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This weekend Josh came over and we made breeding pens and fixed some of the barn stuff so the animals can be locked indoors over the cold. We did not fix the fence that one dog is jumping over (the snow is so high it's more like walking over, honestly) but everyone is safe.

This is good because I lost two birds earlier, muscovy drakes. One had his feet frozen solid up past the knees but was very much alive; we had to do a quick axe on him. The other I'm not sure of cause of death but I sure hope he didn't freeze to death; the birds aound him didn't at least.

So, everyone is safe and I can start catching birds and putting them in the breeding pens (in the greenhouse etc).

I made a bunch of muscovy/pork burgers with breasts and some of the delicious shredded muscovy (goose) legs with leon ( https://honest-food.net/goose-recipe-spanish/ ). My freezer is happy and I'm happy.

I've bought most of my seeds for spring, but a friend has offered to gift me some seeds so I'm considering straw-bale beds and doing some extra squash, melons, and maybe even corn for parching (?).

A meyer-lemon&tart cherry& oak mead I made, very experimental since I put oak chips right in the bottle, has turned out very good and will age very very well. Tonight was my first taste.

Tucker is living close enough that I can not only see him often, but punctuate seeing him with evenings in my own house alone like this one.

I am doing some things at work that will fix annoying processes I had to deal with last summer.

I'm teaching a soapmaking workshop this week, and the people I taught soapmaking to a year ago have taught it to other people and have used it to empower themselves in the world. That is amazing!

Not everything is great: this may have been the last time Josh is around regularly. He may be moving to Vancouver. this... I love him, and this leaves a huge hole in my heart. We're at our best together when we're doing projects and he wouldn't visit me much from there. The city doesn't offer many of you kind of project. So who knows. I'm sad.

And that bird with the frozen feet haunts me.

And I still haven't been making as much time as I want to be social. But I may get there.

Still: tonight everything is ok.

Yes

This weekend Josh came over and we made breeding pens and fixed some of the barn stuff so the animals can be locked indoors over the cold. We did not fix the fence that one dog is jumping over (the snow is so high it's more like walking over, honestly) but everyone is safe.

This is good because I lost two birds earlier, muscovy drakes. One had his feet frozen solid up past the knees but was very much alive; we had to do a quick axe on him. The other I'm not sure of cause of death but I sure hope he didn't freeze to death; the birds aound him didn't at least.

So, everyone is safe and I can start catching birds and putting them in the breeding pens (in the greenhouse etc).

I made a bunch of muscovy/pork burgers with breasts and some of the delicious shredded muscovy (goose) legs with leon ( https://honest-food.net/goose-recipe-spanish/ ). My freezer is happy and I'm happy.

I've bought most of my seeds for spring, but a friend has offered to gift me some seeds so I'm considering straw-bale beds and doing some extra squash, melons, and maybe even corn for parching (?).

A meyer-lemon&tart cherry& oak mead I made, very experimental since I put oak chips right in the bottle, has turned out very good and will age very very well. Tonight was my first taste.

Tucker is living close enough that I can not only see him often, but punctuate seeing him with evenings in my own house alone like this one.

I am doing some things at work that will fix annoying processes I had to deal with last summer.

I'm teaching a soapmaking workshop this week, and the people I taught soapmaking to a year ago have taught it to other people and have used it to empower themselves in the world. That is amazing!

Not everything is great: this may have been the last time Josh is around regularly. He may be moving to Vancouver. this... I love him, and this leaves a huge hole in my heart. We're at our best together when we're doing projects and he wouldn't visit me much from there. The city doesn't offer many of you kind of project. So who knows. I'm sad.

And that bird with the frozen feet haunts me.

And I still haven't been making as much time as I want to be social. But I may get there.

Still: tonight everything is ok.