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Brothers M. Mondays in May 2021 – Week 2 Back to Snow

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Brothers M. Mondays is our way of showing you how excited we are for the first Seymour Farmers Market

Cold is always a risk raising chickens on pasture especially freezing temperature, such as what happened on 4/21.  We start our birds as late in the season as we can while still having chicken available for the first Seymour Farmers Market.  Fortunately when this cold and snow came this year, the chickens were still snug in their brooders with the heat lamps.

However, the cherry trees didn’t have that luxury and they are one of Olivia’s favorite trees.  I’m not sure if it was the right thing do to, but I sent her out to get the snow off the trees to help protect the blossoms.  Not only was it fun to watch, but we have plenty of cherries growing, so I think it helped.

Enjoy the video.  Music provided by Wintergatan – https://wintergatan.net/collections/download

Winter Hiking

Jason Fun, Miscellany
Main trailhead

I’ve mentioned that I love to be outside and especially hiking in our woods.  Hiking is good for my wellbeing.  I’ve mentioned how it help rehabilitate my knee after an injury, but it also gives me “quiet time” to let my mind wander on issues, meditate, or pray.  And of course it’s good exercise.

Even with snow on the ground, I still enjoy a hike.  This day I had to trudge through 6 inches of snow to get my path reestablished.  That ended up being more work than I expected, and I worked up a good sweat by the time I was done.

This is what iPhone Health has to say about my normal hiking path.  This was the first time I’ve tracked it, so I found it fairly interesting that going up and down all the ravines equated to 20 floors of stairs.

Of course we got another 6 inches and 2 more a few days later, not a common occurrence for Indiana, but since I like snow, very welcome.  I was about a week after my first trudged through the snow,  before I got back to the trail.  You can see, I’m not the only one that uses the tail, but unfortunately the deer didn’t clear much of a path.

Good times.

 

Happy Palindrome Day

Jason Fun

It’s 1202021.

Yeah, I know it’s goofy, but sometimes I nerd out on numbers so I’m celebrating today since it’s a palindrome.

Here are some other interesting palindromes:

  • 47274 –  for all my Seymour Indiana friends, your zip code
  • A-Ha  – The band
  • Tattarrattat – Often considered the longest palindrome in English.  Coined by James Joyce in his 1922 Ulysses to imitate the sound of a knock on the door.
  • Intransigence – The longest palindrome in Morse code
  • Was it a bat I saw? – Favorites from Robot Chicken Palindrome skit, featuring Batman

Just general favorites

  • Kayak
  • Taco Cat
  • Never odd or even.
  • Don’t nod
  • Step on no pets
  • Eye

And of course XKCD