Flowers of the day: frazzled daisies, with a bee closeup in the second picture. 馃尡
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On the homestead blog: today I mucked out the duck house. 馃
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A couple of bonus "up" pictures for day 1 of the Micro.blog photo challenge: looking up at our monkey puzzle tree. 馃摲 #mbaug
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Micro.blog is doing a photo challenge for August. The word for today is "up" (suggested by @LJPUK). Today I trimmed a bunch of branches; here I鈥檓 looking up at a sagging branch of the big tree by the chicken coops. 馃摲 #mbaug
路 landscaping 路 mbaug 路 trees
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On the homestead blog: as is usual for warm weather, the feral cats haven鈥檛 been hanging around as much in the last week, so I only had 16 photos from which to choose; perhaps a new low for me. I picked 10. #Caturday 馃悎
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Flowers of the day: lavender with bees. 馃尡
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On the homestead blog: my (for now) daily post of (not really) ducklings. 馃
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I鈥檓 fortunate that I don鈥檛 need to leave the homestead very often: it鈥檚 been 57 days since the last time, when I picked up the ducklings (and I went 61 days earlier this year). But today I did, to get duck and chicken food, straw, and mower gas.
路 david 路 shopping 路 vehicles
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On the homestead blog: some sad news this Flock Friday: a raccoon got into one of our chicken coops, and killed two of our chickens. (Don鈥檛 worry, there are no graphic pictures in this post.) #FlockFriday 馃馃悡
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Flowers of the day: gladiolus. 馃尡
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On the homestead blog: the ducks all spent the night outside again, as I expect will be the norm going forward. They slept on the pond and on the bank by the pond deck, which is one of Bert鈥檚 favorite spots. 馃
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Remember the Before Times, when people could travel? Back in 2004 Jenn and I visited Las Vegas. Check out that fancy video camera! #ThrowbackThursday
路 david 路 jenn 路 ThrowbackThursday 路 travel 路 vacation
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Flowers of the day: allium. 馃尡
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Nobody guessed the answer to today鈥檚 What鈥檚 It Wednesday question. The answer: a ChickenGuard pop door opener on the chicken coop, that lifts and lowers the door the chickens use to go to their run. #WhatsItWednesday
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On the homestead blog: last night the ducks all spent the night outside for the first time. 馃
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Today we had lunch on the pond deck (with homemade sourdough rolls). Forgive the dirty table; we haven鈥檛 used it for quite some time. We really should do that more often, but it鈥檚 less convenient than just using the house鈥檚 main deck.
路 bread 路 food 路 pond
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Let鈥檚 play What鈥檚 It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday
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A video on my YouTube channel: the ducks swimming in the pond, enjoying mealworm treats tossed from the pond deck. 馃摴馃
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Flowers of the day: a yucca by the pond cascades, with a bonus GIF of the stream flowing. 馃尡
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On the homestead blog: more pictures of the ducks swimming in the pond, plus some bonus GIFs, and pictures of dragonflies near the ducks. 馃
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