fennel fronds spilling out.
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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While I was under the minivan busting knuckles and cursing Honda, Lila was able to get a few cloves of garlic planted 🌱
15 or so rows in a freshly filled garden bed with holes spaced every 6ish inches, a garlic clove in each. Beyond the bed are some mostly naked kanzan cherries trees bordered by boxwoods.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Oof 😬 Well, you an save your knuckles by cutting things off if you need to 🤣
A black and yellow reciprocating saw lies on cardboard protecting a driveway. Laying next to the saw is a sway bar link, with one of the bolts cut, where some of the yellow paint from the saw blade has transferred to it. The cut bolt is laying next to the sway bar.
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Original suspension parts treated us well in the ol' Odyssey, hopefully we can go another 150k miles before I have to do this again 😅
A pile of suspension parts on a brick patio just recently removed from a minivan. Front and rear shocks/struts, lower control arms, sway bar links, lateral arms. Impact wrench and some hand tools in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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One of the last reminders of summer still holding on strong 🌱
A yellowy-orange zinnia with a few dew drops on it standing alone amongst brown zinnia stems that have expired.
November 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Enjoying some peaceful easy weather by the mountains & watching the children play
1/2 gallon stainless steel percolator brewing coffee on a camp stove
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM