On the homestead blog: I reveal the names we’ve chosen for the ducklings. 🦆
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On the homestead blog: let’s check on Bert, the chickens, and fish in your weekly flock update. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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Flower of the day: stock. 🌱
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On the homestead blog: today in the duck house, more duckling pictures, by some amazing coincidence. Plus a random bee. 🦆
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On the homestead blog: some aerial photos of our homestead from my drone. 🚁
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A picture of Jenn and me from 2004, in the Portland Japanese Garden. I look so strange without a proper beard (and glasses). #ThrowbackThursday
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Today’s flowers: clover with bees. 🌱
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On the homestead blog: today I mucked out the duck house, as it was getting a bit ripe. I also made a hacky brick patio next to the duck house. 🦆
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Speaking of eggs, I mentioned in a conversation on Twitter today that I was looking forward to getting some duck eggs; I guess one of our chickens saw that tweet, as I found a surprise jumbo egg when I collected eggs this afternoon. I bet that hurt! 🐓🥚
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A few people correctly identified today’s What’s It Wednesday question: it was some egg cartons, stamp, ink, and the wooden block I made to let me stamp the top of a carton (in the background you can see another block for split cartons). #WhatsItWednesday
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Let’s play What’s It Wednesday again. What do you think this is? #WhatsItWednesday
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On the Dejus YouTube channel: a bit of video of a couple of ducklings paddling in their pool, and others eating and drinking. 🦆
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Flowers of the day: peonies. 🌱
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On the homestead blog today, just a few photos. It’s a hot day, so we left the pool in the duck house all afternoon, to help them cool off. 🦆
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I thought it'd be fun to join the Micro.blog photo meetup from my pond, but the Wi-Fi was too dodgy, so I couldn't connect reliably. D'oh! Here's a selfie, anyway. // @macgenie
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From Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: 💬
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Even the sceptical mind must be prepared to accept the unacceptable when there is no alternative. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.
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Flowers of the day: wild poppies, daisies, etc behind the greenhouse, with the beehives in the background. 🌱
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On the homestead blog: today I removed the baby duckling feeder, so they now have the full-sized feeder tube and full-sized water dispenser. 🦆
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Upgrade podcast 📡 #MediaMonday
· MediaMonday · podcast
An excellent Apple-focused podcast, that talks about hardware, software, services, and related topics. Topical today, they have excellent discussion of WWDC announcements.
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Flower of the day: irises. 🌱
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