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Chicken Coops
One of the most difficult things for Starfish to do when we started renovating our old house was say goodbye to our six brown shavers and three chicks. They went to a good home with some friends of ours, but we missed their personalities and their eggs, which we used ourselves and sold surplus. Now…
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Good Friday
Hello readers! I feel that I have gone completely silent of late. It’s the time of year: 31 March is the end of the New Zealand tax year, and I, the Mad Scientist, was up to my eyeballs in dealing with several months’ worth of financial data. That little project is still ongoing, but there…
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Investigations into Livestock Animals
Hello, my fine readers! How are you today? Have you been doing any fun projects lately? What about God’s mission? Is He leading you on any interesting paths? Well, the Mad Scientist and I have been sort of pulled into a strange mission by our ears. It would seem that God in all of His…
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Investigations into rural internet
One of the aspects of our due diligence investigation into our land was the availability of internet. Since I work in IT, and since an online presence is important to our various endeavours, getting a good and reliable internet connection was necessarily important to us. We had already pulled out of one block of land…
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Welcome to 2019: A year of extraordinary adventures and growth!
Hello and welcome back to our first blog of the year! Our household has been super busy this summer! How about yours? Did you do anything fun over Christmas and New Years? Have you added anything to your homesteads or have you done anything different in your life? We’d love to hear about it! Speaking…
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Of mushrooms
Growing up in semi-rural Canterbury, one of my joys was the occasional opportunity to collect wild mushrooms. These were typically the field mushroom, which I’m told is Agaricus campestris, though some of the larger specimens may in fact have been the horse mushroom (A. arvensis). Even then, I wasn’t one to turn up my nose…
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CARPE NOCTEM
Dear readers, While I have been dealing with a mighty cold, our dear Mad Scientist was recently hit by a loudly roaring stomach bug! He woke up sometime around 3 AM last night and just… well you know. It was everywhere. Much like when Stargazer or Honeybee get bugs the Mad Scientist gets walloped too. …
