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On the homestead blog: today's no-longer-ducklings post includes some night shots, some meals, some treats, adding another island to the pond, and mucking out the duck house. What’s your day like? 🦆

2020-10-04 · ducks

I haven’t posted any flowers for a while… here are Casablanca lilies from August. 🌱🌼

2020-10-04 · flowers

On the homestead blog: the new ducks spent the day on the bank of the pond, hanging out near the older ducks. 🦆

2020-10-03 · ducks

On the homestead blog: your weekly cat update, with the usual assortment of cat house and cabin pictures, plus some live sightings. And a summary GIF, since people seem to enjoy that. #Caturday 🐈

2020-10-03 · cats · Caturday

On the homestead blog, today’s the big day: I removed a panel of the duckling run and opened the pop door, letting the ducklings into the pond. Which I consider their graduation to calling them just “ducks”. 🦆

2020-10-02 · ducks · pond

Video: I let the new ducks into the pond today. This is a couple of clips of their first swim. 📹🦆

2020-10-02 · ducks · video

On the homestead blog: your weekly flock update. Plus, today’s the day: I’m going to let the ducklings into the pond today. Stay tuned for tonight’s duckling post! #FlockFriday 🦆🐓

2020-10-02 · chickens · ducks · FlockFriday

On the homestead blog: another day in the duck house. When will I let them into the pond? Soon! How soon? I’ll let you know when I do! 🦆

2020-10-01 · ducks

A few more photos from our 2005 anniversary trip to Hawaii: us on the beach, palm tree and rainbow tower, and a couple of breakfasts on the lanai. Good times. #ThrowbackThursday

2020-10-01 · david · food · Hawaii · jenn · ThrowbackThursday · travel · vacation

On the homestead blog: an update on the local wildfire. It’s still going, but no longer a significant threat. 🔥

2020-10-01 · fire

On the homestead blog: measuring tree heights. Every year at around this time I wander around the property measuring the heights of select trees, to see how much each has grown. 🌲🌳📐

2020-09-30 · trees

On the homestead blog: day 50 of the ducklings; the big 5-0, and start of week 8. No summary GIF today; I took relatively few pictures, due to being busy with other stuff. But still some fun shots. 🦆

2020-09-30 · ducks

On the Dejal blog: Introducing the first beta release of major upgrade to Dejal Simon, the website and server monitoring app for macOS: version 5.0b1, with the ability to sync between multiple Macs, check all links on a web page, and much more.

2020-09-30 · dejal

On the homestead blog: the ducklings are seven weeks old today, which means they could be eligible to go in the pond any time now. But I think I’ll give them another few days; they aren’t all fully feathered yet. 🦆

2020-09-29 · ducks

Video: I put a handful of raw whole peanuts in a tray for the wild birds every day. The Steller's Jays and Scrub Jays love them, hardly waiting for me to leave before diving down and grabbing one or two. 🥜🐦

2020-09-29 · birds · video

On the homestead blog: more duck(ling) names. It’s time to reveal the names we’ve chosen for the new ducklings, and the answer to the mysterious duck! 🦆

2020-09-29 · ducks

On the homestead blog: since @macgenie mentioned it, I included a GIF of me shoving Gimpy yesterday. Or more charitably, gently introducing a reluctant duckling to the concept of swimming, in a safe environment. Yeah, that sounds better. 🦆

2020-09-28 · ducks

Mask selfie when going to the post office and feed store today. Looks kinda silly with my beard, but it’s the way of the world nowadays. Wear a mask, people. 😷

2020-09-28 · david · selfie · vehicles

Video: a demo of how the coop pop door opener works, and the innovative way I have it mounted on a door so I can access it from inside the coop, and have the cord go straight down from the opener to the pop door. 🚪🐓

2020-09-28 · chickens · technology · video

Top Four podcast 📡 #MediaMonday

2020-09-28 · MediaMonday · podcast

A fun podcast with Tiff and Marco Arment, where they try and rate all sorts of weird and wonderful things, including breakfasts, dog breeds, emoji, waters, and most recently scented pencils.

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