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I need to get this mill working
Dick lives in the wreck of the general store. Once he got mad at me for shooting deer on the tracks. We’ve since made amends, figuring over the crackerbarrel court that happened before before, when things were more like now
February 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Starlings, Robins, Bluejays all showed up today, foretelling what it isn't clear
February 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
water is hard as fuck
February 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Swamp foot is returning at conspicuous rate since last shavedown
February 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Water-powered milling and the reification of text are the approx same period
February 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Put up a symmetrical display of old railroad spikes and also bones for the city folk to enjoy
February 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Arranged the buckthorn cuttings to start a berm between the road and house. Going to try to get something in place this summer
February 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Dropped poison under the deck for the rodents. There but for the grace of god go I
January 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
the windmills in the netherlands are wind pumps. just like how tide mills aren't really mills either. they're huge turds
January 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
a windmill and all the people it killed
January 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Late feudalism (1215–)
January 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Birds everywhere they love my seed
January 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
January 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The Machine Question outlived The Problem of Society. Mills win again
January 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
No mice in the traps for the first time in years. Climate change
January 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I don’t know that this is
January 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Some mallards have taken to the old mill pond. I fed them some crackers to encourage their society.
January 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Back when American historians told the truth about France, Germany, Spain, the low counties, etc
January 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
During the 20th century most historians assumed that milling died out in Europe in the dark/unpleasant early medieval period. But now we know from archeology that watermills survived. The grind never stopped. Windmills were not introduced in Europe until the 12th century.
January 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Grindset
January 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
After household running water but before household electricity there were a whole bunch of tap water-powered tools you could buy
January 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
January 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Rotary querns displaced the more laborious and elegant saddle quern
January 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Thinking this is a chunk of firebox liner from the stream trains that used to dump their slag by the old station
January 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“modern/american” windmill, later rebranded as a “turbine” owing to, I’m going to guess, French influence on American engineering
January 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM