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[Pasha838]

They hatched yesterday and today. Someone was stealing eggs from one nest, I found two eggs with dead ducklings (probably it was a magpie, but someone prevented her from taking the eggs). After that, I decided to confiscate all the eggs from the duck's nest and put them in an incubator. Most of the eggs hatched literally a couple of days later. The rest were lying in the incubator. And now they just went and hatched.
Those that hatched earlier - they have already grown to a size where the magpie will hardly attack them (they are too big for her), and I released them to the other ducks. And these ones will still grow.
Right now they are sitting in my bedroom. Frankly, I am too lazy to carry them anywhere else, especially since there is a tap with drinking water in the bedroom on the second floor of the house, from where I can fill their water bowls. I brought a box of food and if they wake me up at night, I just get up, feed them and go back to bed. It is much easier than going far to the barn.
The only problem is that I have a constant shortage of cardboard boxes, because they need to be replaced periodically. I stole all the boxes I had at home, and even started begging for empty boxes at the nearest supermarket. The last time the ducklings were sitting in a box from some pasta.

 

[Pasha838]

Pasha,, I TOTALLY, understand, and agree with you.

Thank you )
And so the Internet is quite useful, I find a lot of interesting and informative things in it. In particular, I read about the procedure for incubating goose eggs on this forum.
In addition, many things that I sometimes need to buy are very scattered here in different areas, and they can be found most often only through the Internet.

 

[Pasha838]

One of the cucumber seeds just wouldn't sprout, I was too lazy to throw it away, I had planted the greenhouses with seedlings a long time ago, but the seed just lay there and started growing. I didn't know what to do with it, so I stuck it in an empty flower pot, filling it with a mixture of peat, old goat manure and sand. This is what I got as a result

Anyway, I have a cucumber growing in my kitchen. I lowered a string to it and it climbed all the way to the top of the window.

 

[Cynthia12]

There is a strange situation with YouTube in Russia - first some sanctions were introduced and money transfers from here became impossible. As a result, it turned out that all of Russia watches YouTube without advertising, because there are no sponsors. This strange situation lasted for I don't know how many years, and then YouTube stopped working in Russia. In principle, this was predictable - imagine the load on the servers, when approximately 146 million citizens sit and watch videos of fighting cats, quacking ducks or a psycho chasing crocodiles with a shovel. At the same time, YouTube does not receive a cent for all this, neither from users, nor from sponsors (there are none).
Then local Russian propaganda figures climbed onto YouTube, with long, heavy videos, and, as I understand it, they did not pay a cent for hosting the videos either.
That is, Google pays for the servers, internet connection and electricity, and we sit and have fun for free, while watching all the videos without advertising, because sponsors do not extend to Russia.
The result was predictable - first, YouTube began to block and delete Russian propaganda, which took up a huge amount of space on its servers, and then, probably from the Russian government, they decided to block YouTube in Russia, offended that YouTube did not allow them to upload huge videos with unnecessary political propaganda for free. Since then, YouTube has not worked in Russia and all videos are completely unsystematic, copied from China, then from Pakistan, then from somewhere else, while bloggers with monetization in Russia, most likely, do not exist at all, if you do not count the Yandex Zen platform, but blogs with tile laying, stove construction, cooking and gardening dominate there.
Those who try to monetize strange technologies like "free energy" very quickly become objects of ridicule, many people, tired after work. They go there specifically as if it were a circus or a comedy theater and write all sorts of stupid things in the comments, often openly mocking the authors of the videos.

In general, YouTube doesn't work in Russia, Instagram, Facebook and others don't work, and in principle, thank God, because the Russian-language segment of the Internet is quite crude and is in a very young, undeveloped stage, when mostly drunk men or school hooligans sit there in the evening and grimace, putting on some kind of clown circus.

There even appeared an expression "I go online to degrade."

At one time I also went to "work as a clown" on the Internet, but then I got tired of it and moved to calmer and more adequate resources.

Openly mocking...sound familiar America?
It happens here Pasha, it happens here.

 

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My Beef Steak tomatoes looking and tasting good again this year.

 

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My hummingbird feeder.