Category Archive: Uncategorized

0 Comments

Day Old Lambs

Last night was cold and stormy, with maybe a little hail, all of which made me wonder how the lambs were doing out in the shed. By morning, the rain had stopped. First… Read More →

1 Comment

Two Lambs

A great surprise today! In fact, two. After a late breakfast, I was taking the compost bucket out to the chickens when I looked out in the field. In with the sheep, I… Read More →

0 Comments

Bread and Beer Sunday

It was the Sunday of the NFL championships but stayed off the couch for the day. I started in the morning making mini-baguettes from a recipe in the current issue of Fine Cooking.… Read More →

0 Comments

Raising Beds

Last year, we put in six raised beds made up of red masonry blocks. This year, we’re adding one more bed to use up the leftover blocks. The number one reason for having… Read More →

0 Comments

Rain in Selbourne, 1790

0 Comments

Idyllic

I came across this passage today and thought I’d post it, given my Radar posting, “The Rest of the Rest of Us“, a seemingly idyllic view of a 18th century English village, fifty… Read More →

0 Comments

Weather Watching

In December, I set up a weather station from Davis Instruments and placed it in the garden by the barn. There’s some inexplicable fascination in knowing the weather for a very specific location.… Read More →

0 Comments

Two Live Crabs

Ben delivered two live crabs on Monday and we cooked them up and ate them. More photos

0 Comments

Order Restored

Here the dogs are outside the fence looking in on the steer and sheep. http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAHfApvOOOB_WlESfHfM9b00Z6fleMX71-y4JZxjjJkKUXL_g1UyGFC4ahbbnzacsGEpHQvJNxFhN_G6-U37Pq2TcpnPcc6RlrXGLoOuxxzTGBsa7Lmi3h3q79k6foHavugunh-8i9eGdLnO8Xn2u1H6qQF-16sIQ69i3IzrCUj-S4WDdYHW_vcgd12TShZyvOcgjD8uCN13xtMGtHzohioIYT_NK3EExXsmtNma2gYJr%26sigh%3D9vOn7lP3wMcf69wFMwnmUPlFGfo%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&nogvlm=1&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D71be19be51545c41%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DS5pwgwThD5JZiopUP1Ks_g7FgIY&messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den

0 Comments

Morning

This morning when I looked out the window, the sheep and the steer were outside their fenced-in pasture and the dogs were inside. I had to get the dogs out first and put… Read More →

  • RSS Make Magazine

    • The Road to the I/O Sensor Network
      The tall tale of the slippery path taking Alasdair Allan, Kipp Bradford, Julie Steele and Rob Faludi to Google I/O to build a distributed sensor network that turned into the talk of the conference.Read the full article on MAKE
      Alasdair Allan

  • RSS Makerspace

    • Lighthouse: Roadblocks and reflection
      A couple months back, Cynthia and Flavio were very frustrated.  As a matter of fact, they were about ready to give up.  A key element of their “Papapa Party Shirt” (a shirt that will blink to the beat of the music) was a light organ kit, but it was incredibly glitchy and the [...]
      Aaron Vanderwerff

  • RSS The Maker Education Initiative

    • Maker Ed Celebrates Anniversary at Maker Faire Bay Area
      San Mateo, CA, May 15, 2013— The Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed) celebrates its one year anniversary at Maker Faire Bay Area with an event on Thursday, May 16, 2013 from 2-3 pm. Maker Ed was created by Dale Daugherty, CEO of Maker Media and founder of Maker Faire, as the non-profit, educational arm of the maker [...]