Irrigation	House
[30-Mar-2026] Noticed a lot of water out by the backflow preventer. Had to dig it up and fix a leak in the irrigation. Did more work on the irrigation and found another in between the plant beds. Decided to rip out most of line 2 which was flexy tube and replace it with PVC since most the blue betters are dead and its going to be easier to mow with it like that.

The Martian	Books
[28-Mar-2026] by Andy Weir Sci-fi: 369 pages I need to read more good books like this one. Good book take a few hours to read, bad books weeks or months. Astronaut is abandoned on Mars and must survive until help can come, or he blows him self up, or starves, or finds some other way to kill himself accidently. Rating: 7 (out of 8)

Project Hail Mary	Books
[26-Mar-2026] by Andy Weir Sci-fi: 478 pages The movie came, its $26 for a ticket so I read the book again instead. Probably much better anyway. its a great book. Rating: 6 (out of 8)

How to Create a Language	Books
[16-Mar-2026] by Jessie Peterson Linguistics: 420 pages Read this, its supposed to be a text book to be used in a conlang class. Its got exercises for its own/author created language Squirellish and to create your own. While it has examples from all over the world it kind of assumes the reader will create a Indo-European style language. Rating: 8 (out of 8)

Splits	Beekeeping
[01-Mar-2026] Split the 9 hives at the Farm into 8 nucs, left one strong with a queen in case I need one out there. Still have 1 unsplit hive at home for the same reason. Treated everything.

I Hate bots	Computer/Web pages
[28-Feb-2026] Every so often bot pound on the web site bringing it to it knees with oo many requests too quickly. the usual answer is to block the IP, or more often entire range but itd frustrating to trace it down and shut them off and they still just change ips. Installed apache mod_evasive which does some rate limiting if to many requests come in too quickly let see if it helps.

Cold	Main Page
[01-Feb-2026] The high I saw yesterday was 39, at noon. Wind was constant and gusts as high as 10mmph. Tried to cover the orange tree but failed, the wind just tore apart the structure within a few hours. Left some lights on under it. By 4:30 before the sun set it was already freezing again. Went down to 21 overnight. Pond is still ice covered at 10:30am and its only 28.

The Bright Swaord	Books
[27-Jan-2026] by Lev Grossman Fantasy: 673 pages A retelling of King Arthur but after Arthur is dead from the point of view a a new knight and the few who are left after the final battle. Rating: 6 (out of 8)

Twelve Months	Books
[26-Jan-2026] Twelve Months by Jim Butcher. Fantasy: Contemporary: 483 pages. Volume 18 in the series Dresden Files. Not much happens that is exciting till the end. Some dates, a new apprentice, dealing with Thomas does have some major players. Rating: 6 (out of 8)