Our tired old boy spent yesterday on the bed. It's nearing his time to go and we loved on him regularly throughout the day. All he has known is the farm and there is no way I will take him away from here to die scared. He is at home and at some point in the near future will be at peace. #homesteading #feline #cat #hive #diy #3dprinting #peakd #dailyblog

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A day of 3dprinting and Loving on our Cat, My first model remix, UFC, Can Rack, Dummies, Sight - Saturday | PeakD

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Hospice care just fucking sucks no matter the subject. Our cat is on his last days and the goal is to keep him good and comforable here at home. It's nothing when it's a farm animal that lives out in its pen but when it's one that has been an ever present presence in the hosue for 14 years it hits a lot harder. He and I have been at odds most times but this sucks. I kept the printer going all day as a bit of distraction and have a set of can racks made for the fridge. These are going to do wonders for organization on the middle shelf! The boys were rather stoked on the pennjy whistles I got printed for them and they even sound quite good too! #homesteading #3dprinting #hive #peakd #dailyblog

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Cold Snap, PDC, Can Rack, Homage, Hospice, 3d Printing, Glycerin, Tracks, Flutes, Grilling - Friday | PeakD

The start of our cold period was yesterday morning when it was 20F in the morning. It never got much warmer during the d... by flemingfarm

Pool noodles come in handy for so many random things around the farm. In the absence of "normal" pipe insulation I found this hunk and used it to wrap the heat tape and water line by the coop. I'll find out today if it's enough or if I need more, I may just make a cover for the stub out of foam that would really trap heat. I've been keeping the K1C going almost nonstop and finally shifted over from the Dummies to a can rack for the fridge. I remember these in the 90s as a kid so it was rather nostalgic finding the model files, so I had to get them printing. I know I could probably buy them premade for a couple bucks but I'm learning by making them. #homesteading #3dprinting #diy #hive #peakd #dailyblog

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3DPrinting, PDC, Heat Tape Wrapping, Utd, Clip, Sorting, Draining, Krash, Whistle - Thursday | PeakD

After getting the boys to school yesterday morning I had the printer working away and got the first tray pulled about 8:... by flemingfarm

This seems a VERY unnecessary when D3 is not bad tasting at all and is still orally active. For other active medicinal ingredients it could be quite nice to mask the taste though. Who knew there was a 3d chocolate printer? Again seems unnecessary...

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I went to fill the sheep water yesterday morning and found the hose bib was frozen. The line up to it wasn't so thankfully just plopping the little space heater by it for a while did the trick. I have to retape the wire and wrap in foam today so this doesn't happen again this winter. Finally got my endo appointment and the root canal is scheduled. I'm pretty sure I'm one of the few people in the world right now who is actually LOOKING FORWARD to a root canal... The sooner the sooner the abscess can begin to heal. Oh and the whole TRON 20% thing... Hive has had 15% or better on HDB savings for over a year now and is doing just fine. #homesteading #diy #3dprinting #hive #peakd #dailyblog

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Moon, Printing, Salt, Lamp, Froze Hose, Hike, Sunshine, Endo, Wrestling - Wednesday | PeakD

Got a face full of moon as I dropped the boys at school yesterday morning as the sky was clearing already. There was som... by flemingfarm

WTF!? This is cool as shit! Problem still is there is no individual sensor per feather or way to rotate the feathers to properly mimic the flight of a bird. A bird can feel each feather and move it to adjust it's flight path. We can't make that and won't be able to for a while. I feel like it is going to be a hydraulic system rather than servos or steppers/etc, but will need the machine learning/AI to control it all.

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Rather funny watching him in his ortho appointment yesterday. All the manipulations to expose the teeth for photos had us laughing pretty hard. He was a good sport about it and they even had ice cream for him at the end. The spacer will keep his teeth spread so the adult tooth will have room to come in in a couple years and not bork his mouth. Dummy 13 kits are getting pumped out as fast as I can and will be sending them with the boys to school. They are free to sell by the licensing so we're figuring $5 is an easy price and one parents won't balk at when their kid brings it home. #3dprinting #homesteading #diy #hive #peakd #dailyblog

PeakD

Dummy 3DPrinting Palooza, Sunshine, Ortho, Kraken What!?, Googly Eyes, Kits - Tuesday | PeakD

I had let the printer run into the night and yesterday morning the plate was finished. I had set it to run at 25% speed ... by flemingfarm

The printer was going all day yesterday with various parts for the dummies. The boys took theirs to school with them and J came home with a bunch of requests for them. One kid wants one to use for figure drawing poses! So far I have 4 complete sets printed and will be pushing out a bunch more frame sets today. Wrestling season has begun with the first practice and the first tournament ins't until March so they have a lot of time now to get dialed in before competing. At least he's not the smallest or one of the smallest kids on the team anymore. New rule changes this year mean I want to work with him a lot on take downs and trips. #homesteading #3dprinting #wrestling #hive #peakd #dailyblog

PeakD

Launch, Day Of Printing, Pepper, Cardboard, Dummies, First Wrestling Practice - Monday | PeakD

Made me laugh yesterday morning when I saw a post somewhere saying that Elon was about to embarrass Bezos with his launc... by flemingfarm

Maybe Benchy gets to stay? Seems more an over reaction by Prusa than a demand by NTI... #3dprinting

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These Dummy 13s are killer! They look just like Issac from The Orville and are incredibly expressive for little hunks of plastic. We all have one now and I'm working on printing up a bunch more. The first thing I had to find and print out was the toilet... just because. I had myself in fits of giggling all evening yesterday. #ManUtd did something?!?! Only by sheer luck and an injured missing Jesus from Arsenal. The Kraken reinforced their 5th from last position with a super loss. At least it was good watching the Matrix movies again. #3dprinting #FDM #homesteading #diy #hive #peakd #dailyblog

PeakD

Utd WHAT?, 3D Printer Troubleshooting, Krash, Dummy 13s, The Matrixes, Assembly - Sunday | PeakD

My whole morning yesterday was taken up with the task of troubleshooting the 3d printer. With my attempts at using the o... by flemingfarm

Some solid lessons learned yesterday as I fought with the PLA filaments. It just didn't want to play nice until I finally figured out to slow the flow rate of it and kick the nozzle temp way up. I screwed up doubly by resizing the model which borked the fit of the pieces. I'll be retrying again today with the new info. These 2 Dummy 13 fiugures came out quite nice though. We now have "patchy freezing fog and mostly cloudy" as far as the weather forecast shows... Thank GOD I have my daily Vit D powder bolus. #homesteading #3dprinting #learnbymistake #hive #peakd #dailyblog

PeakD

Sunshine, Filament Fights, Kraken Krush, Matrix, Dummy 13s, Lessons - Saturday | PeakD

Our day of sunshine yesterday morning started nicely. It

Oooo, yay. An hour of snow yesterday that did more harm to the roads than benefit to the ground. The dose of snow that fell mid day ended up leading to crazy black ice in town and led to numerous accidents at the commute time. Stupid warm winter refuses to actually freeze like it's supposed to. Thanks Pacific Ocean. Wrestling practice starts next week and he is excited for it. I'm happy to see he has kept the stoke for the sport and it is a super good way for him to focus the hyper energy. #homesteading #3dprinting #hive #peakd #dailyblog

PeakD

The Snowening, Extinguishers, Whistle Prints, Azure, Local Legend, Wrestling - Friday | PeakD

There was the talk of snow happening yesterday but when I got up in the morning the doppler showed nothing nearby. Every... by flemingfarm

It's not the prettiest rubix cube but it did manage to come off the printer and go together correctly. Took a couple tries to set the supports right, I'm still figuring some of the proper setting, techniques, and methods out. Have to find the sticker set to print out on the Cricut now. The whistles I printed proved their power, I got over 110 db on each! #homesteading #3dprinting #diy #hive #peakd #dailyblog

PeakD

Sunrise, Models, Sound Testing, Apocalypse, Kraken Karnage, 3d Printed Rubix Cube - Thursday | PeakD

I got a sliver of sunrise yesterday morning as I was dropping the boys at school. We were saddled with the clouds and fo... by flemingfarm

Mornin #Nostr Finally we have some snow. Only a few inches and it began melting pretty fast, but it snowed. Spent the day watching LA Apocalypse Porn as the basin burned. We always said this would happen, even back in the 80s/90s we knew this was an inevitable outcome of millions of people living in a fire zone. Wild it burned to the ocean in Malibu. #homesteading #3dprinting #hive #peakd #dailyblog

PeakD

SNOW, LA Apocalypse, Whistles, 3d Printing, Liv - Tot, Cat- Wednesday | PeakD

Well, that was a surprise yesterday morning. I was up at 3:45 for a bit and looked out to see it straight dumping snow. ... by flemingfarm

Can't help but watch the LA news about the firestorm. Crazy apocalypse going on

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Snowy Morning #Nostr Yesterday was a busy one but productive in that I got new tires on my truck and managed to get to the store in time to snag a case of ammo for WAY cheap. The adde looked like it HAD to be a misprint of 100 box max per customer... But it was true and for $9/bx. Apparently there were lines waiting for them to open an hour earlier than I was there. North 40 is a great company. Got 3" of snow this morning in a fast moving storm that is already well past us into Idaho. Not sure if I am going to go ski today or not... #homesteading #pewpew #gunstr #diy #hive #peakd #dailyblog #3dprinting

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Quite the whirlwind of a day yesterday. After getting the boys to school I headed straight into town and to Tirerama to ... by flemingfarm

$9/box sale for Norma Safeguard 9mm JHP?! Why yes I'll take a case! Thank you very much and I got lucky to get them as the pallet was nearly gone within the hour and a half they had been open. #gunstr #pewpew #stockingup

Morning #Nostr Sometimes we do a thing with little expectations but get surprising results. Such was my casual check of the sound level of my S19 yesterday. It's obvious the thing is loud but I didn't think it would be anywhere near this high. This was right at the fans exhaust but still... 92db is crazy. The shots from my 10-22 only peaked at 116db at 2ft... #homesteading #diy #3dprinting #hive #peakd #dailyblog

PeakD

Chiro, Meter Case, Sound Levels, Practice, Tires, Krash, Cat, 3D Printing, Hive Rise - Monday | PeakD

I was not in as dire need of the chiro yesterday morning as other times but it still was good to get the adjustments. It... by flemingfarm

Another predawn grain run yesterday morning and the sheep and birds are very happy to have the munchables. I'm slowly getting the garden coated in the grain and will have it more than covered by the time tilling season hits... Though it is tillable now since we have no snow or frozen ground... I'd like for it to actually turn to winter at some point, this rain and mud is just annoying given it's January. #homesteading #diy #farming #hive #peakd #dailyblog

PeakD

Rain, Predawn Grain Run, Utd, Hive, Meter, Gliders, Drinks, Rank, Cat - Sunday | PeakD

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