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First rain

Recommended early-Autumn activity: harvest basil seeds.
Step 1: Cut off the flower/seed pod once it has turned entirely brown
Step 2: Leave to dry a few days
Step 3: Crush the pods in a paper bag
Step 4: Dump out onto a piece of paper, preferably folded a bit
Step 5: Blow the chaff away gently

I'm thinking about migrating this instance to my home server. If I go offline for a bit or forever, this is why.

Made an attempt to mount a butterfly for the first time. I found this fellow had been deceased for a bit of time so I didn't try to spread its wings too much.

I should have rearranged my home office sooner.

Does #forestry fedi have any tips for dealing with pine bark beetles? My neighbor has been cutting down impacted trees-- great on him for caring about forest health but it's the middle of the beetle active season, won't they just infect another tree?

Does anyone happen to know why rechargable NiMH AA batteries are 1.2V when alkaline AA batteries are 1.5V? (Okay fine I'll go read Wikipedia)

Been really enjoying my physical copy of Mini Motorways

Visited a lavender garden today. There are better places to have a baby photo shoot but always fun to see another farm.

Unseasonably early plums calls for jamming. This batch was just plums, sugar and pectin. Anyone have a better #recipe?

Went on a tour/lecture of First Rain Farm. No till and the only soil amendment is an on-site compost made of wood-chips and goat piss applied on the beds once a year. Prescribed burns and grazing for land management. Inspiring simplicity #permaculture

It seems I have forgotten how trees look #penandink

Interesting patterns in the yard today

"The elites don't want you to know this but the turkeys at your parents house are free. You can take them home. I have 458 turkeys." (I didn't actually take any baby turkeys)

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New blog post! I finished reading The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and wrote down all of the fun middle english words I didn't know. Here are a few examples:

mickle: a great many
"Men go to the city of Rames, the which is but a little thence; and it is a fair city and a good and mickle folk therein."

septentrion: north, or northerly regions
"And therefore in the Septentrion, that is very north, is the land so cold, that no man may dwell there."

https://wolfmd.me/blog/words-of-sir-john-mandeville.html

The Rockabye Baby! lullaby cover albums kick ass.