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On the homestead blog: a bunch of aerial photos from my drone. Also for the final Micro.blog photo challenge word; day 31 is "love" (suggested by @vincent). While it’s a lot of work, and there are parts I don’t like, I love the landscaping of our homestead. 📷🚁 #mbaug

2020-08-31 · aerial · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 30 is "discovery" (suggested by @matthewlang). I noticed the filler valve for the small pond was running non-stop, so likely leaking by overflowing the liner. Looking under a tree, I made a discovery, and fixed it. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-30 · landscaping · mbaug · WaterFeatures

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A bonus picture for the Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 29, "flake" (suggested by kurite). For my afternoon snack today, I ate one of my hoarded Cadbury Flake chocolate bars, a fave from my NZ days, imported from the UK. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-29 · food · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 29 is "flake" (suggested by kurite). After mealworms, the all-time favorite treat of our chickens are flakes of rice. They love strawberries, too, but ignore those till they’ve eaten all the rice. 📷🍓🍚🐓 #mbaug

2020-08-29 · chickens · food · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 28 is "emotions" (suggested by @dominikhoecht). Caring for animals like pet and feral cats plus ducks and chickens involves a lot of work and emotions, including joy at their cuteness, and eventually sadness. 📷🐈🦆🐓 #mbaug

2020-08-28 · cats · chickens · ducks · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 27 is "overcome" (suggested by @GregMorris). Spotted flying overhead recently: a paraglider that has overcome gravity to cruise the skies. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-27 · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 26 is "relentless" (suggested by @poetalegre). I can’t think of anything more relentless around the homestead than bamboo. I recently cut this grove to the ground, and it keeps on sprouting new stalks. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-26 · landscaping · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 25 is "hope" (suggested by maique). This morning I tried to hand-feed leafy treats to the ducklings for the first time, with a hope that they’d take it. Spoiler: they did (more in tonight’s duckling post). 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-25 · ducks · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 24 is "frosty" (suggested by @canion). It isn’t frosty weather here at present, so searching my photo archive revealed this frosty beverage with a foldable straw from our trip to Mexico last year (remember travel?). 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-24 · beverages · mbaug · vacation

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 23 is "graceful" (suggested by @jensaplin). There’s no cat more graceful than Paladin. 📷🐈 #mbaug

2020-08-23 · cats · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 22 is "home" (suggested by @gregmoore), which fits well with today's Caturday post, featuring Porcini, who is a bit of a home-body for a feral cat. 📷🐈 #mbaug

2020-08-22 · cats · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 21 is "crunch" (suggested by @gannonnordberg). Walking near the compost and chicken coops involves the crunch of gravel and the numerous cones from the nearby grove of trees. Here are some with misty spiderwebs. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-21 · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 20 is "change" (suggested by @mitch), so I thought I’d combine that and Throwback Thursday to look at some changes in the homestead over the past seven years — 2013 vs 2020. 📷 #mbaug #ThrowbackThursday

2020-08-20 · landscaping · mbaug · ThrowbackThursday

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 19 is "ribbon" (suggested by @agilelisa). A ribbon of water flowing from the top of the fountain in our recently converted fountain garden. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-19 · flowers · mbaug · WaterFeatures

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 18 is "grid" (suggested by @JohnJohnston). Hops plants growing on the grid of the berry cage roof, and spreading to the different grid of the chicken run roof. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-18 · mbaug · veggies

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 17 is "cuddly" (suggested by @jemostrom). Ducklings look very cuddly, but it’s not a good idea, as that could hurt them, you don’t want them to imprint on humans, and they can be a source of salmonella. 📷🦆 #mbaug

2020-08-17 · ducks · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 16 is "stationary" (suggested by @joehamill). After closing up the duck house last night, I encountered Spud, one of our feral cats, on the driveway. He remained stationary, thinking if he doesn’t move, I can’t see him. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-16 · cats · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 15 is "silhouette" (suggested by @crossingthethreshold). From today’s Caturday post, here’s a silhouette of a cat in jumping down from the breezeway cabin. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-15 · cats · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 14 is "among" (suggested by ronguest). At the back of our pond is an old defunct birdhouse slowly getting subsumed amongst the ivy. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-14 · landscaping · mbaug

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 13 is "filter" (suggested by Spratte). While we have various filters around the homestead, the first ones that came to mind are AeroPress coffee filters. 📷 #mbaug

2020-08-13 · beverages · mbaug · shopping

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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 12 is "sound" (suggested by rnv). I enjoy the peeping sound of our latest day-old ducklings. Listen to the peeping and watch their wobbliness in this video (a ducklings photo post will be coming later today). 📷📹🦆 #mbaug

2020-08-12 · ducks · mbaug · video

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