Joshua Bertram

Let's bring this back from the dead.

Small Jeep trailer, one extension ladder again, and one 16' long cattle panel.

Still works like a charm.  If you can carry a ladder on the roof of your car, you can rig a cattle panel to it.

Edit, a red coffee can works great as a makeshift red flag.

I thought there was a new post, but apparently it was a false alarm.  Something about welders in my email.

It was fortuitous timing?  My very first welding project/gate just came back home to see me!  It lived in San Jose, CA where I made it.  It moved to Eugene, OR, where it stayed a couple of years hanging out.  Then it decided to go via U-haul to Millcreek UT, where it stood around doing what gates do for a couple of years, and then it showed up right here in sunny southern Utah this last week!  I used a rusty patina paint, when I built it, and it's in perfect condition still to this day!

RIP Sydney!  Best dog ever!  This was the gate for her play area.  I made it around 1995, and last saw it around 2000.

I think I can proudly call myself a mastergater at this point.

Here are some songs about permaculture it made.  It's too good, and this is the worst it will ever be.  There are already better versions coming out that sound better, and make longer songs.



folk'ish permie songs

https://suno.com/song/44987f2d-b10d-416a-9710-a05ef9e7ea05
https://suno.com/song/98551632-69ae-4e41-b7d3-dccbafb8ad9b

rock'ish permie song (2 versions)

https://suno.com/song/076be622-d155-42b0-ad73-2058112e3434
https://suno.com/song/19a18e5c-7c97-4f2d-9a65-257bf2f366ac

rap'ish permie song (2 versions)
https://suno.com/song/df6d6ba7-781d-41ad-8b41-a99d920faad4  
https://suno.com/song/99c1df09-cfb2-4187-a929-f1a6afc7199b

This is so funny I have to share it, because it's so good too.  It's amazing a.i. generated music.

All I "prompted" it, aka told it, was that, "I live alone with two dogs, I raise chickens and rabbits, and I like to garden."  Maybe that I live in a small town too, but not much more.  

It took it ten seconds to make this song.  It's embarrassingly good.  :)

https://suno.com/song/27e47f2d-064b-474b-b482-b50423739915

Any genre, any lyrics, anything you can think of, it can probably make.  5 free songs per day.  
I'm guessing music videos that go along with the lyrics will be here before too long.

If it had access to my emails, it could randomly generate personalized music about me and my life 24/7.  

Ravens are near and dear to my heart.  <3

Swans too!

Happy to see people embracing or at least trying the tech.   It's fun to mess around with if nothing else.

So this website takes a simple prompt, like, "elderly woman in garden gathering herbs and vegetables with welsh sheepdog" and rewrites it like this.

A charming, nostalgic scene of an elderly woman in a lush, sunlit garden, tending to her herbs and vegetables. She is accompanied by her loyal Welsh sheepdog, who is watching her attentively. The woman wears a sensible hat, a floral dress, and rubber boots. The garden is filled with colorful flowers, and the background reveals a quaint, stone farmhouse. The overall atmosphere exudes a sense of warmth, love, and connection to nature."

The site is ideogram.ai  It's very simple to use.

These are the four images it generated from Burras simple original prompt.

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Thanks, Judith.  

I'm still at it.  Unfortunately, last year, I couldn't get my saved purple's to sprout, so now I'm just using a grocery store (non organic) generic orange sweet potato in my microgreens tray.  There are a couple in there, and one is just now sprouting after about ten days or so?  Hopefully the other one starts soon.

I'm always amazed at what 4, 20 watt, generic amazon led lights can get going each year.   Just transplanted a ton of stuff into bigger containers since they were outgrowing the starter cells.  

Good luck to everyone.

This is super logical.  I don't know that it's actually true.

The idea is that seeds started in very poor conditions have their  dna programmed to be able to survive in harsh conditions.  So it learns to live in sub par conditions.  Then, you transplant it to moderate/better soil/conditions, and it flourishes better than ever!???

I start my seeds in almost perfect conditions, and then plant them into less than perfect conditions.  It works, but now that I think about it, it might be wrong.  It totally validates the argument for starting the seeds where they'll permanently be.

It's kind of like growing up on the streets as a kid, and then you're super prepared for life vs some overly sheltered kid???

Here's the video I just watched about it.