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Well I used to make signs like these but got away from the hustle and bustle of Ctrl FL to make a place to retire. Now that I don't have that to do, it seems lots of planning, with detail, has taken it's place. Still need sides and ends for the tunnel, which is a lot of details so it's right up my ally. Plans with details are different than having the money to do it the way I'd like though.

I was eyeballing the goats yesterday thinking about keeping a pair which is dumb because I don't have enough land for even a single goat. They all need to go and now that forage is starting to grow, people will be looking for goats. Don't know about quail but I do want laying hens again. I'll have to build a nice big run for them though to keep them out of the garden and out of the talons of hawks.

@Paul R. - My family religion is Congregationalist like the Pilgrims we descend from. Our church where I lacked attendance was established in 1620. Self autonomous with elders instead of big, top down church. The Pilgrims aka Separatists were not big on the whole top down thing(speaking of kings). I vaguely remember Sunday school.

My experience with Catholicism was the two city boys, one Irish, one Italian, that used to bully me with their crucifixes dangling from their necks. I do respect their zest and zeal though because they saved everyone's butts back in 1483 at the Gates of Vienna, else we'd all be under Sharia now.

There are two Congregationalist churches here in MO and both hundreds of miles from me. Every time I try to research what version of Christianity or church around here might be close, my brain gets fried by what seems like the hundreds of different flavors of Christianity that exist. I keep telling myself I just need to try the closest church and if that one's not a fit, try the next closest and so on, but I haven't done so yet.

Pollard, A nice portfolio of great looking signs! I imagine its a nice thing to have to present to an interviewer.

You probably would not require as much space and fencing for quail.

If you did want to do the poultry thing Cackle Hatchery, is located in Lebanon, so you could get them yourself rather than trusting USPS or one of the delivery services.

https://www.cacklehatchery.com/map-cackle-hatchery/

You are talented!

My grandfather was a sign painter. I remember going into his shop with long huge signs that he was working on. This was before neon was a thing.

He had so many different fonts. I was always enamored with his signs. Where I grew up, his signs were all over town, then slowly replaced. There are still a handful of places that bear his gold-lettering on their windows or doors. Places that hang on to history.

Nice sign designs!

We’ve not had further problems with hawk or owl attacks on our chickens ever since our broody hens raised big ol’ roosters with coloration that either looks like, well, more or less, a bald eagle, or, plain ol’ hawks. Not that I can guarantee the results! Have you had chickens before?

In our case, as we let the birds free range a lot, I have to keep the chickens out of the garden. It’s not a minor task.

You are probably right about the church hierarchy bit. In some denominations, how much of that translates down to the local churches sometimes seems to depend on the individual pastor. But, then some change pastors a lot more than others. I’m probably just lucky - in my (Missouri Synod Lutheran) church the “top down” has not been felt that much by me, and, the pastors of my congregation have had very long tenures (2 head pastors have stayed until retirement, and #3 looks to be headed that way too.) We are definitely not “autonomous”, but, we’re a far, far cry from the Catholics in that regard...

Hopefully you’ll find a good match for you (and the pastor won’t leave in a year!) :-)

Eh, the “fire” I mentioned has become a bit of another(!) project - to put up some security lighting, etc., around my brother’s old place about 90 min., from me. Plus a few lights on timers inside. (He moved to CA, rented his old house for a while, then gave up on that, but hasn’t yet sold the place.) The last thing he needs is a break in or squatters in there - IL has horrible “squatters’ rights laws.” Per the lady next door, and the guy that mows the lawn, there have been problems in the neighborhood very recently, so... I’ve been coopted. Luckily his old place is on a busy road and he’s paying that guy to do yard maintenance, so, that helps some.

Menards has some cheap, wireless-linkable security lights on sale (online only), so, step 1 was to order a few to try out, and look for cheap LED desk type lights (probably Wally World), and timers for inside. Menards has cheap metal “No Trespassing” signs and hopefully treated wood stakes to put them on. All pretty straightforward stuff. I’ll probably run up/over there today to get started, as the weekend looks like bad news, weather-wise.

Prolly will try out the “polypropylene” pleated or string wound water filters as, well, a trial / stop gap measure, here. If those don’t do it, those disc filters you linked to still look very promising. :-)