Mill Talk

Come to think of it I also had a shouting match with Fast Eddie

Dick lives in the wreck of the general store. Once he got mad at me for shooting deer on the tracks. We’ve since made amends, figuring over the crackerbarrel court that happened before before, when things were more like now

Starlings, Robins, Bluejays all showed up today, foretelling what it isn't clear

water is hard as fuck

Swamp foot is returning at conspicuous rate since last shavedown

Water-powered milling and the reification of text are the approx same period

Put up a symmetrical display of old railroad spikes and also bones for the city folk to enjoy

Arranged the buckthorn cuttings to start a berm between the road and house. Going to try to get something in place this summer

Dropped poison under the deck for the rodents. There but for the grace of god go I

the windmills in the netherlands are wind pumps. just like how tide mills aren't really mills either. they're huge turds

a windmill and all the people it killed

Late feudalism (1215–)

Birds everywhere they love my seed

The Machine Question outlived The Problem of Society. Mills win again

No mice in the traps for the first time in years. Climate change

I don’t know that this is

Some mallards have taken to the old mill pond. I fed them some crackers to encourage their society.

Back when American historians told the truth about France, Germany, Spain, the low counties, etc

During the 20th century most historians assumed that milling died out in Europe in the dark/unpleasant early medieval period. But now we know from archeology that watermills survived. The grind never stopped. Windmills were not introduced in Europe until the 12th century.

Even better when you hook this up to a water wheel

Grindset

Some were mills! Your “coffee grinder” is in fact your coffee MILL.

After household running water but before household electricity there were a whole bunch of tap water-powered tools you could buy

Rotary querns displaced the more laborious and elegant saddle quern

Thinking this is a chunk of firebox liner from the stream trains that used to dump their slag by the old station

“modern/american” windmill, later rebranded as a “turbine” owing to, I’m going to guess, French influence on American engineering

Went to a millsite today