For week/year 16 of my 52 years celebration, from 1986: my high school (college in NZ terms) form room photo. I’m in the blue sweatshirt in the center, with my best friend Donald next to me with his eyes closed. #ThrowbackThursday #52years

For week/year 16 of my 52 years celebration, from 1986: my high school (college in NZ terms) form room photo. I’m in the blue sweatshirt in the center, with my best friend Donald next to me with his eyes closed. #ThrowbackThursday #52years

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! 🦆🥚

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:
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Super… no, it’s actually a plane.

Sometimes chickens look angry, but it’s just their face. 🐓

A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of the chickens not sure what to do with Brussels sprouts:
On the homestead blog: not many pictures of the cats this week, as my cameras were having issues, but some nice ones. #Caturday 🐈


On the homestead blog: some quite nice pictures of the ducks and chickens this week; sunny weather helps get better photos. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓


A recent @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of ducks idly swimming in our pond: