Another cat pic: nobody can relax like Paladin in a sunbeam. 🐈
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January 2021
Paladin in my office. Why play with his favorite ball when he can play with spare network cables instead? 🐈
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On the homestead blog: yesterday I made some more progress on the duck island project. 🔨🦆
· building · ducks · pond
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Jenn wasn’t feeling well this morning, and wanted breakfast in bed, so I took the opportunity to make myself a tasty Canadian bacon and tomato omelette. Been a while since I had one.
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Today we went to Home Depot for duck island parts, Costco for groceries (everyone was properly masked etc), then stopped for some tasty burritos from our favorite food cart on the way home. It’s been 4 months since the last time we ate something we didn’t make ourselves. 🌯
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On the homestead blog: your weekly cat update. And a Steller's Jay by the cat house, apparently. #Caturday 🐈
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On the homestead blog: thoughts, design, and starting to build a wooden island for the ducks. 🔨
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On the homestead blog: your weekly flock update. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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For week/year 2 of my 52 years celebration, from 1970: Mum and me at 20 months old. #ThrowbackThursday #52years
· 52years · david · family · ThrowbackThursday
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I will turn 52 years old in May, and there are 52 weeks in a year, so I thought I’d celebrate by posting one photo from each year of my life every Thursday in 2021.
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In July 2006 I unboxed a new white first-generation MacBook laptop. 💻 #ThrowbackThursday
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Sorry if this grosses out anyone. I found several of these larvae-like things in mud wedged between stuff in a junk pile. I haven’t been able to identify them; can anyone help? I assume an insect of some kind.
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The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question, as correctly identified on Micro.blog: it’s my pizza dough being held up to the light while stretching, to check for thinness (aka the windowpane test). I like really thin bases and puffy edges. 🍕
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Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday
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About the only time Paladin and Pippin can stand to be this close together is during meal times; this cabinet contains their food, to keep it out of reach of our dog, Rory. 🐈
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A quote from Foundation by Isaac Asimov: 💬
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A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.
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Paladin on my lap this morning. He’s not a lap cat most of the time, but occasionally will demand some brief lap time. 🐈
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I enjoy when my monthly deposit to the Kiva micro-lending site is credited, as I get to make a new loan — and as some are repaid, I can do two, like this month. Welcome 🇫🇯Fiji and 🇷🇼Rwanda. 💵
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It’s a cool and drizzly day… so how about more flowers from August? Here’s a limelight hydrangea. 🌱🌼
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On the homestead blog: your weekly cat update. #Caturday 🐈
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