June 2020

On the homestead blog: Happy birthday ducklings! They hatched one week ago today. 🦆

2020-06-10 · ducks

Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. Almost certainly too easy this time, but let’s find out. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday

2020-06-10 · WhatsItWednesday

On the Dejus YouTube channel: Quack and peep. Sound on! Listen to Bert's raspy quack in the first half of the video, and the ducklings peeping in the second half. 🦆

2020-06-10 · ducks · video

On the homestead blog: building a three-bin composting system. 🔨

2020-06-10 · building

Today’s flowers: poppies. 🌱

2020-06-10 · flowers

On the homestead blog for today’s duckling update, Bert and the ducklings saw each other. 🦆

2020-06-09 · ducks

We had food truck burritos for dinner tonight… which is the first time we’ve had food not prepared by us since March 6. Tasted so good! 🌯

2020-06-09 · food

On the Dejus YouTube channel: Bert the duck checking out the chickens in their run. 🦆🐓

2020-06-09 · chickens · ducks · video

A timely quote from Isaac Asimov’s Prelude to Foundation: 💬

2020-06-09 · quote

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove which makes you a nice person and then you can go about your own business and not be interested any more.

Flower of the day: calla lily. 🌱

2020-06-09 · flowers

On the homestead blog today in the duck house, I captured some interesting EcoGlow interactions, plus added some straw bedding. 🦆

2020-06-08 · ducks

On the Dejus YouTube channel: Slow-motion bees in the bee pool. We have a pool from which our bees can drink, filled with rocks for them to land on so they don't drown. This is a slow-motion recording of bees drinking and flying above the pool. 🐝

2020-06-08 · bees · slow-mo · video

Schitt's Creek TV series 📺 #MediaMonday

2020-06-08 · MediaMonday

An amusing sitcom series about a wealthy family that loses their fortune… which doesn’t sound great, but it is such a low-stakes, friendly, funny show. We haven’t caught up yet, but love it so far.

Today’s “flower” is a bunch of mushrooms that sprouted up in a garden; not technically a flower, but serves much the same purpose to the plants. These appeared in late May, and are all gone now; probably eaten by deer. 🌱

2020-06-08 · flowers · landscaping

On the homestead blog: duckings day 4. 🦆

2020-06-07 · ducks

Today’s flower for your enjoyment: bluebells. 🌱

2020-06-07 · flowers

On the homestead blog: some trauma for day 3 of ducklings: today we removed the leg bands. 🦆

2020-06-06 · ducks

On the Dejal blog, a Time Out tip: how can I avoid a break starting while doing a screen recording?

2020-06-06 · dejal

On the homestead blog for Caturday this week… pictures of cats! I bet you weren’t expecting that. #Caturday 🐈

2020-06-06 · cats · Caturday