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 For some time now, I've wanted a permanent greenhouse that would shelter our veggies from ravenous hordes of grasshoppers, and which would stay above freezing inside through the winter, so we could grow fresh food all year-round. A few years ago, I bought a copy of "Gardener's Solar Greenhouse - How to Build and Use a Solar Greenhouse for Year-Round Gardening" and had occasionally dragged it out and flipped idly through it on cold winter nights. Finally, I decided _this_ was the year!read more...
Congratulations, it's a jackass. Our donkey, Thunder, just gave birth to a very cute little baby boy donkey (who has since been named "Flash") sometime between late last night and early this morning. Mother and baby both appear to be doing fine, as you can see. He's been frolicking around the pasture, bucking, prancing, and generally having fun.
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Since I can't do much outdoors this time of year, to keep myself from bouncing off the walls I've decided to try to build a medium-sized, possibly solar-powered, four-wheel-drive robot (more accurately, a Remotely Operated Vehicle, or ROV) that can be driven around our couple of acres of pasture via the web, and used for viewing and exploring the various plants, insects, and animals found there. If nothing else, it will drive the yappy dog next door to distraction. read more...
 Okay. So we have two miniature donkeys and a miniature horse, and they need a little shelter. The one we put together when they moved in with us last winter, using bales of straw pinned to the ground with chunks of re-bar and a tarp lashed over the top was crumbling fast. We talked it over and decided that our best bet was to build a lean-to attached to the side of our existing metal barn (which is used to store equipment and vehicles, not ponies) using the same pole-barn construction methods and materials. We could share the common wall, thus saving some time and material, and electricity would be near at hand. How hard could it be?read more...
 A tale of my experience trying to get a defective thermostat replaced.read more... Older entries:
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