There were a few weeks involving competitions, an ongoing failure to catch up with copying lesson plans into templates, and some miscellaneous scurrying around, and kind of hyperfocusing on the gravel

There was a nice bout of sun and warmer temperatures and the plants that wake up or start serious new growth when the weather is warmer started stirring. The jasmine smells awesome by the way. And then

I did a lot this month, just not much in the garden! It's been cold and wet and muddy out there and I'm a coward who hates the cold. But we really do need to get back out there and transplant the

I know there's always something to do in the garden but seeing as it feels like we're starting from scratch (even though we're not starting from scratch we're restarting from stopped) it currently feels

The brakes got hit as money haemorrhaged (we needed a new vacuum cleaner and some expensive medical shenanigans happened) which gave me a serious case of Veruca. I "just" wanted to get more plants

nb: this is kind of in a thematic/narrative order not really a chronological one. We hit up Bunnings over a couple more weekends to pick up more concrete for the chicken fence, and of course bought more

We hadn't been long after the last update when we accidentally acquired more stuff. We had returned to Bunnings much sooner than anticipated as we had forgotten to buy replacement heat lamps during the

Aeris the Pig Dog vs Satan the Chicken of Indeterminate Breeding "Satan" was so-called because she kept jumping the fence and occasionally also climbing up onto the currently defunct aquaponics

It began unexpectedly with the paint I've been needing (we have some unexpected asbestos walls which need to remain painted and the current coat is peeling and we didn't get the renos done that I wanted

Finally got around to writing a couple of bash scripts to chain the image modifying and deployment stuff together so I can do all of that with one command instead of 2-3. Named without extensions to make

It's been about an aeon or so since I last did a garden journal (last one tagged any thing to do with the garden was bundled in with a homeschooling post from 2013 as the kids helped J plant some stuff

It is not actually that complicated, I was just going to call the post "re-evaluiation" or something equally direct but then decided I wanted to use the word "contemplation" and then

I think it's time to try something new. It may also be something old. I know I want to go back to my old way of blogging where I would just write whatever and not care about stupid things like SEO or niches.

As I've mostly been working on characters and outfits recently (or more specifically one character and one outfit) there hasn't been a lot of room for the usual extremely dodgy looking and usually very

It's a new world It's a new start It's alive with the beating of young hearts That particular song lyric has been stuck in my head since I did a shenanigan to it. I guess I'm expanding it out into a fervent

Vaguely following along from the title of last year's silly season shenanigan. These Blender versions are going way faster than I'm capable of. Last year (and possibly the year before that as well, just

It's a new world, it's a new start It's alive with the beating of young hearts - Bryan Adams: Here I am Happy new year! _ Hope you all had a great silly season. The original idea I had was to Defying Gravity

After struggling forever with the shape keys for Red's retractable claws, possibly against my better judgement (for once I'm not actually sure, I might have been going with my better judgement and against

It's been a period of time. Two people I know have died recently from two different cancers, another has been diagnosed with yet another type of cancer, I think I did get my yearly chest infection but

posting this one for "portfolio" purposes Four years ago (x_x) I made this piece: Protective is actually 2 and the original Protective was badly drawn in a uni notebook a hundred million years