Wednesday
April 22
Earth Day and Mother Nature has gifted our corner of the world with another
light blanket of snow. This seems to make many unhappy, but I still
love the late season snows. I will have to change my plans to head up
to Dover in search of cardboard to ship the continuing slow stream of
hex sign orders, but I have time to do that yet. The one on the
painting table is currently awaiting wood dough to fill voids in the
edge of the plywood. I thought I still had plenty, but it had dried
too much to be workable. So shortly – after breakfast and chores –
I will head to the local hardware store to pick some up and then get
some more hay for the sheep. They are looking longingly at the bits
of green beginning to show in the back field, but it's not time to
set up the electric pasture fence … yet. Soon, though!
I have decided to move the anti-deer electric fence in, closer to the fruit and vegetable areas, rather than continuing to try to maintain a longer boundary. Neither of us is young any more, and not having so much fence to maintain, as well as being able to use more strands for the outer fence as well as more string for the inner, visual barrier, will be a good thing. All of my fruit has been nibbled on by deer over the winter.
I have decided to move the anti-deer electric fence in, closer to the fruit and vegetable areas, rather than continuing to try to maintain a longer boundary. Neither of us is young any more, and not having so much fence to maintain, as well as being able to use more strands for the outer fence as well as more string for the inner, visual barrier, will be a good thing. All of my fruit has been nibbled on by deer over the winter.
Miss Kitty, left and Firecat, on the laptop enjoying the sunshine |
Mostly,
though, I have spent the day, once again, pushing pixels. I am making
decent progress now on the Dutch hex Sign web site updates and with
any luck I will be able to begin proof-clicking it tomorrow. It has
been fun – and a challenge -- to work with our critters' “help.”
Smoke, otherwise known these days as “wide load” has not really
been a problem, other than when she gets grouchy and hisses at
Firecat for getting too close. If I didn't know she was expecting,
and soon, I would know that she was expecting – and soon –
by her behavior. One moment she and Fire are sitting so close to each
other at the food bowls that their hind quarters are touching and the
next moment, though no one has moved, she hissed at Fire for being
too close! Any woman who has ever been pregnant is likely to resonate
with that! Miss Kitty has finally really accepted Fire and they have
been raising quite the rukkus today with their play and cat chases
around the house. My workstation for this redesign is set up literally right next to the chick's tote, so I have been working to the quiet calls and conversations of the chicks. And have been close at hand to convince Miss Kitty, especially, and the Firecat to a lesser degree, that they do not need to spend all day watching chickie-vision.
As
I worked, I watched the snow all but disappear (as the sun set there
were small bits clinging to life on the north sides of things) and
was treated to another pretty flurry mid -afternoon, though none of
it stayed around.
And,
after over a year of having it on hold, today I figured out how to
migrate the content from my Blogger blog to Wordpress! I have want6ed
to do this for some time, as the Wordpress platform is much more
robust and flexible, or so it seems to me though I have a long way to
go to master it. But I was not going to change platforms until I
could take all of the old entries along. When I abandoned LiveJournal
a few years back, it was “cold turkey, and I was not going to do
that again.
The blog will be migrating to:
https://hexsignhomestead.wordpress.com/