iraantlers

iraantlers, 2 days ago to random

#dyads

via @dirt
via @beanclock

sliced bread sliced longways

iraantlers, 2 days ago to random

yoinks wad

iraantlers, 2 days ago to random

jived pork

dirt, 2 days ago to photography

📷 ricoh gr iiix (ricohrecipes.com + cross process) #photography
📦 high res https://dust.lol/posts/in-a-field

iraantlers, 2 days ago to random

disentanglement vs. disenchantment

iraantlers, 2 days ago to random

jive prophet sez hooey

iraantlers, 2 days ago to random

Formerly entitled “Conspicuous Only In Its Absence” and “How It Was”

BlackenedGreen, 2 days ago to random

🎶 Purple nurple pain 🎶

siin, 2 days ago to permaculture

It's been such an active season, which feels really wonderful.

We've finished cleaning up the West side of the house, allocating last year's compost. We also built framing for, sewed, and hung custom shade sails that make the house cooler -- summer is officially here in the high desert -- as well as which make that previously underutilized space another communal/hosting/patio type area just by virtue of being there and creating spacial separation.

My gardens are doing okay, something keeps eating my potato plants' leaves. I thought the birds that nest in the honey mesquite tree at first, but it keeps happening despite the chicken wire I've hung over the infiltration basin. My hunch is some insect, though I've yet to see the culprit in action. My white, black, and violet sages I replanted into the infiltration basin are doing great, though, as are the green onions and garlic I planted. Our nopales are slowly coming back, also, now that we've dug them infiltration basins and moved them to the shade of one of our mesquite trees.

We now have a water storage tank, a critical step in enabling us to get bigger livestock. It creates water resilience if the power goes down and our well pump doesn't work, and enables us to take some pressure off of our aquifers for minor irrigation projects.

A straw bale and adobe bunk house for guests and guest bathrooms are in the works, which will add to our capacity for hosting. A good thing, since we're grateful to be booked with visitors and loved ones from now until January.

We're planting five new trees to attract pollinators, some of our date palms are fruiting (despite being too immature to eat this year), and the infiltration basins on the North side of the property that were on hold are in progress again.

Our broody hen got confused when I moved her to her own coop the first time and abandoned her first clutch (that was my fault) but has successfully been sitting in the broody coop on a fresh clutch for a week now, so we're expecting teeny cluckers soon!

There are other projects that are set to begin soon, as well, but I'll have to update on those later on!

A reminder that if you ever want to support what we're doing here at the ranch, my Kofi directly funds projects like these and contains some sustainable goodies and unique art in return 🤍

#RanchoDeLaLibertad #WWOOF #RegenerativeAg #Permaculture #Climate #DirectAction #ClimateChange

nathanlovestrees, 2 days ago to random

was reading a kid’s book about space tonight and my son (4) asked if we lived in the Milky Way

“Yep, the Milky Way is our home galaxy”

“Does it spin really fast? Because I don’t feel like I’m spinning really fast”

TwoClownsEating, 3 days ago to random

Favourite books by authors I've read all or many books by, off the top of my head

The Trial - Franz Kafka
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Wolf Hall trilogy - Hilary Mantel
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Wind up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
This is Memorial Device - David Keenan
The Gallows Pole - Benjamin Myers
Lanny - Max Porter

What are yours?

taalumot, 3 days ago to random

It’s probably time to reposition this account if my goal is to ever meet anyone new on the internet again, but it’s not clear to me how because I’m still not really sure what the fediverse is actually doing, culturally

BlackenedGreen, 3 days ago to random

My biggest life goal is never wearing shoes again

BlackenedGreen, 3 days ago to random

Beavers are so annoyed by running water that they'll chew through trees to make it stop

iraantlers, 3 days ago to random

“If you can get a handle on it, it's probably a door.

I'm wary about doors.

And doorways.” (1/3)

taalumot, 3 days ago to random

The Abrahamic urge to take down my altar and pulverize every object that was on it with a baseball bat.

iraantlers, 4 days ago to random

this is just to say: clankity clank, jankity jank

enantiomer, 5 days ago to random

writing applications for Buddhist courses and retreats that say "you have to have gone on this many residential retreats to ride this ride -- but email us if you don't meet these explicit requirements but think you are qualified"

taalumot, 9 days ago to random

In case you missed it, I fulfilled my 500-followers obligation to post a categorized list of all the blogs I follow https://taalumot.space/writing/blog-rss-reading-starter-pack