Today’s flower: peony — three pictures of the same shrub near the cat house, from mid-May and end of May. 🌱
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June 2020
A pepperoni pizza made with Gus Mueller’s recipe and my sourdough starter, cooked in my indoor oven. Not my best shaping effort. A more interesting and chewy texture than my usual recipe, and turned out much better than my previous sourdough pizza attempt. 🍕
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On the homestead blog: welcome to day two of the ducklings. They’ve settled into their routine: eat, drink, poop, scamper, sleep, and grow. That’s the life of a duckling, at least for the first couple of weeks. 🦆
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A GIF of a deer munching grass in front of our beehives early this morning.
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On the homestead blog: a regular Flock Friday post about wild birds, chickens, and our adult duck; more duckling pics later. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
· chickens · ducks · FlockFriday
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Today’s flowers are some irises in our fountain garden. 🌱
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Today’s sourdough loaves turned out better than the last couple times, thanks to some tweaks (mainly reducing hydration). Still room for improvement, but getting there. 🍞
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On the homestead blog: the first of many posts about new ducklings! 🦆
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It’s duckling day! This morning I headed to the post office to pick them up (and get some gas for the mowers on the way). Here’s me in my beard-compatible mask for these pandemic days. (Stay tuned for lots of duckling pics.)
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Something geeky for this Throwback Thursday: unboxing and setting up my Power Mac G5 in 2003. #ThrowbackThursday
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Today’s flower is a dogwood tree by our driveway. 🌱
· flowers · trees
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A few people guessed the right answer this time: duck feathers! Yep, it’s a close-up of our duck, Bert. Here are another couple of bonus close-ups. 🦆 #WhatsItWednesday
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The moon over the chicken coop.
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Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? Hopefully not too easy. #WhatsItWednesday
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Today’s flower: dandelions. They may be considered a weed, but are cute in their puff ball state. And the flower is excellent bee forage. 🌱
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On the Dejus YouTube channel: while taking photos of flowers, I captured four short clips of slow motion bumble bees and a honey bee. 🐝
· bees · flowers · slow-mo · video
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This quote from Harry Harrison’s Homeworld book seems like it might fit the mood of the US at present. 💬
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There is only as much justice in the world as those who are in control of the world care to permit, to enable affairs to run smoothly.
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As mentioned yesterday, I’ve started a series of posting a flower picture each day. A little thing to bring a moment of much-needed joy to the world. Today, some small flowers (not sure what kind) below a stone frog garden ornament. 🌱
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A slow-mo GIF of Paladin drinking from the faucet. 🐈
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Now that I’ve done several #MediaMonday posts, I’ve added a page to the Dejus site to collect links to them in alphabetical order, grouped by media kind. The page is always available via the sidebar from the “hamburger” icon.
· MediaMonday · site
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