A version of the board game Clue with a Jim Henson’s Muppets theme.
Bought the Muppet version of Clue today. Husband has never played the original, and I’m a little jealous that this is how he gets to experience the game for the first time.
Their eyes are incredible. I had no idea mockingbird faces looked like that.
Mealworms, suet, & fruit. I already have two of those in the feeder. So I guess there’s not much more for me to do! The mealworms in particular have been great for bringing in new faces. Glad I added those this year.
Close up photo of a mockingbird taken by a bird feeder camera.
So psyched that a mockingbird is visiting my Bird Buddy. Googling now what they eat so I can encourage it to stick around.
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
Watching that Zelenskyy meeting has left me *incandescently* angry. The petulant bullying. The way it seemed staged specifically to humiliate. Fucking shameful.
Zelensky is a hero and far more popular than either Trump or Vance. This is an embarrassing scandal for the White House that GOP members of congress should be forced to answer for as well.
Husband keeps trying to get me to agree to travel plans for this summer and I'm just like, "Do we REALLY want to be flying later this year?" Being on a plane makes me nervous even in the best of times, and right now isn't the best of anything.
I clicked on ONE post from the spiders reddit sub, and now my reddit feed is all spider pictures all the time.
I love it here. #marin #bayarea
Kids are off school this week for mid-winter break (aka “ski week”), so I am embarking on a whole house cleaning spree. Including closets, the garage, the yard, and the garden. It’s gonna be so freaking neat and tidy around here.✨
My kid keeps checking out a book from his school library called "TENTACLES" and every time I find it in his backpack the chronically online part of me is like...
It turned out to be pneumonia! But we’re all better now. 💖
I’m essentially gender swapping the X-Files in my current MS, and I’m curious to see if it’ll affect likeability to have the Mulder believer-type be a woman. Half afraid she come off as gullible and silly where a male character would be given more leeway. #amwriting
Eldest kid has been sick for 9 days now w/strep + a mystery virus that’s neither Covid or flu. Has missed over a week of school because the fever just won’t break & is accumulating a ton of make-up work. Now Littlest is sick, too. As is Husband.
I’ve never had one, but everything I’ve heard about panic attacks make them sound very scary. I’m so sorry this stupid, shitty world is putting you in a position where you’re having them. Take care. 💖
The cover of the book Heavenly Bodies which shows a skeleton richly decorated with jewels and silk.
Currently reading Heavenly Bodies by Paul Koudounaris.
Apparently, catacomb saints were particularly a thing in southern Germany and Austria, which is right where my ancestry goes back to. It’s like the Church played my great-great-whatever grandma so good w/this that it imprinted genetically.
