HOLY SHIT! That was an insane flight yesterday as I took my first half collapse of my wing as I flew towards the hillside. Thankfully my reaction was automatic and correct and the wing reopened with a huge BOOM then I was able to scrub off the sudden speed and continue the flight. The next 10 minutes of the flight I spent blurting out "HOLY FUCK" as the experience hit me. The landing was perfect.
Going for a hike and fly today and hopefully a bit more enjoyable flight.
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Had a GREAT #paragliding flight mid day yesterday, my 104th and 2nd in my pod harness. HOLY SHIT I love the harness! It is a true game changer for me now. I feel so much more safe in it, I can feel my wing far better, and I flew with my hands pushing on the brakes and only pulling a couple short times. Did my first true figure 8s to land and touched down nice and gentle.
This spider was very intent on wrapping the other spider on the edge of the hot tub as we soaked. I'm betting he was no longer of any use to her aside from a meal...
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I am signed up for my #paragliding SIV course in July!!! Super stoked! I will get to learn the extreme maneuvers needed to deal with most any problem the wing will find itself in. Mid day I got a lot of mowing done but only about a 1/3 of what needs it. I'll get the boys on it today and this weekend.
RAMFEST at the school was a pretty big draw for the community and we saw oodles of people we know and the boys saw tons of their friends and had a great time. We managed to get there early enough to not have to stand in huge long lines wince many people showed up after 6pm.
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Did they pay for the Bodyguard song to play in the background softly the entire time a person is browsing?
First flight in my new pod harness, 2nd flight from Quartzite, first time flying through rain, 4th flight on my wing, one of my better landings, and the scooter ACTUALLY MADE IT the 4.2 miles and 1000 foot climb back to the car!
By all rights I shouldn't have flown but I missed the nearby rain as I was launching but in the end it was just sprinkles and no problems happened, but good lessons learned. I should have listened to the birds when I first got to launch and not waited so long.
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Got in a solid ride yesterday morning to the lake and back and got in some marginal kiting with my #paraglider. The winds were okay but the location was shit so I fought it as long as I could before giving in and riding home.
Sheep can be amazingly stupid, it's just astonishing sometimes just how bad they are. Thankfully the alpaca has brains and is willing to just go tromping through the brush and can lead the big babies around.
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The PNW is living up to the legends of WET... Despite us being on the supposedly dry side of the crest the inundation continues. I got the hot tub gravel leveled off with the rest of the wheelbarrow load and am quite pleased with the levelness of the tub. Thanks to the rains I did get organizing done in the house which was needed, then spent a bunch of time with my new watch getting it setup the way I want it. It would be really nice if the rains would stop...
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It really refuses to stop raining, but work must go on. After 3 years it was finally time to relevel the hot tub. It had settled a lot on the filter corner which is the opposite corner from my seat which meant the water dropped off my jets first. I had to add a good few inches of gravel to the corner and feather it out along the edges. It is WAY WAY better now and if it does over flow it will do so to the backside that has a giant boulder beneath to keep it from settling.
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Sweat bees are super cool and really mellow. This one was on the deck, flew up and hovered in front of me so I held out my finger and it landed on it then hung out for a while. A little bit before stryeyz was out in the yard and got to pet a bumble bee.
The sheep now have a massivepen of green to munch their way across in hopes of teriming it back a bit. Asshats are too timid to go exploring it though.
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This is going to end as well as thalidamide did. Or maybe like the Fly? Croninberg?
#trustthescience #brwaaaaaack
looks like a giant spinach patch they are planting with starts. Maybe some other green depending on location. Spacing might be for cabbage or other bulbous green.
The rain refuses to stop, but it IS the PNW... After my dawn grain run yesterday it rained most of the day so I worked around the house. Got the bees more syrup then after the rains abated in the afternoon got the bon fire lit and this morning it is just barely a pile of ashes it burned so well. Sadly the Spokane Chiefs lost and ended their playoff run.
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So insanely stoked on the pod harness, and I really can't wait to get it in the air. 3.4 pounds is all it weighs and is one of the lightest pods made. Kited in the afternoon and got a tiny feel of it attached to the wing.
3dprinted the dibblers for #garlic planting and now need to find the right sized boards to attach them to. Should make the rows really straight and easy to plant the cloves this fall.
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I made a washers pit by digging a large landscaping pot into the ground with a smaller inside and filled with gravel. Need to move it soon but works wonderfully. Sunk 2x4s into the ground for various distances so the boys could have a go as they have grown.
Really happy to finally have the brake handles for my paraglider printed out and installed. Took a while to find the right one to scale properly but now can't wait to take my wing out to try them. The file is on Printables.
The Spokane Chiefs hockey game was good despite them losing 5-2. Even in the WHL that puck moves damned fast.
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The nice long time on the chiro table helped me beat the knots into a little bit of submission yesterday. Enough so that I was able to haul more of the branches to the burn pile. There is still a good bit more to cut and haul but it is really making the area look a ton better. Been meaning to do this for years.
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After the rain deluge yesterday was largely dry. In the afternoon the boys helped me clear out a bunch of the tree and brush by the creek. The tree had fallen over years ago and kept growing so the branches want to lay on the ground. In the interest of fire danger and asthetics I've been wanting to get it dealt with for a while. There is plenty more but this is a great start, and we have plenty for another bon fire.
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Wet and rainy Mother's day yesterday which was nice as it washed the dust off everything so all the trees and plants look much better. I'm fighting pain so my day was minimally productive but after the huge grain load and the mowing I probably fucked myself up too bad. Aging sucks big fat donkey balls.
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Supposedly there are over 600 varieties world wide.
I get from Territorial Seed in Oregon and then from Snow Valley Garlic in Preist River Idaho, about half an hour from our farm. Both have sites you can order from.
The huge load of grain shoveled twice yesterday morning was quite the workout first thing. I then had to mow all around the farm since we have rain inbound. Ordered the rest of hte garlic for Fall and I will have 22 varieties growing next year.
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Killer day of #Paragliding yesterday at Tekoa. Got 2 shorter flights on the new wing, got a good feel for the wing loading and the feel of the weight shift in turns, or more so the minimal needed to turn. My landings were solid and ran both of them out. I got great advice on aspects to work on which I will be dedicating much kiting time to.
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My dreams are of being at cloud base and gliding from streak to streak. This wing is hot and I've got some serious work to do to figure it out but with the pod harness I have on the way it will make or break me. I am unable to continue advancing in a standard harness that has free legs. I NEED the pod, it's the cockpit feel of an airplane over a bosun's chair under a pillow in the sky. Nicely my fellow pilots fly a pod for just that reason.
First real launch on my new wing was great. I got 2 shorter flights while everyone else got much longer flights. I'm fine, I need the practice and a lot more kiting. It is a lot more touchy in the air and not a big boat overhead like my old wing. Hope to sell it soon.
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Boomers. A house cost $20k, a car $3k. That car was built to last forever as were the appliances. They also had the post war fervor and building America to push them along. They are also the ones with the massive net worths saved from that time period. BUT they are all dying off now so likely it is us the Gen Xers that are bequeathed the entitlement. Seems in all this wealth == entitled for the most part.
I get spent brewing grain regularly that my sheep and birds devour. Used to have 4 breweries I got from but am down to just 2. I also spread the grain all over my gardens before tilling it in which has done WONDERS for the plants each year.
So many trips up and down the hill. So many logs thrown down the hill multiple times. Much Werk Much Oww. At least he hillside is getting cleared of the mess of debris.
My new #paraglider is SWEET and I will be taking it for first flight tomorrow morning. Today I hope to go kite it if the winds play nice.
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Universal antivenom? Maybe Gates could stop being evil for once and back an actual useful and helpful #medicine...
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