May 2021

On the homestead blog: a quick post about our honey harvest yesterday. 🐝🍯

2021-05-31 · bees · honey

On the homestead blog: Are you enjoying the daily updates on Betty’s ducklings, or is it just too much cuteness for you? Let me know! 🦆

2021-05-31 · ducks · pond

On the homestead blog: please enjoy a bunch of pictures of Betty's ducklings from yesterday and today. 🦆

2021-05-30 · ducks

On the homestead blog: lots of pictures and GIFs of Betty’s ducklings in the duck house and venturing into the pond. 🦆

2021-05-29 · ducks · pond

On my YouTube channel: Betty’s ducklings took their first swim today. 📹🦆

2021-05-29 · ducks · pond · video

On the homestead blog: More duckling pics later, but it’s Caturday, so tradition dictates that we start the day with some cute cat pics. #Caturday 🐈

2021-05-29 · cats · Caturday

On the homestead blog: Last night Betty’s ducklings started to hatch! So this is a special Flock Friday primarily about that. #FlockFriday 🦆

2021-05-28 · ducks · FlockFriday

For week 21 of my 52 years celebration, another picture of me from 1993, standing outside at dusk. #ThrowbackThursday #52years

2021-05-27 · 52years · david · ThrowbackThursday

The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question: it’s a bug catcher. If some bug comes inside (e.g. we often get ladybugs in Fall), I can put this over the bug, slide the hatch closed, then take it outside and open to release. Easy and harmless.

2021-05-26 · house · tools · WhatsItWednesday · wildlife

To celebrate being maxxinated today, @jidabug and I went to the local restaurant (yes, there’s only one) for a tasty lunch. The first time I’ve been in a restaurant (the same one, as it happens) since March 2, 2020. 💉🦠🍔🍟

2021-05-26 · burger · food · health

Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again, with another random object from my office. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday

2021-05-26 · WhatsItWednesday

Today I am maxxinated, i.e. it’s been two weeks since my second Moderna COVID-19 vaccination. Such a sense of relief. I’m still not in any hurry to go into a restaurant or be without a mask around other people, but I could. 💉🦠

2021-05-26 · health

From Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams: 💬

2021-05-25 · quote

By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've certainly learned something about it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil.

Paladin playing with a fleecy stick toy. 🐈

2021-05-25 · cats

On the Dejal blog: announcing Dejal Time Out 2.8, featuring a new option to end a break early, the ability to postpone breaks instead of skip them & use Do Not Disturb with app exclusions, a choice to show the time since the last break in the status item, and more.

2021-05-24 · dejal

Liftoff podcast 📡 #MediaMonday

2021-05-24 · MediaMonday · podcast

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes yesterday; I appreciate them. I had a pleasant day of relaxing, and @jidabug made French toast for breakfast, my favorite dinner (schnitzel and baked spud), and a tasty birthday cake. 🎂

2021-05-24 · birthday · food

It’s my birthday today; I’m now 52, but I don’t feel a day over 60. Check out my year-long celebration of 52 weeks of 52 years on Throwback Thursdays. 🎂

2021-05-23 · birthday

An amusing picture of the gray ones, where it looks like Paladin is in line behind Rory to eat. 🐕🐈

2021-05-23 · cats · dogs

On the homestead blog: several GIFs for Caturday this week, plus pictures of all of the cats: the cute Porcini, of course, plus the twins Spud and Pommie, the elusive Bella, and even Pansy the shop cat and Paladout the neighbor cat. #Caturday 🐈

2021-05-22 · cats · Caturday

On the homestead blog: still waiting for Betty's ducklings and for Sonja to start full-time nesting (could be any day now); plus some other pictures of ducks and chickens (with a particularly funny one at the end). #FlockFriday 🦆🐓

2021-05-21 · chickens · ducks · FlockFriday