Awareness of the outside world. AI LEGO movies as propaganda. The Guardian: Viral victory: Iran is beating the land of tech bros in the social media wars, Wintour 15 Apr 2026.
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We bought a muck bucket. No media. If you have horses, you know what a muck bucket looks like. If you don’t, it’s a large, round, below-the-knee, plastic bucket with handles. Every barn has two or four or six.
Unexciting but needful. We have many muck buckets. Many. Some are used to sort and serve Milton’s hay ration. Two are used as feed buckets. All clean and dedicated to purpose. Some are cracked and repaired. These are fine for hay. We need whole buckets for feed so that bits of food and slobber do not get into the cracks and fester. Hence, the new, uncracked bucket purchase. [Reduce-Reuse-Recycle, Repurposing a Muck Bucket]
Unexciting but not easy. We had to check out four retail spaces, both online and brick & mortar. Stiff plastic handles. Nope. Wrong size. Nope. New feed bucket will eventually become cracked hay bucket. Life is much easier if they all fit together. The slightly different bucket I bought earlier was a mistake, “I thought having a fun color was worth a slight size discrepancy.” Nope. Hence the shopping around for exactly the right bucket. [New Equipment, Purple Muck Bucket]
The color wasn’t worth the difference. Actually, it works out short term because the very noticeable purple is our manure bucket. Once it cracks, it will not be cycled into the hay rotation. Too awkward.
Unexciting but contributes to the smooth functioning of our home. Which is what I want. Home is for rest. Exciting is for out there. Having an exciting home life is right up there with living in interesting times.
Onwards!
Katherine
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