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This past month has been a handful. The ewe lambs I acquired are settling in, and pretty well acquainted. Still learning lots about them and just getting a feel for it.
Finished a few biggish projects. Our statue of St Patrick blew over in a windstorm and some other parishioners repaired and repainted it - I put a really good clearcoat on and some much better concrete anchors.
We installed some stations of the cross at the cemetery. This ended up being more of a project than I wanted... but I found some really great finishing techniques, particularly for the steel posts.
The prototype cultivator actuators I've been developing debuted at the Midwest Mechanical Weed Control field day. They worked like a charm and grabbed a lot of attention, and helped demonstrate the adjustability of the cultivator.
This past weekend I was in Greensburg, IN at the Catholic Land Movement conference. More social than informative, but inspiring to hear from a lot of people trying to get back in touch with the created order of things, and coming up with some creative economic solutions to help in this (like zero-interest loans, community land trusts, different ways of raising livestock on a smaller scale). Mass was really beautiful.