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  • Gardening

Mammoth Sunflowers Thriving in Late Summer

  • UpdatedSep 15, 2025
Mammoth Sunflowers as of mid-September in the 2025 Victory Garden.

Two pictures of some mammoth sunflowers and dwarf sunflowers in my 2025 Victory Garden as of mid-September.

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  • Digressions

How to Stop Door-to-Door Solicitation

  • UpdatedSep 13, 2025
No Solicitation and No Tresspassing DIY FAFO Sign on Door. (July 2025)

How to stop door-to-door solicitation legally and effectively using home-made FAFO signage.

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  • Gardening

This Deer Had the Scat Scared Out of It!

  • UpdatedAug 14, 2025
Tallest Tomato plant in garden as of mid-August 2025. Just over six feet high.

Signs of deer eating stems of tomato plants and leaving scat by the garden.

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  • Outdoors

Put A Sling On My Ruger 10/22: It’s Now A Future “Project Appleseed” Rifle

  • UpdatedAug 10, 2025
Some of the tools used to install a sling on my Ruger 10/22 Carbine Model 1103 rifle included a drill, bits, thread lock, center punch, and a Grovtec locking swivel set (along with some other items such as a srewdriver, ruler, and tape).

DIY instructions to add a sling to a Ruger 10/22 rifle using GrovTec components. Includes references to the Bible (Ezekiel) and Project Appleseed.

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CounterIt.ch is a minimalist personal publication exploring Markets, Machines, Midwest, and Musings—the recurring themes that shape everyday life and many of the essays found here.

Written by Joe, an Ohio-based Linux user and former Wall Street professional, CounterIt.ch offers observations on technology, business, philosophy, books, motorcycles, gardening, politics, the outdoors, and life in Northeast Ohio. Some entries are practical, others reflective, but all share a common goal: slowing down long enough to think beyond headlines, algorithms, and the constant stream of online noise.

The site was created as a place for longer-form writing and independent thought—an alternative to the limitations of mainstream social media and the fleeting conversations that often define it. Some ideas simply deserve more than a few hundred characters.

Although the writing is rooted in the American Midwest, the ".ch" domain is a nod to Switzerland and its traditions of precision, independence, and simplicity—qualities that also inspire the site's minimalist design and philosophy.

Whether you arrived here looking for insights on markets, technology, Linux, motorcycles, books, or simply thoughtful observations about everyday life, I hope you find something worth reading—and perhaps something worth thinking about long after you've left the page.

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