Chicken pen with black and brown chickens. Sign reads "CAUTION Area patrolled by attack chicken".

View from the middle of the yard at the back of the house, the chicken coop and pen.

View from the walkway of the coop, pen, and the camper bus.

View from the very back of the yard. House looks tiny. You can also see the camper bus and the pen. The coop is the dark grey backdrop to the pen.

Taking a walk in the yard and plotting our spring projects on the little urban (not quite) homestead.

I have a very vague memory of a trip on one of these from Reno Nevada back to Indiana. I was 3 and all I remember is the tiny bathroom was gross.

Correction... 2 of those are the same chicken. Ikarus likes her picture taken.

3 of the 12 chickens posing for pictures.

Seed tray with diagram.

Seed trays and Italian Ice containers.

Indoor seed starting set up.

List of things planted. I guess Indianapolis stopped all plastic recycling (haven't confirmed) so you'll notice blueberry, strawberry, yogurt, and seaweed containers.

I managed to keep myself busy and avoiding the news by starting seeds indoors.

Zoey dog (black & white pitbull) wrapped up in her doggie blanket snoring away beside me.

BB8 (brindle pitbull) on the other side snoring even louder.

Mostly white cat staring at camera. He does not care about Mama being home on workday.

Lost work from home over the summer because of a stupid back to work mandate. So doggos are REALLY happy for the super cold weather and crappy roads. Cat doesn't care.

... Next redistricting map isn't supposed to be done until 2033.

Back home, tired of people, and it's almost time to go get the teen from school. But there are more pictures.
There were objections to beginning the session today 12/1 instead of the agreed upon date in January. Apparently, they voted to move ahead knowingly breaking a house rule.

View from the balcony of the chamber for the Indiana House of Representatives. Redistricting maps released just a few hours ago. The sound from outside of hundreds of Hoosiers shouting.

There was a rally starting at noon and now the party has moved outside the chamber where they are chanting "no means no"
"this is what democracy looks like" among other things.
Found a nice spot to sit.i haven't sat in the gallery of either chamber since college.

Indiana showed up!!!!!!

The results are in: the following entries have all miraculously tied for first place in the contest for Best Halloween Costume of 2025!

Did someone check to make sure all the dancers were of age?

The best time to abolish ICE would have been in 2021. The next best time is if we win in 2028. At this point, any Democrat unwilling to abolish ICE must be drummed out of the primary.

If we ever get him out of there we should burn it and build a new one. This fucker has ruined everything about our government.

"radical"

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

I was able to work today because I start early and managed to log in before the software we use was affected. Coworkers had to work on other tasks outside the software. We didn't receive any email from outside our agency for several hours 😁

There is anger, but there is also hope and joy. There is just something about seeing so many people come out in support or defense of the things you care about. At least in red states I know it is easy to believe you are small in numbers and nobody else cares.

Hey all! Sorry, I'm not one here much. I was going to use this to replace my doom scrolling on FB, but it didn't work.
voltcon.org my brain is full of happy chemicals after spending the weekend with all of the amazing staff and attendees at VoltCon.

I try to discourage anyone from coming to the US right now and I worry about reentry for friends and family who are traveling out of the country.

The rest of this year is about finishing a whole bunch of incomplete projects. A fire pit is something we've talked about before, but it was a quick project. So it was okay to start a new one. Even if it was allowing me to procrastinate on something else, it was done in less than a week!!!

Sorry it's been a bit. The world is absolute garbage.

She is such an adorable little punk ass.

And now to give this jealous puppy attention. She will be happy when the chicks are out of the kitchen.

I think this is the last one. This punk ass is Athena. She is hard to get away from the others for pictures.

This lovely little bird is Hecate. When we got them she was the smallest and had a bald spot on her butt so for the first couple of weeks she was Naked Butt. The bald spot is covered in feathers now, thank goodness.

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So there are 3 birds that were very similar. Amaterasu, Hathor, and Apolo. When they had baby feathers we could tell them apart because Apolo has a darker dotted line, Hathor had a darker dot on her head, and Amaterasu has no dark spots.
I am about 90% certain this is Amaterasu.

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So there are 3 birds that were very similar. Amaterasu, Hathor, and Apolo. When they had baby feathers we could tell them apart because Apolo has a darker dotted line, Hathor had a darker dot on her head, and Amaterasu has no dark spots.
I am about 90% certain this is Apolo.