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Yes yes, but I'm also very resistant to taking money out of my investments to pay for things that I stubbornly refuse to admit that I can't do...
Satan's Spawn hasn't turned into lamb chops yet, but they will soon enough, as it's very much getting into fall here. ;) Need to get the...
Hey all - just thought I'd drop by, as I'm working towards a botany degree now, and there's been a lot of interesting things that have come up...
Hi all - I just stopped by to post a couple updates :) Up until about a week ago, I've been planting up a storm - used up 80% or so of the...
Particularly around the spruce, I plant low strandavíðir (tea-leaved willow v. "strandir", which makes a dense windbreak but maxes out at around...
Several days ago: I first drove on this newly paved section of road. Sure looks rather slick, I thought, but I pushed that aside, because surely...
Well, that's the best deal - 37 trays (a trailer's full), about 56 cents per tree. Not bad! They're from Flóra, the place with the grubs and...
Just a few pics from the first two planting days. Loading up on cottonwood, rowan, elm, a few birch and a handful of spruce. Rowans were planted...
Well, Youtube is annyoing. I uploaded the >6Gb file and waited all day for Youtube to process it.. but because apparently I clicked the wrong...
Video uploading.... although it's long and 4K HDR, so it won't finish before I go to bed. ;) Need to decide what to do about trees. Kjarr - the...
Okay, the person who made the Paypal donation today... you know who you are... wow. You just bought a at least half a trailer full of trees :)...
Yes. :) Hopefully will be getting a new batch later this week or next week. I think I'm ready to switch from fence work to new planting. First...
It'll happen to any long fence over time, but it's the forces on a fence that trigger it, and obviously here, we get a lot of forces on our...
While I finished the barbed wire, and cementing the posts on the east / inland side, and got the big tools and posts and wire down to the damaged...
Just thought I'd stop by to post a few more pics from the past week :) Here the wobbly section of the fence (a couple others less wobbly) that I...
You can get flights through Boston. Seems that the problem is with a number of US airports, not the Iceland end. My mother had a flight out for...
The oak trees "look alive" (at least the sturdier / lower branches - looks like there's some tip loss of higher / weaker branches), but there's...
A walk through a fairly heavily planted area nearing the fence, showing the amount of winter damage and new spring growth thusfar. [MEDIA] This...
Okay, let's make plans for "loosely a year from now". Yes, AirB&B did hit me with hundreds of dollars in "fees" for their "fully refundable...
There's a number of "maybes", but the majority have cancelled. My main concern this whole time has been worries about people who had already made...
So, of the people who are still "maybes", any more clarity as to whether you'll be coming? I still have one house reserved, with three of four...
Meh, let's toss in a few more, taken at various points in the fence-building this year. :) Top one is the most recent, others are out of order....
I'm really hoping to get them to the point where they're big enough to "stand united" ;) The "easy" way would have been a thicket of only trees...
Unfortunately, building above the floodline has its own problems. The river runs close to a crumbling cliff, so if you move away from the river,...
I'll try to get back to posting in this thread at some point :) Some brief catching up: The force of those river flood waters must be insane....
Based on some feedback, some people need more time to figure out details, which is understandable, so I'll check back in a week. If anyone had...
Airline service is operational.
Lol, timing. I just sent out a bunch of messages asking people about attendance, and in my messages I mention that it's not clear who will have...
Well, it's official - borders will be back open on or before 15 June :) Iceland to Open Borders on June 15 Apart from any potential whitelisted...
Sorry - haven't been on the forum in a while. By all means join the thread :)...
So, I've been informed that Audubon is no longer here, who was the reason why I had to leave. I'll try to post occasionally updates and let...
One post, since this was left unfinished - I'm posting status updates to this here: Nafnlaus on Twitter Miss you guys. :)
BillWright on Twitter [ATTACH] I don't know about the Tesla side, but the Panasonic side planning to start ramping down operations next week and...
Even the experts are debating the IFR right now, and the exact details matter a lot, so I hesitate to speculate. All that can be said is... the...
The rate of infection will not be the same everywhere in the world at the same point in time. The small number of deaths (these days, I would...
Getting a bit OT for this thread, so I'll try to be brief: Iceland has a company named deCODE Genetics, which was designed around doing...
Can we not take, say, South Korea, or Taiwan, or other Asian countries as examples of good responses to the pandemic, if we don't want to trust...
China is going to make a killing on medical exports over the next month or so.
I don't unfortunately. If I remember right it was just a one-word response to a question from some one else, so it'd be a PITA to find.
All I can do is shake my head at how many places are reacting to this disease. Shutting down the least likely means of transmission while keeping...
It depends on how quickly "run its course" is. I'm increasingly being convinced (by the Iceland deCODE and Italian Vó random sampling studies)...
I fully expect that he's just buying and importing them from China.
Progress in antibody testing: New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic Although I kind of worry about this....
No, with great power comes great I²R.
Very interesting. Perhaps this is just my confirmation bias talking, but that's how the disease has been "feeling" for a while - higher R0 (but R...
Few if any are advocating for "no flattening of the curve whatsoever". But there exists a real danger of, if you go to far and there's no visible...
I watched that last night as it just randomly popped up in my feed (I don't watch that channel). Already up to 624k views. The comments seem...
Interesting thread about coronavaccines (general, not COVID-19 specific), and why your dog can get one but you can't. Peter Kolchinsky on Twitter
Interesting question as to whether Tesla will start exporting for broader APAC markets in Q2 from GF3 rather than Fremont. I could imagine, say,...
Divo C. ? ;)