A picture Jenn just took of me carrying a surprisingly heavy laundry basket. 🐈
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April 2020
Today’s moment of cuteness: apparently it’s National Tabby Day. Almost all of our pet and feral cats have been or are tabbies. Here are a couple new pictures of the oldest of our current cats, Pippin. 🐈
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For today’s throwback post: a former cat, Piwhacket, avidly watching a whale screensaver on my old iMac G4 in 2002. #ThrowbackThursday
· cats · macs · ThrowbackThursday
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The answer to the What’s It Wednesday question from earlier: it’s part of our propane gas tank. I record the propane level in a spreadsheet every Wednesday, to monitor when we need a refill. #WhatsItWednesday
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Several people enjoyed playing What’s It Wednesday last week, so let’s try another one. Here’s a picture. What do you think it is? I mean the whole assemblage. I’ll reveal the answer later today. #WhatsItWednesday
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On the homestead blog: beehive split before they split. An unexpected intervention to avoid losing half of the yellow hive to swarming. 🐝
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Bluebell flowers by mossy rocks.
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I admit, I usually skip podcast ads that I’ve heard lots of times before, but I rewound Upgrade 295 to listen to the Fully spot, and was glad I did; a fascinating story. Visiting their site, interested to see they’re Portland-based, too.
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On the Dejal blog (last night): a DejalNews newsletter with Time Out gifts, 25 years of consulting, Dejal Subreddit, and more.
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Today’s moment of cuteness: Rory asleep, Paladin in one of his cardboard nests. 🐕🐈
· cats · dogs
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Core Intuition podcast 📡 #MediaMonday
· MediaMonday
This podcast is hosted by a couple of popular indie developers, and regularly has fascinating discussions about macOS, iOS, and web development, and related topics. Highly recommended. Check out the Slack for more, too.
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On the homestead blog: another inspection of the beehives, following up to last week. (With a bonus appearance of the chickens.) 🐝
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Today’s moment of cuteness: tree blossoms. 🌳🌸
· flowers · trees
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On the homestead blog: yesterday I finished installing the greenhouse irrigation tubing and mister emitters. 🔨
· GardenPlumbing · greenhouse
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Happy 3rd birthday to Paladin! 🥳🎂🐈
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On the homestead blog this Caturday: cats at their cabins, cats at their house, cats in the breezeway; only one alien visitor. And a fun GIF of inside the cat house. #Caturday 🐈
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On the homestead blog for this week’s flock update: funny ducks, broody chickens, mucking out the coop, chasing the heron. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
· chickens · ducks · FlockFriday
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Today’s moment of cuteness: Poppy and Porcini asleep in their cat house, right now. 🐈
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50 pounds of King Arthur Sir Galahad Artisan Flour. That should keep us going for a while. 🥖🍞
· food · shopping
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From 2002, four pictures of the Grays River Covered Bridge in southwestern Washington state, built in 1905. #ThrowbackThursday
· ThrowbackThursday · travel
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Some info on freezing eggs, if you’re interested.
· eggs · food
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