If you want a hot tub that is 100% free of plastic, choose a Snorkel wood fired tub. The wood that surrounds you is western red cedar. Our aluminum submersible wood stove heats a hot tub like this at 30F/hr. The snorkel is the air slot that pulls the air under the water to burn the wood clean at 1000 F and out the chimney. Damper and air intake control keeps you in control. No plastic and simple. Customers sometimes get 40 years out of their set up. for details.

Every Honeycrisp apple is a clone of a single tree planted at the University of Minnesota in 1962. Every one. Apple seeds are random. Plant a Honeycrisp seed and the new tree produces a small, sour apple that’s usually inedible. So apple growers do something old and clever. They cut a small branch off the original Honeycrisp tree, slot it into a slit in a young apple sapling, wrap the joint, and wait. The branch fuses to its new host and starts producing Honeycrisps. About 20 million Honeycrisp trees exist worldwide, every one a piece of that 1962 tree on different roots. Same goes for Gala, Fuji, Pink Lady, Granny Smith. Every Granny Smith on Earth traces back to a seedling found in 1868 by a woman named Maria Ann Smith in Australia. She’d thrown French crab apple cores onto her compost heap, one of them sprouted, and the apples it bore were unusually tart and good for cooking. That one tree is the ancestor of every Granny Smith in every grocery store on the planet. Wine has the bigger story. In the 1860s, a tiny aphid called phylloxera caught a boat from America to France, hidden in some grapevine cuttings. It eats grape roots. French vines had no defense and started dying everywhere. Within 15 years, French wine production crashed from about 11 billion bottles a year to 3 billion. The blight then tore through Italy, Spain, and Germany, and European wine was on the edge of collapse. The rescue came from Missouri and Texas. American grapevines had grown up with phylloxera and were immune to it. So growers chopped French grape varieties off at the trunk and joined them to American roots. Above the soil: still French grapes. Below the soil: aphid-proof American root. It worked. Today, almost every bottle of French, Italian, Spanish, Australian, and Californian wine you’ve ever drunk sits on top of an American root. The technique is ancient. Chinese farmers were grafting trees by 1000 BCE. A Greek medical text from 424 BCE describes it casually, like it was already old news. It works because plants don’t have a rejection system the way animals do. Cut two branches. Match the green layers just under the bark. Wrap them tight. In a few weeks the plumbing has fused into a single plant. A Syracuse University art professor named Sam Van Aken has spent 18 years building a single tree that grows 40 different fruits: peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, nectarines, almonds. In spring it blossoms in pink, white, and crimson all at once. He’s made more than a dozen. They sell for up to $30,000 each. Without grafting, there would be no commercial apple industry, no global wine industry, and most of the heirloom fruits humans have bred over the centuries would have gone extinct. One clean cut, and you’ve kept entire species alive.

My fellow dudes on x, I need to ask you a favor. My wife has discovered a new hobby, landscaping. We've spent $2,000 on plants, dirt, bark over the last 2 weeks. I'm sunburned, and out of ibuprofen I need this post go viral so I can pay for all this. Why couldn't she have chosen sourdough bread? Or crochet? Or triathlons?

There aren’t any high end Household Fixture companies in the US… And only one high end Household appliance company which is Sub-Zero out of Wisconsin. There should be a new company that does high end metal fixturing and also appliances 😉

Find companies led by founders who are obsessed with doing things right. Every detail, small as it seems, matters to them - what you see, and what you don’t. From day one we have been unwilling to make compromises. We use organic sewing thread, while the industry uses Nylon. Our tags are organic cotton, industry uses tyvek (DuPont). We wrap in virgin American paper to avoid any plastic touching the pillow from recycled receipts, etc. Every single detail is important - not to advertise, but because we are convicted to make the absolute best we can to the glory of God.