Got a new bumper sticker. Shortly thereafter, I learned that my five-year-old great niece is a *much* better reader than I realized. #daddywhatdoesthatwordmean

Our Honest Dog Books’ Charly Ray is running for WI state senate! (As per HDB’s email today) Go Charly!

When the world (well, my country anyway) feels so f-d up, it’s good to have an amaryllis. It grows fast, it’s pretty and it requires zero effort from me. Thank you Trader Joe’s!

This is my punishment for shopping on Am*z*n. Someone (preferably fluent in “disgruntled driver”) please explain to me how they think I will get out the door to retrieve these? #packagejenga

My around-the-corner neighbors house and their next door neighbor’s house.

If you ever wondered what it looks like when you drop & break a plastic gallon jug of milk on your threshold, now you know. Zero stars, do not recommend. #pleaserain

I have watched more baseball this series than I have in the last 15 years. Gadzooks, what a good series it’s been!

#uglydogs Poor Kotzebue got hit again with the most recent storm surge. 2-4 feet above normal high tide and water 30+ feet farther inland.

#igivearod is the gift that keeps on giving. Received a packet of thank you’s from one of the classrooms we supported (snacks for the students) last year. Love the colors, the artwork and - bonus! - a little Gwich’in thrown in! #uglydogs #donorschoose

It’s pancake time!! 🎉 #uglydogs @otterrunkennel.bsky.social

#uglydogs Sweet interview with Blair by Julie Buckles of Honest Dog Books about “The Day Leap Soared.” honestdogbooks.shelf-awareness.com/sar-issue.ht...

Another one for the “Dogs With Cool Jobs” file. #uglydogs

The day Ozzy Osborne went cart mushing…. This “when worlds collide” moment brought to you by Ryan Redington over on FB. #uglydogs

#uglydogs #mushersky Do yourself a favor. Robinson Racing has posted on FB about the wildfire crew that’s camped near their kennel meeting & snuggling their brand new litter of puppies. So sweet. 😍

“A purely financial decision” my ass! (unless they mean “This was part of our $16 million settlement with Trump.”)

I had a housemate in college who took a summer job picking fruit in an E. WA orchard. He lasted one day. One. People picking our food deserve 1) a living wage and 2) not to live in fear of kidnapping.

Home from a quick RT Seattle -> Juneau. In Juneau, went over to AlaskaX’s musher camp & visited some floofs. Guide was Deedee (not *that* one) from Knik. Puppies (under comments) were more interested in playing tug of war with hem of worker’s rain pants than snuggles.

And now, in “Funny ‘Cause It’s True…”

Me and COOOOKIE, representing at our local rally today! 🍪#nokings

Jeff King can do political smack talk with the best of ‘em. #mushersky #uglydogs

Friends tease me for my love of coupons & loyalty programs but today I am declaring myself the 👑 Queen of Birthday Deals! 🎊: ☕️ Free beverage at Starbucks (on actual birthday only) 🧋Free beverage at Bigfoot Java (local coffee chain) 🍨Free dessert at Tutta Bella (local Italian chain)

New flag on the house! “Immigrants Make America Great” Easily half my neighbors are new to the U.S. Most of the pro-immigration flags were so dark & somber. Severe, almost threatening. If I’m celebrating my diverse neighborhood, why not do it with joy & color? #beTHAThouseintheneighborhood

#uglydogs #mushersky I don’t know who is coaching these junior mushers on “donor relations” (it’s likely just good parenting) but these sweet kids are earning supporters for life!

Timeline Cleanse: Opening Day at the Bellevue Farmers Market. Pita bread, flowers, strawberries, multigrain bread, honey & sugar crisp apples, organic chives & cilantro, salad mix & the yummiest blueberry & almond tarts you ever tasted. (Dang it! I forgot rhubarb!)

Front my house just got a little spicier.

#uglydogs Earlier this year, the Willow Jr ran into a funding snag and I was either winding up for or down from #igivearod so I sent them money to, I think, fund the snacks. These came in the mail today. Junior mushers are the best! (Also keep an eye on those Randall kids!)

Wordle 1,421 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Shocked! Shocked, I tell you. Also a little bit pissed because that used to be my starter word until a friend shamed me into embracing whimsy starting with a new word each day.

If doing your job necessitates covering your face with a cheap ass neck gaiter so you cannot be recognized on the evening news, it’s time to re-evaluate your life choices.

Realized that pretty much everything I know about the Vatican is from Dan Brown’s “Angels & Demons”. So tonight I watched “Conclave.” Not sure it helped.

New accessory for the house. I fear that we Progressives have inadvertently ceded the flag to the Right. This old hippie is taking hers back. Eventually I’ll fly Old Glory (but with rainbow streamers) but I’m warming up the neighborhood with this: “We The People Means Everyone”

At today’s rally, a MAGA dude in a pick up, started yelling insults at us, and the older woman next to me yelled back, “Relax Cupcake, we’re here fighting for your First Amendment rights too!” Not sure which shut him up more: her defense of his rights or being called “Cupcake”.

@darthbluesky.social Look at this very good boy!! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn... #uglydogs

#uglydogs #igivearod keeps on making the world a better place.

Bad news: my 23-yr old gas furnace died. 👎🏻 Good news: Replacement is in stock so pre-tariff pricing! 👍🏻

#uglydogs Well, darn! As per the Kobuk 440 FB feed, Q & team have been withdrawn from the race. Everyone is in good health.

My community showed up! There was a giant demonstration in Seattle but we still had 500+ at our suburban park. #handsoff #indivisibleeastside

#uglydogs Q & Dempsey Woods Sr. in Shungnak. Looking pretty happy! (Copied from Kobuk’s FB feed)

Friends, we have our April Fool’s Day winner.

Emails & social media posts are fine but if a person wanted to help bury Cory Booker in an avalanche of postcard love, his office address is: Senator Cory Booker 306 Hart Senate Office Bldg Washington, DC 20510

DARTH IS AWAKE!!!

If this was a driver, the State Patrol would be doing a sobriety test. (The chart neglects to mention the high potential for weather-chaser worthy thunderstorms on Wednesday.)

#uglydogs Silly me! I’d been thinking “Hmmm, I’d have thought Q might be home by now. I hope everything is okay.” It’s so beyond Okay. IT’S F-ING AWESOME

#uglydogs I’m creating an “Ugly Dogs” playlist on my phone. What’s THE song you most associate with our pack? (“Relax” is assumed!)

Thus ends the season when my “Ugly Dogs”, “Popular with Friends” and “Following” feeds on BlueSky are all in synch. As they used to say on TV, “We now return to our usual programming.” #uglydogs

Calvin Daugherty’s team (of 12 dogs!) came flying into Nome and promptly FLOMPED into itchy back snow baths. They may have just finished Iditarod but they are still puppies!

#uglydogs As per Sage Mountain Sled Dogs FB page, in these last legs of Iditarod, Jenny Roddewig is wearing boots & bibs purchased from Aliy Zirkle & a hat she won in the Jr. Iditarod race from Libby Riddles. She’s carrying a letter written by Mary Shields (1st woman to ever run Iditarod).1/2

#mushersky #uglydogs As per her kennel’s FB page, all of Red Lantern Jenny Roddewig’s drop bags in Kaltag were stolen. She has managed to scrounge enough supplies to keep going, but “this is a major setback and very disheartening.” No kidding!

#uglydogs Can someone walk me through the logistics of scratching/being withdrawn? Do the teams & gear get flown out from the scratch point to…Fairbanks? ANC? Nome? Does ITC cover that cost? I know food in drop bags is forfeit but what about gear? How does that work? Thanks #mushersky

#uglydogs From what I’m reading, the ITC’s definition of competitiveness is not unlike Justice Potter Stewart’s 1964 definition of pornography, “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced... [b]ut I know it when I see it ..."

#uglydogs The Iditarod’s social media team appears to have better social graces than the press release team. Their FB post commended all the withdrawn & scratched teams for their hard work & dedication and hopes they’ll try again in the future.