{"id":8982,"date":"2007-09-20T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/heritage-harvest-days\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:03","slug":"heritage-harvest-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/heritage-harvest-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Harvest Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Water-cooled engine powering a reciprocating saw.
(Click for more images (photo gallery retired)<\/em>…)<\/center><\/p>\n

After hearing about it from Danielle and I headed up to Seven Ponds Nature Center<\/a> in Dryden, MI<\/a> (map<\/a>) for Heritage Harvest Days. We were supposed to meet up with and , but due to some confusion we went on Saturday instead of Sunday and missed them.<\/p>\n

Seven Ponds is a private, non-profit nature center, and Heritage Harvest Days is one of its fundraisers. The event consists of a number of people demonstrating their crafts, music, and a few people selling things. Admission is US$5, and it’s very worthwhile. There were lots of nifty things to look at, trails to wander, and it was just an all around good time.<\/p>\n

Here are some highlight photos:<\/p>\n

· Tractor-powered sawmill.<\/a>
\n· Guys sitting on the tractors which are powering the sawmill.<\/a>
\n· Studebaker Pickup Truck.<\/a>
\n· Frustrated-looking magician after getting out of a straight jacket.<\/a>
\n· Danielle in the herb garden.<\/a>
\n· Hummingbird clearwing moth.<\/a>
\n· A sheep named Piggy being sheared.<\/a>
\n· Cute sheep!<\/a>
\n· Goat with a cast on its leg! (It got caught in a fence…)<\/a>
\n· Reciprocating saw powered by the engine pictured above.<\/a>
\n· Corn on the cob being steamed in a barrel.<\/a>
\n· Danielle eating corn on the cob.<\/a>
\n· Lake, at the bottom of the hill behind the festival.<\/a>
\n· Raccoon poop.<\/a>
\n· Cute goat reaching under the fence for leaves.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the rest of the photos can be seen in the Heritage Harvest Days at Seven Ponds (photo gallery retired)<\/em> album.<\/p>\n

When looking through the gallery you might notice that things look a bit… better. In order to make the page look fuller and cut out some whitespace I set the thumbnails to fit within a bounding box of 300 x 300 (up from 150 x 150) and made the default resized images fit within an 800 x 800 box. Around 30% of visitors to the site are at 1024×768, and when tested on a monitor running IE at that resolution, things were still plenty usable. A little bit of scrolling to the right was required, but only maybe 20% of the screen wasn’t visible without scrolling. As almost all other users were using a resolution above 1024×768, this seems like a safe sizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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