📷 Together March Photoblogging Challenge
📷 From a walk my wife and I did last summer along the Washington-Idaho border.
📷 Whole March Photoblogging Challenge
The 2023 gardening season has begun with a tray of pepper varieties. 🌶️ 🫑
📷 Old time domestic engineering March Photoblogging Challenge
📷 Kitchen tile March Photoblogging challenge
📷 Zip tie on a gate next to praying mantis eggs. March Photoblogging Challenge
📷 Solitude. This is a favorite reading spot. March Photoblogging Challenge
📷 Weather Micro.blog March Photoblogging Challenge
The chickens are secure. March Photoblogging Challenge🐓
Worth reading: Is it ethical to be on Twitter in the Musk era - A personal answer by John Scalzi
During the winter we have a food court for the birds. I’m glad I filled the feeders before the snow started.
Our 52 year old 3-door commercial fridge was acting up today. The farm family that installed it in 1970 had 10 kids, so a big fridge was nice. Fortunately, it just needed a refill on its refrigerant. They don’t build them today like they used to.
2.5 years after I retired I still get occasional calls from my old university colleagues for tech support. It’s nice to be remembered I guess 🙄.
The farm cats like it when we park a warm car in the garage in winter.
We set out some of last season’s apples for the birds. Yesterday they were gone in several hours. House finches, starlings, and red-wing blackbirds like them best.
One of the many things I like about this platform is the mention of apps and services that folks use. I like reading about them even though I don’t end up using most. H/T to @timapple for Nostr.
Ms. Bean will often come find me when I am working in my study upstairs. Sometimes my wife will send her up to get me for some chore, but often she just comes up to see me. She demands an ear rub and then lies on the floor until I am finished.
I’m updating my web design knowledge, which dates back to the days when the <blink> tag was considered acceptable. I just watched the Hugo series by Mike Dane on YouTube. Thanks @custom. YouTube videos are not my preferred learning environment but this series was quite good.
Is America Broken?
I just finished listening to The Gray Area podcast titled “Is America Broken? “. Sean Illing speaks with Alana Newhouse about an essay she published in Tablet magazine this past November. The discussion presents the idea that American society is breaking into two camps - those who believe America’s institutions are irreparably broken and need to be replaced with something new (Brokenists) and the Reformists. The latter believe that the institutions are still solid, and only need to be improved. The Brokenist / Reformist dichotomy doesn’t align with this country’s usual binary divisions. I found the conversation fascinating. It will color how I evaluate current events from now on.