Pembroke87 Joins the Fediverse

I first became aware of the idea of a decentralized social network through Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction novel, The Ministry of the Future. Here is his fictional account For everyone else, using these sites means they’ll control their data, rather than it being used and mined. That privacy can then be a resource to […]

Cattails Start to Sprout

To explain away the stream that heads straight into the ditch by the tracks, the area is going to get swampy. To produce these cattails, I borrowed a design idea from Noch, but cut my own, rather than plumping for their probably excellent product. Forty-seven plants in an area about 2.5x3cm looks about right. The […]

The Dairy Herd

Now that I can have as many cattle as I desire, the question becomes how many should I have? My cousin’s husband keeps about 100 cows producing milk, and at least another 100 heifers and pregnant or nearly pregnant animals, but he has machines that do most of the milking. Surely hand-milked herds in 1905 […]

Pasture Bushes

Most of the pasture consists of grass and weeds, but the stream is lined with bushes to such an extent that it often disappears. A couple of years ago, after reading Gordon Gravett’s books, I ordered a small square of rubberized horsehair from Treemendus. When it arrived, along with a small shank of postiche, I […]

Blending a Cow

A quick online search, and indeed a visit to the hobby shop, confirmed that populating my pasture with a herd of Ayrshire cattle is going to be a pricey proposition. Moreover, even if I were to spend $20 or more on a hand of cows, they will be in three different poses: grazing, mooing, and […]