SpainCo

@spainco.bsky.social

1600 Followers 3386 Following

Minnesota (he/him) I wrangle IT folks for a living. Whatever hobby I have this week is not the one I had last week.

Lincoln Park Zoo meerkats, one standing on a log looking smug as a bunch in a tire look on
Missippi River somewhere between Red Wing and Winona
The ominous loon flag
The North Saint Paul logo. Which mostly raises more questions than answers but at least reminds you that we're the one by the giant snowman.
A North Saint Paul 'extraordinary.' logo that gives a real 'graphic design is my passion' energy. Strangely compelling, though.
Map of the east metro showing NSP almost totally engulfed by Maplewood
A diagram of a fish, with a section marked 'loin' It is not a loin, it's the opposite of a loin. it's basically just the back of the fish.
A chicken run with plastic sheeting up as a windbreak, battened down with strips of lath
A trading junk with battened sails, thin strips of rigid wood to reinforce them
Aurora, over a rooftop
The confluence of the St Croix and Kettle Rivers. There's a background level of trumpeter swans hanging out.
A brown speckled pullet egg from our Sapphire Gem
A small attempt at a chicken egg, with a leathery soft shell but dusted with the beginnings of a hard shell.
A partial pallet of sand bags. About 25x60 lb bags on a pallet and 3 empty pallets besides
More chickens, an Americana looks side on at the camera. They're weird chickens, almost hawk like in profile.
5 chickens of a variety of breeds and appearance
Schnauzer investigating a chicken coop in the background while a grumpy cat hassles me in the foreground.
A view of a cove on Fox Island, in Namakan Lake. A bit hazy with smoke.
A chicken coop, with run. Presently in bare pine, soon to be stained.
Americana pullet, glaring into the camera
Scout, an Americana pullet, starting down the camera before pecking my partner's phone
5 pullets in a brooder, some roosting and one on a swing.
Pullet giving side eye
A pullet, staring at the camera in a brooder.
The imperial messenger from Dune. Yeah, I know the sheer impracticality of it is called out in the story and is actually important in the context of the story, but still.
A pullet hen, perched on my arm over a brooder with her fellow chicks
6 chicks, with 2 that are larger than the others. Gathered around a feeder in a brooding box.
Two chicks, finally perching on their tiny baby perch
Silver laced Wyandotte chick
A pair of chicks, in a brooder setup
Fortune cookie message, "March will bring you unexpected surprises". Presumably more surprising than the expected surprises.
Chicago downtown disappearing up into the fog
Megatherium skeleton, being generally huge. Kiddo in foreground, not facing camera.
The rejected 'Ominous Loon' flag
Hilda, with weird balloon wolves flying around that probably won't be discussed or be plot relevant.
Absolute monster of a locomotive - Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range No. 227
Intake of a massive railway snow blower. Maybe 10' or more wide
Kiddo, next to an enormous railway snow plow.
The wiki entry for Dark Energy. It's a doozy! As a spoiler: Turns out it's complicated, and we don't agree, and maybe we're all wrong. This covers a lot of things, come to think of it
The dwarf from the intro 'movie' in the original Dwarf Fortress. He's broken into a passage and is about to be buried in lava, one of the many ways to have Fun in DF
A golden retriever dunking a basketball. Hey, it could be worse and they've already got to worry about the white house couch cushions anyway.
A Norwegian lemming on snow. Looking fierce and presumably taking no shit from Nazis.
Absurdly brassy elevator door, covered in art deco embossing. All the art deco beats - random heavy machinery, vaguely Soviet worker imagery, some kind of quasi Egyptian stuff
Interior of the courthouse, in black stone and brass. Just every art deco thing at the same time. And you bet there's an elevator covered in art deco reliefs just around the corner
A pewter dreidel, about the size of a lemon, brushed silver and with a goldish color on the inset characters where it wasn't polished.
Ulysses S Grant
View from a screened and shuttered sleeping porch. Morning sun is coming in from across a lake.
Baby hippo (presumably Moo Deng) just chomping on a human leg
Sleeping small child and dog sprawled on couch
Overkill, next to the Tick. Some bodies and a burning car in the background. They're having an argument about the use of lethal force.
A still from Shoresy
Standard Schnauzer just being a beautiful moron. Plus a couple handfuls of long hair cat sheddings (not pictured)
Screenshot from Sam and Max Hit the Road with a sign for "Bosco's Guns, Liquor, Baby Needs"
View of a forested lake from inside a screened sleeping porch. Glorious! Also, a standard schnauzer is rooting around in the foreground. Don't mind him
One emerald ash borer, doing its thing
A standard schnauzer being an absolute loveable dipshit, perched on top of no fewer than 4 couch pillows, ignoring the wholly available couch.
Kiddo from behind, at the end of a dock, holding a fly rod. Momentarily serene but about to absolutely lose it when a hyper aggressive pumpkin seed grabs the fly
Cookbook cover, 'mastering stocks and broths'
Shot of a lake from the point of view of a smugly relaxed Minnesotan. Tenkara fishing rod in foreground.