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May your trails be scenic. May your hay be abundant. May your friends be as nice as me, Songbird Sparrowgrass.

Shedding season algebra

If a mule is curried at a rate of 100 swipes per minute and puts 280 brown hairs per swipe onto his FarmWife for 25 minutes, then two goats are scratched at a rate of 120 scratches per minute for five minutes, simultaneously, and each puts 150 white hairs per scratch onto their FarmWife, how many hairs are on the FarmWife after 30 minutes?

Extra credit if you can account for one Australian shepherd, two cats, one chihuahua, and two rabbits all shedding at a rate of 33% of the goats' shedding rate and scratched for five minutes each.


2008 to today

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Eighteen years of farm life, in order. Pick a year, or search for a name, a place, or a grievance.