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tereghan replied to your photo “FIRST EGGS!! My baby chicks from the fall are starting to lay their...”

Whoa, are those pink? Which breed lays pink eggs?

No, they’re not really pink, though they sort of look it in that light. I can’t think why.

They’re brown, which indicates to me that they’re unsurprisingly from the hens who make up the bulk of that flock. Those hens are of a type you’ll hear called “commercial red” or sometimes “red sex-link” or similar; these are specifically ISA Brown hens, who will lay like 300 eggs a year. (The “sex link” means that the female chicks are brown and the male chicks white, so it’s easy to sort them by sex immediately upon hatching.)

I really like the breed, though they’re bred to optimize egg production at the expense of literally everything else-- they’re nosy and curious and sort of friendly if handled like, at all, and they’re quick on the uptake. They’re extremely food-motivated. I have some fancy girls in there with the others, and the Wyandottes and Homburgs are like, mega-not-friendly, but the Barred Rocks are sweet. They’re just sort of. Not as quick-witted as the Browns. (And while Wyandottes and Homburgs and Rocks will lay eggs pretty well, they’re not mega-egg-machines, and I think they lay white eggs. Oh, no, the Rocks and Wyandottes lay brown eggs, so it’s just the Homburgs who lay white.)

Who, again, are mostly just food-motivated.

None of these guys are what you’d call geniuses, though. My sister just had to go rescue a bunch of them from the electro-net, where they’d been spooked by a hawk.

No more eggs today, either. Looks like the old flock is going to have to keep up the good work a while longer.

#tereghan #commercial egg chickens #i can't imagine a confinement operation #but it is kind of a pain and a hassle having these chickens range free #they're getting a proper barn soon though #for next winter at least #so we'll see

#r-ochoa #tereghan

Horses run at 10,000 miles an hour and switching to cars was a horrible setback in human progress done only because we got tired of feeding the speedy, smug bastards.

They must run a pretty crazy metabolism for all this running!!

#innacurate horse facts #thank you so much I love these #tereghan

tereghan replied to your post “guys can you die from having too many feelings about star trek? ”

It's sooooooo good why are more people not obsessing about it.

Because tumblr is full of shit. It says it wants more diversity, wants more complex discussions of race, sex, gender, identity. It wants canon gay couples. It wants gay actors to play gay characters. The whole thing reminds me of when Elementary started, and people were SO ANGRY, even though it really is the superior show, and had that holy grail of a trans actor playing a trans character. But only one white boy, and Sherlock Holmes wasn’t shown as a pale skinny gay genius, so nope.

There’s also all the people who are angry for whatever put upon star trek fan reason they are obsessing over today. I try not to read much of that, because every goddamn star trek series since TOS has abysmal 1st seasons (and TOS had over 30 episodes in its first season and a LOT are duds) and yet those are allowed to stand and be excused. My beloved DS9 had move along home ffs. Not that Disco is having an abysmal first season by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I can’t imagine a move along home in discovery. That should be something going for it.

But that said, the kids on tumblr have only really been exposed to the alternate universe Trek, and it is Very Important to hate that.

Anyway its early and I haven’t had my coffee yet but these are my disco feelings. Someone start a podcast with me, please, I need to talk more about how great this show is.

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tereghan replied to your photoset “Post Office Bounty follow-ups! So, my Captain America cross-stitch...”

You *can* count every row of a cross stitch, or you can just use the row above for reference, and if it a repeating pattern or a simple shape you just memorize the next several rows which really speeds things up. I used to do it as a *tiny* child (I refused to do it after age 6, got bored with it) and just picked it up again about a month ago.

Yeah, that’s mostly what I did, but with all the ascending/descending counts in the rings, it was still a trial. (”Which section am I on again? How far out does this one go?”) sometimes it was easier to just count every stitch because I’d lose track of which line I was on. But yeah, definitely a lot of relative counting.

pbrim replied to your photoset “Post Office Bounty follow-ups! So, my Captain America cross-stitch...”

One thing that can help is to use a contrasting color sewing thread to baste in a grid on your fabric before starting to match the 10 x 10 (or whatever) grid on your chart. Then you don't have to count so far and you have more frequent checks to see you are lined up right. Use long stitches and try not to split the marker thread (or use the solid nylon thread) and you can pull the grid out fairly easily

Oh, that’s clever! The diagram did have a grid on it, but I found it of limited use because the fabric didn’t. If I ever cross-stitch again I will definitely do that, great idea!

#tereghan #pbrim

Horses are our friends and do not secretly want to stomp us to death at all times.

MHm Mhm yes definitely

#inaccurate horse facts #tereghan

tereghan replied to your post: You have blessed my post, many thank yous, bb8 is...

Hey Sam, go read Have You Heard. :D (You’re in the fandom, admit it.)

*hand over face*

*very small voice*

I already did

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tereghan replied to your post “help all my mom wants for christmas is for me to embroider her...”

If she likes history, maybe a historical pattern? Does she have a favorite kind of animal?

wyomingnot replied to your post

some generic flowers around the phrase "this space intentionally left blank" :)

vanjalism replied to your post

what about a local symbol of some sort? the county seal? or her initials in a nice monogram, which is Generally Suitable for Gifts

aethersea replied to your post

also you could find some stained glass patterns and turn them into embroidery? there's this museum called casina delle civette full of stained glass, including some stunning ones of birds and some quite lovely roses

aethersea replied to your post

so there's this style of mosaics that I fell in love with last week called cosmatesque, you find it a lot on the floors of Roman churches, and I'm currently planning on making a bunch of embroidery patterns to put on towels based on those mosaics. it might suit? if you google it you'll get these pretty swirly patterns around large circles of marble, but I've also seen some on columns that are done in red, black, and gold that glitter beautifully

what really works about those is the variety, as far as I can tell - each individual pattern is pretty but simple, but they put them all together and manage to not make it too busy or overwhelming. probably by having plenty of empty space, idk.

all of these are brilliant suggestions, and I’ve had some direct chats from @rhymingteelookatme and @missbuster with good suggestions too.

I think the thing to do is to try to come up with some kind of slogan relative to a family inside-joke, or slogan, or something, if I can, and have that be the quote, and then do a nice floral border.

I also have an idea for a series of botanical embroideries, and I’d had a nebulous idea to do a whole thing about flower meanings as well, and honestly what would be fantastic is to digitize a handful of patterns one by one, and get an assortment so that I could make wall hangings with messages spelled out, kind of-- the botanical-manual-style illustration for each flower, and its meaning under it.

But that’s a long-term project. So really, what’s got to happen is I’ve got to get one of my sisters with a better memory to help me come up with what would be a hilarious family slogan or reference to some kind of family-specific event. I just... don’t know what.