Long story short, I was in Mexico using my broken Spanish to try and learn some Maya from a native speaker who barely spoke more Spanish than I did.

One of the first phrases I learned was “how are you” followed by apparently the only acceptable answer: “I’m well.”

In their culture, it’s unacceptable to answer any other way. I feel it is the same here, nobody really wants to know. I have some very close friends that want to know what I’m doing, but I see them 6-7 days a week. Half the things I could talk about involve them. 😆

Most people when they ask “what you been up to lately” they really want about a half sentence answer. They maybe haven’t seen you for 10 years, but they tune out if you actually start talking about what you’ve been doing for the last 10 years. Sad.

Definitely interested in following your tree fodder project. I have similar designs for my new land in Southern Maine. I just started raising katahdin sheep and have been raising rabbits for a little over a year now. How do you plan to silage the tree material?

I think I see growth peeking out from the mulch!

#grownostr #foddertrees

I think I see growth peeking out from the mulch!

#grownostr #foddertrees

Nostr is not hard but it does require some limited intelligence to set up.

Translation there are large number of morons that will never be here.

I love this! One stop by the blue bird app and you just realize how great it is some of those morons will never understand a key pair.

The birds are a lot less shy now about coming out in the morning.

#grownostr #chickens #guineafowl #homesteading

12 hybrid willow

12 hybrid poplar

Fenced off for protection from the deer and cavorting dogs.

From these will come cuttings for more trees, high-protein silage for my livestock, and eventually wood fire stock.

Built garden beds today for our first garden.

#grownostr #gardening

Hubby and I are out at the local Bar and Grill and they’re hosting a band this evening called Trauma Box.

#traumabox #grownostr #rockandblues

It's a good life being a pet sheep.

#sheep #kiwi #manawatu

For my next project, I'm taking apart these old raised beds, using them to make one large one, adding a liner, plumbing, left over aquaponics media (expanded clay pebbles), screen and lanscape fabric to separate the aquifer, then soil. It's gonna be a badass wicking bed. It's April and already hot as hell down here in TX, so it'll be nice not having to waste water every day. #grownostr #buildonnostr #homesteading #texas

Couldn’t get snort poll to work for me. And all of my messages in Snort read error. It doesn’t love me using the Chrome app/ chromebook. I need a new laptop.

So here’s the poll not poll.

Chicken Coop Question

We have 15 hens and 16, 3-week old chicks. We have expanded our coop every year because, chicken math. We do have a way to section off part of the chicken yard for them until they are big enough.

Should we:

A) section off a portion of our existing coop/hoop structure and add roosts for the babies? (see top pics)

B) use the extra hoop structure with green canvas top plus one or both of our little chicken house/tractors? (middle pics)

C) use the extra hoop structure with green top and add an enclosed coop portion inside it. (Still middle pics)

D) commandeer my 8x8 wired, insulated, drywalled She-Shed and turn it into a coop. (Bottom pics. Hubs says it is too nice for chickens).

E) another idea

#grownostr #backyardchickens #chickenmath #coop #shesaidsheshed #microhomestead #lackofplanning

Fodder tree planting has begun.

#grownoster #foddertree #offgrid