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Forgot to mention we finally got some rain yesterday, we needed it. Was a nice day long soaker too, barely any run off which is almost suprising considering how hard packed the ground was. Fields are greening up already, lawn will probably take a few days more to crawl out of the dormant state. Guess I’ll need to gas up the mowers.

We have a contractor (Mike Means) up doing some clearing work on the field north of the house, every time he finishes for the day we scurry out and review the damage to mother nature while cackling gleefully. He’s done a great job so far I’m anxious to see the results once we collect/burn off all the scrub and get some grasses planted. I’m looking to find some more or less native, deep rooted grasses to plan there under the remaining trees, then get mowing down to 2-3 times a year with a brush hog for the majority of it. Watching the big front shovel with a “thumb” attachment is mesmerizing.

The 5-6 grape vines we marginally take care of delivered a whopper of a crop this year, Erica and her mom spent the weekend making jelly (or grape sauce if it doesn’t set up!) and juice. The juice is incredibly tasty by itself, but my preference is to mix it 1/2 and 1/2 with some diet orange sunkist.

Found an old steal/iron cap on what looks like a well/spring head down in the western ravine this weekend, uncovered it while cutting a few cherries back so we could get the brush mower through it. I have no idea what it really is or what to make of it. I think it’s relatively new though, or at least repaired recently.

We kicked squeak off her golf ball about a week ago, 3 months being broody is quite enough. The other chickens are kicking the crap out of her, but other then the pecking order working it self out she’s looking much better. One sure sign is that here comb (the wiggly bit on the top of a chickens head) goes from a pale while/pink to a glowing red as she spends more time being active a chicken type things. I also claim that it grows bigger, but the jury is out on that.

I’m shutting down all my non open protocol IM accounts. So if it isn’t SIP or XMPP you’ll have to use email =).

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Couldn’t sleep tonight , so it’s server work time.

1. Wordpress 2.0
2. Apache 2.0.55+
3. Php 5.1.x
4. mediaWiki 1.5.6

Testing out the new tinymce editor that’s in wordpress also. Seems to be ok. I reinstalled the gallery2 plugins, and the image picker but they still don’t work with the rewrite rules. Oh well ;). At least it looks nice, and you can see what it’s going to look like when it’s done.