April 2020

The answer to the What’s It Wednesday question from earlier: it’s a raw lightly scrambled egg that’s been frozen in an ice cube tray, as a way to store excess eggs from our chickens. They’ll be useful next winter, as laying slows. #WhatsItWednesday

2020-04-22 · eggs · food · WhatsItWednesday

Today’s moment of cuteness: an animated GIF of the ducks following me across the lawn this morning (yes, I need to mow again, when we have a couple dry days). 🦆

2020-04-22 · ducks · gif

If you enjoy playing that game, look at the #WhatsItWednesday hashtag on Twitter; there are lots of other examples.

2020-04-22 · WhatsItWednesday

Here’s a game for you to enjoy, suggested by my wife: What’s It Wednesdays. I post a picture of some obscure or closeup thing, and you identify it. Here’s a picture she took. What do you think it is? I’ll reveal the answer later today. #WhatsItWednesday

2020-04-22 · WhatsItWednesday

Antique cameras. 📷

2020-04-22 · technology

Today’s moment of cuteness: Poppy asleep in her feral cat house. 🐈

2020-04-21 · cats

An old bird house and tree seedlings in the wilderness area beyond the beehives, near the southeast corner of our homestead. 🌲

2020-04-21 · landscaping · trees

Today’s moment of cuteness: three broody chickens. 🐓

2020-04-20 · chickens

Overcast iOS app 📱 #MediaMonday

2020-04-20 · MediaMonday

I listen to a lot of podcasts on my iPhone, so it seems fitting that my first Media Monday post links to the app I use to listen to them. I tried several podcast apps for my listening style, and Overcast was the clear winner. I’ve used Overcast since it was first released, and it keeps getting better.

Every Friday I do a #FlockFriday post on my homestead blog, about my ducks and chickens. Every Saturday I do a #Caturday post about the feral cats I care for. Today I am starting a new series of blog posts on my Dejus blog: #MediaMonday.

2020-04-20 · Caturday · FlockFriday · MediaMonday

Each Monday I will post a few sentences about a single piece of media: could be an app, a podcast, a blog, a TV show, a movie, or something else, along with a link to it. I’ll keep it short, so might be tweet/micro-post length when cross-posted to Twitter and Micro.blog, but probably will overflow, requiring reading on the blog, like this intro post.

(An app may be stretching the definition of media, but I’ll go with it.)

Where appropriate, I’ll use the text for my review on Apple Podcasts, the App Store, etc. I won’t include star ratings, at least initially; you can assume that the things I…