I don’t particularly like eating apples – all the skin stuck in my teeth and bottom retainer is terribly annoying. But I do love our homemade applesauce. It was not a particularly good year for apples. Partly it was an ‘off’ year for the two established trees we have, but mostly it was the late […]
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This particular digging operation was inspired by a mistake. Instead of getting lots of small stones for the Kelly memorial zen garden, we got a bunch of really big river stones. Useless for that project, but we do still have lots of work to do on erosion-proofing the driveway and yard. Thus, this experimental idea:
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*This is really not meant for an introduction, although there is some, but rather a reference of links and reminder for people who already know some of the basics (ie me!). I have been busy researching high-dimensional forecasting, and this is part of the result. A time series is any series of numbers that occur
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I got interested in raising chickens back in 2009. I was already interested in beekeeping and self-sufficient farming. I was in England with my family. Of all things, happened to have the TV on in our hotel room and they had a feature story on Omlet’s then new Beehaus beehive. Looking it up later, I
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Once upon a time, there was no valley, no ravine, no house, and no driveway. Between 30,000 and 15,000 years ago, glaciers reached their maximum extent covering much of North America. As the glaciers melted, they formed a massive lake around 13,000 years ago called Lake Agassiz. Over roughly the next three thousand years this
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Last Thursday I rode a train to Chicago from Winona. I returned this last Monday. The train was definitely the best method of travel for this journey. I could have driven to Chicago (5.5 hrs) or flown from Minneapolis/Rochester/LaCrosse (less than 1 hr in the air, lots more on the ground). The train took 6
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The UCI – the international cycling union, publishes a list of bike frames allowed in the World Tour – the series of races that comprise the premier event of professional road cycling. If there’s a premium mass market road bike, it’s on the list. And this list is a great way to analyze the development
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The Ribble CGR SL is a bike unfamiliar to most Americans, an English brand that has positioned themselves more on the value end of the market. ‘CGR’ stands for Cylocross, Gravel, and Road – its meant to do all three, and comes in steel, aluminum, and carbon, the last being what I have here. I
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For fun, I had the Raspberry Pi take pictures for a year with a PS3 Eye camera, and I then put them together into a little time lapse video. It’s really not that interesting, but easy enough to do: plugged in USB camera, cronjob to take the photo using the following script, in a .sh
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I’ve always had an unusual interest in water control – particularly surface water flow control. I would like to build a dam across the ravine at some point to stop that big problem, but for now, a smaller problem. In the course of constructing the house and surrounding retaining walls at the farm, it accidentally
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