David de Groot ๐ @dadegroot@mastodon.social
Photographer, foodie, Blacksmith, IT geek in and around Cedar Creek, QLD, ๐ฆ๐บ
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Three bird shots from yesterday.
A Masked Lapwing hen with four chicks under her in the gutter.
A Masked Lapwing chick, next to a pinoak seedpod in the gutter.
(we herded all the chicks out of the gutter and on to the footpath as they couldn't seem to get themselves up there).
And a Grey crowned Babbler I spied in the afternoon in bad light.
So just for reference, Hetzner had 2 routes failures and 1 switch failure in the last 24 hours. That's why mastodon.social has been acting up
Had a scheduled power outage at home today. The number of machines I had to shut down before leaving for work!
(3 servers, 4 personal computers, 2 NAS units, various backup hard disks) I left the Pi's, and router on.
The other afternoon I saw a dragon in the sky at sunset, but only had my phone with me to catch it.
Long day today. Up at 5am, cooked breakfast of eggs, bacon and crumpets. Then out by 6:15am (teenage boy very slow at that time of day).
Drove 3 hours south to eldest Daughter's new abode to help move belongings from storage. Finished by 16:30, then another 3 hour drive home.
Good day though, and a lot closer than when she was 2 days drive away.
#smallstories #family
dodgy coffee art Show more
Of course after all that, it's shower and then Beer O'clock.
Beer o'clock is very important in these endeavours, as the beer acts as a muscle relaxant and takes your mind off just how old and stiff you're getting.
Results of todayโs smithing. A coat and hat hook.
Iโll make a stand and mount this on it and take it to work as currently Iโm draping my coat over a spare chair.
Been forging all morning and have progressed the coat and hat hook somewhat. Still a way to go yet but the fire ashed up and so I figured that was as good a place to stop for lunch as any.
#blacksmith
Came in at 7:30 this morning only to find Iโm meant to be on 9-5 today. Loooong day, but almost over.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-take-our-coffee-on-the-road/x/2292730#/
We've juuuuust got enough for a second hand generator there, but if you've got some spare change and would like a fancy kraken postcard or some stickers, it would help us out a lot!
Pizza pizza !
#pizza oven is lit!
Pizzas for dinner tonight. Quite cool and windy today, but itโs nice in front of the oven.
This is fascinating: How NASA's early images of the moon were much better than we realised: http://www.worldofindie.co.uk/?p=682
This mornings achievement. Managed to split the tree trunk in half (still need to split these in half) to make posts for my smithy.
Destroyed the wooden maul in the process, but I guess that was inevitable with the thin sheet steel bands.
Even managed to get both boys outside to help.
The Lollipop Cloud Is Official! Show more
What do you do when you have a TARDIS and a 16th Century fencing troupe ? Pose them like this of course!
#photo #photography #re-enactment #HA2018
A little gif of the 64lb cannon firing at History Alive this weekend.
#HistoryAlive #Re-enactment #Cannon
Tonight I learned, some new Bosch ovens have a "Sabbath mode":
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With the Sabbath mode, a cooking time of up to 74 hours can be set. You can keep the food in the cooking compartment warm without having to switch the oven on or off.
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WTF ? Religion is weird.
