My bracket names are Yaxelotl and Swordsy McSwordsface

MSU went backwards on 12 percent of its offensive snaps in 2025. So just getting replacement-level B10 line play would be an improvement. Also I love this photo from @rleggos.bsky.social — struggled coming up with an OL pic sans dudes who transferred but flexing Sparty captures the vibe well!

I haven't drawn a bird in a while so I did some Greater Roadrunner pencil sketches this morning. 🪶 #art

I don’t want to sound like a hippie or anything but if you’re out in the wilderness and see a coyote and it briefly turns to look at you, you will understand down to the floor of your soul that we are not on earth to pay health insurance premiums

Here we go again 🥰

My work is doing an official company-wide bracket challenge this year instead of a random employee in the sports channel organizing it. They are giving prizes to the TOP EIGHT men's brackets and only one to the top women's bracket. Come onnnn, do better

You can simply ignore the bad introspection opinion guy

everyone should have a silly lil website they can post stuff to!

sidenote: I am having so much fun having a blog that is about just anything at all with no pressure. It's like when I used to blog in high school, but with a lot less teen angst.

I wrote a really quick bit on making a watercolor sketchbook last week: rachelleggett.com/all-crafts-c...

Had to start a road trip at the start of the 2nd half but listening to it was just 20 minutes if this

The sounds we made at that Yax three in this car 🥲

On my way to sleep in the car next to the highway in Nebraska to see chickens in a field at 5am

THE MOREZ JOHNSON PHOTO IS ELLIOT CADEAU

Remote work >>>>

Red: kindergarten classrooms Blue: where I held the oneg after my bat mitzvah Red arrow: where the attacker drove through the doors and down the hall

It's impossible overstate how important Temple Israel was to my whole life before I went to college

Oh my god there's an active shooter at my childhood synagogue

New skate day!! It's time to retire the boots that were custom-made for my 12-year-old feet. Because ouch.

I had a huge mental block on my double lutz as a kid that has translated to any lutz as an adult so I'm very pleased I landed some single lutzes this morning! I think I may have attempted this once before today in the 20 years since I quit?

My toxic trait is I think I can do anything and I'm usually right (Lots to learn and improve, but I made a usable watercolor sketchbook and didn't have to buy any new supplies!)

through a series of events involving a watercolor class, I think I'm about to get into bookbinding 😅

Looking for a fun spring project? Join me for a 4-session online course drawing a raccoon in coloured pencil starting April 1. I will walk you through all the steps from drawing the initial image to bringing it to life in colour. You can register at: www.mcnallyrobinson.com/classes #SciArt

At watercolor class tonight, the instructor had everyone share their name and something interesting about themselves. Of ALL the interesting things about me, I chose to share that I photograph Michigan football in the fall. Reader, I forgot the instructor went to Ohio State.

I love this

I get to bring my ebike on the light rail today and do a multimodal commute to my first watercolor class and I'm ridiculously excited for all of these things, but mostly the bike on a train if I'm being honest

My three most recent bird illustrations—I love using different mediums

great horned owls at dawn 🩶🦉

My cat and Morez look the same 😭😭😭

it's incredible how much waking up at 4:50am to go see some owls has made my whole morning better

No owl moon shot today, but I saw them court and then mate and then watched one settle in to roost and turn to face the sun as it came up 😭😭😭😭😭

I want you to put the word out there that we back up (casually looking for staff software engineering roles, send em if you've got em)

ICYMI, lunar eclipse totality, 4:33am mountain time this morning, March 3

All the pieces were there, but I wasn't there in time to line them up. 🥲

coffee coffee coffee and then finding out what those owls are up to

The moon! The moon was red!

Coffee maker brew scheduled Camera on tripod with all the settings as close as I can get them by guessing and LENS CAP ALREADY OFF because last time I tried to photograph a lunar eclipse, I was too sleepy to realize my lens cap was still on Ready as I'll ever be 😴

HELL YES the tree I suspected of being an owl nest is in fact an owl nest and it's only ten minutes from my apartment 🥹🥹

Life finds a way 💜

no this is what i want on my internet not all that other stuff 🦭 🦑

I've had to look at this photo a lot already 🥲

Whenever work gets me down this week, I'm going to look at this photo and remember work doesn't matter and can't hurt me #birds

AHHHH not only did I see an owl cough up a pellet for the first time, but I got a video of it!! My favorite part is when it shakes its head and looks like it is licking the inside of its beak afterwards, like it was pretty unpleasant actually 🦉

A shot of the bloom in Death Valley National Park from February 13th. I feel so lucky the timing of my trip worked out this way.

I wrote a quick post sharing everything I drew in my travel sketchbook/nature journal on my trip to the Channel Islands last month! #art #birds rachelleggett.com/sketchbook-t...

Oh right I forgot Illinois thinks we are rivals

ahhhh it was so good, I'm buzzing, I love skating and I haven't truly had an "I love skating moment" since I was really little tbh like I don't remember feeling a love for it through the hours of training as a kid at all :( I'm so happy I can just DO THINGS as an adult

I have a trial lesson with a coach this morning ☺️

This is her emotional support pop tart (it has no catnip or anything and she just ran into the room carrying it in her little mouth 😭😭😭)