Happy Saturday, happy weekend, and HAPPY SPRING.
Today was a nice busy day. To start, I went and picked up a couch Melissa found. I'm sitting on it now as i start this post, I guess I'm glad she found it.
When I got home, I got to work finishing the fence. It's done and it looks really awesome. The solid nature of it helps a lot with reducing road noise, I'd say by around half!
The new fence
After finishing the fence, I worked o the rabbits some. It seems Blackberry is already bred by her brother. Chance turned out to be a buck. That's okay, we'll eat the inbred babies and just deal with having rabbits that have extra or missing appendages. The white bun was successfully bred to Buddy Boy, after New Buddy Boy proved too old to keep up with the nimble young lady. New Buddy Boy is now listed for sale to clear out his cage, and Chance is staying and entering the breeding program. The white bun is promised to a man scout if he can get a cage set up before her litter gets here. I'm going to keep at least one doe from New Mombun's current litter to add to the breeding program as well, and probably get a new buck from a different line. This juggling and setting up a breeding program is really cool. I've never had to work with this dynamic before. I'm enjoying it.
New buddy boy bun
After all that, I wanted to plant Hopi blue corn, but had to do a bit of eugenics first. I set out eliminating the smaller, deformed, or discolored seeds in a quest to get three hundred of the biggest kernels we have. That's what eugenics is about, right? Master Race Corn. The rest would be cracked to feed to the chickens. Because that's what eugenics is for, right? Feeding chickens.
Separating the corn
The idea here is to favor whatever genetics helped the larger seeds become larger. These seeds were grown here in this soul from seeds that weren't grown in this soil. So this is our first generation of locally adapted Hopi blue corn. That's part of the reason I decided to try corn again this year: I think the next generations will be better because of adaptation to our locale. I used the kiddos to help me with the process, even turning it into an introduction to job interviews for them and making them submit their qualifications for the job they wanted. Sophia did the best on that, no surprise.
Since it's spring, and she got a new couch, Melissa worked all day on spring cleaning and rearranging. It was a good day. Sam and I even took some time to play catch for the first time. He loved it and we're going to do it more. He's got a hell of an arm on him.
I didn't get done any of the planting I wanted to do, but that's okay. It was still an awesome day. It's getting late now, so I'm gonna call this one a wrap and head to bed.
Love from Texas
Nate 💚
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The eugenics programme sounds severe. 😉 If put in a more positive sounding way, the better ones get to stick around longer. 😁 I have a large onion that went to flower. It's still in the ground, fattening up the seeds for the next generation. The others that flowered weren't so lucky.
Master Race Onions!
Hahaha I love putting things in a weird, dark, and politically incorrect way. Developing improved plants is the same as human eugenics programs basically, so as I was separating seeds it clicked in my mind and I looked at Melissa wide-eyed and proclaimed "I'm doing eugenics!"
That moment when you realise we've been doing eugenics for years, but only saw how awful it could be when it was applied to ourselves. 😅
Hahaha think how the onions feel mini! The poor victims, you're literally Hitler 🤣
We're garden Hitlers!! 😲🤣
Hail Harvest!
Nate!!! Its Xavi-Elena from Rhome!!! Finally got on here and ONLY because how else was I going to reach ya w/out just dropping in and knocking on your door. Didn't want to be rude in that way but was about to had I not found you on here again. :) Let's visit soon!
Hahah master race corn! hahaha I need to get some corn planted but don't have any locally adapted yet... all our seed ended up being popped 😒... gotta love the kids.
Xavi!!!!
Would you believe me if I told you I literally typed a paragraph in a post a couple weeks ago telling you I was looking for you? I took it out and decided to try other ways of getting ahold of you first.
Guess that one got manifested! I'm so glad you're here. I actually looked for you on Melissa's fb, and couldn't find you.
How is your spring coming along? I have some of the smaller kernels and plenty of the bigger ones left for you to plant, they're yours.
I would absolutely believe it because I have been trying to find you for a while too hahah so boom! Here we are... we should probably exchange legit phone numbers as to not have this happen again.
Spring is going well... we just started our youtube channel this past week, finally have first part of our fence up, working the ground so we can start planting no later than the 1st, have about a dozen trees to plant in guilds and berries and grapes ect. This year might be the year my vision comes to fruition here... fingers crossed.
Yay on corn! But I only want the master race corn ones hahaha. 😂 I kid, I'll take whatever ya wanna part with.
Also sidebar, you know you can still keep messenger even if you're not on facebook? Also, you probably couldn't find me on there because I have my settings not searchable I believe.
Plenty of Master race to plant and save seeds from I think!
At the same time I left fb, I left YouTube and shifted to LBRY. You can link your YouTube channel to lbry/odysee so that whenever you upload to YouTube it'll post there too. It's kinda like this platform, where it pays in crypto, but it's a video hosting chain instead of a blogging chain. Might be useful to you.
You can use messenger still, but you have to actually have an account on FB. I deleted it altogether about four months after I went inactive there. Here's a little post on that decision. It'll take a minute to read, it's probably my longest post to date.
Gimme a sec, lemme set up a quick burner number I can put here on chain, and we can exchange numbers thattaway. It's never the wisest thing to share personal ID info on chain, as it's visible there for forever after that, as long as the chain is stored somewhere.
Here we go. Burner phone number:
(972) 848-4243
After we exchange real numbers on there I'll just delete that number on that app lol
Got it! Will send it to you now. Reply back with the legit one too lol. My bad on the delay... we have been so busy outside right now my days are flashing by.
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Cool you got the kids checking the seed for planting!
Yay Melissa on the new couch find, and I can relate to the spring cleaning as a result. :))