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.

http://darwin-online.org.uk/contents.html#origin

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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.

solution is a script to up/down the volume using an AVRCP bluez(4+) python binding script.

Look here’s one! ;)

http://pee.erkkila.org/btv.py

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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.

On a completely unrelated subject. New instant water heater is pretty cool. (in a really hot skin removing way).

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.

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.

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.

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(Also testing the wordpress to facebook plugin)

(No you can’t grow weed ;P)

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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 :).

• Tree and inside holiday decorations are down (outside lights…well, eventually)
• Stale Christmas cookies flung into a ravine
• Taxes and bills all paid
• Fridge and freezer are full of food so I don’t have to think too much about dinner choices for the next few weeks
• Ellie’s home with Kendra

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).