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Barry M
@barmas.bsky.social
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Maker of Kertelreiter cider & perry. Planter of orchards. Pear freak, wannabe pomologist, cider historian, homebrewer, former beer blogger. Editor at Cider Review. ACA Certified Pommelier. Irish in Germany. Owned by a border collie.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 3h
Anyway, already in bed, have to be up at 5:45 and have a day of travel to nowhere ahead. It’s been a very stressful week with some awful, tragic news from a neighbour overshadowing all, putting things in perspective. Hug your loved ones.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 4h
a close up of a man 's face with the words you can 't handle the truth
Alt: a close up of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men with the words you can't handle the truth
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 4h
As well as cleaning up our yard, this evening I set up our BierWagen in the village Square. Tomorrow there’s a big event in the, with a radio station coming. The local council suggested that they interview me, but I’m really not in the fucking mood for being on our main state radio station.
A partially unfolded mobile bar sitting on a cobbled square
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 4h
Earlier today. They fell short about 100 tiles, as the barn is old, crooked, the gable walls not parallel, so a lot more cutting to fill gaps along the sides was needed. Plus quite a few damaged on delivery. Just a bit of the awning still open, barn is rain proof again.
Roofers on the top of our barn almost finished with the roof tiles they had. An elevator that looks like a bent ladder rises from the ground turns out an angle and then follows up the roof so that they can bring tiles up to the top.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 14h
It is. It’s nice coming down the road to those lights.
The camera phone makes the whole scene brighter than it was. Pretty good in low light conditions
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 15h
I know, and still no 😆 🤷‍♂️
It’s just warm light through a green blind and probably a colour temperature shift in the photo as outside was grey and dark.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 15h
No.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 16h
Feels it, the start was delayed quite a bit. But they removed the old tiles, got new laths up & re-tiled the back of the barn in three days last week. Some more detailed work this week cutting end tiles & getting the metal work & gutters done, so if they finish today, that’ll be 4 days this week.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 16h
Hopefully they’ll be done today.
Our front yard with pallets of roof tiles on one side, and the front roof surface of a barn partially re-tiled and with new laths
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 1d
Thankfully not!
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 1d
I pledged for the T-shirt too! 😃
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 1d
Not just saying this because I wrote a contribution, but James’s planned book looks really interesting from a broader cultural perspective, covering an aspect seldom thought about when it comes to orchards. I think worth supporting the kickstarter if you can!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/vag...
The cover of the planned “Vagrant’s Pomona”, with a Lino cut of a skeleton picking apples.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 1d
The local beaver dam is nicely established now. There was another one upstream, but someone removed it. I hope officially.
A beaver dam across the river Schefflenz. Yellow leaves collecting on the surface of the upstream, higher side.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 1d
Oh nice! Are you going?
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 1d
Damn you for planting that in my sleepless head.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 1d
One of the bad things about going to bed early is instead of waking at 3 or 4 and being unable to fall back asleep, is waking at 2 instead 🤔
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 2d
And the last component, Kirchensaller Mostbirne. Just a little of them.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 2d
And now a dessert pear, the lovely Kieffer’s Hybrid originally from Pennsylvania.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 2d
Showing the Luxemburger Mostbirne, which makes up 10% of the pear bill in Levitation.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 2d
Catching up on some video posts. This is going to get very boring for anybody not interested in perry pears, but a short series explaining each of the pears that feature in our 2025 Levitation perry, pressed last Saturday.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 3d
Making our barn more romantic than it is.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 3d
More awkward positioning than at the back of the barn, but they’re making progress. Installing the new laths as they move up the roof.
Four people on the roof of our barn, about half of the old tiles removed and dumped in a trailer
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 3d
Early this morning. All in place for the roof removal.
A photo of our front yard with a half timbered house on the left a barn on the right and a great big trailer sitting in front of both
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 4d
Then we stopped by an elderly lady who phoned last week, as she wanted someone to take away all the quince she can’t use. Car is now filled with about 120kg, so probably enough to make a single tree quince wine.
Golden quince on the ground. My wife and some neighbour on the roof of a shed, shaking down more quince.
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 4d
There weren’t many pears left, but have 12 bags of pears to ID and compare to the list. The area is one of many projects implemented by a society that is doing some amazing conservation work, so we got a tour of some other projects they are running.
A workshop from the society, filled with nest boxes that they make A map of the meadow orchard they planted with 105 trees.
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