T.J. Hob

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I do #homesteading with #livestock like #sheep, #horses, and #chickens. Community sufficiency over self-sufficiency. My other job is architecture and ten other hats on a large #foss project.

I'll be babbling about #veilid and other attempts to take the internet back by force, too.

#Queer as in bricks. #Intersex as in mosaic. More weight, less hate.
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Webhttps://tjhob.com
T.J. HobNov 12, 2024
Revenge Day is the best day! Thanks for the rad stickers @revengeday ! The new Framework needed some shine.
T.J. HobOct 19, 2024
Been quiet for a minute doing work trips and getting things nailed down around the farm like pouring concrete to keep water from frost heaving all the things and replacing the underground wiring to the horse fence.

Also got a #Framework 13 to actually do linux dev on, so have been setting that up and playing with Pop_OS. The machine is an absolute joy.

Behold our small but tasty final harvest. Delicata for scale.

#homesteading #gardening
T.J. HobOct 5, 2024
It's here! Spec5 Nomad #meshtastic ready LoRA pi5 cyberdeck is online. Tomorrow I war drive it 250 miles and see what we can find out there on the open road.
T.J. HobSep 20, 2024
Rotational grazing is going well too. We still need to make some adjustments and fence a couple more areas to add to the rotation, but there's still plenty of grass by the time they get back to an pasture.
#homesteading #goats #sheep
T.J. HobSep 20, 2024
Tomatoes are finally slowing down, which is nice. We jarred a hair under 2 gallons of sauce yesterday! I think at this point we're a bit under what we need to get through the year, but we'll see how the season ends. Potatoes are bang on, though the shadier beds obviously didn't have the same huge yields as the sunny ones, we're well situated there.

Experimental grains are bird pecked but doing ok. We've got a bunch of folks coming out for the weekend to have some fun for the equinox. I adore this time of year.
#homesteading #harvest
T.J. HobSep 12, 2024
Po-motherfucking-tay-toes. We (really 100%my partner) are halfway through potato harvest and have already exceeded last year's haul. Should be enough to last the year if nothing gets to 'em!

This brings the list of things we can reasonably expect to have a year's supply of to:

- mushrooms
- tomatoes
- meat
- potatoes
- dock seed (tea!)
- maple syrup??

We'll probably finish the last of this year's sheep cheese and yogurt next week, which is pretty good for only milking two. Next year we're hoping for six! 😅

#homesteading #potatoes #gardening
T.J. HobSep 10, 2024
This is the face of a very good doggo with a fractured leg. Ever the stoic half-Pyrenees she fooled us and the vet for days until we insisted on an x-ray.

She'll be tripping balls for the next few days while getting a course of steroids to see if swelling around the site is from healing, or something worse. She's been in good spirits the whole time.
T.J. HobSep 10, 2024
Little Flapjack is showing almost full Jaerhan! Also taking an excessive cherry tomato tax today, but she makes uo for it by keeping the overall bug population down around the chicken stops.

#chicken #homestead #tomato
T.J. HobSep 8, 2024
Sometimes ingredients really do make the meal. Tonight was fresh homemade pasta,made with our eggs. Homemade sauce with our fresh tomatoes, hot pepper, and basil, and squash flowers fried in butter.

Most things we cook are fairly simple and turn out quite good, but this was fantastic.
T.J. HobSep 4, 2024
Bolivian rainbows are coming in. Spicy little guys, start off purple and go through a bunch of colors to end up red. These just went into tonight's chili and I've already got some concerns that I'll need the last of our yogurt to calm it down a bit.