Stork is keeping an eye on the situation in the eastern skies.

There's two hatchlings in the nest now and when its quiet we can hear them gently clapping with their little beaks.

#Stork #StorkNest #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #FediBird #Homestead

Popped the two leaky tyres off the lawnmownster and patched them.

Patched a crack in the sidewall, probably from some metal junk. Its at the curvature and can't really patch it from the inside, so outside it is.

And one from a thorn in the rear tyre tread. Drilled up the hole, cut a sliver from an old inner tube, folded it in half and jammed it in with a screwdriver and some vulcan sweat.

Both not leaking now, but time will tell after some use.

#DIY #Tyre #Repair #Homestead #Lawnmower #Mower

Bummer. Our redcurrants are shedding their fruit, almost all of them. The small unripe fruits just drop off.

The bush is healthy and has loads of leaves, had a rich bloom and was buzzing with pollinators, so I guess the weather swings we've had must be to blame. Didn't get the late frost of last year but we had a warm spell followed by a cold spell with extreme rain.

Its both bushes on opposite ends of the garden too. One is doing slightly better than the other which shed all fruits that I could see.

Oh well, gardening includes some losses.

#Gardening #Redcurrant #Plant #Homestead #Garden

For the last month, in between other jobs, I've been slowly preparing some ground.

Hauled material around with a improvised dump trailer (awkward, but I made do), leveled the area, brought in two long concrete pylons and pushed them into position.

Now they just need to be leveled and bedded.

#Homestead #DIY #Digging #Sawmill

Today in Labor History May 16, 1862: President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. As a result, 84 million acres of public (i.e., Indigenous) lands were opened to settlers. Any citizen who had never taken up arms against the U.S. (i.e., northerners), including women and freed slaves, could file for a federal land grant. Consequently, great swaths of Native American land and natural resources were usurped by settlers. Additionally, much of the land was acquired by businesses, not individual citizens. For example, most of the rainforest west of Portland, Oregon was acquired by the Oregon Lumber Company through illegal claims under the act.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #LandTheft #homestead #indigenous #NativeAmerican #lincoln

Yay, the first potato plants are popping up. Took 19 days from planting these first ones.

Also a bunch of grass :)

#Potato #Homestead #Gardening #GrowYourOwn

Been thumbing around some concrete beams and then played some jenga.

The firewood store got expanded a little and some of the beams had sunk into the soft soil under the weight of the firewood stacked on them and needed rebedding.

The new thumb was extremely useful doing this and I managed to do it without either knocking over the stacked firewood or the roof.

Then stacked the split pile onto there so it can finish drying.

#Jenga #MiniExcavator #Firewood #Homestead #ConcreteBeam

Wet stork. Its been raining a lot.

But I hear baby stork screeches, so I guess at least one egg has hatched. Well done!

Baby storks screech quietly, sounding almost like a frog, so last year I was wondering why the stork caught a frog and kept it alive up there until realizing what the sounds were 😆

#Stork #StorkNest #Bird #BirdsOfMastodon #FediBird #Homestead