Quite the day yesterday preparing for the frost. It's 29F now and I got a bunch harvested to save it. The last of the summer squash, all the basil, beets, Walla Walla onions, bunching onions, and cucumbers. I'm hoping the heat lamp did enough in the greenhouse to keep it warm enough.
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I'm going to have a few more hard neck than soft this year but I know they should all do well on my farm given I got them from a place north of us. The Inchelium was discovered on the Colville reservation about 40 miles due west of our farm, I love having a true local type growing.
I'm super excited to grow so many and likely will get more next year. The Snow Valley farm grows 28 different and I will have 13 this year.
#manutd don't deserve to play in Old Trafford. Talk about an absolute waste of space and money. And they think they can win in 28? #losers #EPL #laughingstock
That was one of the most slow 2 hours long awful lines EVER! BUT it was for #GARLIC! We went to the "Taste of Garlic" festival at the Snow Valley Garlic farm in Priest River Idaho yesterday and I came home with 6 new types to plant. By then end of October I will have 13 varieties in the ground. Next time we will pre-order so no waiting in line...
While I waited in line a feeble old woman on oxygen died near the east end of the vendors but was brought back and life flight landed and took her most likely to Spokane. We got the full run down as the woman in line in front of us was a paramedic and went to try and help.
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After my predawn grain run yesterday I had the "pleasure" of an uncomfortable conversation with our youngest's principal... Lessons are being learned.
Not long later I got an amazing encounter with my resident Kestrel as it landed on a mouse about 15 feet from me then sat on the fence to let me get pictures of it before flying off. Birds of prey are all so awesome!
The wood storage area is really coming together now. It looks badass at night with the lighting and will look even better once I get everything cleared out in front of it. The butcher equipment has its place now as do the axes and mauls. The cardboard section got filled but now it's not piled everywhere.
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The greenhouse got a stick through it from the wind storm but that was the worst damage I could find yesterday. I got the wood cover roof on and fixed in place, the last bits to do on the cover are on the tree end by the gear shed. It was nice and bright last night with the lights on and will be so much nicer this Winter. Still more work to do on the structure but it can rain now all it wants.
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Something Awesome Happens if You Use Banana Peel as an Ingredient
" alt="Banana against a black background"/>We've been eating bananas wrong.
https://www.sciencealert.com/something-awesome-happens-if-you-use-banana-peel-as-an-ingredient
Yeah it's a mosquito repellant
The wood cover roof is almost fully framed. It was a long process to gather all the 2x4s from around the farm and I still need a few more to finish it off. I've only used 4 new boards so far and am trying to use up all the scrap and reclaimed wood littering the farm that I can.
Solid round of thunderstorms rolled through in the afternoon and with a big gust front knocked out the power for the evening. Thankfully we have natural gas so were still able to cook dinner. The farm is covered in tree debris now.
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Rather proud of myself for the problem solving yesterday. I had to figure out a way to set the rear posts at the right depth and after a bit of rummaging I made a tool that worked perfectly. It was nifty how strong the structure became as the bracing went up. I'm getting to use up a ton of the old scrap wood I have floating around the farm and a bunch will be lining the back side. Hopefully today I get the roof built and installed.
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I took down all the amaranth flowers/seed heads yesterday and ended up with a nice amount of seeds which I'm saving while the tub of heads got spread ALL around the farm. I really hope to have a forest of the stuff growing each year.
The wood cover build has begun and I got the front wall up. The post holes weren't too bad to dig but half of the rear ones I am not looking forward to with all the roots I'll have to get through. It's coming together pretty well though and today I will keep at it to hopefully have the structure in and locked solid.
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28 days into trying to generate this damned npub and still going. Lol, diff est 1099511627776 and here I am at 227697473089 keys tried... It's doing 100k keys/s but damn this is crazy how long an 8 digit takes.
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First half of the winter squash got picked yesterday and we had one of the acorn squash for dinner. 5 pounds each is really nice size and enough for 2 meals for the 4 of us. I got a bunch of lights swapped out for the LED shop lights and what a difference it makes. Winter will be a good bit nicer with the increase in light. Now I get to cleanup the mess the freezes left me.
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My greenhouse is still doing fine and normally we get until early October but this year we got a surprise.
NE Washington state. This is not unheard of to have a freeze this early for us.
Well, Fall fell like a brick on the garden. Hit freezing overnight and thwacked the plants. Since I am not selling this year it isn't a massive blow like prior years. I'm sure there will still be a bit of growth from them but likely the end of the road for most of the squash plants. We are looking at a warm up again so eveything frozen will be mush soon.
I have my #mesh radio back working and mounted on the antenna mast. I'm still trying to learn how to utilize the mesh best but as of now both radios work. I was REALLY happy to FINALLY figure out the CLI to change the damned timezone since it isn't in the web gui.
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