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Day 249:

Went out and did some farming today, because bringing in crops is usually a good idea if one wants to eat something other than just straight fish.

I’m still a bit tired of ducken and fish. I don’t eat much beef because the cows aren’t particularly easy to process. I’m looking forward to some pork, but since the first pig I did disappeared under mysterious circumstances, I don’t want to necessarily eat the pigs until there’s enough of them that I won’t have to worry if a few disappear.

Unfortunately, one of the pigs got into my cave today. So now there’s a sizable pig sleeping on my bed.

That’s not exactly useful. I’d like to sleep on my bed, but this pig is slightly smaller and slightly heavier than me. I don’t want to kill it but I don’t know how to get it off my bed. I offered it a potato and it totally ignored me.

I’ve been here somewhere over seven months and every day or so I think to myself that things couldn’t get any weirder, but this world does like to prove me wrong.

Day 248:

I’ve found a patch where, when I dig up the sand, some of it floats to the surface.

As sand is generally tiny piles of rocks, that really shouldn’t be possible. If it was, like, pumice, I could see it, but this appears to be something quartz-y.

I miss the geologists I used to work with at The Company. Not because I think they’d have an answer, mind you. More because at least we’d be confused together.

Day 247: Found a huge deposit of clay.

Can I make rails out of clay do you suppose? Or is it too brittle? Or maybe wheels of brick? They’d also be brittle and hard to reshape… but cheap and easy to make.

Things I think about while dragging a sack of wet clay across the countryside.

Day 246:

The farther you have to carry large bags of heavy wet sand, the more finding horses and making some carts comes back into focus as the goal.

Day 245: I’m clearing a path to the east so I can tempt sheep to come live in my pen.

I might need a new sheep pen just for the occasion.

But in the meantime I’ve  found a sand bar, so I’m stocking up on sand because my glass stores are starting to get perilously low again, and it’s hard to recycle glass  I’m still using.