ZiaNitori @ZiaNitori@masto.anarch.cc

lazy few days but i finished up the acorns the other day and today i cleared out the path though i still need to pick everything up and get it to the compost. tomorrow i'm gonna try to get a ton of chips with kammy, maybe picking up some more dirt. i think i really want to move towards planting a lot of stuff around the pond and clearing up the little peninsula. i was going to wait until i had compost to put down there but i might just chuck chips everywhere and amend in compost later. every time i see a plant i dont recognize somewhere i try to end up transplanting it to fill out a lot of the area we've put chips down already and it seems like its working so i'll probably be able to get the ground well covered with both chips and plants so things like mushrooms can start thriving and the landscape starts retaining a lot more water. want more ground covers and big keystone plants but i keep mostly running into shrubby stuff which is fine but i wanna get these chips covered and shaded. still need to finish moving the rest of the rocks for the lizards but i think i might be able to get the pile high enough for the nearby grape to use as support

*guy with the thickest indian accent you've ever heard to someone speaking dutch on a website used by people all over the world*
"english motherfucker, do you speak it?

if all the struggle against the state amounts to is delaying the optimization of these wretched creatures by a few centuries or whatever it's still worth it. the human brain is far too interesting to be wasted on following orders until the end of time

i think i remember people discoursing about how talking about the tokenization that some minorities do to themselves is actually bigoted because you're like making assumptions about what should be in their interests but like you can only watch a fly walk into a glue trap so many times before you have to conclude that things arent going to end well here. plus the way these people are used to enforce cuck behavior on minorities and are often the front lines of social domination in minority spaces makes me completely comfortable treating this kind of behavior as virtually identical to signing up to be a cop, it's just a less formal process and they dont really get paid for it lol

ran into a brazilian yelling at people who speak other languages on a duel links website to speak english because "it's only fair" cause he had to

my most conservative political opinion is that i dont care whether or not the state is capable of surviving in a way where it's not doing unsustainable growth i still want to kill it. i want my kids or their kids to be able to live in a world where leviathans dont stalk the earth

garden is cleared and we got woodchips down, we started processing acorns, we planted a bunch of plants up in the dry part of the yard, we got manure in the compost and i've got a rock pile going for the lizards that i need to finish. gotta get up the road to get more chips cause once i'm done getting them all down in the garden out front i'll try to get some pictures. gonna try to get out there today and clear out the path behind the pond to get more material for the compost and then get the last bit of the long grass mowed to cover that and the compost should be good to sit for a bit before i try to turn it. been trying to play with one of the cows (his name is santiago) and we got a little basketball for him to butt his head into but everytime i've tried loki has scared him off because he wanted to play with the ball too or he's been more interested in the food i was giving him. i've given him and his mom a bunch of treats and i'm getting them to learn that they can ask for a treat if i'm doing work that generates treats like clearing out the vines in the garden or raking up long cut grass. still working on the pool with joe, i would've liked to dig out the bottom a bit smoother and less steep but i didnt realize joe wanted to get shit done sooner cause he didnt wanna leave the liner sitting all bunched up. once things start coming up back through the woodchips i wanna start putting more rocks down in the garden area so there's more habitat for critters. there was a bunch of stuff already living in the area we cleared and i'm hoping once more of a ground cover is established they can bounce back stronger in that area now that the ground holds water better there

clearing the rest of the garden today and getting stuff planted, yesterday was rainy so we couldnt get to it. hoping the ants are gone lol

gonna have to start early to get the garden cleared, i got some progress earlier in the day but after lunch alie and i hit a bunch of fire ants that made their home in a plastic pot and they were running around the area mad cause i moved the pot out so that meant we had to stop. they should be gone in the morning but we're managing to get the grapes and other plants uncovered.

they eat brambles but not all the time and there's other things they'll sometimes leave alone but idk how that works. the hill drops off and gets flat like the rest of the pasture around there around where the last three sprinkler lines in the westernmost part of the pasture are and i've been thinking it might be cool to try to get an orchard going all along those sprinkler lines. in addition to tree covers or whatever we use to get them started it might be cool to pile around woody debris and then sow in some tougher vining or woody plants that the cows wont totally destroy that can keep back the grass from the base of the trees and in general contribute in better more fungally dominated soils around the tree. the wooded area in the north east is quite well shaded but because it doesnt get a ton of water as it's the highest point of the property and the cows also like to hang out in there the ground is basically barren and i want to figure out if it's a good idea to do something about that. i'd definitely like to get a pond going up in the middle of the east side of the pasture and that's not terribly far from that wooded area so maybe that on it's own could help and it's possible getting more trees/clearing brambles out of the other shaded areas will make it so there's less suppression of growing things from the cows in that spot. another place for a pond is in the area above where the pasture extends a ways into the yard. it's quite dry up there and a lot of dirt from excavating the pond was brought up there so it's not being used for much else. probably a project for then they turn the water back on

between the compost and the first set of grapes mentioned is an area where i'm thinking we might put a bunch of annuals , but we might even extend that to the other side of the grapes between them and the pasture and up the hill that's there esp if we can do some earthworks. to the south of the compost is an area of the lawn i'm setting aside to go long for the cows that we'll harvest probably with a scythe or something. green box in the southeast is a particularly dry part of the yard that's also pretty rocky and has some cool bushy drought/heat resistant plants there that we're looking to add to. it's above another shed/garage. in that southeast corner is also a peach tree and i'm thinking i might want to try to add a few more and maybe some other fruit trees along the southern fence line. there's a green circle by the end of the garden wall where there's a few pine trees in a circle and i think i want to expand that to be a proper circle of trees or shrubs that can provide a bit of visual cover in the middle of the yard so critters can feel safer nearer the garden. the long grass for the cows is also a way to keep more cover in the yard and i've got a few more spots i want to leave brushpiles and thickets of vining plants as well as trying to keep the southern fence as well planted as possible because there's a bit of completely overgrown area with a small stream running through it to the south of the pond. there's a bit of green on the diagonal bit of the fence to the west of the two houses where there are a number of trees growing at already and i want to get a bunch of chips down there and add more and get some understory/groundcover plants to help support them. in general joe have been trying to get a line of trees around the south and east fencelines and has a number of pines cedars and redwoods growing but there are large sections there there's a gap and i'd like to get a lot more planted and have better solutions for getting them watered by next year. the hill along the fence of the north side of the pasture is quite steep and i might try to make it a bit more stepped and have some banks running on contour to keep water up there better and possibly start planting shade tolerant trees there or something that area is shaded by some big trees and covered in brambles and i wonder if i can clean it up a bit and cultivate that area a bit better. most anything i grow there will be subject to browse from the cows but they dont eat everything,

so this is mostly for my own use so i didnt bother on making it pretty and i'm going to shit it up with a bunch of labels of sprinklers and valves in a bit anyway, but this is the general shape of the place without looking at an aerial. the driveway/vehicle paths are in gray, houses structures and fences are in black, sprinkler/irrigation lines and the pond and pool are in blue and green is to highlight areas of interest to me usually wrt growing plants. the proportions of the map are a bit off, first third of the east side is a little squished whereas the last fourth of the west side is very stretched and it's also probably too squished on the south side but it shows all the things i care about atm clearly enough so i'm not redrawing it. the house is the structure closest to the center and has a porch i wish were a little smaller coming off it to the south, there's not a fence but a wall to the south of that holds the ground level above it that gets up to 3-4 feet in places but meets ground level where it ends. this is where i've been digging up the ground and adding new soil and covering with woodchips and where we're gonna hopefully get a good amount of herbs and mushrooms from once we're set up. the structure to the north is a shed attached to another smaller house that joe's ex wifes son lives in though he's usually not around. the big fence going through the middle of the yard denotes where the pasture is at. the yard has a slope from east/northeast to west that's steep on the east side but a bit flatter in more spots on the west side. there's also a long hill in the middle of the north side of the pasture from the fence going down into a flatter part of the pasture with fewer/no trees. the northwest corner of the pasture also has a good amount of trees, mainly oaks but the section on the northside hill and the other trees that are scattered around the pasture are mostly pines. the structure in the pasture is the cowshed and there's a blue circle near it that's a valve for a movable sprinkler. the pond has a little peninsula thing that we're eventually gonna dump a bunch of compost into and probably get a bunch of trees or shrubs that like water planted in there. speaking of the compost the smaller narrower of the green boxes to the east of the pond is where we're having the compost and to the north of that is where one set of grapes are along with an irrigation line for them and you can see another set just to the west of the pond.

gotta dig out the clay under the pool in addition to clearing the vines in the garden which is gonna be quite a bit of work. like to get them both done in the next 2 days

might make a rock pile at the end of the garden wall so lizards have more habitat

also made a little map of the place yesterday, will probably use it here occasionally to talk about what stuff i'm working on and where that is

got a bunch more dirt yesterday, just gotta clean up the vines in the garden and get chips down before phoenix gets here on tuesday so he can plant stuff right away. found a second wheelbarrow so i'm planning on having all 4 of us go out to gather manure in the pasture for the compost and it might be nice to have extra hands to clean up the path behind the pond and the area around the compost. after we clear that and another small spot it might be a good time to work on the soil near the compost area and get out the shitty weed suppression fabric. hope we can get more chips in soon so some of these areas we're working on can get a better form of weed suppression that actually builds soil

i should make more habitat for the lizards

outside pretty, got to pet the cow a good bit and tried to help them get some flies off. wanna look into if they would appreciate help with keeping the flies off. wanna start getting more trees up in that pasture, just need to see what joe wants to use to protect them from the cows.

voters should be threatened more. these are freaks who in the pursuit of being a good little utilitarian christian are comfortable with power using their voices to impose itself on others. voters are literally a threat to free people but you're just supposed to accept what they're doing in the same terms as them because it's rude to reframe conservative world views especially when they use it to start screeching at you about marginalized people they tokenize