Watching “Batman the Animated Series” from start to end.
The de-attaching and storing of the tractor. Even though the barn is huge, this is a lot like playing tetris.
Appreciating the finished feathers on the freshly moulted chickens.
The anual barn bug cleaning and xmas light installations.
Scotch can cause spontaneous human graveling.
There’s been a bit of news about banana man releasing a copy of “Origin of the Species” with his “special” christian/ID introduction (and a few missing chapters that might interfere with his crafy introduction). Ignore the man. Instead of reading his crappy version go help yourself to all the Darwin goodness (and badness… he was a human after all ) you want at the Darwin online web site.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/contents.html#origin
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Hope page is still messed up, I know! Working on getting weather information into the banner. I’ll post a link to the project when i finish sometime in 2011. Behaps these snazy humidity graphs will help pass the time.
First impression of Gracenote service with the new Sony 400 disk blu-ray changer… “How the FUCK could you not have the new “Last Starfighter 25th Anniversary Edition” blu-ray in your database =/.
And finally, my impression of 37 …. it was a lot like 36.
Went to see grep at the vets today. She is doing much better then earlier in the week. The vet said she had some serious trouble right after the rock removal surgery yesterday but has been steadily improving. It was difficult to see her sitting on a pad with an IV in her leg (a loop of it hanging out near her foot), but it was also nice to spend just a few minutes with her. She stood right up and wagged a bit when they put her down and she got close enough to smell us (she’s basically blind) and immediately submitted for some much needed head scratching. We didn’t want to stay long since she obviously needs rest, but I hope it granted her a little bit of comfort for the time she must spend there alone. I was certainly comforted by it.
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We’re getting better at attaching the bush hog (rotary cutter) to the tractor. I think we managed to do it in less then 45 minute yesterday and the includes disconnecting the front end loader (FEL) and the backhoe. There are some tricky turns and space issues involved when doing all that and leaving the equipment in the barn where it is out of the weather. I’ll attribute about 1/2 of the good speed to practice with taking the FEL and backhoe off during the fall, and the other 1/2 to the assistance of epe and her mom, it’s pretty amazing how helpful it is just to have someone hand you a wrench or dropped bolt when you’re holding a 30lb steel three point hitch arm up under the tractor to connect it. After it was all attached we then centered and leveled the deck.
I took it out for the initial run up/down the hill north of the house to make sure it was all working, then epe did a few runs. I finished off the easy parts of that field this afternoon. I have about an hour left on the west side, and then a few more hours on the right side where the trees are more numerous.
Maintaining the field is important to keeping them from overgrowing and undoing all the work we had performed 2 years ago. Wood/brush pressure on idle fields is fairly high in the northeast, it only takes a few years to go from idle hay field to briars/thorns and then more difficult trees like ash and black locust.
Oh and I should mention I like to keep the bucket on the loader down when we’re cutting, as we go along it fills up with several pounds of grass seeds and a fairly huge assortment of crickets/leaf hoppers/bees/spiders and other unidentified bugs ;). It’s pretty disgusting to look at, but when I dump off the crawling pile of seeds near the chickens and guineas the happy noises are wonderful.
You really can’t wish someone a “Happy” Kristallnacht if you’re on my side of the isle, it really doesn’t work well. Instead how about we switch it up a bit and declare it “National punch a holocaust denier in the face day” instead. I could get behind happy and that one. Some call Mahmoud Mermaidinajar.
On a completely unrelated subject. New instant water heater is pretty cool. (in a really hot skin removing way).
New strangest chicken food… Marshmallows!
Couple updates..
We’ve had to escalate the fox battle a bit, there are 6 leg hold traps out on the property. Try not to get caught!
We picked up a matching pair of t500s to replace our aged out r40s. This has been the easiest linux compatibility install in a while. Kubuntu for epe, and Gentoo for me.
We’ve been seeing a great deal of wildlife in the field areas we cleared two years ago. It’s been nice to see the field grasses/clover fill in, and even nicer to see the animals seems to like it. Some (Godzilla cam) videos up on TY.
We just had a tank-less water heater installed as well. We’ll let folks know how that works out.
Rather than post more tattoo pics here again, you can find them either in our gallery, my facebook or myspace pages, or CheckoutMyInk. Since the last post I’ve had done a Jack Skellington arm and a small ladybug on my foot.
On Friday I sat for the first of two sessions on another tattoo, this time with Jana at The Iron Quill in Palmyra:
This part wasn’t too terrible…
This part hurt way less than I thought it would…
She said this would be the worst but it was a breeze (possibly because slightly higher up than achilles)
OW OW MAKE IT STOP…made a lot of faces and tried really hard not to whimper like a girl.
I go back for color in about a month. In the meantime I have another thing scheduled with TeeJay at White Tiger. Fortunately NOT on a foot this time.
We lost black and tan last week =/. She died right near the feeder though, so for her that’s probably the way to go ;p.
Providence one of the RI reds looked a bit sick the next day and that got us a bit worried, we separated her out and she’s perked up quite a bit. She didn’t eat or drink the first day but we went with the secret weapon (bananas) and she changed her mind about not eating.
Senior got his ass handed to him by the guineas. He’s recovering in the old coop. Anyone want a roo? I think he’s too stupid to stay.
You tell me…
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Anyone know how to get a pin helper working with bluez 4.x?
Grep is still walking in circles to the left, she is also peeing quite a bit so is wearing diapers (she’s thrilled). She seems a bit less obsessive about it so that’s good.
(Also testing the wordpress to facebook plugin)
If anyone feels wants/needs a garden to help out and doesn’t have room for whatever reason ( renting/no room/hallucination/we really don’t care what the reason is ) feel free to get in touch with me or epe and we’ll see what we can do for you =). We have several idle acres near the house/barn that have water and storage available, and if you’re completely insane we can always set you up in the western field :).
(No you can’t grow weed ;P)
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Friday the 13th for those of you who believe in that kind of thing.
AND!
1234567890 day for those of us that live in UNIX :). Probably the last great timestamp until the world comes to a crashing halt in 2038 or so. 32bit numbers are more then enough for anybody :).
Back to work tomorrow. Wahhh! But at least we’re all set to start a new year:
Today was one last big cooking day; made a batch of Good Eats beef stew (ate leftover stew) and Confit Byaldi, the Ratatouille dish from the Pixar movie with the rat chef. Wow, was that good…you’d think bland because of the vegetables involved, but the piperade really contributes a lot and the little bit of vinagrette drizzle really brings it together.
Surprise to nobody: the producers of Expelled purposely conflated social and biological Darwinism in order to create controversy. You know, like the artificial ‘controversy’ they’re supposed to be teaching in science classes, despite the fact that there *is* no scientific controversy, only a philosophical one (at best).
Happy new year folks.
