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An assortment of May flowers
Various flowers that are blooming around the homestead at present. Calla lily: Bluebells and irises: Bluebells: Irises: Peonies: Irises:
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Flock Friday for May 21
Still waiting for Betty’s ducklings (could be any day now); still waiting for Sonja to start full-time nesting (could be any day now); plus some other pictures of ducks and chickens (with a...
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Cat update for week ending May 22
Several GIFs for Caturday this week, plus pictures of all of the cats: the cute Porcini, of course, plus the twins Spud and Pommie, the elusive Bella, and even Pansy the shop cat and Paladout the...
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A special Flock Friday: welcome to Betty’s ducklings
Last night Betty’s ducklings started to hatch! So this is a special Flock Friday primarily about that. I’ll probably follow up with daily posts about how they’re doing and with more pictures; I’ve only...
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Cat update for week ending May 29
More duckling pics later, but it’s Caturday, so tradition dictates that we start the day with some cute cat pics. Here’s Bella by the cabins: And Spud: Spud and Porcini: Spud and Porcini again: Bella:...
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Betty hatched some ducklings a couple of days ago. Today they took their first swim in the pond.
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Betty’s ducklings on May 28 and 29
Lots of activity with Betty’s ducklings today! We start with some GIFs and pictures from yesterday afternoon. An animated GIF of a duckling going into and out of the dish under the feeder tube:...
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Betty’s ducklings on May 29 and 30
Some more pictures of Betty and her ducklings! I mentioned in my post yesterday that I put a duckling that was struggling in with Sonja, who was also looking after another of Betty’s ducklings. Here’s...
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Betty’s ducklings on May 30 and 31
Are you enjoying the daily updates on Betty’s ducklings, or is it just too much cuteness for you? Let me know! Yesterday evening the ducklings had their first taste of mealworm treats… and they really...
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Beehive honey harvest in May
A quick post about our honey harvest yesterday. We noticed that the Flow hives were getting full, so harvested over three gallons of honey from them: The bees on the cedar hive were bearding quite...
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