Jack-o-Lantern Harvest

queer, nonbinary, farmer on the high plains

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2026-07-26 21:01:30 UTC

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107 now. Wont be surprised if we hit 110

2026-07-26 19:48:17 UTC

106°F

2026-07-25 17:38:20 UTC

sucks in the middle of the country right now, temperature-wise
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2026-05-29 01:25:05 UTC

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they should let y'all have electric fences too

2026-05-29 01:08:14 UTC

gave the goats a trial run with the uncharged fence and they immediately tried to kick it over and eat it, so it's going to be a real joy when i plug this thing in

2026-04-11 13:55:46 UTC

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2026-04-04 18:49:12 UTC

Im not a psychologist or anything but have some of you considered that it's not your art, or music, or job, that's burning you out? it's literally just the whole world, and probably your job too, but mostly just the world and its constant barrage of everything horrible happening all the time.
be gentle with yourselves.
I know you can't mental health away the rising prices and encroaching ai, war, and all.
But you can gently remind yourself that this is being caused by situations outside your direct control and, and that it's completely "normal" to not be able to function entirely as you watch genocide after genocide happen around you.
You aren't losing your skill, but your drive, your ability to think clearly, your desire and every other emotion, is being dampered by literally a few billionaire assholes hellbent on enslaving society. So when you sit to focus on $Task brain is already at 95% capacity. No fucking wonder.
Maybe channeling some of that into actionable things could help, even if it's just popping off a call or email in the morning to make sure your voice is heard; finding a protest; making radical art zines writings; i dunno whatever
Point is, I think it's ok to set the pen down for a while and recover; but I also think some of y'all are being so hard on yourselves for shit that is not your fault.
Just know youre loved, and the works you put out into the world, even the unpolished ones, make it a better place. when youre ready to do so again.

2026-04-01 13:41:35 UTC

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how the majority actually thinks food is grown 😫😫😫

2026-03-28 14:10:18 UTC

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2026-03-23 15:01:49 UTC

like what even is an economy and why do we need one? Madness.

2026-03-20 02:03:31 UTC

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moon, venus, and earth
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2026-03-20 02:01:05 UTC

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moon and venus
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2026-03-20 01:59:22 UTC

moon
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2026-03-14 13:35:40 UTC

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i am also doing chores before the wind picks up, tho at this time no prescribed power outages for us

2026-03-13 22:31:53 UTC

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2026-03-13 13:28:58 UTC

One thing I noticed yesterday is that people out here do not have a plan for these kind of events. It's not like living in Colorado where everybody is used to Wildfire Danger from birth on up.
Grass fires are a way of life on the plains but grass fires driven by 70 plus mile an hour winds and extreme low humidity and drought are completely brand new thanks to climate change.
Grass fires are typically quick and intense but they burn out easily. They don't usually jump creeks and roads and fire breaks. This fire burnt clear across what should be wetlands, several creeks and two highways at least.
Had half a dozen conversations with people that went like:
"Hey there's a fast moving fire, you need to move"
"Oh it's not that bad, it wont make it here."
*half hour later*
"Oh i think my house is gone"
Right now is a good time to get an evacuation plan in place if you don't have one. Right now.

2026-03-12 22:27:01 UTC

That's not clouds
#DustBowl2026
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2026-03-10 00:59:20 UTC

an unedited view of the sky rn
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2026-03-08 17:41:32 UTC

as we approach open window season, I'm going through the house to make sure every interior (and exterior) door has a proper blocker, stopper, or lock in place because sudden high plains wind gusts can violently slam open doors which is dangerous for people and pets alike, and it has me wondering, what sort of weird household rule/habit you have that is more environmentally dictated than behavioral?

2026-03-05 15:02:16 UTC

all this vibe coding is going to send us into a technological dark age, isn't it?

2026-03-04 14:02:45 UTC

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this is what we should start calling the fediverse

2026-02-26 21:41:59 UTC

seems like a good afternoon to hook up ^ change a tire on the disc and ^ then cut fire breaks in the field around the house

2026-02-09 02:51:59 UTC

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perfect time for it lol. Everyone seems busy with something else

2026-02-09 01:29:49 UTC

So...what's everyone doing tonight?

2026-02-08 16:24:33 UTC

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that is one superb owl

2026-02-02 22:57:44 UTC

i didnt know anything about raising goats, when goats came into my life, so i just raised them like the dogs and it's turned out pretty well tbh
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2026-02-02 13:27:26 UTC

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i would follow flatiron freddy to the moon and back

2026-02-01 13:58:47 UTC

Blessed imbolc to those who celebrate.
I want to take a second to remind people, particularly the new brooms, that the wheel of the year isn't entirely concrete nor is it required part of your practice (there are no requirements).
Due to the whos wheres and whats, the Wheel of the Year is very eurocentric. If you're like me, you may live somewhere in which February is typically the harshest, snowiest, bitterest part of the winter, so February 1 does *not* feel like spring approaching in the slightest. And that's ok. You can choose to quietly honor it with a candle, you can go all out, you can wait a few weeks until it feels more in line with your climate and latitude. You can simply acknowledge the lengthening days and returning light, even if the weather doesn't match the celebration. You can chose to focus primarily on the equinoxes and solstices if that's what you prefer.
Witchcraft is a craft, and you're allowed to approach that craft in any way that feels comfortable to you. (just repsect other cultures and closed practices, pls)

2026-01-26 02:12:17 UTC

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i mean it's negative 8 fucking degrees but the wind isnt blowing, so that's basically a nice evening

2026-01-26 00:59:50 UTC

the one saving grace of this arctic blast is that this is the least windy it's been here in like a year

2026-01-22 16:08:17 UTC

spending the day finishing prep for the artic blast. -30°f wind chills but not a huge chance of snow. wood stacked by the front door, chickens and goats getting extra big piles of straw, and dealing with a few drafts in the goat barn, plug in the tractor block heater in case it does snow, and get ready to hide under blankets for a couple days

2026-01-18 17:16:40 UTC

cleaning goats on a windy day where the goats refuse to stay outside
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2026-01-16 20:49:18 UTC

about at the peak of this windstorm; 58mph peak, topping the 2025 record of 56 but still shy of the june 2022 high of 66mph since we've had the weather station recording

2026-01-15 19:17:57 UTC

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in-f-ing-cessant

2026-01-08 00:22:45 UTC

here's 30 seconds of goats having alfalfa time to reset your feed and/or fight or flight
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2026-01-03 15:06:50 UTC

here's some goats going oats for goat oats
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2025-12-26 00:51:56 UTC

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one of my shibe's first ever hikes was up those rocks. 10/10 for the rocks and the experience

2025-12-19 18:30:51 UTC

Well the wind has broke over the mountains apparently

2025-12-19 16:22:17 UTC

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if they could keep holding it back, we'd appreciate it

2025-12-18 01:04:35 UTC

It just went from calm to 40mph winds like that. No warm up or anything

2025-12-17 21:22:44 UTC

Eradicate. That's how ICE agents are talking out in the open.
also, theyre running road blocks now in NE Georgia and probably elsewhere
#ice #uspol #immigration #georgia
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2025-12-16 14:50:59 UTC

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thank you, now i can rag on Wyoming and Iowa all in one sentence

2025-12-12 21:49:36 UTC

monch time
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2025-12-11 02:24:29 UTC

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2025-12-10 14:21:40 UTC

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i hope your wind stays calm and mellow today

2025-12-09 14:39:32 UTC

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it's giving me anxiety. 10mph here and a few gusts closer to 20, but nothing major

2025-12-09 12:49:38 UTC

wind hasnt quite started yet, getting everything tied down before it does

2025-12-09 00:21:35 UTC

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im going to have to put little ankle weights on the goats to keep them grounded

2025-11-29 17:19:33 UTC

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theyre brewing their own by throwing their grass hay into the heated water bowl. Which is great, because i spilled the chamomile on the way out there

2025-11-29 16:12:08 UTC

I gave the goats the opportunity to go outside if they wanted, but they decided staying inside with the large straw pile was the better option.
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2025-11-29 00:27:38 UTC

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this is the sign i wait for every year that it's ok to start decorating

2025-11-26 14:57:52 UTC

Looming. If you zoom in it almost looks like a large city rising up from the plains but everything behind that dark green tree in the center of the photo isn't really there. I mean it's there it's just that it's beyond the horizon and the only reason you can see it right now is because it's being projected up like a lens created by mass of warm air trapped in a valley due to temperature inversions
edit: i made a little video last year that makes it easier to see the true horizon and the looming https://lone.earth/w/rFZHmdjWx8fDxzGDg6ZCH1
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2025-11-26 14:10:22 UTC

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good morning!

2025-11-02 14:25:36 UTC

morning bubblegum. trying to get some goat activities set up before heading to the combine
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2025-11-02 01:20:32 UTC

This is a goat posting account now. Lollipop and Bubblegum say hi
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2025-10-12 01:26:17 UTC

My father-in-law passed away this afternoon. He had been diagnosed with a pulimary embolisim which finally progressed to the point on taking him. His oxygen saturation got very low, he lost consciousness, and despite life saving measures they couldnt get him back.
Just got home from dropping the husband off for a last minute flight back to missouri, so i can get some things secured around here and wait for a friend to come watch the animals before i head down there myself in a few days.
Jim had 84 pretty stellar trips around this sun. He grew up in rural Arkansas before moving to Springfield to study business where he met Joyce. He worked for Royal Typewriter Company making his way up to the head of sales which eventually took him and Joyce to Portugal for several years, before the company shut down and he found himself back in Missouri running a bait and tackle shop and doing boat repairs on Pomme de Terre Lake, where he and his wife raised their two kids. They were married for 63(!) years.
We talked with Jim every morning, as he loved to hear about everything happening on the farm from the breakdowns to the successes to tghe local town drama. These conversations usually wrapped up when Jim would tell us, "Well I guess it's time for you all to get up off your asses and get to work. You have a farm to run."
I was not expecting this morning to have been the last phone call.

2025-09-27 21:46:25 UTC

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ok. The downside is it's nebraska, so...

2025-09-27 21:27:30 UTC

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the mail lady going by and the occasional tractor

2025-09-27 20:05:37 UTC

the escape artist broke out of the house today....
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2025-09-18 13:58:41 UTC

While you're busy cancelling hulu and disney plus (and pretty much every other streaming service) this is a good time to support your local PBS station and get PBS Passport:
https://www.pbs.org/passport/learn-more/

2025-09-03 17:03:47 UTC

I suppose it's good that people are finally talking more about the collapse of ocean currents but it is also alarming that people are only just starting to talk about it considering this was an issue when I was studying environmental science 20+ years ago
https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/115141381828661558

2025-08-28 20:42:50 UTC

I dont really like the rhetoric about children acting in bravery during tragic events anymore than the rest of the bs being spewed. In my mind the most brave a child should ever have to be is trying out for the school sports team, or getting out of their comfort zone to audition for the lead role in the school play, or *at most* standing up to the bully making fun of their friend. But calling children heoric for shielding other children from automatic gunfire isnt even a conversation we should have to be having; it's just another way of normalizing the wretched gun policies and lack of protecting our children that should be a keystone in our day to day lives.

2025-08-26 01:48:07 UTC

Executive orders are not laws. It doesnt work like that. Burning the flag is protected by the first amendment and was tried in courts, all the up to the supreme court and was still protected by the first amendment (Texas v Johnson). It would take either an act of congress or another court battle to change anything. Stop giving them the fear response they want.

2025-08-25 22:16:42 UTC

pumpkin posting
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2025-08-25 18:16:00 UTC

foia request sent to the governor
because anything you can do to jam up the system helps

2025-08-23 23:50:25 UTC

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9 months?! Wow. Id have forgotten what i planted 😅

2025-08-22 23:32:37 UTC

one little thing that makes life slightly more bearable is when i get to the end of the chocolate syrup bottle, i fill it with milk, shake it up, and squeeze a stream of chocolate milk right into my mouth

2025-08-20 18:21:41 UTC

the krauts have been sauered, on to the apples now

2025-08-17 17:47:01 UTC

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thank you for this! as i was reading, i was like oh this sounds like the band-aid approach, and then you said it directly😅.
But I'm guessing this is why we're seeing more and more kids getting in trouble for standing up to their bullies than the bullies themselves...

2025-08-17 14:30:12 UTC

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given the overall politics of this state, I was suprised to find they even put this type of reporting out.
> SEL programs don’t work (I could probably write my own report on this).
I'd be interested to hear more of your thoughts about this when you have time. It's been a long time since I've worked in and around school systems, so it's not a topic I fully understand or have admittingly paid enough attention to

2025-08-17 12:57:39 UTC

The lord's country indeed. Domestic Violence rates in Nebraska are significantly higher than the national average. 15 victims have been killed in domestic violence incidents so far in 2025, more than the 13 in all of 2024.
But yeah, trans kids and gay marriage and immigrant workers are the problem...
https://ago.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/2025%20DADRT%20Annual%20Report.pdf

2025-08-16 13:07:18 UTC

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happy saturday!

2025-08-03 13:23:01 UTC

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omg it's a shadow. i was like is the front range on fire again?!

2025-07-29 21:23:06 UTC

Tresspassers will be lovingly smooched.

2025-07-27 17:36:00 UTC

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ok then do this for fucking ever until it's ready
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2025-07-27 17:29:27 UTC

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prep the ice cream maker. put the pieces in first before you add ice or you'll never get it in there right.
Layer ice and rock salt until it's packed to the brim.
And make sure you have more ice because you will be adding to it.
Ice and Salt, Ice and Salt, until it's done.
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2025-07-27 17:19:58 UTC

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arguably sorbet is a vegan friendly dish as long as you don't use honey as the sweetener, but as i just stuck a raw egg in it, so that probably negates the veganism

2025-07-27 17:18:27 UTC

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while we're waiting for it to chill read this little Wikipedia page about sorbet..Did you know it likely originated in Persia, before being "popularized" by the Italians (sorbetto) before it finally became known under it's French name 'sorbert.'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbet

2025-07-27 17:11:36 UTC

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Step 3: Chill.
Chill your base and chill yourself because you're about to be cranking that ice cream maker for the next 45 minutes.
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2025-07-27 17:07:35 UTC

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there are many ways to check the sugar content of your sorbet. the old school way is to float a fresh egg. fresh eggs will normally sink in water, but when the sugar content is right, it should hold just a bit of the egg above the surface.
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2025-07-27 17:06:11 UTC

ok, so sorbet is 2 ingredients: fruit juice and sugar. But what makes the texture of sorbet so smooth is turning all your sugar into a simple syrup first so it stretches and pulls the sugars. That way it freezes smooth instead of icy and crunchy.
First step is to check the volume by pouring the juice into the ice cream maker to make sure it's not too full, or it won't freeze.
We also give it an extra strain just to make sure we catch any bits that made it through the juicing process
Then we add our simple syrup. Sorbet needs a high sugar content and with some fruits you can skip this step. for sour fruits tho, you're going to need a few cups of simple syrup
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2025-07-25 16:55:29 UTC

I need your napa cabbage recipes. I have like 6 large heads ready to come out of the garden.
(edit: kimchi is already covered)
#gardening #cooking #cabbage