Xerxes Grateful Beaver Farm & Homestead

07/03/2026

As I'm not really pursuing this as a business any longer, navigating two pages is exhausting so I'm not going to post here any more I don't think.

Feel free to friend request me on my main if you want to keep up. Darin J. Clune

Otherwise, ✌🏻

07/03/2026

Breeding set of coturnix quails up for discussion. The rooster is the silver male with the black banded leg. Offspring will be standard and this set will gross you a couple dozen eggs per week.

07/02/2026

Not my photo, I stole it from another group, but I love it enough that I'm inspired. 😆
Anyways, here's a rant about existing I think?

A sonic boom isn't a singular event, it is a continuous wake. As long as a plane travels faster than the speed of sound, it drags a massive, ongoing pressure wave behind it. We perceive the boom as a fleeting, isolated pop only because that is the exact fraction of a second the wave sweeps over us. The phenomenon is constant but our experience of it is temporary.

​Time and reality operate in much the same way.

​Einstein demonstrated that space and time are woven into a single fabric. In this framework, energy and matter are interchangeable, and the timeline of reality is a permanent structure. The moment we call "the now" isn't merely a fleeting occurrence being created and destroyed. Like the sonic boom, it is a wave that has always existed. We are simply the observers on the ground, interpreting the pressure of the moment as it passes over us on this plane.

Because we are trapped in this forward infinite momentum we create things, or often build illusions to explain or interpret this fleeting finite experience. In physical reality the past doesn't exist. It *did* exist but it survives now only as echoes in the minds of man and scars on this earth. The future, likewise, is a void, a happening, continually unfolding. Depression and anxiety are merely the heavy tolls we pay when we abandon the physical reality of "the now" to dwell too long in those tabernacles.

I watch Xerxes when he patrols, and he understands this all perfectly without ever having to think about it. He doesn't mourn the echoes of yesterday or dread the void of tomorrow. He simply occupies the present moment, fully anchored in the immediate physical world. He is the living embodiment of "ataraxia," completely untroubled by the wake of the wave and living entirely in the moment.

So I encourage you to reject the anxieties of tomorrow and the traumas of yesterday. Plan for life as though you're going to live forever but live each day like it's your last.

And when it's all said and done, the laws of physics guarantee that the ride isn't over, albeit perhaps our ability to interpret it becomes obsolete.

07/02/2026

07/02/2026

I keep dragging my heels on setting up something like this because I'm not a very formal or organized person in general.

👀 But I'm thinking of hosting a "harvest your hatch" workshop of sorts where I will teach you how to process your quail.

More than that, I'll have our game bird plucker and scalder out so you can enjoy your birds with their skin on still.

I have a potty mouth and there will be all sorts of dangers afoot so we request no children on this day.

Just to put a day on the calendar, we can aim for July 18th. Aim for a starting time of 9am.

All you need to bring are your birds, containers for them to go back home in, and a high quality pair of sheers. We recommend the "shop sheers" from harbor freight. Link is in the comments and it's not affiliated in any way, get them wherever you just want a really good pair as these will be used to dispatch so you want a quick and clean cut.

I won't be charging anything for the workshop only accepting gifts out of abundance and good will among friends. Let us know if you will be in attendance that day.

07/02/2026

I have several roosters with long tail feathers similar to or like this if anyone is looking to add long feathers to their barnyard mix. Several of them have purple legs too, either from Breese or Lavender Orpington crosses.

As always I'm never looking to get rich on these as they're food to us, but willing to help out anyone who may want their genes for their flocks before I do.

07/01/2026

It seems counterintuitive, and I guess it really is at face value but on days like today I like to fill my animals waterers half to 3/4 of the way full.

That way I'm forced to stress all day, thinking about watering them again. 😆

That seems dumb but I imagine they rather enjoy the fresh cold well water at the hottest part and then again at the end of the day because that's when I like cold water the most too. 👀

And, the fact that I'm stressed about it all day means I definitely don't forget. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Use you worst traits to your own benefit?

I'm an odd duck, and I guess it doesn't have to make sense to anyone else why I fill my waterers half way on the hottest days of the year, but I figured maybe sharing it could help someone else with their neurodivergence or help someone else understand the "why" behind some of the weird or rather peculiar things we do sometimes. 🫣

Also, Coca is going to be a daddy.

06/30/2026

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