stubbed toes and mud pies

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lawnmower guy called today. ready to be picked up. i expected it to be more than he wants. i'm probably going to give him extra as a thank you and also we're thinking we might invite him to have dinner with us and a few mutual friends.

we're now so jammed up with appointments and events and Mom being away that i won't be able to pick it up for a few weeks. i'll give him a call tomorrow and see if he'll deliver it for a fee. it might be something he might want to do just to get out.

 

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picked up lawnmower today and had a few moments to chatter. for the price he charged and even with the extra $20 i gave him it still probably cost us a few hundred dollars less than what it would have had we taken it to the place we bought it from.

 

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tile on the bench project is done and the bench can be picked up. for what this bench is going to be used for it is fine, but i have been annoyed by this project as i don't have the time or the right tools or space for doing such projects. glad to have it done. it will be gone after next weekend.

 

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added new project to website about winter things. eventually will get pictures rounded up and put there.

Winter | Anthive

Snow, Shadows, Sparkles...

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but for today the image was:

i went out to take pictures of some other things and this was waiting for me.

 

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added pictures from the Mountain thread to this project and added more words to 'splain them and tried to make it better, but i will probably come back to this page again in the future as it really is getting long...

Water | Anthive

Before you landscape, observe...

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the south field after being plowed and tilled, but not smoothed yet or planted from what i'm seeing. no signs of new plants coming up or much else, plus what they tilled really isn't going to accomplish much, but we'll see what happens next year, perhaps they'll try again or something...

 

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tired today even if i slept ok, just need a few extra hours to catch up. once Mom goes off to her stuff then i'll put on some more sleepy time music and crash out again...

 

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a nice Saturday, wake up, have a light breakfast, Mom wants to make some Cracker Crunch and Caramel Corn, i go back to sleep for a while and wake up just in time to help bag up the Caramel Corn.

today's plan, not much other than sorting more beans and a few small chores.

i was invited to go to lunch with Mom and some other people but no way i'm really not feeling very social these days. i just want to stay home and get things done that i've needed to do for the past few months.

 

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i've posted this link before, but once in a while i still check on it because it is interesting to me how something that was designed and installed and then was abandoned and neglected, but it still survives in some form. this recent view is even more detailed. you can see the palm tree leaves - in the past i've not been able to see this much detail.

what is it? a permaculture site that was designed by Geoff Lawton and within a few years they abandoned it. the people in charge of working there could not follow directions or decided it was too much work or something. i've never seen the full history of it or a write up.

yet there it is, in the middle of a dessert and there are green things growing all these years later...

29°35'50.5"N 35°36'09.8"E · 29.597361, 35.602722

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go a ways to the lower right and you will see a rather large estate with some kind of design. i'm not sure if that was also a part of the work that Geoff did, but it looked like something he would have done. it too has been interesting to check out from year to year to see how it also has changed. this most recent view shows it mostly being dried up - but it looks like something is growing there. too bad there aren't teleporter booths because i'd like to zip over and check things out in person and figure things out...

 

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if you really like puzzles i recommend you pick up a few books on the history of science and then after a few popular texts, get an introduction to the philosophy of science. let that steep for a few months then go pick up philosophy of AI and the cognitive sciences (learning theory fits in with this a lot too). this was all things i was working on for my MS degree in college before i quit. it would have put me in the thick of things these times of hype and a lot of questionable stuff, but since i didn't keep immersed in this all i can't be as critical as i'd like...