On the homestead blog this Caturday, some wildlife visitors and increased use of cozy accommodations. #Caturday 🐈
· cats · Caturday
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February 2020
The word for day 29 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “leap”. Here’s a crop from a cam capture of a cat leaping from a pole; climbing down the hard way (see my Caturday post, coming soon, for more). 🐈 #mbfeb
· cats · mbfeb
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As mentioned this morning, I got a new drone, a DJI Mavic Mini. It’s a small, lightweight drone with some nice features like GPS and gimbaled camera. Here are a bunch of pictures of the drone, and a few initial pictures taken from it.
· aerial · landscaping · technology
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On the homestead blog this Flock Friday, zooming in on ducks and out to aerial pictures of the pond, and more. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
· aerial · ducks · FlockFriday · landscaping · pond
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The word for day 28 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “below”. Hey down below: an aerial view of me on my back lawn, taken by my new drone (more on that later). #mbfeb
· aerial · landscaping · mbfeb
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When we first moved to the US in 2001, we attended some Mariners baseball games at what was then Safeco Field in Seattle. #ThrowbackThursday ⚾️
· david · jenn · ThrowbackThursday · vacation
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The word for day 27 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “together”. Paladin and Rory hanging out together by the back door. 🐈 🐕 #mbfeb
· cats · dogs · mbfeb
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The word for day 26 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “escape”. A magical key that people love on the new MacBook Pro 16”: the Escape key. #mbfeb
· macs · mbfeb
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The word for day 25 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “hurdle”. The wooden garden benches tend to tip onto their backs in the winter winds, like knocked over hurdles. The feral cats enjoy playing on them. #mbfeb
· cats · landscaping · mbfeb
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On the Dejal blog: a Simon tip on creating a service and test to check for an expired website SSL certificate.
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The word for day 24 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “double”. So of course I thought of the double-decker cats from the latest Caturday post. #mbfeb
· cats · mbfeb
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A bonus “station”: a boxed Mac mini and Airport Extreme base station, also from 2005. Remember when Apple made Wi-Fi routers? (And remember the ad for them?) #mbfeb
· macs · mbfeb
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The word for day 23 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “station”. Here’s Portland’s downtown train station from 2005. I bet this view would be quite different nowadays, since the area in the background has gone through a lot of development. #mbfeb
· mbfeb · travel
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On the homestead blog this week, my first sighting of a coyote, plus some raccoons, and less Pumpkin than usual. #Caturday 🐈
· cats · Caturday · wildlife
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The word for day 22 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “spectacle”. Watching Rory lick sour cream off a spoon is quite the spectacle, with slobber and sour cream going everywhere. #mbfeb
· dogs · food · mbfeb
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On the homestead blog this week, the heron returns, a super-exciting stack of food bags and fun egg math, and assorted duck and chicken pics. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
· chickens · ducks · FlockFriday
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The word for day 21 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “progress”. The daffodils sprouting shows the progress towards spring. #mbfeb
· flowers · mbfeb
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After we moved to the US in 2001, we bought a cute Volkswagen New Beetle car. #ThrowbackThursday
· jenn · ThrowbackThursday · vehicles
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A few more photos from our weekend trip; we stopped at a lookout above the Columbia River where Celilo Falls used to be, before it was flooded for a dam, plus some pics around the Stonehenge memorial.
· Hood River · travel · vacation
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The word for day 20 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “scale”. I’ve just scaled back my wallet from a thick leather one to a new SlimFold wallet (thanks to Marco for the recommendation). #mbfeb
· mbfeb · shopping
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After lunch on our Hood River mini vacation, we headed east to the Maryhill Stonehenge, a replica of the original. It was built as a World War I memorial.
· Hood River · scenic · vacation
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