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On the homestead blog: we’re still at Mom’s place (current thought is maybe heading home tomorrow; continuing to evaluate the smoke). But I still have some chicken and duck pictures for you. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓

Ducks

Chickens

On the homestead blog: today I increased the depth of the duckling kiddie pool by another few inches, to the point where they can no longer touch the bottom — so they are actually swimming for the first time. 🦆

Swimming

Back in 2005 we visited Hawaii for our 10th anniversary. Here are a bunch of pictures of the Byodo-In Temple on the east side of O’ahu. #ThrowbackThursday

Byodo-In Temple

Byodo-In Temple

Byodo-In Temple

David at Byodo-In Temple

Byodo-In Temple

David at Byodo-In Temple

Byodo-In Temple

View from temple

Byodo-In Temple

On the homestead blog: today marks the start of the sixth week of these ducklings, which is when they are officially old enough to swim, plus no longer need heat (though they’ve been without that for the past week anyway). 🦆

Splashes

On the homestead blog: today the fire officials announced that they have 3% containment of the “Riverside Incident” fire. They also notified us of further reductions in evacuation levels. We are now in the level 1 zone.

Evacuation and fire map

Video: a couple slow motion clips of a Rouen duckling spreading her waterproofing oils and dunking her head, then a normal speed (though seems sped up after the slow-mo) clip of three ducklings enjoying the pool. 📹🦆

On the homestead blog: one of the things I brought yesterday from the homestead to Mom’s place was the duckling kiddie pool, which I set up today in the trailer pen. 🦆

Ducklings in kiddie pool

Comfy Paladin while I download the latest Xcode development tools. 🔨💻🐈

Paladin and Mac

On the homestead blog: today we took a day-trip down to our homestead (three hours each way) to check on and feed the animals, and collect a few things we regretted not bringing north. 🐓🦆

Chickens

Ducks

On the homestead blog: just a few pictures of ducklings today. Evacuation update coming up soon. 🦆

Ducklings