Spent Brewing Grain Pickup, Hivefolks - Thursday

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Another super early morning. I was out of the house by 5:00 am and in town by 5:30. I had 3 barrels to pickup at the Steamplant which were all mostly full. I'm going to have to ask them to set the barrels on the uphill side by the fence so It will be a bit easier for me to load them on the trailer. They had them by the wall on the downhill side of the slope. This time there was only one homeless person sleeping under the overpass.

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Not sure if they will or not this year but the stacks have been lit up with colored light prior years.

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I had one of 2 empties together with the 3 barrels on the trailer and the other brewery had maybe a barrel and a half worth so I ended up shoveling all three partial barrels out into the one empty and topped off the other three on the trailer.

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Due to having to shovel a bunch of the grain it took me a little longer to get home, especially since I had to stop for gas. The soak was nicely welcome and helped to open up my sinuses again. We had to be out so I could get J to school.

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Yesterday was the launch of Hive Folks and I happened to pickup one of the first 50 to be sold. The netwrok was really slow and it took nearly an hour for it to finally show in my inventory but I got #15/546 which I presume is @lordbutterfly. I only got one as 80 Hive seems a bit steep and I didn't want to miss my chance at one.

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Once it was light and R was up I went out to dump the barrels. The sheep have not gotten a good batch of grain in a while so I opened up a couple of the pallets and backed the trailer into an area of the pen that has not been covered in grain.

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It slopped out of the fence towards the boat and the chickens were instantly on top of it. They were jumping up on my trailer before I even backed into the pen. The ground is just frozen enough on the surface that they don't break through so they can more easily get to the grain.

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The brown sheep behind the two white has a good sized udder and looks like she will be popping within a couple weeks. Of course Winter lambs, never the easiest but are hardy if they make it.

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The sheep don't spread the grain like the chickens do so it is good to have them together with it. The birds tend to level out the piles fairly quickly by scratching it around.

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My afternoon was spent in the yard and under the carport breaking down boxes and burning a pile of debris in the fire pit. I'm trying to get the car port cleaned up so we can use it this winter. The cardboard can overtake it rather quickly so every now and then I have to go through and purge it all.

@stryeyz and the boys went north for the evening and I got to finish my writing for the day. I barely got past my 1250 word minimum as I kept hitting speed bumps. Trying to discern where the story is going is a bit difficult when pantsing it. There is back story that I am having to write at the same time as the current story and have to try to make them mesh for the future.

Once they were home we soaked again as it began to try to snow very lightly.

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Woke up to a thin layer of snow and with more on the way tonight. J has school today, I have to wash R's clothes if he can ever find them all, keep cleaning under the carport, get more than my minimum words written today, and I need to pull meat out to thaw for grilling this evening.


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Ah, I hear ya on the speed bumps. yesterday I cranked out several thousand words, but even more exciting than that was it was the climax of the tale. As it is the first draft though my treacherous brain is often all kerfluffled and angry that I haven't tied in all the threads in just the way that I want. I keep telling it that I will do that during the revision session dangit! I guess if writing was easy everyone really would do it, the craft is both torturous and ecstasy level awesome, but I suppose it's like any other art and trying to your soul at times.

Can you tell I am annoyed at my WIP right now? LOL!

Hope your backstory and plot line up nicely for you sooner rather than later. I mean, you always could let the chickens loose on it, lol!

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This head cold didn't help much either, I couldn't focus for the life of me in the morning like normal. My routine was thrown off being a snot faucet. I've managed to make my daily par for 39 days now and am intent on keeping it going.

Annoyance isn't all bad, sometimes it can lead to epiphanies since you are in a critical frame of mind and not just creativily plowing forwards.

Yep, those little threads left dangling keep popping into the brain and it's REALLY hard not to pull on them, but I know if I do I am on a big ole tangent, even if it is something I have to get back to. Part of it is I have to dedicate time to reading thee whole first part/book and making notes of all the points, right now it is just in my head.

HAH HAH! Put a BT keyboard in a plastic cover, cover it with chicken feed and let them type away as they peck at the food.

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Sinus congestion is so gross, I think the thing that makes me the maddest about it is how it sabotages your ability to focus. Hopefully your snot faucet is off now!

Tangents is what I have the podcast for, we can pull at any thought thread that presents itself and wander down whatever rabbit hole we like, but doing that in writing is definitely dangerous...and time consuming, lol!

I kinda want to do the chicken feed novel experiment now, I bet it would win the Pulitzer 🤣

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I think a raspberry pi with keyboard could handle the experiment. Stuff the pi in a box and duct tape the hell out of it and run the keyboard wire out. Plugging it in to ac power would allow them to write for a long time uninterupted.

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I think this has to happen at some point now, the potential visuals are just too good and I am beyond curious as to what they would compose🤣

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I was out in the trash shed yesterday and I need to hoe it out, but it's to rain today, so maybe on Wednesday...

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