The Micro.blog challenge word for day 28 is “up”. I did a lot of looking up at the trees when I went for a stroll through the acre of woods on our homestead. 🌲📷 #mbfeb
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February 2021
On the homestead blog: won’t you join me for a pleasant stroll through the woods at the bottom of our homestead? Lots more photos in the blog post. 🌲
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Here is a @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of #Caturday photos from early February, as an experiment of using photos:
· cats · Caturday · TikTok · video
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 27 is “pompasetting”, which apparently is a Caribbean word for showing off. So here’s me pompasetting or showing off a rare snuggly Paladin on my lap this morning. (Paladin snuggling isn’t rare, but on a lap is.) 🐈📷 #mbfeb
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On the homestead blog: your weekly cat update. #Caturday 🐈
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 26 is “favourite”. Since it’s Flock Friday, I’ll admit that my favorite chicken is Merida. She’s just so friendly, always coming up to me to greet me, and lets me pet her. 🐓📷 #mbfeb
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On the homestead blog: this week was an exciting milestone: the ducks started laying eggs. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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Here is another TikTok video of our ducks:
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 25 is “code”. I write macOS and iOS code for a living. Also I need to clean my screen. 📷 #mbfeb
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For week/year 8 of my 52 years celebration, another picture from sometime in the 1970’s, of me making a snowman (and my father at the edge of the frame). Seems appropriate given the surprise snow yesterday. #ThrowbackThursday #52years
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On the homestead blog: this morning we woke up to some surprise snow, so of course I felt an urge to fly my drone to capture the winter wonderland. 🚁❄️
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 24 is “baby”. Look what I spotted on the floating pond island: duck eggs! These probably aren’t fertilized, but now that they are starting to lay, we may have baby ducklings before long. 🦆🥚📷 #mbfeb
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On the Dejal blog: is this the last beta of Dejal Simon 5.0? Let's find out!
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Here is my second very short TikTok video, featuring our chickens.
· chickens · TikTok · video
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 23 is “banana”. We don’t have any bananas at present, so I searched my photo library for a picture… close, photos app, but these are not bananas. 🚫🍌📷 #mbfeb
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 22 is “spell”. Back around age 13 (I think) I enjoyed writing short sci-fi stories, laboriously typing them on my mother's manual typewriter (before I had a computer with a printer). But my spelling wasn’t that great. 📷 #mbfeb
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I started posting 15 second videos of our homestead on TikTok, and I thought I’d cross-post here. If you use TikTok, you can follow the homestead @YellowCottageHomestead. Here’s the first one.
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Four pictures from my evening rounds of the ducks in our pond, including Bert and Rémy on the floating island. 🦆
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 21 is “colors”. Here’s a picture of our custom chicken coop from the recent ice storm, with the translucent icicles and white snow adding to the many colors of the coop, inspired by Caribbean houses. 📷 #mbfeb
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Paladin sat next to Pippin, which could be sweet, but inevitably means hassling long-suffering Pip. Pip was swishing his tail in annoyance, which Paladin thought was a fun toy. (Photo and two GIFs.) 🐈
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 20 is “weather”. We’ve had some interesting weather this month, with snow, ice, rain, wind… but one phenomenon that I particularly enjoyed was a rainbow. 🌈📷 #mbfeb
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