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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarThis weather is very time consuming. Twice now I've gathered up all my tools and brought them inside due to approaching weatherfronts. The first one didn't even bring rain, the second just a few drops.Now it's thundering loudly but with sunshine. I'm confused. If I get my tools out again, I'm sure it will rain.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Weather</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Rain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rain</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarWent for a sunset walk in the meadow yesterday. In full horsefly armor: fleece jacket, netted hat, gloves 😆 Counted ~25 tractor eggs, three failed, waterlogged ones (the plastic wrap ran out and nobody noticed) and one giant cardboard tube that the plastic wrap comes on, which I carried home.Chicken (the cat) was out there hunting, as were our storks.Didn't go down the valley yet as it was getting dark and the path was very slippery from the heavy rain.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Meadow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meadow</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Hay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hay</a>

JavAlpsYou know, I was just into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> and came across a post -> <a href="https://mas.to/@continuation/114854549690489995" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mas.to/@continuation/114854549690489995</a>The post didn't intrigued me as much as the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#painting</a> in it.Somehow it felt familiar, it felt homely. It was comforting. Suddenly I yearned for it.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/home" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#home</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homestead</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#life</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarNew slum shack roof being put to the test already. 😮<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Roof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roof</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Rain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rain</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Weather</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarBad photographery

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarThe graveyard is full.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bugs</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Insects</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/PestControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PestControl</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Death</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarOk, the roof is on. Looks horrible. Slum shack style!I'll have to spiffy that up a little, don't like it right now. Add facia, bend some steel around them, fix that one rafter that is lower because the recycled wood was thinner at one end and I forgot to shim it 😢Also my pop riveter is FUBAR so I couldn't rivet the sheets together where they're joined between rafters. Perhaps should've added slats, but that felt overkill for a firewood roof :)But, the roof is on, wood can finally stay dry. That is happy news. Also, bunch of steel put to use instead of laying in a pile in the garden. And so far the only thing I paid for was screws.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DIY</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Recycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Recycling</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Roof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roof</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Firewood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Firewood</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Construction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Construction</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Steel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Steel</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarFresh tractor eggs.I paid in blood for this photo. Damn horseflies were sucking me dry in the time it takes for the phone to snap a picture 🩸<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Meadow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meadow</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Hay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hay</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Silage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Silage</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Farm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Farm</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Agriculture</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Farming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Farming</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarMommy tractor came with a big baler-wrapper, slurped up all our hay and laid some shiny white tractor eggs in the meadow.Except down in the valley where the hay was deemed too moist and the baler too wide for the path, so the verdict was "meh, it's yours".The requirement to mow is fulfilled so we can gather that bonus hay the old fashioned way or just leave it there. We don't really have much need of hay at the moment.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Hay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hay</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Farm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Farm</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Agriculture</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Baler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Baler</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Mowing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mowing</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Tractor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tractor</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarPeas in a pod. We don't have a lot of peas but the ones that did grow are super sweet. So we just eat them as snacks like this.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gardening</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Peas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peas</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Pod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pod</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Food</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarRecycled rafters.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Woodworking</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Carpentry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Carpentry</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Firewood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Firewood</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DIY</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarThis one's from the attic where I've been hunting mice.Much more modern than the wooden ones from the other day. I quickly brushed the rust off and sharpened the blade, which looked like its hardly seen any use. The sole is level and even in this state it works well.I'll do a proper restoration job later. I already have one of these in orange and despite the basic design, they're absolutely fine.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Plane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plane</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Woodworking</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Attic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Attic</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Treasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Treasure</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Restoration</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarScrap collection.After sorting that sheetmetal, I drove around the farm and picked up some scrap metal that is definitely destined for the junkyard.Piled it up behind the big barn for now. Should have a car trailer full soon.Since both northern scrap dealers are being accused of cheating (not letting you see the scale when weighing in/out, wtf), I think we'll wait until the road to Vilnius is upgraded and haul it there. I hate cheaters :-PAnother full day of work complete. Gotta push hard when the weather is good, can rest on the rainy days.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ScrapMetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScrapMetal</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Cleanup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cleanup</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Steel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Steel</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rust</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarHuh, he already came back this evening with a swather, so it's all in neat rows now. Probably will bale it tomorrow then.Different tractor too. Most of the big farmers here have 2-3 big tractors so they don't have to swap attachments so often. And an old MTZ or two as backup :)<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Hay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hay</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Farm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Farm</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Meadow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meadow</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Agriculture</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarCascading Steel Sheets 😁 Well, there's a roof. Not very nice. But better than cancer plates. Might give it a pressure wash before and some paint after (with etch primer to stick, not like that green one there).<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Roof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roof</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DIY</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Metal</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Scrap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scrap</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Recycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Recycling</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CSS</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarHunting for a roof in various piles of hoarder treasures.The house roof scraps looked promising. A bunch of triangular offcuts from when the house got a new roof. But upon sorting them by shape, only two triangles matched to form a rectangle, the rest were unmatched sides. Not enough.The next option was galvanized metal sheets. Not as nice, already used a few times, but there's a big pile in the garden that needed sorting anyways.Ants got disturbed and carried their eggs to safety and a frog hopped away into the thicket.One pile for the scrap metal dealer, one pile small pieces to keep and one pile large pieces to check into further.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Scrap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scrap</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Metal</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Recycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Recycling</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Roof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roof</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DIY</a>

Kevin C 🎬After the events of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fury</a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a>, since both <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Kes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kes</a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Neelix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Neelix</a> were left in the Delta Quadrant at the series finale, do you think they ever met again?<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AllStarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllStarTrek</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarTrek</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarTrekVoyager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarTrekVoyager</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarOur meadow got mowed.A perennial meadow must be mowed once per year. Else the agricultural spy plane will spot it and flag it as "abandoned land" and automatically issue a fine.So this morning a tractor with a disc mower showed up and cut it all down. He left without doing the difficult to access river valley though. Luckily <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@vaviurka" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vaviurka</a> caught him chatting to someone down the road.He thought the valley was still blocked with fallen trees, but upon learning I'd cleared those last winter, he came back, folded his mower all the way up and carefully crept his big tractor down the steep access road.Tomorrow he'll come back to rake. Then to collect the payment for all this work and diesel: Tasty meadow hay :)<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Farm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Farm</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Meadow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meadow</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Agriculture</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Hay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hay</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarGot the framing done for this small extra firewood store. Changed my mind on the roof support so some parts got recycled. Added a center post because that worked much better with the short logs I had.One side is applewood for the BBQ, the other fuel for the sauna. Yup, there's an old birdhouse in there.Need to look through my scrap piles for a roof now! Don't really want to put those cancer plates on there, even though I have lots of them 🫣<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Woodworking</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Carpentry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Carpentry</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DIY</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Firewood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Firewood</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Logs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Logs</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Construction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Construction</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarNudist log.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Woodworking</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homestead</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Carpentry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Carpentry</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tools</a>

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