One more for #NationalCatDay: I can’t neglect to mention our family of feral cats. Here are some pictures of inside their heated shelter and three cabins from last night. Learn more about them on my homestead feral cats page. 🐈
Also for #NationalCatDay, our current pet cats Paladin and Pippin sharing the cat tower yesterday and today. Normally they don’t like to be that close to each other, except when there’s food involved. 🐈
It’s #NationalCatDay and #ThrowbackThursday, so here are some pictures of our former cat Pixel from 2005, enjoying some leashed outside time (he grew up indoor/outdoor in NZ, then became indoor-only except when leashed when we moved to the US). 🐈
The same pictures of ducks flapping wings in GIF form. 🦆
A couple of pictures of ducks flapping wings on the edge of the lawn this morning. 🦆
The sub-freezing snap we’re having has confused the trees; here is a gingko tree that dropped most of its leaves before they had a chance to change from green. 🌱🌳❄️🍃🍂
I have two quotes about voting in my collection, both from Robert A. Heinlein, unsurprisingly. The first is my favorite; here is the second, from To Sail Beyond the Sunset: 💬
A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens … which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens.
If you’re in the US, vote. Make good choices, people.
Pippin, my evening lap warmer. 🐈
A GIF edition of dripping icicles. ❄️
It’s still below freezing overnight, so unsurprisingly the waterers in the chicken runs are frozen, with some nice icicles. (Don’t worry, they have heated waterers inside the coops.) 🐓❄️
