I've been putting this job off, but it couldn't wait much longer as winter is coming. A month or so ago I filled a 50 gallon plastic drum with old wool fleeces I picked up from a farmer for basically free, and covered it with well water and left it to undergo a natural process called suint fermentation. Instead of using loads of hot water and detergents to scour the wool, you let microbes and time do the job. The down side is that it really, really stinks. And today was the day I dove into the tub and pulled the wool out, rinsed it a few times, and then hung it out to dry. Here is the fetid nastiness. It's grass, sticks, poop, urine, sweat, and hair grease (lanolin) all well fermented by some anaerobic bacteria. It smells worse than it looks. I fished all the wool out, wrung out as much nastiness as I could, and then took it over to another barrel full of fresh water so that I could rinse it. I did all the wool in two batches, rinsing each batch twice. Here is all the wool, hanging up on the fence to dry: Most of the smell is gone, and apparently once dry the smell will go away completely. All that gross water makes excellent fertilizer and so the fruit trees and berry bushes all got a good fall feeding. One thing I immediately noticed compared to the hot water / detergent method, is the wool is much cleaner. There are no tangles, no residual grease balls, and the wool fibers separate out by themselves which will make cleaning much, much easier.

Morning. I've talked about Bitcoin's looming liquidity problem. Check out Blackrock's BTC purchases in the last week of June 2025, and bear in mind that less than 500 get mined per day: 1,430 BTC (Fri) 1,522 BTC (Thu) 3,158 BTC (Wed) 4,134 BTC (Tue) 2,110 BTC (Mon)

GM. This week is a big week. The last of the cargo ships arrive from China. Which means two weeks from now you will see a significant reduction in trucking across North America. If you want to know what happens next, then 2 books communicate the game plan. The Great Reset by Marc Morano, and Covid-19: The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab. Crippling global trade will initiate the great economic reset. Stablecoin issuance will be necessary to provide the needed liquidity for the introduction of universal basic income, delivered into every person's crypto wallet via CBDC. These books were written years ago. The wallets are already created and sitting there at the treasury. The banking infrastructure is up and operational. All it needs is a jump start, and the next 6 weeks is going to be epic.

GM. Did you know that 1/3 of US beef and pork production is slaughtered in the US, the carcasses cut in half lengthwise, frozen, and shipped to China where it gets thawed, processed into cuts, refrozen, and shipped back to the USA for domestic consumption? The US lumber industry is similar. The logs are loaded onto ships and sent to lumber mills in China where they are sawed into dimensional lumber and chemically treated before being shipped back to the USA for domestic consumption. The USA does not have have the processing or storage capacity onshore to deal with the sudden halt in the flow of these products. There is already a massive lock up in the supply chain. These massive hog factories and cattle feed lots are likely already killing massive numbers of animals and bulldozing them into large pits. The JIT globalized system has some serious issues.