On the homestead blog for this week’s Flock Friday, a few pictures of Bert, and a bunch of chicken pictures. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
· chickens · ducks · FlockFriday
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July 2020
Flowers of the day: a small dogwood tree in the fountain garden. 🌱
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On the homestead blog: today at the duck house is a bit different: to give the ducklings more space, I assembled a little temporary run for them using some spare gates. 🦆
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Back in 2004 when we lived in a townhouse, we only had a tiny backyard. Since I always want a pond, I added a small one, and other landscaping. #ThrowbackThursday
· david · landscaping · ThrowbackThursday
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Flowers of the day: more daylilies. 🌱
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On the homestead blog: zoom zoom… today I zoom in on some of the ducklings, and remind you (and me!) of their names. 🦆
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Several people on all three social platforms (Micro.blog, Twitter, and Facebook) correctly identified today’s What’s It Wednesday picture. Well done to them. It’s looking up at the apex of our brown gazebo. #WhatsItWednesday
· landscaping · WhatsItWednesday
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On the homestead blog: living in a rural area, we frequently get deer visiting our property. I don’t take pictures of them all the time, but have accumulated a few, so I thought I’d post some recent ones. 🦌
· deer · wildlife
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Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday
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Flowers of the day: rock rose. 🌱
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On the homestead blog today in the duck house: cleaning the nesting boxes, a GIF of stealing a treat, and more. 🦆
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On the Dejus YouTube channel, yep, my second one today: a video from this morning of the ducklings eating leafy treats and bathing in the pool, with some peeps and proto-quacks, plus Bert hanging out. 🦆 📹
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From 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke: 💬
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The human mind has an astonishing capacity to adapt; after a while, even the incredible becomes commonplace.
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On the Dejus YouTube channel: a time-lapse video of our feral cats Poppy and Porcini snuggling, briefly joined by a couple of other cats. 🐈📹
· cats · video
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Flower of the day: a daylily by the pond. 🌱
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On the homestead blog: it’s duckling time again! 🦆
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Time Out macOS app 💻 #MediaMonday
· dejal · MediaMonday
A Mac app to gently remind you to take regular breaks. Is it gauche to link to my own app? Too bad, it’s my site, and I do recommend it, of course. Plus, I wanted to remind you that you can get it for free at present.
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On the homestead blog: starting a weekend project to convert our fountain into a flower garden. 🌱
· GardenPlumbing · landscaping
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A GIF of Paladin waking up Rory. 🐈 🐕
· cats · dogs · gif
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Flowers of the day: foxgloves. 🌱
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