May 2020

My first use of my sourdough starter: pancakes for breakfast. Turned out well, more light and fluffy than with Bisquick. Today, I’m making sourdough bread. 🥞👨‍🍳

2020-05-14 · food

Today’s color is green. So many options, but let’s go with this recent aerial photo of our flowerbeds, with the green grass and trees. 📷🌈 #mbmay

2020-05-14 · aerial · landscaping · mbmay

It seems the What’s It Wednesday question was a stumper. The answer: it’s a gate latch cable, used to open a gate latch from the other side. Here’s an example of one in use, on a veggie garden gate. #WhatsItWednesday

2020-05-13 · building · WhatsItWednesday

Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? Hopefully not too obvious. #WhatsItWednesday

2020-05-13 · WhatsItWednesday

Today’s color is yellow. An unused shot of yellow straw, yellow bee nucs, yellow bees, and a yellow tie-down strap in the back of our truck when we recently picked up a couple of nucs and other supplies. 📷🌈 #mbmay

2020-05-13 · bees · mbmay · shopping · vehicles

It’s alive, ALIVE! It took 17 days, but my first sourdough starter has finally achieved doubling in size, and passes the float test. Now I have to figure out what to do with it. 🍞

2020-05-12 · bread · food

Question: how much would you expect to pay for fresh eggs from a roadside farm stand? Our chickens are laying about a dozen a day at present, faster than we can give them away. We’re planning to put them by the road to sell. 🐓🥚

2020-05-12 · chickens · food · shopping

Today’s color is orange. Over the weekend we had a nice sneak peek of summer, eating BBQ steak and orange sweet potato (or kumara as it’s called in New Zealand) on our deck. 📷🌈 #mbmay

2020-05-12 · food · mbmay

The Lord of the Rings movie series 🍿 #MediaMonday

2020-05-11 · MediaMonday

This trilogy is a favorite of ours, with a good story, nice scenery, etc. For 16 years around Christmas / New Year time we have a traditional marathon of the extended editions of all three movies — 12 hours worth.

On the homestead blog: planting the veggie garden and adding irrigation. 🌱🍅🍓🌽🧅🥬💦

2020-05-11 · GardenPlumbing · veggies

A review of Dejal Time Out on the Brazilian MacMagazine site. (English auto-translation.)

2020-05-11 · dejal

The Micro.blog mini-challenge this week is color-a-day photos. Today: red. As part of wanting to go to the store less at present, we’re trying various food delivery services, including Farmbox Direct. 📷🌈 #mbmay

2020-05-11 · food · mbmay · shopping

On the homestead blog: yesterday we picked up and set up two nucs — nucleus bee hives, i.e. small starter hives. 🐝

2020-05-10 · bees

I have lots of favorite quotes from Heinlein books, but enjoy this one from Time Enough for Love: 💬 #mbmay

2020-05-10 · mbmay · quote

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

On the homestead blog: a later than usual Caturday this week, with another visit by an alien cat, some cuteness, and a cameo by Paladin. #Caturday 🐈

2020-05-09 · cats · Caturday

A quote from Piers Anthony’s Wielding a Red Sword (book four of the Incarnations of Immortality series): 💬 #mbmay

2020-05-09 · mbmay · quote

The consequence of one's actions should be a concern of every person, on the social as well as the legal level.

On the homestead blog, some sad news about one of our ducks.

2020-05-08 · ducks

On the homestead blog this week for Flock Friday, replacing the chicken run roof netting, and a bunch of pictures of ducks, chickens, and fish. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓

2020-05-08 · chickens · ducks · FlockFriday

A longer quote today for 💬 #mbmay from Robert A. Heinlein’s To Sail Beyond the Sunset, that really resonates with me:

2020-05-08 · mbmay · quote

Happiness ... lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labour mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter…

After moving to the US and living in an apartment for a year or so, we bought a new 1522 square foot townhouse in December 2002. We imagined we’d be there for a few years, but ended up staying a decade. #ThrowbackThursday

2020-05-07 · house · jenn · ThrowbackThursday