There were at least six robins hanging out in the bushes next to our duck yard this morning. Odd since we’re about to get the coldest and snowiest week or two of the winter … but they’re still the first robins of the year!
Category: Miscellaneous
Etomology, fake news, and circus kings
Turkish Journalist Sedef Kabaş said “There is also a saying that is the exact opposite: ‘When cattle go into a palace, they don’t become the king; but the palace becomes a barn’ — and, evidently, was arrested for it. The strange thing is that I heard this as “an old Turkish proverb” … since the quote comes from January 14th 2022, I’m not sure old really applies.
It then got repeated with all sorts of things and places – oxen, stables … and clowns with circuses. When a clown goes into a palace, they don’t become the king; the palace becomes a circus.
It would have made a great old proverb, although it looks like we’ll have to wait a few hundred years.
City Rainbow
We went downtown today. Dropped Scott and a friend of his off at a whiskey tasting whilst Anya and I went to the main library. Since it was pretty windy, the fountain had significant over-spray — but it made a lot of cool rainbows:
Sunset, again
Still beautiful!
Sunset
We’re outside looking for the comet, and the sunset was beautiful:
Rainbow
First Fireflies of 2024
I don’t remember when we saw the first fireflies — walking back to the house after dark, there was one lonely little flash out in the field. But, over the past week or so, that one flash has been joined by dozens of others.
A Bird in your pocket?
I had clothes drying on the line, and Anya grabbed them just before sunset. She quickly tossed everything into a basket and brought it into the house. A short time later, I got the clothes out of the basket to fold. I took out a pair of Scott’s jeans and … out flies this little bird! No idea how she got in there, and I’m really glad she didn’t seem to be hurt in any way. We turned off all the interior lights, opened the front door, and turned out the outside light. A little following her around and trying to persuade her to go in the right direction and swoop, she flew outside.
Restarting Ford 2110 After Running Out Of Diesel
We found a lot of instructions online for restarting a tractor after running out of diesel. It boils down to following the fuel line out of the tank and bleeding everything. The bleed screw on the fuel filter was pretty obvious – Philips head screwdriver, open it up, let it bubble until fuel flows, then lock it down. The injectors were obvious — and I need to check what size wrench we used. But the middle one … not so much. Figured I’d put a picture for anyone else who has the bad fortune to run out of fuel in their tractor. After bleeding air from the fuel filter, move on to this screw. An 11/16″ wrench to loosen the bolt head and a flat-head screwdriver. From there, move to the injectors. Voila, the tractor goes vroom again.
Eclipse
We watched the eclipse — it was surprising how much energy the sun puts off when the moon is mostly covering it!
But we had the totality for just under four minutes, and it was dark … and “sunrise” was everywhere.
