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More bucket tulips.

The flowers are popping now, the apple blossoms are almost full out and the lilac trees will all be open this week.

I tend to just call them french fry birds.

We took a short wander around frog pond yesterday. There was geese, deer, squirrels and ducklings!

I haven't seen a lot of bee action around the tulips this year. I'm not sure if its the time of year, my timing or the flowers.

I have seen a lot of smaller flying insects in and around them though.

I took the kids to Frog Pond for snack and it was awesome. We saw a deer run by the path and I pulled out the camera. We didn't see any more deer, but we did see a couple geese land.

Canada Geese Landing

And little ducklings.

There are 5 …

All of the tulips are popping right now. I am taking lots and lots of pictures and just limited on time. I added over 366 photos yesterday [*], which sounds like a backlog, but maybe I will clear them all out today.

The aforementioned buckets of flowers (some of them)

For a little while now I have been trying to make my reading page look "prettier".

The main thing that I wanted was a really easy way to show if a book was a work in progress, finished or Did-not-finish. The page that I have been basing it on is …

For a while now I have been thinking about the cinnamon rolls that I had growing up. The only way that I could describe them was biscuit vs bread style. My searching both online and recipe books was not yielding any satisfactory results. Then Jess found this.

It was a …

If you have a Mastodon Account, on any instance, you can now comment on posts in a common thread. I wrote a bot that will create a post where everyone can comment, and own your comments. The neat thing is that if someone already clicked the link it will take …