On the homestead blog: for Flock Friday this week, some ducks and chickens, plus duck eggs in a new place. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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April 2021
For week/year 14 of my 52 years celebration: me on a trip, probably somewhere around age 14. #ThrowbackThursday #52years
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of chickens getting excited about rice, one of their all-time favorite treats:
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A rainbow over trees. 🌈
· trees · weather
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On the homestead blog: two weeks after posting about the passing of Poppy, the outdoor feral momma cat, I’m sad to report another cat death: Pepper, the feral cat that kept the front of our workshop free of rodents. 🐈🪦
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of chickens expressing opinions about the treats they were offered:
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Flowering trees doing their flowering thing. 🌼🌳
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We’re home again. We’ll drop off the rental trailer tomorrow. That was an interesting experiment and experience, which we quite enjoyed, to the point of talking about maybe buying our own trailer in due course. We’ll see.
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Tree bark.
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We’ll be heading home today. Here are some pictures from yesterday on our camping vacation, including a stroll down to the harbor beach, lunch, and a cat visitor. (We also went for a couple hours drive down the coast, and Chinese takeout for dinner; no pics of those.)
· beach · camping · cats · david · jenn · vacation
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of our ducks quacking away on the lawn:
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This morning I flew my drone above our campsite and the nearby bay.
· aerial · beach · camping · vacation
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Pictures from yesterday of our trailer vacation: the morning view, some seals enjoying low tide, a phone booth (kids, ask your parents), watching the view, eating Mo’s takeout dinner at a viewpoint, and playing board games in the evening.
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On the homestead blog: your weekly cat update. #Caturday 🐈
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Of course, we had to do the stereotypical hot dogs, baked beans, and s'mores for dinner.
· camping · food · vacation
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Not a bad view from our campsite, eh?
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On the homestead blog: a short flock update. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of our chickens enjoying their new mealworm roller toy (and can you see some ducks on the lawn in the background?):
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Today marks 20 years of living in the US. Jenn and I moved here from NZ two decades ago today. We landed in Los Angeles, visited Disneyland, rented a minivan, and drove up the coast via San Francisco, Portland, etc to the Seattle area to visit Mom. #ThrowbackThursday
· david · jenn · ThrowbackThursday · travel · vacation · vehicles
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For week 13 of my 52 years celebration, another photo from the 1970s; this time a portrait of me. #ThrowbackThursday #52years
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