There are currently 3 Mildreds* about, here are two of them. *"Mildred" is our general name for the albinos, which have a healthy local population.

I am at the "wash the surfaces to be painted with sugar soap" stage of the bedroom painting project. I am, however, sitting on the couch with the Kugelprinzessin. This is not getting the washing done. The Kugelprinzessin is unapologetic. Because tortie.

🪶 White-crowned sparrow! Doin' the sparrow shuffle!

I am taking our yearly cyber security training. My brain is leaking out my ears.

I probably shouldn't be as amused as I am at the youngun's reaction to my high school yearbook -- but it was 1988 and you can practically smell the Aquanet.

I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. (I am at my BIL's watching movies)

🪶 Siskins! I've never seen them in my yard before!

Had a visitor today. Note the size of her crop - she'd just finished her second squirrel of the afternoon. 🪶

🪶 The distelfinks have discovered the coneflowers!

Eepy. And no, the belly is mostly not a trap. She is remarkably tolerant of me burying my face in her floof.

This just in... beans!

There was a plan for today - I achieved exactly two things. And incurred another one for tomorrow. Bah. I did get the panel that will be sleeves cut, and the piece for the collar and cuffs and underarm gussets. Sadly, that was only one item on the list.

Client: "This report is broken, it has always been broken! Fix it!" Me: *investigates* Nope, not broken. Excessively stupid, but not technically broken. I am frankly amazed at the depth of the stupid on this one, honestly. <sigh>

Saw this lovely on Saturday while waiting for the hummingbirds to show up. A ginormous bee.

Butterflams on the new echinacea. I think they're Painted Ladies?

Butterflam!

Judging from the number of volunteer tomatillos in my garden, someone local is either growing them or put some on a compost pile that is accessible to critters. They grow really well in the mulch, and there are a lot. I am torn between pulling them and leaving them for the bees.

I have planted the blue indigo, 3 of the 4 echinacea, murderated some dandelions, weeds, and other miscellaneous things* that do not belong in my garden, filled the birdbaths, and watered the plants that need extra water. *mostly elm seedlings and a volunteer tomato.

I bought an equigroomer from Girl with the Dogs, and it is amazing. I have already removed half a kitten from the Kugelprinzessin.

Roumd

Realistically I need to do some tweaking to the shirt - a full bust adjustment at minimum - but the Time Of The Garden* is winding down so in theory I will have more inside time to spend in the sewing room. *I have a lovely garden, and it's still nice to sit outside and enjoy the green.

I went looking for the Kugelprinzessin and there she was...

Yesterday I went and bought plants. So today we went birding, naturally. A good variety of raptors - the vultures are migrating, plus two separate pairs of eagles, two northern harriers, and a couple of red tailed hawks. And about a million billion red winged blackbirds.

Goddammit cat! @rahaeli.bsky.social (or anyone else, for that matter) do you have any reccies for a mattress protector that's waterproof on 5 sides? The piss terrorist managed to soak the underlying mattress topper this time.

I took a bath yestereve, and neither cat even attempted to see if I was ok. Amir, I am disappointed.

I had a mighty craving for posole so I ordered real Mexican food for gringos (as opposed to gringo tex-mex, which #2 will eat) and I ate outside until I realized that I needed to go back in before I was trapped by industrious orb weavers.

Hi! I'm Mom was holding me in her lap with no car seat when the car got rear-ended! I also go by Drug Overdose and sometimes by Nasty Concussion in Gym Class With a Generous Helping Of The School Done Fucked Up*

Rebecca Ruth Seidel@caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm Cows!

It is humid enough that my eyelids are sweating. Ew.

🪶 Red winged blackbird horde. They're now having pool parties that I can't get video of because of the plants.

It is a lovely afternoon, and I am inside cuddling the Kugelprinzessin, because demanding tortie. I would love to take her outside and cuddle in the gazebra but she Does Not Go Outside, for Reasons. On the one hand, she never tries to sneak out. OTOH, a trip to the vet is VERY stressful.