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Bunny!

#Rabbit #Hare #MeisterLampe #Trailcam #Homestead #Wildlife #Animal #Bunny

A hare in a field at night, photographed by an automatic trailcam with infrared nightvision, hence in monochrome. It is looking towards the forest, ears perking up. One eye glows in the IR light. The ears have black tips and there's a black spot on its back.

Still no dog, but there's hope for spring, so I've installed this old sign on the back gate.

A chainlink fence with a freshly installed dog warning sign that depicts a dog. Someone made a sheet metal cover with a little overhanging roof to protect the sign and it's mounted with stainless screws to a wooden backing.

Finally got around to editing a short video from what the camera recorded when I felled that somewhat tricky rotten birch: https://peertube.wtf/w/fUDkPKkXC1XV9J7f2Mm64H

#Homestead #Felling #Tree #DIY #Chainsaw #Tractor #Forestry

Felling a rotten Birch between a road and a house

https://peertube.wtf/w/fUDkPKkXC1XV9J7f2Mm64H

Ferret eating the shredded apple pieces the badger has left behind.

#Ferret #Wildlife #Homestead #Trailcam #Animal #Garden

Wandering around in the drizzle today, I found another piece of machinery in the bushes.

Don't even know what this thing is. Will drag it out and see next time I've got the digger going.

#Treasure #Homestead #Farm #Mystery #Machinery #Old

A rusty old lump of farm equipment in a bush by a fence. It looks like a cut off pyramid with a shaft on top. There's a spring on the side, some slots and what looks like a faded type label on the other side and a thick, curved steel frame underneath, partially buried in the ground. It's all rusty brown and mossy green.

I'm not sure how these episodes were aired but #Endgame, with #Tuvok's condition and #SevenOfNine and #Chakotay's relationship, feels like it is a couple of months after #Homestead. 🤔

#AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #Endgame #EndgamePart2

We finally have an update for you all on what has been going on here! This gives a little info on why we've been so distant, what we've been navigating, and some very exciting additions to the Ranch.

https://rancholibertad.com/quarterly-updates-awaiting-the-return-of-the-light/

I hope to share some very fun pictures of our new animal residents soon, and I feel like I have a lot to say about this season as a whole that I'd like to share here rather than in a longer form newsletter.

Please email us your questions if you'd like to participate in this quarter's paid sub Q&A. Last quarter we were able to give some very in-depth answers to wonderful questions, so if you have something pertinent to your own project or goals now is a great time to learn from our experiences! Paid subscribers have also been promised a gift for the Solstice season, and if you're one of them please send us your address so that we may send you some goodies from the land.

I hope to be more active here very soon, I wish to catch up on all of your posts and updates and be a little more participatory in this community. It is almost the season, we have one more push before we'll be settling back into a routine and having more leisure time.

#RanchoDeLaLibertad #Community #RegenerativeAg #Livestock #Animals #Farm #Homestead #IndigenousOwned #MutualAid #CommunitySovereignty

Random treasure you find while raking woodchips around the yard and the rake catches in something.

I guess I'll just hang it with these others I also found...

#Chain #Homestead #Cleanup #Treasure

A pile of chain on some stone blocks in front of a shed door.

Side of the shed. Lengths of chain are hanging all over the outside wall in loops. There's also a security window cover made by a blacksmith and the shack has Virginia creeper on the roof, which has been trimmed at the edge.

Tractor repair in the dark. Iseki was making some screeching noise when revving up, which I assumed was the alternator belt, not unusual when it gets cold and just needing more tension.

So I popped the hood only to find it wasn't the belt. Then I noticed when the screeching happens, the tachometer needle would go crazy.

Luckily I'm old and remember stuff from before digital everything. Found the one "cable" going from the dash that was not a cable, but a flexible shaft in a tube, driven by a gear on the injector pump.

Undid it and pulled out a flexible shaft that hadn't seen any lubricant in 40 years. Cleaned it a bit, hosed it down in silicone oil and back it went, now happy and no longer screeching.

#Tractor #Repair #Homestead #DIY #Iseki #Tachometer

Photo of a tractor engine. In the front, out of focus, a gloved hand holds up a threaded fitting and a keyed shaft that goes into a dark gray painted tube. Behind, in focus and with a headlamp shining on it, the fitting on the top of the injector pump where the shaft goes.

A gloved hand holding up a slightly rusty and bone dry tachometer shaft.

Thorny fuckers.

Got to be super careful throwing these in the chipper. They go through thick leather gloves like through wet paper.

I guess you could make sewing needles from them.

#Thorn #Thorns #Garden #WoodChipper #Homestead

A hand with dry skin holding up a small branch from a thorny bush. It has long, dark spikes about 3-4 cm long, very hard and very, very sharp. One is digging into a finger at a shallow angle. Behind a blue tractor, red woodchipper and wheelbarrow. A piece of Virginia creeper has wrapped a tendril around the thorny branch.

Stripping out the stable at the far end of the big barn. It's not very nice in there.

But a real treasure! Half a meter of compressed dung mixed with hay. Excellent fertilizer for crops.

Not sure if horse or cow. I think it must've been cows kept here last, long ago.

#Barn #Dung #Manure #Fertilizer #Homestead #Cleanup

A crusty old hay feeder inside a stable inside a barn. The bottom is covered with dark crud, the top with crud, probably from birds sitting on the edge and adding their droppings. Bits of hay are still around. The walls are wood partially with sheet metal nailed to it.

Different angle of the barn. A support pole on the left with separators that have already been cut away. A window is in the far wall. The floor is uneven and rising towards the wall. It's made of straw and dried up manure. A lawnmower is parked on some planks on top.

Front yard destruction done. Now we can replant, but sensibly. I want a little evergreen jungle there with a path curving from the door to the front gate and carport.

I've been to the forest and scouted a few spruce saplings that should thrive there, as the two I moved last year already do.

Also before throwing it all in the chipper, I picked out a few more nice pieces of the Colorado spruce, dipped them into rooting hormone and jammed them into flowerpots to root over winter (indoors). I did that last year too and some of them have indeed grown roots.

There were also some pine cuttings but those aren't doing nearly as well.

#Homestead #Forestry #Garden #Gardening

Chipped the rest of the branches in the front yard and cut the stump of Alan Birch into a chopping block. Some soft rot in it, but should still chop just fine.

Fun fact: Alan Birch (the felled, rotten birch tree) is named after a guy I worked with who did a very inspirational thing: He had a heart attack in his office and got carried out on a stretcher past his employees.

He lived, but I thought I better get out of this career BS, chasing money and hoping to live life after some far away pension that may never happen for my generation anyways.

#Homestead #Chainsaw #Birch #ChoppingBlock #DIY #Inspiration

A chainsaw sits on a freshly minted chopping block, make from the bottom of a large birch. The saw hides some rot in the tree. Behind is the stump, cut off near the ground and surrounded by sawchips. A fence and road are behind. Someone spread freshly chipped spruce branches on a muddy area.

Badger eating frozen apples hidden under the snow in our garden.

#Trailcam #Wildlife #Animal #Badger #Night #Apple #Garden #Homestead

More barn treasure! There's been a bunch of steel pipes laying along the length of the barn on the floor, very much in the way. Two of them 6m long.

I finally got around to dragging them out and then back in and on top of these connecting support beams for storing.

A few shorter lengths appeared under the ancient firewood we're currently using up.

They're galvanized and good quality. And now they're not in the way anymore 🎉

Could drill a borehole well, if we needed one :)

#Treasure #Barn #Homestead #Steel #Cleanup

A section of an old barn. On top is a wooden ladder and some very long galvanized stee pipes, aproxximately 40mm diameter. Several more shorter ones are leaning vertically on a support beam. On the left is some remaining firewood full of mouse nests and poop.

True homesteading is a good workout. With gouache.

#mastoart #cottagecore #cottagecoreart #watercolor #watercolour #gouache #illustration #bookillustration #homestead #fediart #snow #shovel #homestead

A woman is shoveling snow outside her homestead cottage

A reworked gouache and watercolor illustration I did some time ago.

#mastoart #cottagecore #cottagecoreart #watercolor #watercolour #gouache #illustration #bookillustration #homestead #fediart #relationships #couplesgoals #americana

A couple is laying on the grass while their village is on the background, by the sea

Reworked version of an older gouache painting I did.

#mastoart #cottagecore #cottagecoreart #watercolor #watercolour #gouache #illustration #bookillustration #homestead #fediart

A girl is playing with a ball in her homestead

Chicken munching a treat. Found a bird wing and some feathers in the yard this morning. Probably should make it clear that I prefer if she hunted rodents 😁

#BarnCat #Cat #Farm #Homestead

#Homestead

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