“Just Making Stuff Up” is a great name for a punk band

Good Morning! On this day, (Wednesday) March 11 in 1893, Wanda Gág was born. She was an American artist, author, translator, and illustrator. She is best known for writing and illustrating the children's book “Millions of Cats,” the oldest American picture book still in print. #Herstory

Annual "Interesting Things Melting Out of Snowbanks" survey is CANCELED due to - climate change (marginal snow/summer weather in March); new waste hauling system (mandatory sealed garbage carts); everybody apparently behaving themselves (no booze containers & underwear strewn around boulevards).

There is a very good looking couch sitting on the boulevard on Mississippi Street. If a dog doesn't pee on it, someone is going to get lucky. 🛋️

Daylight Saving Spring Forward YouTube video by Positively Osceola

Here we go…. 😑

I have the same IKEA alarm clock that Officer Jon Cooper has on his night stand in season 3 of "Southland." ⏰

Fluffy brown cat reclining and looking over their shoulder.

Happy Caturday! This is Declan “Dangerman” Quill looking coy… 😸 #caturday #thingsthatmakemesmile #catsofbluesky

Had 5 big pretzel rods and a glass of wine for dinner. I know better. Right now, I don't care. 🥨🍷

People already just assume I am Canadian during out of country travel. I think it’s the Minnesota accent and not being an epic asshole… 🤷🏻‍♀️

Cupcake with pink frosting, an open bloody mouth with fangs and arms thrown into the air.

Mood…

Note to owners of gray house on King Street - sparrows are dragging in nesting material and building a condo underneath the sill of one of your upstairs windows. Now would be the time to serve an eviction notice. 🐦 #gaia

Yes!! Even before Greg Bovino waltzed out of their bathroom they had caved. Like they were EAGER to dump Pride merchandise & screw over black creators. I know so many people who were boycotting before ICE & they are NEVER going back. Ever.

Did you get a slice of pie while you were there? 🥧

If you write on the outside of an orange with a black Sharpie the ink soaks through to the fruit. Found that out the hard way.
🍊🖊️ #Fail

An excuse note to work for unprecedented times.

Making lard pie crust recipe from Norske Nook cookbook. Directions - "Knead it & spank it". Can't imagine Lutheran church-lady pie makers are ok with this.‬ #flaky #uffda

Ahoy! ☠️ Finished “Black Sails” - a show about friendship, politics, storytelling, government, betrayal, navigation, violence, early labor movements, families we create, rule breaking women, leadership, & bravery while sailing a pirate ship, having epic battles & gazing through a spy glass. Awesome!

Note to dude at Kwik Trip who has the evidence that Johnson had Kennedy assassinated and suggested I steal the ATM machine - though you are clearly an interesting conversationalist, I will not be joining you later for a drink.

Sign - Please don’t break yuca… you break it, you buy it. Thanks.

Why can't people just keep their hands to themselves?! #Hmoob

The day just seems to go better when you really like the pants you are wearing. #FPU

Loaf of bread

A loaf of No-Knead bread for next door neighbors = stress-baking through the apocalypse… 🍞 #yum

I love winter! Sun sparkling on snow and velvety gray days. I like how the rhythm of life changes & the trees and plants rest. I admire the ferocious challenges for birds & animals fighting to survive. I like how clean & sharp the air is. I like the sense of waiting... ❄️

2 hawks routinely hunt in our back yard - Small Hawk and Tall Hawk. Today SH was on patrol. Attentive to any small movement, periodically changing perches, ready to strike. 🦅 #gaia

black and white portrait of Edward Horety in a long fur coat. He is bald, with a full white beard. Gorey wears rings on most fingers and it looking at the camera over the top of his half-moon spectacles.

A black and white, heavily cross-hatched Gorey drawing of a man hunched over a table, writing with a long pen. An ornate victrola is perched on the table in front of him.

Gorey drawing of a small crowd in formal wear at a reception or party. Several of them, some but not all clearly men, wear black tie. One bearded man has a large fut coat. A woman near the center wears a diaphanous cape that looks like something out of a Klimt painting, or a peacock.

The cover of the Gashlycrumb Tinies. Death, holding an umbrella, shades a group of unfortunate children.

Writer and illustrator Edward Gorey was born #OTD in 1925. Not in a mouldering old room down the drafty halls of an Edwardian manor on a bleak and windswept moor, but right here in CHICAGO, of all places!

Squirrels have a nest in a big tree across the alley that you can see from our kitchen window. They start their day by bursting out of their house and racing down the tree trunk like they are running late for school and might miss the bus… 🐿️ 🚌 #gaia

Weirdly shaped snowman

Our neighbors are lovely people, and this is certainly not intentional, but their snowman ⛄️ looks like a giant sex toy. #oops #snowday

White and tabby spotted cat looking into the camera

Happy Caturday from Batou (formerly BeeBee)! He’s a silly good guy. 🐈 #catsofbluesky #thingsthatmakemesmile

9” of pristine, heavy snow. As it should be… ❄️❄️❄️❄️