Girls are here

We picked up the girls this morning. 6 to start off. They hatched about a day or two ago. For the next few weeks they'll brood in a wood box that I cobbled together using scrap osb from the patio project last summer and some short pieces to 2x4.
Well this should be fun.

Chickens are commin

Since we didn't need the second dog house any longer I hve moved and converted it into  a chicken coop. This pic is shwoing it in a nearly complete form. We are starting out w 4 bird then add on as we get the hang of it. 
Should be fun.
What are your experiences with chickens?

Summer Fun

I was going through the camera today and found a cool pic I took last summer.

Sunday-3-18-12

It was such a beautiful day today. Besides walking the dog with the boy and some yard work I also squeezed in a bike ride. And this year i have been tracking the rides using MapMyRide.com. With the app loaded on my phone it tracks my route and speed and all kinds of other shit. Then the web site gives me embed code to fly over the route. Here it is"


       
 

Pretty damn cool if i do say so. Oh  yeah I nearly forgot to mention. A big doe jumped out in front of me at mile 13-ish. i missed her by about 20 feet. If I were going faster, definitely would have hit her.

Burn-day

Its a nice day for a brush pile burn. Videos to follow.

Soil gas sampling

This is me, in early november collecting a soli gas sample from a site in Brewer, Me.

Pumpkin land

Yep we went to pumpkin land. It was pretty fun. My favorite part was the piglet races.

StoryLand

So yes, on September 3, 2011 we had the StoryLand experience. Below is some vid I shot on my droid.

I barely remember going here when I was about 6, and on this day it was time to bring my boy. It was a good time. We cant wait until next year. Note to self: bring hand sanitizer.

Bike Hack

It was a Saturday afternoon and I had taken my bike and trailer down into town to the grocery store to pick up some foodstuff and log a few miles.  I live in central Maine so this actually becomes a fairly good ride. 
On my way out I noticed a couple of very average mountain bikes in the rack next to me.  My guess is that the owners were inside picking up some butts and Allen's coffee brandy. 
But anyway, as I was loading the trailer I looked back and the bikes and noticed that the seat clamp on one was replaced with a pair of full sized, made in the USA, vise-grips.  I'd call it Yankee ingenuity, but this is just too much of a hack solution to garner that prestigious label.