More cuteness from our pets: Rory, Paladin, and Pippin enjoying the fireplace. 🔥🐕🐈🐈
· cats · dogs
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November 2020
As part of tidying my office, I moved my Sinclair Oil sign to above my workbench in the shop. It dominated my office, but fits much better here — and will now light up when I turn on the workbench task light.
· workshop
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 30 is “reinforce”. Seeing well-fed cozy cats in their heated shelters helps reinforce the joy of caring for feral cats. 📷🐈 #mbnov
· cats · mbnov
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On the homestead blog: I flew my drone today. Check out some aerial photos of our homestead and beyond. 🚁
· aerial · landscaping · pond · trees
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Some cute pics from this morning of Paladin with Rory, Pippin on my lap, and Paladin snuggling with me. 🐈
· cats · david · dogs
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 29 is “pedestrian”. The only pedestrians around here are our feral cats. 📷🐈 #mbnov
· cats · landscaping · mbnov
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 28 is “mask”. Fortunately I don’t need to leave my homestead very often, other than for feed store or Costco shopping… but when I do, it’s time to put on my mask. Such is life in pandemic times. 📷😷🦠 #mbnov
· david · mbnov · vehicles
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On the homestead blog: your weekly cat update, with a welcome for new followers. #Caturday 🐈
· cats · Caturday
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Paladin enjoying a sunbeam on the rug in my office. 🐈
· cats
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Since the Flock Friday post didn’t include any chickens, I took a photo of them on my morning rounds. Here they are enjoying some Thanksgiving scraps. 🐓
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On the homestead blog: this week’s Flock Friday is more of a Duck Friday. No chicken pictures this week; I’ll try to capture some in the coming week for next time. In the meantime, enjoy pictures of the quackers. #FlockFriday 🦆
· ducks · FlockFriday
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 27 is “dilemma”. Paladin is on the comfy blanket on my office couch, so Pippin has a dilemma of where to go; my lap, or downstairs to @jidabug’s lap? 📷🐈 #mbnov
· cats · mbnov
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Paladin and Pippin in my office. 🐈
· cats
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 26 is “adjust”. Here’s the table setting for Thanksgiving last year. This year requires some adjustment, just Jenn and me. Stay safe out there, so you can celebrate future Thanksgivings! 📷 #mbnov
· beverages · food · holiday · mbnov
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Happy Thanksgiving to those in the US! For Throwback Thursday, here is part of our feast from five years ago, in 2015. 🥔🦃 #ThrowbackThursday
· holiday · ThrowbackThursday
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The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question, as correctly identified on Micro.blog: a 5.25” floppy disk. This one with Pascal for Apple ][ on it, from about 1985. One of a few I still have in a carrying case.
· technology · WhatsItWednesday
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Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday
· WhatsItWednesday
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 25 is “call”. In moving back to my upstairs office, I didn’t bother plugging in my landline extension, since I never use it anyway — we have the most basic phone plan on it, with a per-minute charge for an outgoing call. 📷☎️ #mbnov
· mbnov · technology
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Paladin didn’t like to snuggle on me in my downstairs office, but seems to have decided that upstairs is okay. 🐈
· cats · david
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We ordered a 14 lb whole turkey from Crowd Cow last week, which they shipped in 5 lb of dry ice. That would have been fine, except FedEx left it laying around their depot for a week, so it arrived totally defrosted, and we have to throw it out. 📦🦃
· food · shopping
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From Robert A. Heinlein’s Expanded Universe: 💬
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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