A beaver (or beavers?) moved into the creek deep in the woods behind my house last fall, and I am SO excited about the beautiful pond they are building.
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We've had a couple good rains, transforming what used to be a muddy creekbed into a clearly defined pond!
I will report back in a few weeks with more pictures! Also will probably be spamming them all over Lemmy because I just cannot shut up about how cool they are 😅
Please do!
They got plans and I am in love with them
I LOVE beaver dams! And you get to observe how the ecosystem changes over time. I'm mad jealous.
There's one by the Navy base trails, but the little fuckers built a new one upstream that you can't see from the official path. But you can still clearly see how the entire area changed into a pond/swamp. There's another by my camp, but I can't get there anymore without dire "PRIVATE PROPERTY" signs having gone up.
It's definitely getting swampy after a couple rainstorms, there's almost knee-deep standing water in some parts!
Yes! The ecosystem changes are what I'm most excited about. Not so much the mosquito swarms the next year or two, but once the rest of the food chain moves in it'll be wonderful! I have seen a heron a couple times in the swampier parts of the creekbed and if he becomes a consistent visitor to the area I'll be over the moon.
The sound of trickling water is triggering to beavers. Literally. If they hear water running, they have to turn it off.
They are the ultimate dads of the animal Kingdom.
I'm sure if they evolved in an environment with electricity, they'd be going from room to room turning off light switches.
They are the ultimate dads of the animal Kingdom.
I'll have you know, I let my bathtub drop for a year before fixing it
I'm sure if they evolved in an environment with electricity, they'd be going from room to room turning off light switches.
...Well if someone else in this damn house would ever turn them off I wouldn't have to now would I?
My step kid literally turned on the kitchen, dining, hallway, and bathroom light after I went to bed and left them on. Cue grumpy ass me turning off lights after my late night pee. The hallway light alone is enough to light up every single one of those rooms for grabbing whatever you need before bed, the switch is five feet from their bedroom and I have a switch in my bedroom for it as well. So of course that couldn't be the only light left on. Rant over
Not sure how much into electronics you are, but you could setup Home Assistant to automatically control your lights and/or use motion sensors.
I've got presence sensing within one device or another in probably every room. I've never messed with the templates for this kind of stuff. I wrote some basic scripts a few yrs ago but since rebuilding HA from scratch (bought mini pic, tired of rpi sad burning out) a few months ago, haven't done anything interesting. Did you write yours manually?
Currently I don't have any mmWave sensors outside of my ecobee thermostat so I haven't gone as far as creating lights based on presence. Currently I just use timers, adaptive lighting, and have a couple night lights using PIR sensors and a timer. I have been wanting to get some mmWave sensors but haven't found anything that fits the bill as I want something with an ambient light sensor, mmWave sensor, temp sensor, etc. I have seen the Everything One from Everything Smart Home but at $65 each, I'd be spending a few hundred at least.
Also if you ever want to go back to your RPi, you can use an SSD as your boot drive. I have mine running off this so that I don't have to use a crappy SD card.
Yeah, I have 500 backups in g drive, NAS, local, etc now lol
Are you using the template scripts?
That's actually a future project for me. I've got plenty of self hosted things going on, so adding one more just adds to the fun. Unfortunately, a lot of the upgrades to my house were done late 80s/early 90s and things I've done the last five years or so. So there's an ungodly number of incompatible light fixtures in this house. Damn led fixtures that you can't replace the light, halogen sconces, florescent tubes, and my favorite, the asshole fixture that has these fittings that currently hosts two 100000k temperature, bright as fuck, lights that I want to die, but not enough to be the fifth fixture I replace in this house.
Not sure of the compatibility, but you might look into Shelly relays to automate old fixtures, lights and switches. They just wire in parallel to the switch and sit in the electrical box behind it. Also they make GU24 to E26 adapters. I had to buy some for our outside garage lights which are also GU24 sockets as well.
Motion detector switches. Had to do that with my brother that used to wander in a stupor.
🦫: God Dammit!
God: ???
🦫: Fine! I'll do it myself!
(Beaver DOOM music intensifies)
Beaver: hears running water
"It's like music to my ears. And I hate music."
"I'm here to kick water's ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Beaver: .... DAAAYYYYYYEEEMMMMMM
Wasn't this a tweet? Which came first I wonder
Recycled joke. The original was funnier, and original.
But not recycled. Save the planet, recycle a joke!
The brook babbled. And I took that personally.
*and I babbled back
They don't make good pets because they will hear the water moving through the pipes in the walls/under the floors and try to build a dam in your living room.
Big plans
Nope
I wouldn't mind a wet beaver.
🤦
This is about the Canadian federal election, right?