What do you do when making a double batch of chocolate banana bread, and you realize there aren’t any eggs in the house? Why, go out to the chicken coop and get some freshly laid ones, of course.

Chocolate banana bread ingredients

The word for day 22 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “spectacle”. Watching Rory lick sour cream off a spoon is quite the spectacle, with slobber and sour cream going everywhere. #mbfeb

Rory licking sour cream off spoon

The word for day 16 of the Micro.blog photo challenge is “rest”. Letting my roast potato and Canadian bacon pizza rest for a moment before cutting it and adding dollops of sour cream. Mmm, tasty. #mbfeb

Roast potato and Canadian bacon pizza

For the past four nights, I made small individual pizzas for my dinners, from the amount of dough I’d normally use for one pizza, but split into four portions. 🍕

Pepperoni pizza

Canadian bacon & pineapple pizza

Pepperoni pizza

Pepperoni & pineapple pizza

I just made my first banana bread loaves, including chocolate chips. Turned out alright for a first try, though there are definitely things I could improve. 🍌🍞

Banana bread ingredients

Banana bread mixed

Banana bread in loaf pans

Banana bread cooked

Banana bread cooling

Banana bread cut

For the first time leaving the homestead this decade, I had a dental cleaning, then dropped off a package at the UPS store, Subway for lunch, feed store for chicken/duck/bird food, gas store for the truck’s food, and the post office to clear out the junk mail from the PO box. That’ll do me for a month or so.

Subway lunch

Feed store

Bird, chicken, duck food

Truck food

PO Box