3/6/2020
(Above: This is the tapestry now hanging within the Jacobhouse office.)
Active Summary: Today I woke up, performed the morning regimen, and then wrote for about an hour and twenty minutes before performing the weekly Jacobhouse cleaning. This was ensued by venturing up to Oldhouse, procuring measurements for the upright piano being moved on Saturday, and starting some potatoes baking for lunch. On returning to Jacobhouse, I decided to hang the tapestry I procured from the office about a week ago*. To finish off the morning, I helped Padre put up some shelving in his Studio before heading up to Oldhouse for lunch.
(7:27 PM Update:) This afternoon I helped with numerous farm-related activities, including: fixing a fence, catching a cow, fixing the roof above the hall that passes between the grain room and milk room, and performing a beef herd health check. I followed these activities with a visit to the manure pile where I filled six more bags and ten buckets, the latter of which I poked numerous holes into via drill for drainage purposes.
A piece of roof that Padre and I repaired this afternoon. Previously there was quite a large hole rotten through, but now it is covered by tin requisitioned from some old calf pens. 
Bags and buckets driven down to the location of Garden #2. 
Now there are 16 bags for growing vegetables and 10 buckets. I’m thinking that the buckets will be more useful for growing water dependent crops (melons and cucumbers), due to their higher water retention.
TIL: I suspected it before this day, but I did not know for certain until witnessing it. Lately, I have been finding mangled peapods in the garden where somesort of creature had been eating the peas out of the pod. I thought it was wrens, and it still could be**, but today’s culprit was a sparrow. I first saw the little bird flitting about the arugula plants. It attempted to eat a piece of oak anther (must have thought it was an insect) but did not seem to care for it much. So, it next darted over the top of the rapini plants before coming to land on the fence up which the pea plants are climbing. There, I caught it in the act; the little creature scooted over toward a dangling peapod, and after furtively*** peering about, had a ‘pea pod pecking party’. It was not the most graceful of extractions, for the sparrow commenced to scratch and shred the entire lower half of the pod before flying away, satiated.
Commentary: With my family’s moving out of Oldhouse, Jacobhouse has been seeing a number of quality of life and cosmetic improvements as of late. The quality of life improvements are primarily kitchen-related, such as the recent additions of a cutting board, kitchen scale, and the new shelf above the preparation table (there will soon be another hook-shelf added above the table’s east side). Meanwhile, the cosmetic improvements have primarily occurred in the office where I first traded out my old desk for a smaller, more-compact model, and just today, I hung my favorite tapestry taken from the office near Oldhouse. It really warms up the room’s appearance, and I think it will look particularly fine above the soon-to-arrive piano.
By way of additional commentary, here is a picture of tonight’s dinner:
A Sicilian style pizza I made this evening as a final dinner at Oldhouse. A quick-bake crust was topped with homemade tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, grated cheddar, pan-seared bacon, and (after cooking) fresh / flowering arugula. 
An especially photogenic slice with an arugula flower positioned at the center. 
Dessert consisted of a bite sized brownie topped with a high-quality ‘filthy’ cherry. Accompanied by the Black Bunny.
Final Note: Tomorrow, the two primary events that I know to be occurring are the moving of the upright piano from Oldhouse to Jacobhouse and my venturing out to eat to with Padre at Aneta’s Bistro for a lunch at the Polish Sausage Festival. Madre would come, but it is a big moving day for her. I’m sure we will bring back something tasty.
*This was originally going to be performed via stick-on velcro strips, but they proved too weak for the task. I ended up hanging the hooks with a couple self-tapping screws each.
** Wrens primarily eat insects, that I did read that they eat small fruits and seeds as well.
*** That’s how I imagined it, at least.