Cat, looking out the window

Nickie is watching it snow. I will be drinking.

She's watching the snow melt. There are sun beams out there

Hello Winter, my old friend.
It's time for you to leave, again....

Power is out.

The tips of my red snowshoes peeking out from a snowbank.

Never did I ever think I'd. Be digging my snowshoes out of the snow bank I plopped them in OVerNight.

Seed inventory: completed! Let the growing begin!

It snowed last night. It's snowing tomorrow.

/Sigh

I just gave G the option of dealing with cat vomit or an emergency dog outing. We are doing something wrong in this world.

I love them! And I want my own!

I've started throwing things. 3 days of complete laryngitis and when I need their attention so I can make huge confusing arm gestures, I've started throwing things.

Just got an unexpected call from the vet. I wasn't expecting results until next week and here we are at 9 am getting a call. I answered -quite anxiously. Her response? 'hi, it's Dr. Xxx and it's good news." Whew, and I love that she allayed all the fears right off the bat.

Swatching for a tiny Valais black nose sheep (crochet). Starts with that cute little black nose (LBN); no problem. Moving on to the white body, too loose. Go down a hook size, cast on that cute LBN, move onto white body. Still too loose. Go down another hook size. Cast on LBN ... wait...#logicerror

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And ... I'm out. Not out of bluesky, out of FB. I've had enough nonsense and the latest announcement just does me in. I will permanently delete my account by Jan 31.

Today is all about icicles, just regularly spaced normal ones.

Thermometer shows -2F /18 C

Waiting for positive digits before walking the dog.

Bat Cat: her alter ego

Low sun, long shadows.

What's the best book you read lately? Of all time? Most you want to read next?

I came on-line to find my next read, found this instead

I've been waiting for this.

Those ables are gorgeous!

The Lifeguard Phenomenon Many (many) years ago, I was a lifeguard at an unremarkable community pool.  I guess I was 16 because that was the legal age for such a job at the time.  Most of the job was sitting atop the lifeguard...

And so it begins:

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Morning walk (in woods with dog and @george.themc.network ) I'm gimpy, and so they waited for me. I said 'what nice people' and then corrected that to 'beings' and then 'sentients' and then 'who the F! thought giving an elephant an 8 inch mirror was the appropriate way to test for self-recognition?'