https://blog.spacehey.com/user?id=4141680The most recent Blog Entries by the User "Pelecinus Polyturator" on SpaceHeyhttps://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2137001https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2137001Today is the first actual warm day of the year. Almost all of the snow has melted.  The indoor plantings have taken off, although it won't be for another almost 2 months before its actually warm enough to transplant them outside.  (Peppers/chilies of several varieties, tomatoes, some flowers for pollinators).  The chickens are quite happy to free-range today as well.  Have some eggs in an incubato...Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:33:41 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2033820https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2033820Pictured here is a bit of my collection.  These are all collected by me from the field (not hunted, just simply found in forests, fields, wherever), or results from trades with likeminded vultures. Ultimately, the hardest part is cleaning off the flesh. Included: Raccoons, lynx, coyotes, river otters, beaver, porcupine, groundhog, opossum, white-tailed deer, red fox, black bear, squirrels, domesti...Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:45:11 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2024959https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2024959Well how interesting, this seems to work as a blog post, but fails miserably when posted to bulletins.  Well here it is, it is the 2 week holiday break time from work. Thus begins the task of organizing the explosive mess that is the music collection. Since it's alphabetized, it is a constant struggle due to new music constantly being obtained.  There's lots still sitting in boxes.  Discovered the...Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:30:19 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1999357https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1999357When I flew to Halifax for work this past week, part of my task was to search for rare plants. I found a potential rare plant, but it is impossible to identify to species without examining microscopic parts of the plant. In this case: megaspores.  Megaspores are often the only way to identify the cryptic plant group known as Quillworts.   I was lucky to find this plant with an intact sporangium an...Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:28:22 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1997968https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1997968I know this site is built on trying to LARP as a teenager from the early to mid 2000's, but I already lived through that shit, so I will continue with my "boring" day to day life blog entries as a person living in 2025's nightmare.   Next week - the water softener installation will occur, I am also getting an iron filter. No more extremely hard water and iron stains on everything.  The reality of ...Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:29:07 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1992452https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1992452Garden planning for next year, building on what was planted this past year. You better believe it's a shit load of work. From starting seeds indoors, to planting, to garden maintenance, to harvest, to preserving, to storage. You simply have no idea.  But it is absolutely worth it.   I am also extremely aware that this is completely unrelatable to practically everyone on this site.  This past year ...Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:33:45 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1976126https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1976126...and with it, 4 chickens. --- The 4 chickens have arrived and are settling in. Gonna be awhile before they can be fully incorporated into the existing flock.  The (wild) bird feeders are also set up as of today, all ready for winter. Bring on the winter finches.  The property is all set for winter, everything is put away, gardens put to sleep until spring, late fall plantings ready to go (garlic...Sun, 09 Nov 2025 03:25:25 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1975417https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1975417While I've had lichen books sitting in my bookshelves for a couple of years now, I'm now finally taking it far more seriously, as it seems to be a rare skill to properly identify them to species level.  While my main professional focus at work (and in hobby) has me wearing three hats (Botanist, ornithologist and entomologist, with dabbling in mammalogy - bats), I'd like to lend my skill set to als...Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:22:30 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1974944https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1974944This was originally a bulletin, but it's a blog too.   a) I don't know how to code  b) It's Friday and your salary slave pal (ME) is happy for it c) In 2 weeks I travel to Nova Scotia for work-related trip (I gotta identify birds, with special focus on species at risk. Sold my soulSat, 08 Nov 2025 02:15:40 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1972443https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1972443I was going to write a long rant about how the environment/nature/wildlife is doomed due to the severe ignorance of humans -- but this is common knowledge (unless you are optimistic on a delusional level) so I won't.  On a minor tangent to that though, I hate people who romanticize nature, but cannot even identify a common bird species in their area.  You are pathetic...  ---- Acquiring 4 more chi...Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:31:14 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1969966https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1969966Today at work I've begun  acoustic analysis of bat call files. That is, files from a device that was set up outside on the edge of a forest to capture the sounds of bats. The calls are inaudible to us, but the device can pick up on them.  I then go through each call file, and manually identify which species each call file belongs to.  Almost all of the files are pure noise, and not a bat at all. T...Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:35:11 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1969048https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1969048I'll never listen to any musical genre with the word "core" in it.  As winter essentially begins, I will shift my attention to understanding lichens more.  This is a tough species group to get into, and an entirely new set of taxonomic terminology to learn. The terminology will be the biggest hurdle, but how difficult can it be compared to botany? Guess we'll see. This past work trip I took to the...Mon, 03 Nov 2025 03:04:05 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1967469https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1967469Today, Hugelkultur plot 2 was planted with garlic that was harvested in August. In total, 57 garlic cloves were planted. Hopefully all of them pop up in spring.  The last of the carrots are still needing to be picked, but gonna wait until the last possible moment before a hard freeze to pick those, even though it did snow yesterday (a particularly nasty Hallowe'en, but so rural that no trick-Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:55:05 +0000