szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Oops.

No, she's not responsible for this. We expected this tree would fall much earlier.

#IdąPsięta $Polesia #forest #wetlands

A boomer delivered some firewood to our neighbour today. She's lucky it wasn't a nuke (though a nuke powered heater could keep her warm till the end of her life).

#RuralLife

We'll need a bigger chainsaw. And bigger batteries.

#RuralLife

Today we had many short power breaks, none of them longer than 10 minutes, but they made work hell. Sorry if I didn't reply to your message. Living on the edge, I don't have a UPS, the battery in my laptop is dead, and I'm too lazy to drag the generator out of its lair. Those breaks meant that the power company was still cleaning up after a 12 hour outage a few days ago, caused by storms. Back then we had a very romantic evening, with cooking by candlelight.

#RuralLife

To mow, or not to mow?

#wetlands #Polesia

#IdąPsięta, guardians of the half-empty ditch. Despite recent rains the water level here is still quite low. I probably should measure the level regularly, but getting here requires a lot of effort.

#IdąPsięta searching for water on a wetland meadow.

He's a very good driver. Let's just hope we don't encounter any hares.

#IdąPsięta #RuralRoads

Osobom, które myślą o odwiedzeniu #Polesia, przypominamy, że w tutejszym powietrzu jest tylko niecałe 21% tlenu, a za to prawie 1% argonu. Uważajcie na siebie.

At last. The storm is coming our way. We might lose our roof, but at least it will be a bit cooler.

If I finally have some spare cash I'll fit our small part of #wetlands with so many sensors that no drop of rain will go unnoticed.

Life finds a way. Unless you're a horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) in the forests of Poland and the horse chestnut leaf borer (Cameraria orhidella) kills you.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

Vuko zwęszył kurki, ale ich chyba nie udusi.

#IdąPsięta #grzyby

Nature fights back. This fish pond is still operational, but even larger ponds nearby have become part of a national park and it's almost impossible to discern their anthropogenic origin.

#Wetlands #Polesia

When the path is blocked, there are various ways to get through. Vuko and Pietruszka went over that fallen tree, Moro crawled beneath it, and Masza (that blurred tail in the lower right corner) just went around it.

#IdąPsięta #RuralRoads

This free range cow probably decided it's time to get milked and didn't wait for its owner to take it home.

#RuralRoads #Polesia

Not many of those left – a cobblestone road in rural Eastern Poland.

#Polesia #RuralRoads

In Poland Canadian goldenrod is an invasive species, quashing local plants, and it covers more and more wetland meadows in my area. But it's beautiful.

#bloomscrolling #doomscrolling #wetlands #Polesia

A lightning just struck ground a few dozen meters from a BTS. Some 50 households lost their Internet. Hoping the transmitters didn't fry.

#RuralBroadband