Well I guess it's time to reevaluate my hail netting setup. We got a spring hailer last night that basically wiped out almost 2 weeks of growth off the plants (and possibly killled a few). My guess is the netting was too high up to fully protect from wind driven hail coming in sideways.

With the rest of this week being filled with #severeweather I am hoping my freshly transplanted #communitygarden plots survive. I am trying to protect the Night Shade Forest (peppers and eggplants) with hoops and hail netting. Hopefully the temp PLA #3dprint clamps hold until the ASA ones are ready.

Man, where did March go?

It's April and I haven't started my seeds for my garden yet. Every year I have these grand plans, and budgeting season at work always kills it.

Luckily my #AeroGarden can get me from seeds to transplantable plants in about 4 weeks, so I won't lose too many growing days.

Good luck to all the teams at the New Mexico State Science Olympiad Tournament. You have all put in many hours of work studying and/or building; and now you get a chance to test yourself against the best teams in the State. Best of luck again!
#scioly #NM #NMT

At Science Olympiad practice today, I got bored and built a test bed for the #GoBilda servos. It is mostly made of stuff laying around the classroom.

The "Super Speed" servos are giving me about 1.33 m/s using 120mm diameter wheels on ~6v. I think with 7.2v I can get up to 1.65 m/s. #scioly

Woot! Woot!

My high speed dual mode servos from goBilda will be here tomorrow. I am hoping this will help the Science Olympiad team get their Electric Vehicle working to a competitive level for State.

If not, I found some upgrades for their TT Motors that might help with their slow speed. #SciOly

I spent part of this week in #ESRI #Arcade training, and I have so many plans. I definitely need to read more on profiles as I am hitting some stumbling blocks with field calculator, and it's limited access to variables. Why can't I get $map or $layer? $datastore is super limiting for one off data.

It's the first weekend in February and that makes it time to start #garden planning. Seeds are ordered and now I am looking into new methods I can try out this year. A DIY #olla setup is high on my list of things try this year, along with the three sister method.