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Feb. 1st, 2022 08:46 amThe thing that happens every year has happened: it was cold, then warm, now it's cold again and Thea is outside the fence in the morning. I flagrantly gave Avallu, who was inside the fence, a steak and ignored Thea. I will go out and give him another steak in a minute. She's waiting for me to let her in but she can get back in her own damn self. I want her to know her job is to be inside the gate when I go out. Will also need to think more on this. I haven't been sleeping well of late, and I've had a bunch of stress, and my animal handling isn't the way I'd like it to be.
Meanwhile I'm working on the garden a little bit at a time. I'm trading for a bunch of peppers and ordering a couple more. I also want to contribute to some seed banks and things, maybe do some old or rare grow-outs.
I also need to set up my grow lights and shelves soon. This means doing a bit of excavation, which has been keeping me off it, but it needs to be done soon. It's getting late, but I'd like to do a couple tomato crosses in time to grow out the F1 in spring. And, depending on temperatures, it's actually about time to start thinking about starting peppers for real.
Seeds are slowly arriving and being received into the spreadsheet.
My little seed thinger I bought (a plastic 3-drawer one) is insufficient. I need to get better dividers and figure out how to keep the big seeds in glass (corn, favas, beans) in a different location without losing either the ones in glass or the ones in paper. Right now, when I pull out a drawer that contains glass, the whole unit falls over.
Piglets are still doing well, and still isolated with mama Black Chunk. I need to set them up a creep area so I can feed them, then let everyone out. I suspect the second-youngest set of piglets will rob milk as soon as they have access to mama.
Talked with my friend A a bunch last night. We've set up a tentative visit in the spring. I may be in the role of "something to look forward to when he's between relationships" for him for a bit, but I don't feel resentful or bad in any way about it. Besides, he's effectively filling that role for me too, this time. This means I really need to sort out my spring planting stuff, including how I'm tilling things and whether I can get spoiled straw for potato mulch. Last time he was here he was pretty helpful at pounding fence posts so maybe we can get the gate in the upper field cut. That would be really great.
Since the mortgage is renewed I really need a good basemap of the property, and I think I want to give things slightly more official names. I wonder about sketching up the layout and then commissioning an artist to draw up a map, together with 1) names of each field and building 2) a little cartoon next to each field/building name that reflects the name and 3) the square footage of each field/building. Honestly doing that every 5 years would be pretty great. Hm.
Either way I still need a basemap, and this spot is basically impossible to get a basemap of. I should take my laser measure out and see how that does, just to compare it to the vertex & transponder, measuring tape, google maps, and airphoto maps. I mean, why not?
Meanwhile I'm working on the garden a little bit at a time. I'm trading for a bunch of peppers and ordering a couple more. I also want to contribute to some seed banks and things, maybe do some old or rare grow-outs.
I also need to set up my grow lights and shelves soon. This means doing a bit of excavation, which has been keeping me off it, but it needs to be done soon. It's getting late, but I'd like to do a couple tomato crosses in time to grow out the F1 in spring. And, depending on temperatures, it's actually about time to start thinking about starting peppers for real.
Seeds are slowly arriving and being received into the spreadsheet.
My little seed thinger I bought (a plastic 3-drawer one) is insufficient. I need to get better dividers and figure out how to keep the big seeds in glass (corn, favas, beans) in a different location without losing either the ones in glass or the ones in paper. Right now, when I pull out a drawer that contains glass, the whole unit falls over.
Piglets are still doing well, and still isolated with mama Black Chunk. I need to set them up a creep area so I can feed them, then let everyone out. I suspect the second-youngest set of piglets will rob milk as soon as they have access to mama.
Talked with my friend A a bunch last night. We've set up a tentative visit in the spring. I may be in the role of "something to look forward to when he's between relationships" for him for a bit, but I don't feel resentful or bad in any way about it. Besides, he's effectively filling that role for me too, this time. This means I really need to sort out my spring planting stuff, including how I'm tilling things and whether I can get spoiled straw for potato mulch. Last time he was here he was pretty helpful at pounding fence posts so maybe we can get the gate in the upper field cut. That would be really great.
Since the mortgage is renewed I really need a good basemap of the property, and I think I want to give things slightly more official names. I wonder about sketching up the layout and then commissioning an artist to draw up a map, together with 1) names of each field and building 2) a little cartoon next to each field/building name that reflects the name and 3) the square footage of each field/building. Honestly doing that every 5 years would be pretty great. Hm.
Either way I still need a basemap, and this spot is basically impossible to get a basemap of. I should take my laser measure out and see how that does, just to compare it to the vertex & transponder, measuring tape, google maps, and airphoto maps. I mean, why not?
