February 2021

As a bonus picture for today’s Micro.blog challenge: sometimes Pippin has a craving for the dog’s water instead of his own. Bonus slobber flavor! 🐈📷 #mbfeb

2021-02-07 · cats · mbfeb

The Micro.blog challenge word for day 7 is “craving”. Sometimes it’s really enjoyable to satiate a craving for a burger and tots. (Beyond Meat fake patty, American cheese, pineapple ring, sliced tomato, shredded lettuce, brioche bun, plus tater tots.) 🍔📷 #mbfeb

2021-02-07 · burger · food · mbfeb

The Micro.blog challenge word for day 6 is “sport”. Here’s a selfie from just now by our pond, with some ducks in the background. I don’t care much about my appearance, but it makes me happy to sport a long beard. 📷 #mbfeb

2021-02-06 · david · ducks · mbfeb · pond

On the homestead blog: some cats definitely feature more on my weekly Caturday posts: Poppy and Porcini in particular. They just hang around more. But Spud and Pepper are up there, too. The others are more reclusive. #Caturday 🐈

2021-02-06 · cats · Caturday

Who could have predicted this would happen? 🐈

2021-02-05 · cats

To be fair, our pet cats aren’t always fighting… sometimes they’re sleeping. At least until Paladin decides he wants Pip’s spot. 🐈

2021-02-05 · cats

On the homestead blog: it’s quack and cluck day. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓

2021-02-05 · chickens · ducks · FlockFriday

The Micro.blog challenge word for day 5 is “pets” (suggested by me). Sometimes I wonder why we have pets; Paladin and Pippin often start the day by fighting. 🐈📷 #mbfeb

2021-02-05 · cats · mbfeb

For week/year 5 of my 52 years celebration, from January 1973: me, my mother, and my younger brother feeding ducks. #ThrowbackThursday #52years

2021-02-04 · 52years · david · ducks · family · ThrowbackThursday

The Micro.blog challenge word for day 4 is “layers”. Our 19 chickens are good layers, averaging about 14 eggs per day in summer; the number reduces to only one or two during fall molting, but is starting to ramp up again now, at about five per day. 🐓🥚📷 #mbfeb

2021-02-04 · chickens · mbfeb

The answer to today’s question, as correctly identified by a few people on Micro.blog: a forest of moss in a shady corner of our driveway that never sees the sun. 🌱 #WhatsItWednesday

2021-02-03 · landscaping · WhatsItWednesday

Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday

2021-02-03 · WhatsItWednesday

The Micro.blog challenge word for day 3 is “comfort”. I like seeing our feral cats enjoying the comfort of their heated shelters. 🐈📷 #mbfeb

2021-02-03 · cats · mbfeb

I don’t suppose there’s any way to prevent macOS updates stomping on my local website every time? After doing an OS update, I have to do some magical incantations in Terminal to get my localhost (dejal.local) site working again. I use this for local testing of website changes before pushing to my production server.

2021-02-02 · Local · site · Virtual

If interested, here is my spellbook to re-enable the local website and PHP, based on instructions I found on the web; presumably I could script this in some way, but I'm not confident enough with scripting or messing with these files to try that: % sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf Uncomment these: LoadModule authz_host_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_host.so LoadModule authz_core_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_core.so LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so LoadModule…

Rainbow. 🌈

2021-02-02 · weather

Again, some bonus pictures taken for today’s challenge post, of the inverted AeroPress method and our coffee setup. ☕️

2021-02-02 · beverages

The Micro.blog challenge word for day 2 is “morning beverage”. My morning beverage is black coffee, using beans from Imperfect Foods, freshly ground, and an AeroPress using the inverted method. Best served in a Dejal mug, of course. ☕️📷 #mbfeb

2021-02-02 · beverages · mbfeb

On the homestead blog, the finishing construction touches on my pond island project: adding some bracing, the pond liner to hold the dirt, and some bumpers. 🔨🏝🦆

2021-02-01 · building

Some bonus options for my Paladin closeup. 🐈

2021-02-01 · cats

We’re doing a photo challenge again on Micro.blog throughout February! The word for day 1 is “close up”. So of course an obvious choice for me is a close-up of one of our cats. Here’s Paladin. 🐈📷 #mbfeb

2021-02-01 · cats · mbfeb