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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here's some sourdough baguettes for your timeline.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Second day of practice at the Region 5 Soil Judging Contest in southern Missouri. #SoilCats #SoilJudging

Students describing soil scattered around a soil pit

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm trying out making homemade vanilla extract. I'll report back in 2 months.

A jar of vanilla beans in vodka in a table

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

First time making naan (sourdough naan, of course). The video doesn't do it justice. This was delicious with garlic butter, coarse salt, and some hummus. Not too bad for a first ever attempt! #bread #naan #sourdough

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I baked four sourdough French baguettes and a sourdough Italian loaf this afternoon. The baguettes were immediately sliced, topped with goat cheese and honey or jam, and devoured. #Sourdough

Five sourdough loaves on a cooling rack on a stove top

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I grew up in NW Iowa and had a really thick upper Midwest accent going into graduate school. I had to dial it back after I heard myself speak in a recorded self intro as part of a seminar course. Living in Seattle and then Kansas for the last 13 years has probably had an influence as well.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Obligatory bike to the polls selfie with my @bikeleague.org I Bike I Vote cap. Get out and vote folks!

A bearded man with glasses wearing a bike helmet and a cap that says "I Bike I Vote".

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I got my brother's and his kid's bikes all tuned up and went for a ride this evening with them and my kiddo. I also swapped a shifter on my gravel bike and got it running smooth.

A scene on a bike trail - a selfie with two boys on bikes and a guy riding a bike towing a bike trailer.

Two boys on bikes and a dad towing a kid bike trailer on a bike path.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

The cover of the Rage Against the Machine album, The Battle of Los Angeles with the album name spray painted inside the sprayer painted outline of a man raising his fist

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Here's the origin of Pa Patroller's name:

A longtail cargo eBike hauling a balance bike on a milk crate on the front rack. The caption says, "I'm told my bike is the Paw Patroller and we're chasing down Mayor Humdinger. I think I might call it the 'Pa Patroller' from now on."

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Today is the end of an era. We sold my Radwagon 4 cargo eBike today which we called the "Pa Patroller" from when my kiddo was much more into Paw Patrol. The bike was often lit up with Christmas lights or EL wire. Luckily the bike went to a family with little kids.

A cargo bike with a kids balance bike leaving against it parked in front of a playground

A cargo bike lit with luminescent wire making it look like a Tron bike

A cargo bike parked on the lawn in front of Kansas State University's Anderson Hall

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I made my first attempt at making #sourdough baguettes today. It was a success! The little one got sliced up and topped with goat cheese. Delicious!

A half dozen sourdough baguettes on a cooling rack on a stove top

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I spent this week in Bozeman, Montana and surrounding areas attending the National Technical Committee for Hydric Soils meeting. The field stops were very interesting, and the surrounding landscapes were top notch. #Hydric #Soil #Wetlands

An iron IRIS film depicting large amounts of iron (orange) removal with significant amounts of FeS precipitation (black).

A recently recruited steam where cattle have been fenced out of the steam. This site showed several field indicators of hydric soils and significant amounts of iron and manganese redoximorphic features.

A lone cow investigates the National Technical Committee for Hydric Soils as they investigate the hydric soils.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

That's no fun. I lost a 70 year old pin oak in a storm 3 weeks ago. I have to get a new roof and gutters now. I'm getting the oak logs milled.

Oak logs over 2 feet in diameter ready to be milled into lumber

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I saw these mammatus clouds earlier today at a party. I told people things were about to pop off. We were under a tornado warning 15 min later, and I got the picture of the wall cloud on my way home at a stop light. Luckily there was no tornado in this storm, but there are a bunch in the area! #kswx

A wall cloud in the distance with roads, traffic lights, and a truck in the foreground.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We had a fun Final Friday Critical Mass Ride tonight. Along the way we walked our bikes through the KSU Gardens to see what was all in bloom. #BikeWalkMHK #CommuteByBike #CriticalMass

A kid in a bike helmet looking though a kaleidescope pointed at flowers with people walking bikes in the background

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Which is it, FedEx? Did you attempt a delivery or not? Narrator: "They did not."

A text message from FedEx saying they tried to deliver a package

A message from FedEx saying no delivery attempt was made

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

First sourdough loaves in a bit. The Yeasty Boys still got it! 🍞

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Bottom brackets are a very satisfying repair

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Today was new bottom bracket day for my old mountain bike turned dad bike. The old one did well, considering it was over 20 years old and was used as a commuter for many of those years, stored outside, etc.

A new bottom bracket with a bike in a repair stand in the background

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

We had a small but mighty Final Friday Critical Mass Ride for BikeWalkMHK tonight. It was a bit chilly for our first Final Friday Ride of the year - a change from the last couple days for sure!

A group of cyclists on a Final Friday Critical Mass Ride

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Kansas Forest Service callery pear buyback program details: www.kansasforests.org/events/calen...

Callery pear buyback dates. More details at the website linked in this post.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The seeded sourdough soda bread turned out okay! I think I'd rather have fermented bread, but it was good. We ate it with crock pot roast beef open-faced sandwich style.

pulled roast beef with banana peppers on a slice of bread

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Timeline cleanse: My kid went mountain biking for the first time today and LOVED every second of it!

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Version 2.1 of the Soils Laboratory Manual in the flesh! I doubt the students are as excited as I am.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My kid asked Google to play the theme song to the cartoon, Johnny Test. Somehow, YouTube Music turned it into a decent playlist.

A music playlist featuring Weezer, 311, Ben Folds, Sublime, etc.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Happy World Wetland Day! Here's yours truly standing on a boardwalk in a thermokarst bog in the Alaskan interior circa 2015ish.

A man taking a selfie while wearing "The Original Bugshirt" with netting over his face.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Panda Express with the corporate buzz word poster fortunes... I bet my next ones mention "synergy" or the new hot term, "change management".

Two fortune cookie fortunes that say, "make it a win-win situation" and "you hold the key to success"

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Winter finally arrived in Kansas. We got 8" of snow Friday night and Saturday. I took the Christmas lights off my bike and put on the studded tire wheelset. I also put on a new chain. #Surly #Skidloader #CommuteByBike #WinterCycling

A Surly Skid Loader eBike with studded tires, fenders, and pogies

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Our local TV station changed the push notification alert sound for their weather app (didn't know they could do that!). Needless to say, I hate it. And I deleted the app.

An app review by Colby Moorberg that says, "I was fine with this app until at full blast my phone started yelling "From WIBW TV a First Alert Weather Update has arrived". GTFO with that literal noise."

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I finally worked out the kinks in my sourdough technique and made these pain de campagne (country bread)

Two sourdough bread loaves on a cooling rack

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I'm dialing in grilling spatchcocked chicken on the Weber kettle grill. We'll get three meals and chicken stock out of this bad boy. Chicken enchiladas tomorrow!

A spatchcocked chicken on a cutting board next to foil packets

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The bike is all finished! forgot to mention we put on new pedals, grips, and saddle too. I really like the colorway. I would have never guessed purple, red, and yellow would look so good together.

A driveside view of a kid's mountain bike from the 90s

Headtube art on a 90s kid's mountain bike showing a guy riding a rocket ship around the globe

A back-right view of a kid's mountain bike

A new 1x crankset with red pedals on a kids mountain bike

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I'm making progress on a Christmas break project - rebuilding my kid's "new" 90s mountain bike. I greased the bottom bracket and headset, installed a new 1x crankset, and installed Maxxis Holy Roller tires. I'll finish tomorrow in time for us to ride & see X-mas lights tomorrow night. #Cycling #MTB

The frame of a kid's bike on a bike repair stand in a driveway

I kid's bike on a repair stand in a driveway

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is the top comment for that song. I too love Radiohead. Few other bands take their creativity to this level.

Comment screenshot that says:
"Each bar of this song has two dotted quavers, a crochet, and two more dotted quavers. If you think about this in 16ths per bar, this equated to the notes equalling 3, 3, 4, 3, 3. A Primus pyramid has four triangles and one square that make up the shape. This rhythm literally makes the song a pyramid. I love it. I love Radiohead."

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It is officially studded tire season with our first forecast of measurable snowfall tomorrow. I busted out my winter wheelset with Ice Spiker Pros, added new sealant, and replaced a couple studs. The Surly Skid Loader is ready for some slick stuff. #CommuteByBike #WinterCycling #Cycling

Studded Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pro tires on the front wheel of a Surly Skid Loader eBike

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

You heard it here, folks. LinkedIn says so.

A screenshot from LinkedIn games post-game card that says "Smarter than 90% of Colbys" for Zip #239

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We're watching a classic in my introductory soil science lab this week. #Soil #Water

Students watch a video on soil water movement on a projector screen in a dark laboratory

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I encountered a fungus puffball today during the #Agron635 Soil and Water Conservation class. All the students were busy doing infiltration measurements with mini disk infiltrometers across our site, so I had to record a video for them. #fungi #soil

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Every mention of Beri Weiss in the news makes me think of this beer first, and I want to keep it that way. It's not a great beer, but it's better than the news. #BeriWeiss #BerryWeiss #Leinenkugels

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

If anyone wants to join me in calling out NPR for victim blaming in this story, this is at the bottom of the article.

Screen shot of text that reads: "This story was edited by Meghan Keane. The visual editor is Beck Harlan. We'd love to hear from you. Leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or email us at LifeKit@npr.org."

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

The r/soil subreddit has a crazy number of posts of people using a jar test to determine what their soil texture is. I wonder why laypeople go with that test instead of just doing texture by feel. It's not difficult. I don't get it.

A screenshot of a Reddit post of someone asking what their soil texture is based on a jar test with a picture of soil particles settled in a jar.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My kid told his mom, "If Dad can bike to work in the rain then I can bike to school in the rain." #ProudDad #CommuteByBike

A child in a rain poncho riding his bike down a street on his way to school.

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The Kansas Forest Service (not on Bluesky) has a calery pear (Bradford pear) buyback event on Oct. 4. See details from their email below. Their callery website is www.kansasforests.org/forest_healt...

Screenshot of an email from the KS Forest Service

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I followed a Bobcat skid loader while commuting on my @surlybikes.bsky.social Skid Loader this morning. #CommuteByBike

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We held our first #Agron635 Soil & Water Conservation lab field trip today. The students measured ground cover and slope. They will be developing a conservation plan for this farm. I spotted a wolf spider carrying an egg sack in freshly cut hay and a velvet ant as I was hiking between the groups

Students in a hay field measuring and recording slope and ground cover

students in a field measuring slope and ground cover

A wolf spider carrying an egg sack through the grass

A velvet and crawling through vegetation

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

We saw the Budweiser Clydesdales tonight during our Final Friday #CriticalMass ride with #BikeWalkMHK.

The Budweiser Clydesdale horse team and wagon with a crowd of onlookers

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