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xcheopis posted:Just amazing, as always! As always- thanks love knowing people are following along tooskolstrejk för klimatet     We start off in the normal way, with the pretty things    And then the supply and food things- a few foods and drinks brought in and why the gently caress did I never think to reheat my mcdonalds like this before! sheer luxury!   My kids elected to withdraw their labour from school today and with no local events we went to try and plant things and feed bugs instead. I hosed up on pictures, but there were lots of bugs around the bug feeding test area so this will be repeated.  We were hoping for 6 trees in the ground today, but the ground itself after multiple dry days was far too hard to dig easily      Currants, cherries and berries. All doing well    The grass is growing through again and there's a pleasing number of flowers and bugs around      So we explored around a bunch of places instead     and found a large out of place looking large rock, and with some spadework found a rusty old horseshoe underneath. I'm guessing many years ago a horse was buried there? We marked the site otherwise, and are borrowing the rock from a potential mystery dead horse.    The bird things. I forgot water, so thats water from my own drinking water   The stove/bbq area awaits heavy labours   We stayed a few hours and mainly just enjoyed and appreciated and made plans before bailing out for home.   On the homefront I slapped the fuel tank back together on blue, put a few new bolts in places  Then outside, I used fresh fuel to flood the carb out a bit, and let it sit in the sun for an hour or two. After a few pulls it fired and then kept sputtering away- it chugged and vibrated hard for a few minutes then just started purring  - gave it a quick and successful test around the garden but then stopped as the strimming head and linkage between the two parts and such haven't been properly investigated. A few more parts and some tidying up and it should join the ranks properly     I finally got the tomato production machines into action- into ground and bag formations  and checked over my spuds and got the ranks in order- every spud planted put up at least one plant above ground, some multiple. Gonna need to learn to make potcheen at this rate!   Speaking of which, my garlic patch that was formerly the spud patch keeps on sprouting more and spud plants that then need removal  And all under watchful and curious eyes Oh and the McCulloch strimer got a new spark, and the fuel primer/lines I need came through this morning- but I'm off on holiday for a week or so now, so everything is on hold- More in a week or so I guess
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0658 hours zulu I woke early but left late and didn't think I would make it for my desired 7am start but I endeavoured and made it with some backup too.  Neither of us like early starts but hot food helps a lot   The only big goal of the day was watering stuff that might need to be watered. One new tree was looking especially thirsty and got what it needed, nursery too.    Oh and the bird things  Cleared one bird area up a bit too. Out of balls now. Thats problematic. Gotta remember to check your balls, gentle reader.     Then we went and checked to make sure we have some biodiversity left in stock       Yup we got some biodiversitys. At least 3 and a bit of them.         All quite pretty too  What up Cass     Also, what up fruit.   I went around the bushes and tucked bits in like the grapevine and broke a few small bits learning and also got some snapped bits to try and clone  And the answer to will the grape vine fruit this year is gently caress yeah it will  This was growing on an oak and infested with ants. Curious.   Goals met and still tired from travelling back home yesterday, we bailed.  On the homefront, the spuds went wild, and most of my plants lived-    though there was a catfight in the garlic patch and also a lot of weeds everywhere- I have work to do  Should end up with some nice garlic and onions in a month or two though- a soup is in order I deem   I had a grand time away looking at boats and sand and such, and return fresh and ready for war on climate change. Up this week- sorting the strimmers out, then some work to prepare for special guests. More soon but tomorrow I'm sitting round in my undies playing computer games Apologies for any formatting or grammatical errors but awful app is broken on the preview bit and I refuse to switch out of greenpos mode and also I'm now gonna go drink import heineken lots
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DesperateDan posted:
Looks like an oak gall. Basically, a growth that certain species of wasp use to shelter and feed their larva. Ants probably thought it looked like a sweet party house after the original occupant moved out.
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Bees on Wheat posted:Looks like an oak gall. Basically, a growth that certain species of wasp use to shelter and feed their larva. Ants probably thought it looked like a sweet party house after the original occupant moved out. Ta Its different from the other galls I normally see which tend towards a hard sphere. The ants were indeed partying down on it, and next time I might try and figure out if its food or shelter or both
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DesperateDan posted:Ta I asked the local ant expert: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3886441&pagenumber=7&perpage=40#post495601251
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xcheopis posted:I asked the local ant expert: Thats an amazing thread Only now I want to try eating some too, and see if I also feel inclined to party like an ant If I never make it back to post again, I hope it at least tastes good- and you goons will know I'm raving it up with some ants, in this life or the next
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DesperateDan posted:If I never make it back to post again, I hope it at least tastes good- and you goons will know I'm raving it up with some ants, in this life or the next I have it on good authority that they taste very bitter and unpleasant. Good authority being the kid who picked one and tried to eat it during a nature walk for one of my college courses. 
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xcheopis posted:I asked the local ant expert: Oh my god, there's an ant thread? I love that, and I also love watching and learning about ants and also having them stay away from my living space and plants but mostly learning about ants. Very cool.
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Bees on Wheat posted:I have it on good authority that they taste very bitter and unpleasant. Good authority being the kid who picked one and tried to eat it during a nature walk for one of my college courses. I'm hoping to become an authority on that myself but this week I have been stuck at home      A variety of boring things kept me at home and then I was meant to go today but I ate something yesterday that I have regretted ever since so nope for today     The yellow one got 2 decade old crap cleaned out of the head and 2 new fuel lines/filter then I found out that the line from the return on the carb to the pump is .5mm smaller for... reasons, so it got put aside while a replacement came.   The blue one (Brunhilde?) had a busted up guard, but rather than just buy a cheap replacement I got out the zipties and epoxy and bodged it together.     Then I replaced some missing and old hardware with shiny new bits so it tightens up nicely.    Out back, the plants are doing pretty good    Seems one type of spud has purple flowers, one white. They don't last long at all- each flower just lasts a day or two before dying off.   Hope the strawbs at the field are doing this well they won't be  The tomatoes are doing well- think the ones in the ground are a touch larger, and all remain untouched  Onions might be done soon, need to read up a bit, check when they were planted and see  The apple, cherry and rose seeds I cold scarified got started off    The thinner fuel line came later in the week, and so did some air filter pad- so those bits got done, and I gave it a final check over and finished the head up a bit.  And now with a sunny day, both are fueled and sat ready for some testing- yellow hasn't run since around '95/96 but I'm thinking it might spring to life again today More soon!
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Narrator: It did, in fact, work. Nice
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TheMightyHandful posted:Narrator: It did, in fact, work. And a lot easier than I thought too . But today's update isn't about that, it's about aa creature feature           A nice day for it   It being not much work but mainly checking on things and having a chill out for a few hours. I had hoped a few days of rain would let me plant trees but it only really affected the first few cm of soil.    I did at least make use of that to start off the foundations of the bbq- I didn't bring a spirit level so it's just an initial scrape and clear for now, but doing so let me plan it out in my head a bit better. I'm going to get the frame level, then tilt it slightly for rain run off, and start with some gravel, then sand and cement.    The rounds turned up some light damage to fruit tree lower branches- probably deer. Have now started filling the fat ball feeder that was always last to be eaten with seed, as it's cheaper and probably better suited to the mesh.  Cass has taken up soap making. To make soap, first you render tired cultural references from the '90s   And I also went round and found some stuff I planted that got forgotten on the strimming session and had now disappeared into undergrowth   so I sorted that, now let's move on to the main events-  This is a cat https://i.imgur.com/fXupJ1C.gifv This is a video of a cat  This is a funky looking moth https://i.imgur.com/j5hxi2d.gifv This is a video of many funky looking moths at a funky looking moth orgy  This is a bee https://i.imgur.com/1XZAn9K.gifv This is a video of a bee    These are other bees https://i.imgur.com/ERUJ03A.gifv This is a video of lots of bees   This is a picture of ants and a caterpillar looking thing https://i.imgur.com/XigyB7V.gifv This is a video of their brutal and frenzied fighting https://i.imgur.com/D3nq3yk.gifv And to finish off, I can't quite seem to see the woods for all these drat trees. More soon! DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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xcheopis posted:That poor caterpillar! Soon after that video, the caterpillar had a eureka moment and managed to barrel roll in one direction consistently, so it survived death by ant and quite likely got eaten by bird or some fate far less horrific than many pairs of pincers. skolstrejk för klimatet MkII- pride edition      Last week or two have been busy and I'm pretty sure the old cat scratch fever has resurfaced a bit- but it's strike day and so the climate militia has to go out in force   We started with some shopping and then I lugged in over a hundred kilos of sand, stone, cement and bottled water. I didn't want to buy more bottled water but it came up stupid cheap and it's nice to have stashed in quantity for emergency.  Obviously the best thing to be doing on a day to do with fighting climate change is to destroy some pristine wildlife with the evils of concrete brutalism. Just a wikkle bit though.  We levelled the frame off, then tipped it a little in the downhill direction for run-off of rain.  Then we worked stones into the earth a bit  Then mixed sand and cement and more stone and worked on mixing and packing it all down hard into the frame dry- the ground and sand were quite moist and over the next week or two it will slowly soak throughout and provide a good foundation for the BBQ- if I laid it wet/with a higher cement ratio it would be a more unified lump of concrete when set but when you then start putting fires on top it can crack and cause bigger issues.  However there are multiple rainstorms predicted so I constructed a shield to stop droplets/puddles/deer from loving me up too much.       The rounds and bird stuffs were done- fruit situation seems good, and the mesh bird ball feeder with the seeds was empty so that's gonna continue as a thing. We ate sour cherries straight off the tree, maybe slightly unripe but least we got some before the birds did    The older grape vine is going to need more supports soon enough.     The main field is looking just how I wanted it  https://i.imgur.com/XgmuYws.gifv  https://i.imgur.com/NSmy4wP.gifv  https://i.imgur.com/DbmjLZQ.gifv  https://i.imgur.com/30VtMmr.gifv After all that we did some tidying and sorted out my daughter's conservation area a bit more but mainly just watched the bees and such     Homefront is kind of all awry at the moment due to the combo of work being done to the house and being busy/ill- still got the garlic harvested, and I'm starting to get some onions through- as well as some much anticipated strawberries  More soon! DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Jun 22, 2019 |
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Miftan posted:The incorporation of videos in addition to stills has made this thread a solid 11/10. There's more to come on that front, but for now the short bits will have to do Loki Kunti posted:Please never stop posting your adventures and pictures! I love this thread! Thankyou!  But I don't have any option in it anymore- you join the climate change militia, you are in for the duration of the conflict the old man        https://i.imgur.com/O37q7c9.gifv https://i.imgur.com/yv7N0bs.gifv Was down today for a special guest- got my dad in for a visit and lunch. Been meaning to for years, so it was great to finally show him round the place then sit with a beer and cook with nature all around.  But the work of the day was to rescue all my bushes and trees, and for that I selected the yellow one for a test. A name is yet to occur for it. I was really daft and spent 20 mins trying to start it before realising the electrics were turned off- it ran quite well after that. https://i.imgur.com/CPk86WW.gifv https://i.imgur.com/BE3SSga.gifv There's lots of stuff to clear out, but the yellow did quite well for that task- it's not as powerful as the husqvarna for heavy duty cutting/mowing but it's nice and light and good for maintaining already cut areas   This new fruit tree will hopefully appreciate not being overgrown   https://i.imgur.com/JJuqZXC.gifv Me and my dad ate a bunch before the pictures but just a few days more sun has made the sour cherries taste loving ace- can't wait to make jams/booze out of them. Few snapped branches due to weight/birds. https://i.imgur.com/uSLIghR.gifv Pond had many bugs and some reeds going and most importantly doesn't smell like unwashed arse so it's getting healthy https://i.imgur.com/JqdOH6s.gifv Harvestmen have no venom and no web spinning abilities but they seem to make up for it with a healthy social life https://i.imgur.com/7YwW4XV.gifv Chased several butterflies in hope of a pic but drat they flighty https://i.imgur.com/q8egZcy.gifv This butterfly was real noisy and I think might not have even been a butterfly according to this Jane's guide to aircraft but what do they know  Not my land but close- some new formation of digging bastard on this sandy bank- I suspected wascally wabbit but no poops around to inspect https://i.imgur.com/kuAayxf.gifv These chooks are happy but some of the others unfortunately met a fox   Stuff is still all havoc at home but the strawbs keep coming   More soon!
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I'm so lonely, I could eat pie This is a carrot flower. Well then- my get up and go status is still "it got up and hosed off", but I'm hoping for a return tomorrow for woodwork. Till then, very limited homefront progress! Yay!   The garlic had dried to the point it was time to check it out properly- 27 bulbs in all  And after a hair cut and skin peel, two bulbs were sent direct to the kitchen as the skins were broken clumsily by some bearded sweary northman during the arduous process  My braids suck but they are functional and can be improved on- hung in a good place this garlic is now good for months   Did the same with my early onions too  I planted up some chokeberry. Or Aronia berries, if you are selling it as a superfruit.   I thought the cold scarification process was a bust but two apple seeds popped and got planted  Today was mainly spent looking at this   I forgot the before pics but my ground tomatoes were very unruly indeed so I built a frame and then tied the tomatoes to the frame then cut back many bits of tomato to promote growth/fruit up the chain.  Put a bit of mesh round some grape vine too- several more bushes and plants really need attention also  Someone suggested tayberry or loganberry for thorn packing power and this tayberry or loganberry certainly packs a spiky punch  Some of the spud plants are yellowing out and dying off, meaning harvest of the early croppers is drawing close.  More soon! DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jun 30, 2019 |
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now then    Felt poo poo but went in anyway, so you get the triple post and the trees get the water https://i.imgur.com/CdGIbvW.gifv I tried to film some of the drive in https://i.imgur.com/svm6tIS.gifv Before remembering corners need two hands https://i.imgur.com/kIlvvtS.gifv  Kitties!  Water, more water, scavved pallet, scavved wood.  And the blue bucket thing had some tile and old mugs for lizard hotel mkII in it https://i.imgur.com/O22AOgr.gifv Water go places https://i.imgur.com/jqNcK23.gifv Water go other places  Grape vine must get upgraded soon, probably just another mesh layer offset  BBQ base is solid feeling now and is probably ready to build on https://i.imgur.com/hgfZd3R.gifv What up Cass  I started getting some legs ready for furniture use and that's when the CSD really set in and I felt entirely exhausted just making a few small cuts.    So then it was home time. More soon! DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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Doom Rooster posted:Awesome. The videos are a really great touch. xcheopis posted:You have seriously upped your game on all fronts, here. loving fantastic. Grumio posted:This is the most wholesome thread on the forums. Love reading your updates! I love you all and your comments and encouragement help give me an extra push towards getting a bit more poo poo done and posted up on here getting a bit more poo poo done and posted up on here  Was close enough on various other errands to drag myself down the extra bit to check the status of the fruit         It's definitely fruity much like it's bearded caretaker tbqh   I dragged in water and wood and stone and fire the fire burns inside us all comrades https://i.imgur.com/sn29Upz.gifv Checked in on some of the nearby hives so we remain super friendly https://i.imgur.com/1n09dJc.gifv  The water seems a lot more precious the more carrying is involved. The spray thing takes a bit long but it works and barely leaks so it's on the team https://i.imgur.com/ETjjRdt.gifv These ants appear to be harvesting sap from this cherry tree (which might be a plum I dunno) but provided they don't harm it much I ain't gonna bug em https://i.imgur.com/sWzqemb.gifv And the caravan continues to be a hive of activity for the harvestmen, seen here giving the bums rush to a spider https://i.imgur.com/T1HZymE.gifv https://i.imgur.com/a6LXOtO.gifv https://i.imgur.com/JgIotZ3.gifv Lots of insect activity    When the watering was done I had to bail but my way out was blocked by arseholes parking over the gate so while waiting for their boss to ring them and explain the merits of blocking several farm entrances at once with a company van I took a wander off and found the ww2 AA site- now really just a collection of concrete blocks and a few bits of brickwork https://i.imgur.com/swFQGX7.gifv https://i.imgur.com/FeaF1nA.gifv And then I stalked squirrels on the way out, just without the rifle this time- next time that might be different but I love them all the same  Homefront is overgrown due to fatigue stuff   But I have managed enough to keep the tomatoes happy and the other bits fed with stinky chickenshit and regular blasts of water  So then I needed to fix my mild coolant leak- I was losing some out of the old loose kühlerverschlussdeckel.  Nice easy job to do with the boy, now a quick refill of the coolant then to do a quick examine of the engine bay... What's that son? She's dripping coolant on the floor?  Ah. Oh. poo poo.  Well, that's now tomorrow's adventure, I'm clocking off and loving off for some strawberries and cream and probably a belt of scotch because why the gently caress not More soon! DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jul 4, 2019 |
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This thread makes me really happy, and has inspired me to put some meager effort into turning my little backyard into a pretty and hospitable place for wildlife and all kinds of buzzy, crawly bugs and bees  .Also, I’ve decided to start an herb garden and start planting some fun things. I’ve been looking for a hobby I can sink my spare time into .
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:you're gonna have potatoes comin out of your ears at this rate. Google search queries for "how do I make poitìn" and "making your own still" don't constitute intent, do they? Chair In A Basket posted:best 56k warning thread on the forums 56Kilobees per second Sleeper Service https://i.imgur.com/yGi658n.gifv https://i.imgur.com/6G56q9O.gifv https://i.imgur.com/V15pwdL.gifv I made it there       https://i.imgur.com/bWSdNzC.gifv It was pretty   Even though the weather was being really british on me it hasn't rained properly in many days so the trees needed it.  I just brought a few bits https://i.imgur.com/BxKIhLG.gifv And did the watering  Did I only dig this much of the pond out last year? Oh well, least that bit still has water, and maybe I can get some more dug this year. https://i.imgur.com/4FqtX1H.gifv https://i.imgur.com/r2ei4bn.gifv Lots of fluttabyes https://i.imgur.com/AYwZLJ8.gifv Cass seems happy     Forgot to eat this morning but foraged myself a decent brunch   Blackberries will be available soon https://i.imgur.com/1yUeBOI.gifv Then I had a really nice nap, then hosed off home. For another nap. Next up- some potato harvesting, a nap, some bush supports and another nap and maybe tidy the patio a bit. So I can have a nap on it! More soon! DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jul 12, 2019 |
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DesperateDan posted:Google search queries for "how do I make poitìn" and "making your own still" don't constitute intent, do they? "No officer, I'm trying to figure out poutine! Want some cheese curds?"
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DesperateDan posted:And mofette- you don't need to be near to enlist in the climate change militia, wherever you are, whatever you can do, get stuck in imho My entire tiny city garden has been planted from seed by me, with tons of bee-friendly flowers. Person doing their bit, reporting in! 
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bbcisdabomb posted:"No officer, I'm trying to figure out poutine! Want some cheese curds?"  (Though it may rightly earn me the ire of canadian comrades, I find a roughly grated strong cheddar works better for me than curds the few times I have found curds over here- I loving love poutine) Mofette posted:My entire tiny city garden has been planted from seed by me, with tons of bee-friendly flowers. Person doing their bit, reporting in! As one militia commander to another, it might be worth looking at the processes of getting those flowers to seed so the ranks can be kept full crazy caterpillars    Let's harvest some spuds! Technically these first two buckets aren't entirely done, as they were still putting out some green life, but they had been gnawed by snail and toppled by bramble and vineweed and looked yellower than the others. Also, I'm low on spuds and gently caress buying more.  A few had rotted- no more than about half a dozen from both buckets together, but not something I have seen before. Think it might be a bit too damp and not quite airy enough soil  First bucket  Both buckets Happy with this haul- these will sit for a few days till the skins dry/cure off a bit, then I can weigh them- spud skins are really delicate when they are first pulled. The containers are going to have late veg seeds put in and can get right back in the fight. While I'm here I will note for next time- the bottom third of soil had some roots but very rarely a spud, so I can plant deeper to start with, and I can probably pack the plants in a bit more densely- they need support structures though, and a bit more care after flowering.  Also pulled the rest of my onions but it's been a bit of a disappointment as several got eaten into and I think the soil was too firm. Still a good soup in there somewhere I think.  Some tayberry, honeyberry and loganberry all got support structures because they were all growing into each other in a tangled unhappy lump otherwise- these need to go in the ground at the acres as soon as the ground allows. https://i.imgur.com/XNqN47z.gifv Aeroplane go raaaaawwwwrrrr  Checked on my garlic. Found bug eggs on the wall and a moving thing in a bulb. Ah. gently caress.   On investigation, multiple caterpillars. On garlic. Garlic is meant to be harmful to caterpillars to the point it's meant to be a natural pesticide/repellent but here's two that got fat on my profits, eatin' holes in my precious cloves.  I was going to squish em as brutal revenge for ruining the braid I was gonna give to my dad but my daughter interceded and is keeping them in a jar.  These little players I'm much happier with as they are eating something I can't identify, far away from my garlic or my onions or my spuds. Chomp away chaps!  The tomatoes are doing great, spent a long time in the sun today slowly getting branches tied back and pruning more  Which doesn't show whatsoever because it's still some densely packed triffidmato monster. Lots of tying.  Some of the carrot flower heads are starting to brown and dry, and I am looking forward to harvesting them and adding these to some seed mixes for guerrilla purposes- the bugs have been all over this plant. More soon!
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I've just caught up on this thread and it's amazing! Great job Dan
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Niric posted:I've just caught up on this thread and it's amazing! Great job Dan Thankyou sleepy  I'm currently sleeping most of the day, and not even enjoying it due to being sore and feverish, which is loving frustrating. Yesterday I got up and got dressed to go to the acres, sat down on the end of the bed and then woke up 3 hours later, confused I was dressed and in bed. Or was that Friday? I don't even loving know right now.    But the tomatoes still grow  And so do these two cherry tree cuts- might have lost the apple seedlings, literally then maybe figuratively too  I got some pickling onions and Ferraris in the ground- old seed but some should work. I'm hoping for an old school F40 like I had a poster of when I was small and less beardy, but my spoilsport wife seems to think they will grow some variety of french bean instead   The caterpillars were doing really well, eating and pooping up a storm but they both managed to escape during a jar cleaning much to the kids amusement  I'm aiming for a quick trip tomorrow morning to literally do the rounds and feed the birds- some deity must be smiling on me as we have had a few days of some solid rainfall so I'm not too worried about watering yet. More naptime now
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