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greenstormI've been trying to write up the pottery studio meeting on Saturday for awhile. The tl;dr is that I'm hopeful about the new studio manager they've hired, I really do not get along with the program manager (she tried to suggest I owed them $700 for stepping in and trying to salvage willow cuttings last minute as a volunteer), I'm hopeful the new studio manager will shield us, we have access to the studio this month and some sort of revamp will happen in Sept, the pots I threw before this went down and couldn't get in are bone dry so I can't trim them but I'm gonna try water etching, I still super want my own kiln, the other folks in town who do pottery are pretty cool and I will try hanging out with them if the studio thing fails, I STILL WANT MY OWN KILN.
But here's the thing. I went out on Friday for half an hour, and did an hour of tilling one evening. I went to the pottery meeting for three hours Saturday. And that wiped me out completely for the weekend. I spent pretty much all the rest of the time in bed, back to 3 naps per day minimum. I made it down to pick up feed, which was an hour of driving, without driving into anything. So I guess whatever it is is still here.
I'm considering moving the pigs to the back, through the main area the bears come in through. Baby on his own could likely face down a bear, the whole herd I have no concerns about whatsoever. There are no little piglets right now, which helps. They'd enjoy the grasshoppers and long grass too.
I'm trying to double-feed the animals lately, giving them two days' worth of feed, then skipping a day and just topping up water. It gives me more rest time. Cautiously in favour?
This has been a catastrophic year for grain here: frost, then drought. The barley is barely calf high and the wheat was mostly ploughed back under. I'm trying to stockpile some feed before it gets ultra expensive.
Meantime it's a great year for me getting my fall grains in. Because I didn't get the whole garden planted I have lots of space, and because we've got something like 2" of rain in the last week the ground is lovely for tilling. I'm starting to get the ground turned and decide which grains are going where, how far apart, etc-- some of them I'm just starting with 40 seeds and I'm not sure they'll overwinter, so I need to figure out how to safely plant and mark basically 20 pieces of grass in a big field over the winter. Very excited about it all, though, especially the glutinous barley, some of the wheats including my saved seeds from the ?2019 trials, and the ryes.
But here's the thing. I went out on Friday for half an hour, and did an hour of tilling one evening. I went to the pottery meeting for three hours Saturday. And that wiped me out completely for the weekend. I spent pretty much all the rest of the time in bed, back to 3 naps per day minimum. I made it down to pick up feed, which was an hour of driving, without driving into anything. So I guess whatever it is is still here.
I'm considering moving the pigs to the back, through the main area the bears come in through. Baby on his own could likely face down a bear, the whole herd I have no concerns about whatsoever. There are no little piglets right now, which helps. They'd enjoy the grasshoppers and long grass too.
I'm trying to double-feed the animals lately, giving them two days' worth of feed, then skipping a day and just topping up water. It gives me more rest time. Cautiously in favour?
This has been a catastrophic year for grain here: frost, then drought. The barley is barely calf high and the wheat was mostly ploughed back under. I'm trying to stockpile some feed before it gets ultra expensive.
Meantime it's a great year for me getting my fall grains in. Because I didn't get the whole garden planted I have lots of space, and because we've got something like 2" of rain in the last week the ground is lovely for tilling. I'm starting to get the ground turned and decide which grains are going where, how far apart, etc-- some of them I'm just starting with 40 seeds and I'm not sure they'll overwinter, so I need to figure out how to safely plant and mark basically 20 pieces of grass in a big field over the winter. Very excited about it all, though, especially the glutinous barley, some of the wheats including my saved seeds from the ?2019 trials, and the ryes.
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Date: 2023-08-01 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-08-01 09:05 pm (UTC)It does seem like an ultra neat thing to do though! It doesn't tend to make dishwasher-safe ware, but who knows what it would open up in terms of the hobby collection? I've been watching Andy Ward videos on youtube. :)
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Date: 2023-08-01 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-08-01 11:27 pm (UTC)We've... never been in a stage 5 drought before here, this is deeply uncharted territory. It's so dry that everyone voluntarily is staying out of the bush in motorized vehicles because a spark in the grass of a logging road would be the end of it.
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Date: 2023-08-02 06:05 pm (UTC)