On the homestead blog: last night Betty knocked over the EcoGlow brooder. 🦆
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July 2020
Last night’s tasty Independence Day dinner: salad, bison steak, baked spuds, corn on the cob. 🇺🇸🥗🥩🥔🌽
· food · holiday
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Flowers of the day: daylilies. We have a lot of them blooming at present, so you can look forward to daylily pictures every other day or so. 🌱
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On the homestead blog: the daily dose of ducklings. 🦆
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On the homestead blog for this week’s Caturday, a number of pictures of spotting cats in person, plus the usual cat cabin and house pictures. #Caturday 🐈
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Flowers of the day: the colorful baskets hanging off our deck. Kinda red, white, and blue. Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸🌱
· flowers · holiday
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Tonight’s pizzas, cooked in my Ooni Koda oven. I made the dough double-thick from my usual, which I think turned out really well. 🍕
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On the homestead blog: this morning I mucked out the duck house, and captured pictures and a GIF of ducklings flapping their wings, with cute little feathers. 🦆
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On the homestead blog: let’s check on the chickens, Bert, and Jack. (Who is that? Read on.) #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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Flowers of the day: daylilies. 🌱
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Something for puzzle-inclined people (via my wife): Grids for Good, a collection of 42 original puzzles to raise money for COVID and racial justice causes.
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On the homestead blog: some closeups of the ducklings today, and rearranging things a bit. 🦆
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A first attempt at making sourdough sub rolls, via Daniel Steinberg’s recipe. 🥖
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I’m posting flower pictures each morning, but here are a couple more from 2004 for today's throwback post: a bunch of tulips in the small garden out front of our townhouse (we can’t grow tulips anymore, as the deer eat them). 🌱 #ThrowbackThursday
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Flowers of the day: a spiraea shrub, visited by a bumble bee. 🌱🐝
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The answer to today’s What’s It Wednesday question, as correctly guessed by some people on Micro.blog: a Turn Touch wooden smart home remote with pedestal. (Fun fact / disclaimer: I work on the Mac and iOS apps for it.) #WhatsItWednesday
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On the homestead blog: the ducklings are about four weeks old now, so I’m going to start leaving the paint tray pool in the duck house full-time from today on. 🦆
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Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday
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Today’s flowers: a sea of daisies in our field. 🌱
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