What's really got me down about this, though, is a bunch of stuff related to work has me feeling like I'm "Failing to thrive", and perhaps even "incompatible with" my career. And that any potential help with my professional development would be better spent on someone else. I feel a bit like Shelly.

08.04.2025 13:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But Nature is a scattershot - any species that lays an egg a day is going for quantity over quality, and not all combinations of traits are "compatible with life."

Even if Shelly had made it, I would have taken pains to make sure they didn't contribute to the next generation.

08.04.2025 13:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like most of us I instinctively root for the underdog. I really hopped "shelly" (so named because they had part of their shell stuck to them the first day) would make it.

08.04.2025 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've been hatching some more quail for the backyard, and this batch did not go well. Only 6 out of 32 survived. 2 more hatched, but "failed to thrive." The latter of those two never really got the hang of standing up - they randomly kicked the air for 3 days before expiring.

08.04.2025 13:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

You've seen "accidental Renaissance"

Now we bring you, "Accidental illuminated manuscript!"

Seriously, he looks like those drawings of medieval cats made by monks that have never seen a cat.

08.04.2025 13:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

After realizing we have exactly the wrong climate for celery (long periods of cool mild weather), I have decided to try my hand at Hydroponics. This is "Kratky method", otherwise known as dump a bunch of nutrient solution in a bucket and call it a day.

28.03.2025 22:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I built a new, larger quail coop on preparation for a new batch of quail. This one is subdivided into 4 sections that will each house 1 male and 4 females. That way the males don't murder each other. Dave Friedman has dubbed it "Quaility Inn"

28.03.2025 22:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hope they come through St. Louis - I'm really iffy about demonstrations right now but I'd come out for this.

23.03.2025 17:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just want to use my first post to remind folk that most of recorded human history has occurred under one form of Tyranny or another.
People still lived. They still loved. They still had families and made friends and had festivals. They carved good lives out of the spaces and times between the laws.

23.01.2025 14:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0