On the homestead blog, some sad news about one of our ducks.
Author: David
On the homestead blog this week for Flock Friday, replacing the chicken run roof netting, and a bunch of pictures of ducks, chickens, and fish. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
A longer quote today for 💬 #mbmay from Robert A. Heinlein’s To Sail Beyond the Sunset, that really resonates with me:
Happiness … lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing.
One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labour mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result.
Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.
After moving to the US and living in an apartment for a year or so, we bought a new 1522 square foot townhouse in December 2002. We imagined we’d be there for a few years, but ended up staying a decade. #ThrowbackThursday
Another fave Douglas Adams quote: 💬 #mbmay
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
A favorite quote from Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, that I say or at least think pretty much every week: 💬 #mbmay
This must be Thursday … I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
The answer to today’s What’s It Wednesday question: it’s a fancy glass bird bath! A sure sign of Spring when it is brought out of storage. #WhatsItWednesday
Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday
A favorite quote from Robert A. Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold: 💬 #mbmay
No one ever does anything but what he wants to do — ‘enjoys’ — within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it’s because I enjoy it more than being stranded.
A video edition of the previous post on the Dejus YouTube channel: The ducks met me by the chicken coop, and were being particularly quacky.