Hugelkulture
These beds are the ones that I put in recently in the front yard. One finished, one started, and one to go! Need to move a tree before I can do the last one.
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Current chick shots
2012 Seed List
This is what is getting planted this year….of course always subject to getting added on to, depending on our whims :)
The State of Linux (Hint: Still Not Good)
I try to avoid talking tech on here. I get most of that out of my system during my day job. Yet, my recent foray into running Linux again has me needing to vent. Roughly a year ago, I switched over to Windows 7 for the sake of “it just works”. Now, a strong desire to continue on some of my hobby projects, as well as web and server-side scripting development has led me to reinstalling Linux. I tried the “linux in a vm” for a bit. Sadly, the performance just kinda sucked. A second linux partition is a lot cheaper than a kvm switch and new computer.
The otto project updates
Current tank water tests:
GH =89.5 @ 5 drops
KH= 53.7 @3 drops
GH is lower….KH is higher. The water softner pillow did lower the GH, not the KH tho, from what I can tell.
tds = 468
temp = 75.3
Temp is the same. The tds has increased. After doing some reading that seems to be the case. I tried the peat granuals and all they did was raise the tds to way over 500. So, I am down to buying reverse osmosis water from a big box store. I may do some more testing with peat at a later time, but not the stuff you buy at the pet stores.
Chicks LOVE fresh from outside greens!
Crappy picture problem: fixed.
I got a new case for my phone and shortly after downloaded the Blogger app for my phone. I noticed that the pics I’ve been uploading have had some weirdness to them that I attributed to the screen over the lenses on my phone. I removed the screen thinking that would help. Not so much, still the weirdness with the pictures. I cleaned the lenses really good thinking that might help, it didn’t. I tried messing with the settings on my phone but couldn’t see anything that might be affecting it.
Current fish tank shots
Wings
You can tell by how feathered out their wings are how that some of them are a couple days older then the others. They are growing so fast.
Musings about Chicks
I’ve had my chicks for only 24 hours now and already find them so interesting. Nature is amazing to me, providing new and interesting every day.