Happy Saturday, happy weekend, and HAPPY SPRING.
Today was a nice busy day. To start, I went and picked up a couch Melissa found. I'm sitting on it now as i start this post, I guess I'm glad she found it.
When I got home, I got to work finishing the fence. It's done and it looks really awesome. The solid nature of it helps a lot with reducing road noise, I'd say by around half!
The new fence
After finishing the fence, I worked o the rabbits some. It seems Blackberry is already bred by her brother. Chance turned out to be a buck. That's okay, we'll eat the inbred babies and just deal with having rabbits that have extra or missing appendages. The white bun was successfully bred to Buddy Boy, after New Buddy Boy proved too old to keep up with the nimble young lady. New Buddy Boy is now listed for sale to clear out his cage, and Chance is staying and entering the breeding program. The white bun is promised to a man scout if he can get a cage set up before her litter gets here. I'm going to keep at least one doe from New Mombun's current litter to add to the breeding program as well, and probably get a new buck from a different line. This juggling and setting up a breeding program is really cool. I've never had to work with this dynamic before. I'm enjoying it.
New buddy boy bun
After all that, I wanted to plant Hopi blue corn, but had to do a bit of eugenics first. I set out eliminating the smaller, deformed, or discolored seeds in a quest to get three hundred of the biggest kernels we have. That's what eugenics is about, right? Master Race Corn. The rest would be cracked to feed to the chickens. Because that's what eugenics is for, right? Feeding chickens.
Separating the corn
The idea here is to favor whatever genetics helped the larger seeds become larger. These seeds were grown here in this soul from seeds that weren't grown in this soil. So this is our first generation of locally adapted Hopi blue corn. That's part of the reason I decided to try corn again this year: I think the next generations will be better because of adaptation to our locale. I used the kiddos to help me with the process, even turning it into an introduction to job interviews for them and making them submit their qualifications for the job they wanted. Sophia did the best on that, no surprise.
Since it's spring, and she got a new couch, Melissa worked all day on spring cleaning and rearranging. It was a good day. Sam and I even took some time to play catch for the first time. He loved it and we're going to do it more. He's got a hell of an arm on him.
I didn't get done any of the planting I wanted to do, but that's okay. It was still an awesome day. It's getting late now, so I'm gonna call this one a wrap and head to bed.
Love from Texas
Nate 💚