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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 · 19m

It is. A bit on the sweet side with all that frosting, a little goes a long way.

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! It was delicious!

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 10h

The best way to do it if you can

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 10h

Welp she really outdid herself for our 8yo's bday 🍽️🎂

Probably should have gone with a less sweet frosting but oh well, our blood sugar will eventually go back down

7-layer rainbow cake, frosted with white buttercream frosting and topped with rainbow sprinkles

Cross-section view of a 7-layer rainbow cake with white frosting

Two young girls behind a giant rainbow cake, one of them holding up a slice taken front very slim sliver seen in the cake

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 10h

Damn

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 12h

Sounds like the beginnings of a business venture, or even better, a non-profit org to provide hella good food

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 12h

Crowdfund it!

I have dreams of a commercial kitchen, if only to more easily feed my family of 7 😅

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 12h

If you need a taste tester...

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 15h

The rain let up but the wind is still howling, but it was enough of a break for Lila, our 5yo, and I to harvest some peppers and get things fermenting for hot sauce. Mostly jalapeños (one jar has a surprise Apocalypse Scorpion), the front jar is mainly habaneros 🌱🌶️🍽️

Black plastic produce basket overflowing with red and green jalapeños wet from the recent rain

3 glass jars, on 1/2 gallon in the front full of red habaneros, red serranos, red jalapeños, red onions, carrots, topped with red cabbage, the other two behind it full of green jalapeños, red onions, and carrots topped with green cabbage. They are all fitted with a fermenting cap and airlocks, and are on a table lined with burlap sacks in front of a Marshall 4x12 cabinet with an Orange Rocker 30 on top of it.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 16h

Too many kale haters out there, trying to combat that negativity with delicious homegrown kale from my 94 year old neighbor's seeds he's been saving since before I was born!

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Ian Stewart @ianstewartcycles.bsky.social · 20h

www.richmonder.org/new-guitar-s...
My latest

New guitar shop aims to have something for everyone

“I've been here my whole life and I've been in the music community and the vibe is very small, it's niche. You sort of stay together and support each other.”

www.richmonder.org

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 18h

I'm in pepper harvest mode myself, great post! I might have to try that chili oil with a few of mine!

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 18h

Mmm kale 🌱

2 rows about 20 feet long of kale growing in a garden bed

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 18h

I'm better at the above ground plants than below ground but we'll see lol🤞

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 22h

That's a great haul! This will be our first year growing them as our neighbor (the kale guy) normally supplies us with a few dozen pounds every year. The vines look happy, so fingers crossed!

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

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

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

No worries!

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

The best!