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Tetris

Tetris is geometry with moderate calculus. The point of Tetris is to assimilate the pieces into holes in the shape of the pieces themselves. Geometry is used to determine whether a shape can fit into a certain hole or not. That is the official definition. But what Tetris REALLY is all about is rearranging furniture. […]

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Foiled! And other good news.

The fence earned its keep this morning. Our neighbor’s cattle showed up on the property next to us, and walked along a few of the edges of our fence seeking a way in, and they were foiled. When they arrived at our neighbor’s yard, they were noticed and herded back and hopefully the fence breach […]

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Spinning project

Found the pieces that I needed for my Ashford spinning wheel, and fiber to spin. And I did a bit of maintenance on my spinning wheel as it’s been a while since I’ve done any spinning, and we’ve moved a couple of times. Things needed to be tightened up. This is the fiber I want […]

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Let the gardening commence.

We are cow-proofed – yay! This is kind of exciting. We didn’t think we’d have any sort of a garden this year. But surprisingly we have a fence!! Of course, we need to remove all the grass and weeds from inside the garden fence, and a bunch of rocks, and buy seeds and some compost. […]

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Progress

The kitchen countertop is in, at long last. It is so much nicer to work on than varnished plywood!! So the next steps in the kitchen are to finish the sheetrock which needs a skim coat and texturing, then painting, both on the wall behind the sink and on the ceiling. We are replacing the […]

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Oro is a good watch-bird

Oro alerts us to visitors, real and imaginary. Today we had a real visit. He has amazing eyesight!! Sometimes he will complain about an eagle soaring miles away, and it is just at the limits of us catching a glimpse with our binoculars to see what it is he’s talking about. I managed to catch […]

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First, the kitchen is all installed. What remains to do is mainly cosmetic things like finish the beams in the kitchen area, paint and put in the gas piping for the propane range, and the counter top. The granite company will come do a template on April 8th and then a month later bring us […]

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Remodeling houses

Remodeling houses sucks if you’re living in the middle of the destruction. We’ve been doing this to ourselves since 1998. You’d think I’d figure this out. But it will be good when everything is done. It always takes way longer than it should, just because that is the nature of the beast. First project is […]

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I saw a news article the other day that said the world is spinning faster than it has for fifty years. This explains a lot about what happened to 2020. Well, on top of a pandemic, and deciding to move back out to the country and away from a more urban lifestyle which was in […]

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Every place we move we have bears in the yard.   Today we had two of them, but it took a few minutes to figure it out.  A mom and last years’ baby were smelling the bird seeds in our fenced yard. First, Oro told us about a bear, and that scared the first one off […]

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