Some pics from my morning rounds just now of the ducks and a frosty duck house roof. It was very slippery out there, but not cold enough to freeze the pond yet. 🦆❄️
· ducks · ice · pond
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December 2020
On the homestead blog: something new in this week’s cat update — Poppa went inside the cat house, and hung out for a couple of hours. Which was fine with our ferals. #Caturday 🐈
· cats · Caturday
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I turned on the string lights on the white and brown gazebos, as a bit of holiday festivity. 🎄
· holiday · landscaping
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Snuggles with Paladin. 🐈
· cats · david
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On the homestead blog: lots of nice duck and chicken pictures this week, plus some bonus hummingbird pics. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓🐦
· birds · chickens · ducks · FlockFriday
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Some pictures of hummingbirds just after I refilled the feeders. Check out the tongues in the first and third pictures! 🐦
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Yesterday I posted about a tweak to the Dejal site, showing the Time Out page. For Throwback Thursday, I thought I’d share some screenshots from the Wayback Machine of ancient variations of that page, starting from 2003. #ThrowbackThursday
· dejal · site · ThrowbackThursday
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As a fun activity on today’s Weekend Wednesday, I tweaked the Dejal site to bump up the font size on the main text areas. These are marketing pages; they should be more readable. I plan on more changes in the future. Compare old and new.
· dejal · site
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The answer to today's #WhatsItWednesday question: it’s our main well head. We had an issue with our well last night, where its power supply stopped working (so no water for us); fortunately we were able to get it repaired this morning. Here’s a diagram of a well system.
· GardenPlumbing · WhatsItWednesday
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Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? This will be very easy for some people, very hard for others. #WhatsItWednesday
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I just spent half an hour renaming the “master” branches to “main” in my many GitHub repos, which made me think of this tangentially-related Heinlein quote from Time Enough for Love: 💬
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In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'
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Paladin snuggles at my desk. 🐈
· cats · david
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Vulcan Hello podcast 📡 #MediaMonday
· MediaMonday · podcast
A show by Scott McNulty and Jason Snell on the Incomparable network discussing current Star Trek episodes, including “Discovery”, “Picard”, etc.
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The feral cat feeder was empty this morning, so I had to go out there to refill it, disturbing three cats waiting for food; you can see two in the first and third pictures, and a closeup of Spud, who wasn’t sure whether to stay or run. 🐈
· cats
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Paladin and Pippin sleeping in my office, then Paladin playing with an old dog toy he found under the couch. 🐈
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On the homestead blog: come celebrate a curated collection of cat cam captures. #Caturday 🐈
· cats · Caturday
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On the homestead blog: your weekly flock update. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
· chickens · ducks · FlockFriday
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A trip to the Oregon coast in January 2006, staying at the Stephanie Inn, Cannon Beach. #ThrowbackThursday
· david · jenn · ThrowbackThursday · vacation
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Related (sorry).
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The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question, as correctly identified on Micro.blog and Facebook: a mushroomy fungus thingy on the back lawn.
· landscaping · WhatsItWednesday
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