Since we’ve sold our homestead, how many more Flock Fridays and Caturdays will there be? Probably four after this one; I plan to discontinue this blog at the end of August… assuming I get around to setting up a new one for our new adventures. So enjoy the posts while they last!
Some ducks on the pond:
Sonja and her ducklings in the shade near the base of the waterfall:
Ducks on islands:
Chickens:
For those curious about the progress towards our next adventure, I thought I’d post a quick update.
That previous blog post was published on June 23, the day our homestead went on the market. (Read that post again for details.)
A few days later, on June 28, we got a couple of offers, and on June 29 we accepted one. So the house sold, contingent on the buyer’s house selling. We then did the usual inspections and such, and the buyer’s house sold on July 21, so our house went pending, locking down the closing date on August 31, as mutually agreed between the parties.
We have 30 days after that before we need to be out of here, at the end of September, though may be out sooner, depending on how things work out.
As discussed in that previous post, we plan to buy a large RV and travel the country. So we need to downsize. We are working with a professional estate sale company to sort through our stuff and prepare it for sale. We’ll have a four-day sale on September 9-12.
We have narrowed down our search for an RV to a few (used) models, and are keeping an eye on the availability. The RV market is pretty crazy right now, much like the house market. We hope to reserve one mid-August, and pay after closing on the house at the end of August.
We also have a big extended family trip to Yellowstone on September 6-14, which was booked ages ago, so we have multiple plans for how to handle that, depending on which RV we decide on. So the estate sale will be conveniently while we are away, since we’ll be selling our bed, amongst other stuff.
It’s been a busy month! And still much to do — sorting our stuff into leave/take/store/sell/trash categories, continuing to research RVs and learn about their systems, installing the towing components on our truck, getting various health checkups out of the way, getting a storage unit, and more.
Stay tuned for more updates!
It’s Caturday!
Spud in front of the cabins:
An alien orange cat visiting the feeder:
Followed ten minutes later by an alien black cat:
Bella and Spud by the feeder:
Pommie:
Spud and Porcini in the cabins:
Porcini waiting for breakfast inside the cat house:
Porcini in a cabin:
Cooling off out front:
Good stretch:
Two cats arriving together for dinner:
Bella waiting her turn:
Welcome to Flock Friday.
Last week I found the cupboard doors of the duck house wide open; I suspect a house viewer opened them and didn’t close them properly. I thought you might enjoy seeing inside. The jug holds food that drains into the feeder tube:
Ducks on the pond:
Chickens enjoying rice treats:
Ducks on and near the bank of the pond:
Ducks on the lawn:
Ducks and Rory:
On the lawn again:
I went up our front steps, and flushed out two cats from under the deck. Can you see both of them?
Waiting for food:
Eating:
Porcini having a bath in the cat house:
And sleeping:
Bella and Pommie sniffing noses:
A GIF:
The mushroom girls:
A focus on the chickens for this Flock Friday, including a couple of fun GIFs.
I noticed some chickens grabbing raspberries through the fence:
Here’s a GIF of one jumping up to grab raspberries from a high branch; see how she turns her head back and forth to judge the distance:
Another GIF of pulling a branch through the fence:
That was hard work; nap time:
Some photos of chickens with tomato, lettuce, and zucchini treats (the zucchini are starting to take over the garden):
We can’t have a Flock Friday post without any pictures of the ducks — here’s a token one from the pond deck. Betty’s ducklings are almost full-grown now, and Sonja’s are catching up fast:
I haven’t spent much time with the ducks this week, due to our trip to Ashland and my subsequent illness, but I’ll be sure to get more photos of them for next week.
For Caturday this week, a bunch of pictures of the mushroom girls, and a couple glimpses of the twins.
Porcini relaxing in the kitchen garden:
Portabella (Bella) and Spud:
Porcini watching me from by the swimming pool:
Bella:
Bella and Pommie:
Ducklings in the chicken run?!
I have no idea how they got in there, but I heard their distressed peeping, and went over to let them out:
Reunited:
Betty’s ducklings are getting quite big:
Sonja’s ducklings are still small, but growing fast (here some are snuggling under her):
More ducks:
Two broody chickens in a nesting box:
More chickens:
A new @YellowCottageHomestead TikTok video of Sonja and some of her ducklings preening themselves on the floating island in our pond:
It’s Caturday. This week, I spotted an alien orange cat in the feeder:
Plus of course the regular neighbor cat visitor, Paladout:
A nice picture of Pansy in the back of the shop:
Jenn said my girlfriend was out front. Yep, there’s Porcini:
Spud hunting in the tall grass beyond the grove:
Got something:
Two cats at the cat house:
Porcini about to jump onto the camera housing:
Pansy on a chair in her nest area of the shop; I’m going to have to rearrange that sometime in preparation for our estate sale at the end of August:
Have a pleasant and safe Fourth everyone!