My wife is in bed sick so I came in after my last meeting ended at 6pm and whipped up dinner. Homemade sauce from our garden and chickens we raised and processed ourselves. Chicken parmigiana.1yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/FoodPorn
This is my vacuum releaser. It is used to collect maple sap to make maple syrup.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
A farmers bowl. Pan fried breakfast potatoes with peepers and onions topped with fried eggs, fried ham, and old cheddar with a sprinkle of green onions. My favorite breakfast in the whole world.5yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/FoodPorn
Half beef, half pork giant (> 1/4lb) soft, mozzarella stuffed Italian meatballs I made this evening for my wife four or 20th wedding anniversary. The sauce is homemade from our garden. Everything is local and organic.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/FoodPorn
This is the rig that the kids and I used last Saturday to harvest our meat birds. We harvested 63 Cornish X as a family because it's good for the kids to know where their food actually comes from and how it is processed.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
My wife finished dinner just at I was starting to bottle today's run. You can't get maple syrup any fresher than hot from the tap. Johnny Cake with breakfast sausage.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
Dinner on the farm this evening is homemade boeuf bourguignon over homemade egg noodles. The garnish is maple glazed (we're in Ontario) pearl onions and mushrooms. The beef and pork are local.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
Homemade crispy Thai sweet and spicy chicken. I had a craving and my family benefited.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/FoodPorn
The most wrinkled egg I've ever seen. (It's NOT a calcium deficiency.) This is from an old hen whose albumen (the white) is no longer thick enough to support the shell while it forms.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
Homestead breakfast. Breakfast potatoes (Marie's Tlingit from a local distributor grown in our old pig yard) with local peppers and onions, backyard eggs, local bacon, local Nauvoo cheese, and local green onions.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
-26C (-40C WC) 2 layers of cotton, 3 layers of polar fleece, and a Carhartt parka over two pairs of polar fleece pants, snow pants, and spiked - 40C rated rubber boots, with a polar fleece balaclava, wool neck warmer, and my buffering poly toque. I can't see a damned thing but chores are done.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
It's too cold outside for making maple syrup so my machine room is idle. It's too cold outside for four day old chicks for the next two days. I told my wife she could put the chicks in my machine room to keep them warm.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
Remember those chickens we processed last weekend? Here is what we do with them. Home made chicken parm with homegrown tomato sauce and local cheese. This is why we do what we do.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
I bought some USB ASPs on Ebay. They were Chinsese knockoffs running the USB HID firmware. I fixed them and now I have 10 USB ASPs.3yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/arduino
First day of the season and my son caught his first ever walleye from the bank of our local river.5yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/Fishing
A repair I did this afternoon. The IO board from an air hockey game for an 85 year old local gentleman.1yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/soldering
Backyard eggs. Pink, green, blue, brown, and dark brown. Mixed backyard flocks produce the prettiest eggs.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
I made Aztec chocolate ice cream. It has cinnamon, a pinch of salt, and lots of chili powder. It starts out cold but turns HOT.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/FoodPorn
I've posted a couple of pictures of wrinkled eggs. Here's a really beautiful one to show you our chickens aren't all mutants.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
My kids are home schooling this year. I've posted a few pictures of these boards before. This is a kit I put together to start to teach my son (11) and daughter (15) to program. Details in comments.3yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/arduino
One of our girls has been laying these cloaca busters almost every day. They are twin yolks. Regular large eggs and large hands for scales.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
Our quarantine chicken house is 8' x 8'. It was freshly cleaned and filled with coarse wood shavings. It has a perch for them to sleep on. Instead 15 of them are piled into this cat carrier, two are on top, and three are on the perch.1yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/chickens
My son and I were fishing yesterday ahead of some thunder storms. We had just hauled out the boat and started home when we encountered this large, angry fellow in the middle of the opposite lane. We helped him to the ditch so he didn't get hit.1yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/Fishing
Another weird egg from one of our chickens. (No, it's not a damned calcium deficiency.) This one has a butthole on it.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
One of our old girls is laying wrinkled eggs. I ate this one for breakfast yesterday.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
My machine is in game shape. Just waiting for the right weather. Maple syrup season is almost upon us.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
It was -17C last night here in Eastern Ontario. I had to move the ducks into the chicken house to keep them warm. The chicken house is insulated and has radiant heating panels. Here they are this morning sharing the yard with the chickens.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
Yesterday it was 3 chickens in a nesting box. Today it's 15 chickens in a cat carrier. It's in their lovely, clean 8' x 8' house with a perch. There are 2 chickens on top of the carrier and 3 on the perch. The other 15 are piled into this carrier.1yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
One of our blue eggers laid a giant blue egg. I'll eat it for breakfast tomorrow.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
Wife: Are you having scrambled eggs for breakfast? Me: Yes. Wife: How many? Me: I dunno. 6 or 7? Wife: Your can't eat 7 eggs for breakfast! The eggs:1yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
My son with his PB Northern Pike off the rocks at Prescott, Ontario. 27 and 4lb 13oz. We put it back alive to fight another day.5yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/Fishing
One of the most labor intensive and most sought after products of our homestead is homemade maple syrup. I've started to get my machinery assembled so that I can sanitize it and start gathering in a few days when the temperatures are right.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
Here is my DIY Arduino ProMini backplane and some of my ProMini shields. These backplane boards can be strung together if I need more slots.3yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/arduino
This large fellow is a Mini White turkey. We expected them to be, well, mini but they are not. The organic food and clean living has them finishing around 35 lbs on the hoof. They're a very nice turkey.1yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
It's almost time. I started to cleanup my sugar shack and machine room today to get ready for maple syrup making. I'm hoping to get 300 L of syrup this year but it's all up to the weather and the trees.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/homestead
The most wrinkled egg I've ever seen. (It's NOT a calcium deficiency.) This is from an old hen whose albumen (the white) is no longer thick enough to support the shell while it forms.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/WeirdEggs
Arduino Nano v3 controller for a home made maple syrup vacuum releaser. Picture of the machine in the comments.4yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/arduino
My Arduino MEGA2560 ProMini based maple syrup system controller. The Arduino is in the box with the red board and LCD in the second bay down.3yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/arduino
Here's the latest version of my DS1307 Real Time Clock shield for the Arduino Pro Mini. These shields are stackable or can be used with a backplane board I designed. Photo links in comments.3yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/arduino
Here is a photo of my RO system. I'm currently rejecting 84% of the water in my sap running at 135 psi. Legend in comments.1yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/maplesyrup
92.5 L in containers. This was our first bottling day from the first two runs of the season. We hope to have two more runs before the season ends.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/maplesyrup
My tote (upper left) is almost full. My vacuum system (lower right) is doing work. Waiting for a delivery from McMaster-Carr to get my RO back up and running. I'm going to run out of storage space.1yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/maplesyrup
120 L in buckets. We have had two good runs, have for days of very cold temperatures starting tomorrow night, and expect two more good runs before our season ends. Tomorrow, we bottle.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/maplesyrup
I've always wished that there were more shields for the Arduino Pro Mini...so I made some. (Description in comments.)4yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/arduino
I recently bought a used Olympus SZ40 binocular scope. This is my first soldering job since I got it. A 64-pin 0.5mm pitch PIC MCU. I should have got a scope years ago.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/soldering
Artistinal maple syrup. The pure reduced sap of Sugar, Red, Silver, and Manitoba maple trees reduced over a wood fire. [Homemade]5yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/food
[OC] I made a 7.25L batch of extra dark red maple syrup. This is a 100ml bottle to show just how dark it really is.5yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/FoodPorn
We had a slow start but there are 434 L of sap in my storage tote. 62 L from yesterday and 372 L today. I guess I need to get my RO setup so I can boil on the weekend.2yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/maplesyrup
1,300L of sap. That's two days. I have got to get my RO up and running. We start billing tomorrow.4yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/maplesyrup
My wife always complains that I and the kids steal her scissors to use them for unauthorized purposes, and fail to return them. For christmas I got her a nice pair and a Tile Mate.4yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/pics
My wife has been cooking the last of last years maple syrup to make maple sugar. The house smells amazing.4yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/maplesyrup
A floor fit-up of the new vacuum releaser and transfer tank I'm building this year. There is plumbing to add and a frame to build but I'm feeling like it's within reach.4yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/maplesyrup
Please help me find another of these stuffed cats. This is Snoogie Kitty and my daughter loves him very much. Details in comments.6yr ⋅ HDC3 ⋅ r/HelpMeFind
