Laura McDonald
@ohiolaura.bsky.social
Wife, mother, discount grocery store owner, servant to ducks, chickens, and badly socialized rescue dogs. Live in the blue dot of Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Such a nice sight to drive home to on dark and snowy nights!
Which is most of the time on these short winter days.
Which is most of the time on these short winter days.
December 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Such a nice sight to drive home to on dark and snowy nights!
Which is most of the time on these short winter days.
Which is most of the time on these short winter days.
Chickens: Hate putting their feet in the snow, stay on the straw paths for weeks. Lighter hens fly straight over the pond if motivated
Ducks: Living icebreakers crashing around the frozen pond, making a new path through the snow on each journey they take in search of treats
Ducks: Living icebreakers crashing around the frozen pond, making a new path through the snow on each journey they take in search of treats
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Chickens: Hate putting their feet in the snow, stay on the straw paths for weeks. Lighter hens fly straight over the pond if motivated
Ducks: Living icebreakers crashing around the frozen pond, making a new path through the snow on each journey they take in search of treats
Ducks: Living icebreakers crashing around the frozen pond, making a new path through the snow on each journey they take in search of treats
Happy snowy Monday from Ohio! We're predicted to get a lot more of this stuff this winter.
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happy snowy Monday from Ohio! We're predicted to get a lot more of this stuff this winter.
Nice moon 2 days before the storm
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Nice moon 2 days before the storm
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October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan
join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice
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join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice
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August 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan
join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice
www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...
join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice
www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
Great account to follow for up to the minute events in LA
After my break, it’s still going on. The sheriff’s dept has told ICE they’re on their own and have to figure out how to leave by themselves. They are refusing to assist. LAPD are only monitoring that the crowd doesn’t spread into other areas. The stand off continues. ICE vs LA.
June 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Great account to follow for up to the minute events in LA
The chicks are getting good at flying up onto the perches. They are less good at picking an empty spot on the perch. 🤣
May 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The chicks are getting good at flying up onto the perches. They are less good at picking an empty spot on the perch. 🤣
All the chicks and keets are in the new henhouse! Lots more details to finish up, but they made it through the first night just fine. 🐔💗
May 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
All the chicks and keets are in the new henhouse! Lots more details to finish up, but they made it through the first night just fine. 🐔💗
Cover is up on the new henhouse! Doors and a whole lot of drying up to go before the pullets can move out of the brooders. They are ready!
May 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Cover is up on the new henhouse! Doors and a whole lot of drying up to go before the pullets can move out of the brooders. They are ready!
Our discount grocery store partners with many food-related nonprofits and their amazing volunteers. This month we've been hearing the same story from all of them: food bank distributions and donations are drying up at an alarming rate.
April 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Our discount grocery store partners with many food-related nonprofits and their amazing volunteers. This month we've been hearing the same story from all of them: food bank distributions and donations are drying up at an alarming rate.
Chickens need dust baths for optimal health. Our layers made their own in the hydrangea bed. 🐔
April 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Chickens need dust baths for optimal health. Our layers made their own in the hydrangea bed. 🐔
Now this is love. We have a redbud tree where half of the tree had fallen down before we moved in. The rest of the tree fell down last year sometime. But the lower part is still alive with a lot of new growth and flowers blooming on it right now.
April 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Now this is love. We have a redbud tree where half of the tree had fallen down before we moved in. The rest of the tree fell down last year sometime. But the lower part is still alive with a lot of new growth and flowers blooming on it right now.
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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
April 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
Funny little vernal pond that appeared in our field today even though the heavy rains were last week. Might be a good spot for an intentional pond...? 🤔
April 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Funny little vernal pond that appeared in our field today even though the heavy rains were last week. Might be a good spot for an intentional pond...? 🤔
I see you and hear you, dear trans sisters and brothers of the UK.
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I see you and hear you, dear trans sisters and brothers of the UK.
More salamanders today, in Xenia, Ohio. I'm thrilled to see so many different kinds this spring. Makes me hopeful that environmental healing is happening. ❤️
April 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
More salamanders today, in Xenia, Ohio. I'm thrilled to see so many different kinds this spring. Makes me hopeful that environmental healing is happening. ❤️
Honey locust dares you to try it.
April 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Honey locust dares you to try it.
The tiny bebes in the fen this weekend!
April 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The tiny bebes in the fen this weekend!
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Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
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Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
GREENBELT, MD—Decrying the deportation as “wholly lawless,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled Monday that the Trump administration had three days to return her to the United States from a Salvadoran prison or face contempt of court charges. “Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had no legal basis upon which to send me, a U.S. citizen […]
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April 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
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