Posts tagged: Farm work
6.23.2025: Coding and working and coding
This is my first blog entry! Hello! This is so exciting. I set my website up last night after looking at various Neocities websites for like... 2 hours with Kaia. They went to sleep at 11ish and I spent the next 3 hours coding my homepage. I'm pretty happy with how it's working, though the nyan cat header problem looms over me...
Anyway, today I woke up and immediately got to work on my code again while I ate breakfast. This morning I was able to make super bare-bones subsections for the blog, the about me page, the art page, and the media reviews & ramblings page. They're quite literally just blank white pages with the text "This section is under construction. Come back later!" in black, LOL. But it was nice to get that accomplished. It feels nice to work on this website because it's like a huge puzzle to figure out how to code things. I'm not following any tutorials, I'm kinda just fuck-around-and-find-outing.
I actually was 5 minutes late to work because it took me a hot minute to figure out how to code the site to redirect to separate pages for my subsections. I weeded all day long today. It was crazy hot. I think it might have been the hottest day this year so far. It got up to 92 degrees, plus it was crazy humid. Sheldon (my coworker/the guy in charge of the gardens) and I set up a huge fan that's normally used for wedding tents in the bunkhouse barn and just stood in front of it for our 15-minute break. By the end of the day my whole shirt was wet with sweat. I kept getting little chunks of dirt on my legs from the weeding, and when I tried to wipe it away, it would just turn into mud right there on my leg from combining with the sweat.
Heat aside, it was actually a really nice day at work. Me and Sheldon really hauled ass. The garden is super behind in terms of weeding, because it rained so much in the late spring. We can't get started on other projects until everything is weeded, so that's what we've been working on. On Friday, this is what the bed of onions in the cold crop garden looked like:
By the end of the day on Friday, I had weeded basically a foot and a half inwards in every direction, leaving a chunk of weeds in the middle, so that's what I had to work with this morning. Here's what it looked like:
Sheldon and I worked together today to get the rest of it weeded, and it only took 2 and a half hours with us both working on it. It was nice to finally get it done and out of the way. Here's what it looked like once we were done:
The photos aren't great. I took them with my flip phone. You can see, though, how much drier the ground is today in comparison to the ground in Friday's photos. I also weeded a bed of herbs (basil, dill, rosemary) and got started on a bed of chives. Those were easier since they're not so picky about the heat, so they're a lot less fragile.
I got off work at 4pm and once I showered I immediately got to work setting up the blog page. Obviously it's functional, since I've got this entry posted! I want to try and figure out how to add tags to my posts, so that you can also sort by tags. I might have to do it manually (like, make a new page for each tag and then add each entry into the code by hand), which would be annoying for me, but wouldn't make much of a difference to the viewer/reader. There's probably a better way to do it, we'll see.
Well, that's everything that was interesting in my life today. I'm probably not going to update this every single day, probably just when things are interesting or if I have photos to share. I'm gonna use it as a public journal situation to keep people updated on my life.
Sincerely,
Sam