Lion’s Mane, It apparently has many health benefits (Justin found it).
Stinkhorn, if you want to be fancy, use its Latin name: Phallus Impudicus (Shameless Penis). It really does stink, but then again so do the best cheeses.
Very bad year for apples :(
All unmanaged trees in the region look something like this:
Apparently a very tough Winter and wet early Summer are to blame and a lot of trees could die if we get another round.
No cider for us this year :(.
Flood fill #5
I just added a 5th HTML5 canvas flood fill algorithm which proposes a different method than filling pixel by pixel.
Gray Squirrel
This guy is getting closer to the house every day, it would probably be on the dining table if the glass door allowed it.
Onetouch Delica 3D Printable Replacement Cap
Downloads
Story
We’ve gone through many of these and it’s always the same part that breaks: 
Since the whole thing costs $20, I figured I’d build a 3D printable model of the dumb piece of plastic that is the cap.
After a few iterations, mass production time
And voila:
works like a charm.
2 Chimney house
Things are getting serious
Over and Under
My brother & I just spent a tough week end tackling 2 projects which are needed to take the house addition through next Winter.
The first project was to cut a hole through the roof for a stove pipe to come out. This will allow us to hook up a second stove: the alpiner. Woodstoves are very low tech and unlikely to break, but I’ll be relieved to have a backup source of heat. At this point we have no idea how much or even if we’ll need to fire both stoves, the addition will be fully insulated for this Winter when it wasn’t for the last one.
High, slippery & dusty, but with a nice view on our energy independence
And our maple syrup independence 🙂 
While I’m up there enjoying the views
When I designed the house addition, I framed a section in an odd way so as to be able to pop out the roof and grow half a floor. I’m not sure if we’ll ever do it but I wanted to have the option. Being up there is a great reminder why.
Ok let’s get to the business at hand, a big hole
I did this one with full climbing gear, I have no idea how I did the previous one without.
I have yet to take a picture of it with the flashing, I’ll be back up in a couple of days to put the cap on.
2nd horribly shitty project, insulating the floors.
from this
to this 
We spend the hole day working in the dirt and against gravity, it sucked just as much as I remember from when we last did it to the original tiny house. Here we’re covering everything with plywood.
Thank you to my brother for suffering through 2 rewarding yet miserable days, to Russ for the climbing equipment, and to Dan for the reciprocating saw.
Trying my hand at woodpile art
although “art” is a big word for this, I’m still pretty happy about it for a first attempt :).
If it’s not keets, it’s chickens
We ordered 12 more Rhode Island Reds, they will be our 3rd “batch”. They are indeed a good breed in the cold. They arrived with their beaks trimmed which is 100% barbaric and we will never order chickens from this place again. The old timer farmer we had gotten them from thus far stopped doing it so we had to look for alternatives. It didn’t even occur to us that this could happen, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised when stepping out of a personal interaction with a local farmer, and into one with an out of state large scale breeder. This shall serve as a great reminder to not ever do that for chickens and anything regarding food or animals. Fuck these guys.
Shrooms
The past few days have been amazing for mushroom of all sorts. The diversity of mushrooms within a few square feet is amazing.
The only one we looked up because it looked so peculiar: American Caesar Amanita.
A day later, same mushroom:
