This view caught my eye when I was at the library to pick up our youngest offspring. The side door has a standing seam roof over it. Now that warmer temperatures are upon us, the snow is sliding down the roof and getting sliced by the roofing seams as it passes the edge. To me, […]
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Yesterday, I received word that my entry to the Arctic Innovation Competition has been selected for the semifinals. That was good news! I have a little time to prepare a slide set and video for use in the next levels of the competition. There can be 10 slides in the presentation and the video can
Earlier today, this fellow was nibbling one of the willow trees near the driveway to our field, across the street. He is a young bull, probably only 4.5’ tall at the shoulder. In the early evening, I noticed he made a wallow in the snow near the pen where the laying hens spend the summer.
Today was egg washing day. Melissa had some sitting out to dry before they were packed and the sunlight was hitting them just right to bring out the blue color in some of them. Disappointingly, blue chicken eggs only look blue in the proper light conditions. In the coop, I can seldom see any difference
The temperatures in the biomeiler pile are measured with thermocouples buried in several locations. Nine of them are found at three heights (1’, 2’, and 3’ above the ground) in the inner core, outer core, and mantle of the pile. The graph in today’s post shows the temperatures measured by thermocouples at 2’ height. These
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The graph shows the temperature in the chicken coop, the temperature of the air in the vent pipe coming from the biomeiler, and the temperature of the outdoor air. The electrical energy usage is shown for any days when the electric heater was used. The scale is the same, but the units are in kWh.
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