On the homestead blog: thoughts, design, and starting to build a wooden island for the ducks. 🔨
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My stack of clear corrugated panels for the bee shed project blew around a bit in a recent storm; I’ve now re-stacked and weighed them down. I’ve had these materials since April; one day I’ll get around to working on that project. 🔨
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On the homestead blog: I added some more roosting bars to the chicken coop, to give them more options. 🔨🐓
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 5 is "stoop". I have to stoop when going into my old chicken coop, as the door is a bit less than 5 feet high; I’ve banged my head more than once. So when I built the new coop, I made a full-height door. 📷🔨🐓 #mbnov
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On the homestead blog: adding an upper back door to the cat house. 🔨🐈
· building · cats
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On the homestead blog: I just added a project summary of designing and building the duck house. 🔨🦆
· building · ducks · summary
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On the homestead blog: I added some bird netting to the veggie garden berry cage fences. 🔨
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On the homestead blog: building a three-bin composting system. 🔨
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On the homestead blog: yesterday I did some smaller homestead projects, including building a shelf above the door in the new chicken coop, and repairing a gate pole of the old chicken run. 🔨
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Concluding the Micro.blog drawings challenge: today, final drawings of my duck house (compare to yesterday's). 🎨 #mbmay
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Continuing the Micro.blog drawings challenge: today, early drawings of my duck house. 🎨 #mbmay
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Continuing the Micro.blog drawings challenge: today, side elevation drawings of my feral cat house (see the homestead project page for details). 🎨 #mbmay
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Continuing the Micro.blog drawings challenge: today, front elevation and plan of my feral cat house (see the homestead project page for details). 🎨 #mbmay
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Continuing the Micro.blog drawings challenge: today, just a couple drawings of a potato planter design. 🎨 #mbmay
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Continuing the Micro.blog drawings challenge: today, some drawings from my final design of the chicken coop (see the homestead project page for details of the project). 🎨 #mbmay
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The Micro.blog challenge this week is artwork and drawings. I will share some of my building drawings, done in Linea Sketch on my iPad Pro with Apple Pencil. Today, some early chicken coop concepts. 🎨 #mbmay
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On the homestead blog: I spent the afternoon yesterday cleaning out the duck house and setting it up for ducklings, plus building a ramp for their swimming pool. 🔨🦆
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It seems the What’s It Wednesday question was a stumper. The answer: it’s a gate latch cable, used to open a gate latch from the other side. Here’s an example of one in use, on a veggie garden gate. #WhatsItWednesday
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On the homestead blog: over the weekend I did some garden plumbing, installing piping and taps for the greenhouse.
· building · GardenPlumbing · greenhouse
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On the homestead blog: this past week I received a delivery from Home Depot of materials for the greenhouse plumbing project, the compost bins project, and the bee shed project.
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