PhotoFix Grok Bot template made for our drone photography business. We wanted an editor for real estate listing photos that would keep us out in the field working. Drop in a batch of pics, auto-edits, sends the finished photos to a shareable drive. 🚀 x.ai/bot/PRdnJ63L8h0FVlMAA1U…

Grok Bot already uses some of the same voices as Grok. It will be great to just used one app for everything. I’ve noticed I spend way more time with Grok Bot than Grok lately so this will feel more natural just using one platform. Hopefully this will speed up the Tesla integration for Premium subscribers too.🤞

This isn’t the World's Smallest Deer, it is our newest baby. Around here, Mama Deer and her spotted fawn are regulars under the apple trees, cleaning up the fallen apples. This baby was born somewhere in the brush on the property, and momma has been raising him here ever since. I’m looking out the window and Talulah’s little blue head popped up looking at me. (She’s the wild turkey who adopted us) Pearl is walking through the rain in her robe and pajamas feeding animals and singing some kind of soprano opera. The goats are waiting for their share of the apples, the little Siamese is following Pearl around, and this is all just a normal Friday here. This also reminds me, I still need to turn a mountain of those apples into applesauce and winter pie filling. I think this little fawn might need a name eventually. 🦌🍎

Small bedroom before and after

Listen closely 🔊 Dolly Parton Day is today, and my pink Mexican shellflower picked this cool rainy morning to send out another extravagant blossom. We already met her when the first flower opened, but I think she finally has a name. I like naming plants after people and things I love, and this one is so pink, so extravagant, with those little yellow spots inside. Dolly just fits. I stood there in the rain filming her while the cats carried on in the background.🤭 I think this flower was waiting until today to tell me her name, Dolly, welcome to the homestead 🌸 🐈

Perfect evening for a Willamette river walk. Woodpeckers Ducks Mom and baby deer I’ll share a subscriber video later with our deer encounter. But first I need to bake a chicken pot pie 🥧 🦌

These Tesla meetups and travel adventures look so fun! Also, I love the drone footage 🚁 Does Oregon even have a club?

Meta smart glasses just got a pile of new styles this week, and I’m still not buying a pair yet because most of them look like men’s nerd glasses on my tiny face I actually want them. I could have filmed my raw milk pickup the other day from exactly what I was seeing, then edited out people and anything that gives away my location. That kind of hands-free video makes so much sense for how I already share my life I want those early-2000s Chanel pink or baby blue futuristic sunglasses. The Kylie Jenner frames get closer, but I still need to try them on because fit matters when you have a tiny head Smart glasses are getting smarter. Now make me a pair I’d want even if there wasn’t a camera inside 

Creators of X is at noon Pacific, and yes, the algorithm sucks again 😂 I’m bringing a few topics to the table, new account boosts, whether the finance department is actually paying off, and a little creator show and tell. Come hang out with us at noon. This one should be fun ☕️🐓

Pay off a 3% mortgage or keep it and invest @ 6%? My first question is not the interest rate. It's where the payoff money is coming from? A brand-new account joined X this month, has 99 followers, makes one post, and that post has 1.5 million views. The story goes like this. $500k house bought in 2021, a divorce, Dave Ramsey, then the mortgage gets paid off. Maybe every word is true, but if you can wipe out a mortgage on a $500k house in five years, you’re are already in a financial situation most people cannot relate to. Where did the money come from? What was the income? It’s important to read the math before we react to the lesson. Most people are trying to make a housing payment and invest a little on the side. If you have the income to comfortably keep a 3% mortgage and invest money earning more, that can make sense. That money you’re growing can also give you protection if the household income disappears. 👀 There’s really no one-size-fits-all answer. I have about 10 years left to pay on our house at 2.25% interest. (I was a mortgage broker, I have connections 😅) I make the payment, invest some extra when I can, and if those investments ever grow big enough to wipe out the mortgage, you better believe I'm going to consider doing it. Peace of mind is real. If my husband ever gets hurt or needs to work less, I want our family to need less income every month, not more. Meanwhile, I know people who have posted real content for years and fight to get seen while a one-post account gets a million views. That alone is a good reminder not to let viral bait make financial decisions for your house. 🐈 🎣

Were they testing the new Tesla collision protection, or didn’t download the update yet? So glad no one got hurt

Grocery Outlet was also offering $1.99/lb family chicken packs this week when my grok bot pulled up their deals before I went shopping yesterday. I still buy chicken from my local butcher, the meat is raised locally too, but that $1.99 /lb price is sure tempting to stock the freezer. 🐔

Mortgage math gets pretty ugly after 36 payments. In the first years of a mortgage, most of each payment goes to interest, so you can make three years of payments and barely touch the principal. That’s exactly why I would be really careful buying a house I only planned to live in for a few years. If I knew I was moving soon, I’d rent. If I thought I’d only be there about five years, especially with prices softening, I might rent a little longer and watch the market to see where prices land. Because if you buy and then have to sell while prices are down, you can lose money even if the monthly payment looked fine. I think matters a-lot right now. If I’m going to live in the home for ten years or more, that changes buying over renting for me. Markets have time to adjust, prices can come back, and if rates come down later you may be able to refinance. We’ve owned our place long enough that the equity is something like three or four times what we paid, and that absolutely did not happen in three years. Sometimes you have to zoom the calculator way out. 🏡

My Grok Bot Sage, just told me something was meta and it won’t do it again. What does “meta” mean in this context? This midlife homesteader is taking notes. 🐴

Agent, bot what’s the difference? The homestead needs to know. 🐷

My Grok Bot Alice just called me sweetheart and told me to go spend 15 minutes shining my kitchen sink and faucet 🤣