I started a podcast with my friends Dave Hicking and @zuzana_kunckova! My Midwestern modesty can't help but feel like it's vain to think people want to hear from me but it turns out it's tons of fun!
Listen to our first two episodes at https://cheeseandweather.com 🧀⛈️
So I had several cameras taking timelapse movies during the #aurora of 28th February. Here's about 3 hours compressed into a couple of minutes. #auroraaustralis #astronomy #NewZealand #aotearoa #landscapes
Slow lately. Not horrible to get a break though. Bottled up what I boiled last week. Another 5.8 gallons. Just over 16 gallons bottled up this season. Still February. Looks like it's going to get nuts again. #maplesyrup
Did some #rocketry today with the club. Went 5 for 5 on flights. No long walks. No broken anything. Great day of flying.
Upscale #estesrockets Nike-X on an Aerotech G76 Mojave Green to ~1300'
Sorcerer's Apprentice on an Estes D12-5 to 750'
Der Big Red Max on an Aerotech F20-4 White Lightning to 750'
Skyracha - a 4" diameter upscale Big Daddy on an Aerotech H128 White Lightning to 1000'
Not pictured; Normal Big Daddy on an Aerotech F39 Blue Thunder to about 800'. Too quick off the rail to get a good shot.
Finished this little gut-punch of a book during lunch. The story hits home; having grown up on a farm where there were a lot of small farms (key word: were). https://sneezingcow.com/ #book #bookstodon
Back at it again. Crazy runs over the last few days. I'm at 830 gallons of sap off my 95 taps. 1100 last year for the whole season and we have 5-6 weeks left.... Nuts. #maplesyrup
"As you embark on your journey into #rocketry, it's good to get all the crashing out of your system."
Looking out back window at a tree we planted years ago, realizing it looks like a circulatory system rising toward the sky. Then realizing it’s similar below ground.
No heart, just a collection of vessels tapped into two environments, the byproduct of its past growth running through the middle, a skeletal frame.
Trees are amazing.
"There are then innumerable suns, and an infinite number of earths revolve around those suns, just as the seven we can observe revolve around this sun which is close to us."
– cosmic pluralist Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake for heresy #OTD in 1600