Something I wish more people would realize.

😄 Having a flashback to when I filled in for a housemate who was dog sitting a giant St Bernard and she flopped down in a shady patch in the middle of 23rd St and did not pay any mind to angry Philadelphia evening commute traffic. (I loved her so!)

mankrik's wife guy@byelacey.bsky.social · last wk.

anyone else's walks end before you get home?

I have an endlessly shuffling screensaver of various art museum collections on my TV and occasionally the universe employs it as commentary on my inner turmoil and I don't think the universe is cute. 😤

I will have a table at the Pittsburgh Zine Fair this coming Sunday. Stop by and say hi!

Organizing meeting tomorrow!

Great news! Horace has gained weight since his previous vet appointments and he's looking healthier for real and not just in my hopeful imagination. Will get test results later today or tomorrow to confirm but I am so relieved. Stress levels immediately down by like 15%.

I did it. I got the outside Halloween decorations up at the beginning of October. Now I just need to get some mums for the planters. 🎃👻💀🕷️

These hydrangeas we planted two years ago bloomed this unexpected bright magenta-y purple this year. Some of them are darker, almost like a red wine color. I swear they were a much paler pink last year, but I'm into it. I hope they get huge and cover the whole back section of the yard. 🤞

Yes, and?

Still thinking about hazelnoot

hoodie full of spiders@fatalizm.net · 2mo ago

Hazelnut in Dutch is hazelnoot and I think that is the cutest and would be a great name for a pet.

Oops! The part where the handsome black and tan tabby so obviously misses me, his beloved housemate, seems to have been left out of the alt text. :p

Boddi (hallowed-ween ver.)@boddi.bsky.social · last mo.

A Horace for the morning.

Hazelnut in Dutch is hazelnoot and I think that is the cutest and would be a great name for a pet.

Today I hung out on a cool houseboat my uncle's friend built himself. We had homemade jam and mocktails with syrup from their blackberry harvest. (Zo lekker!) Then coffee with other friends at the now mostly empty house. It's been good to chill after so much organizing and cleaning.

I drove my uncle's car with its Dutch display text and strange icons and even weirder controls to get lunch and go to the hardware and grocery stores and we survived. 🥇🏆💪

Good morning, ladies.

Everyone speaks so cruelly of the distraught onion man tasked with holding his brethren as they await the chopping block. But his sorrow speaks to me.

Approx four million gorgeous teapots in my uncle's home and this wretched thing was his daily driver. (He did use the cool ones for company, at least.) New rule: Use your nice things yourself.

Holy shit there are thousands of books in the little apartment next to the garage. In a dozen languages, about languages, the history of languages, learning Dutch, German, English, Spanish, Japanese... and I'm not through a quarter of them. What do I do with them all?

Was awake for over 24 hours and tried to reset by staying up until this time zone's normal bedtime for, like, kids at least, but then was thwarted by the world's loudest mosquito three hours ago. It is 6am. The mosquito is tireless and insatiable and has my respect.

I'm helping my mom clean & pack up my Uncle Fred's house in the Netherlands. I'm gonna make a thread of things that make me smile even though this is rough. First up: photos. There are thousands of photos & slides from decades of travels and good times.

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My city contracted a service to trim the trees encroaching on power lines. Yes, sure, do that without destroying them, thank you. But can we also bring in an arborist to do something about the blight that has spread across the local trees and caused a premature Autumn leaf fall in August?

Oh no

Look at these cool lino prints. 👁️ Can you guess which one called to me the loudest? AND And and there's a book about folklore? Yesssss

Richard Wells@slipperyjack.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here's a Friday Shop Plug. I've heard hot days are the best for purchasing folkloric haunted lino prints, so you should probably buy loads today, thanks. Tell your friends..! 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Yooo this is so good!! I knew it would be and you know I love being correct! 🙏

jj skolnik@supremenothing.myatproto.social · 3mo ago

good morning. our second lp is out today. i am exceptionally proud of it and hope you’ll listen if you like music that is loud and fast. i love making music with these dudes so much

I've not kept a gratitude journal but if I did it would be mostly "very glad the bathrooms have regular doors."

Horace investigating the cool new nightlight less than a minute after I plugged it in is a delight I didn't anticipate. Excellent.

Yoooo good job me. 😺 hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 23 764 pts · PERFECT 💯 · 5-day streak 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞

Smush

A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.

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We are Garfieldin' ahead of schedule on a Sunday night.

Was digging in the fridge for a moment and turned back around to find Horace on the counter chomping on my freshly washed rapini as bold as can be. An unrepentant broccoli rabber!