Having laid a dozen or so eggs in a nesting box in the duck house, Betty is now sitting on them most of the time. So we’ll likely have some baby ducklings in less than a month! 🦆🥚
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April 2021
A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of trying to record the sound of hundreds of bees in a flowering tree, but the chickens were being too noisy:
· bees · chickens · TikTok · trees · video
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Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Super… no, it’s actually a plane.
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On the homestead blog: building the bee shed door. 🔨
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Sometimes chickens look angry, but it’s just their face. 🐓
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of the chickens not sure what to do with Brussels sprouts:
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On the homestead blog: not many pictures of the cats this week, as my cameras were having issues, but some nice ones. #Caturday 🐈
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On the homestead blog: some quite nice pictures of the ducks and chickens this week; sunny weather helps get better photos. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of ducks idly swimming in our pond:
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For week 15 of my 52 years celebration, from early 1980's: a picture of my extended family on my mother’s side (I’m in the top-left). #ThrowbackThursday #52years
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The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question: it’s a Otodata sensor and cellular transmitter to report the level of our propane tank to the supplier. They just installed it. So hopefully now they won’t have to guess if we need a refill.
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I got my first COVID-19 vaccination today (Moderna), at a drive-thru clinic (what’s more American than drive-thru vaccinations?!). Quite an easy process, and definitely a relief to start the clock on immunity. Back there in a month for number two. 💉🦠
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Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of quacky ducks on the bank of our pond:
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Bees visiting a flowering tree; the tree is totally humming with them. 🌳🌼🐝
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The Rebound podcast 📡 #MediaMonday
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of chickens scratching at new bedding in a coop:
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Our redwood tree, with some ducks nearby. 🌲🦆
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It seems deaths come in threes, and unfortunately that has been true for our cats recently. Pippin, our 13-year-old pet cat, has just passed away. He was doing fine, but over the past few days has rapidly declined, despite visits to the vet. We’ll miss you old man. 🐈🪦
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On the homestead blog: this week on Caturday, various feral cats, several watching me, plus a GIF of a possum at the cat house. #Caturday 🐈
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