Inversion morning. Smelled like stale farts. Makes me think about how bad it must’ve used to smell, leaded gas & before, coal, etc.

Am being yelled at.

Humidity finally dropped enough to stop running ac & open windows last night. Woke up with Maple tucked into me & my hand snuggled into her belly.

Mmm. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nfy...

Woot! Enough people queried Pratt about @franwilde.bsky.social ‘s Philosophy of Thieves that 1. They got a Libby copy & 2. I’m now 3rd in line!

My dad’s letter on the local data center project. There’s TONS more facts and figures he collected(water use!) , but this is the highlights, as you need in a letter to elected.

Of course this one sold quick. www.realtor.com/realestatean...

Ivy is meowing mournfully in her sleep.

I could be infuriated all the time or I could try to seek and support creation and joy and community and safety and something better. I’m trying to work on the part after the ‘or’.

I got mail today. 🥹 @writersinbmore.bsky.social

Anyway, need to start on October’s nails soon.

For the first time in my 28 yrs at this job, the word furlough is making the rounds. (We’ve had layoffs when passed budgets were slim.)

Loudly shoving people under the bus because I’m tired of this shit.

www.profsandpints.com/baltimore I’ve probably been to six so far and have enjoyed them all. This one was a standout, though!

And these are fucking cute. Also, she’s got tshirts for sale on her website swimkatie.com/shop & is trying to figure out how to make her signature suit design available for purchase.

Also, the talk was really well attended.

Ok, this was so cool! Katie’s art and swimming are so tied together & she’s a goddamn delight & engaging speaker. If you ever get a chance to hear her on her passions, do it: Art, swimming, Baltimore. creativealliance.org/event/save-t...

My parents’ indoor-outdoor not-officially-their-cats-but-they-are orange boys think they are this. But they are really orange floofs.

Turning my morning alarms back on, sigh. (They are less to wake me up, more to give me markers. But still.)

(I don’t wanna work tomorrow.)

Oh gawd, these pecans from a dude’s small front yard orchard that he sells out in basically a couple weeks at the market are so sweet. Nutty, rich and sweet.

This dress fabric is really a stretch for me. Bolder, louder, PINKER than I am used to. But I kinda like it? Just feel LOUD when I’m kinda quieter. Anyway, two young women complimented it today out of the blue, so I’m thinking at very least, looks good on me. It does make me happy.

Critters I saw in my parents’ neighborhood: doves, hawks bathing in puddles, great horned owls swooping after doves, some kind of scrub blue jay, so many hummingbirds, quail, a red headed woodpecker of some sort, many tiny finches, Inca doves, Mediterranean house geckos(!) And the neighborhood cats.

Tomorrow night (please let work not sap all my energy) creativealliance.org/event/save-t...

The Ken Edwards pottery that survived travel. Trivets/small platters, but I decided to rip out the old telephone jack and use one to cover the holes. And put other so they flank the kitchen door.

I didn’t put my carryon away last night; naturally, Maple claimed it.

WARNING! ‼️ CAT VOMIT! This is how, erm, committed Pumpkin is to her wheel time. She had just barfed on the wheel.(I was away, nothing to be done about it.)

I need to go grocery shopping but Ivy is plunked on my lap and Pumpkin is purring on my head.

Also, Friday my dad went to testify in opposition to this proposed data center, naturally located in a poor part of the county already beset by environmental issues. www.pressreader.com/usa/el-paso-...

The past week’s reading list, a thread. Little surprised I didn’t read more, but also not.

Air travel really does weird things to my digestive system.

And only 2 piles of barf. I have a hilarious gross video to share when I have a chance.

3 cats are very happy right now. But there’s one in NM that’s gonna be disappointed to not get to sleep with a human on a bed tonight.

I just broke the nice pottery mug I just got and put in carryon so it wouldn’t get broken😭

NM mosquitos are evil. They itch for over 24 hrs. (MD ones, gone in an hour.) Also, NM mosquitos in September are bizarre, so is monsoon, but it’s here. Storms every eve. My bedmate.

This is one passed out Buster. (Him staying inside overnight might cause drama, but he’s OUT.)

It seems the monsoons have moved to September.

I can’t control the trajectory of this ride*; I can do something about the comfort along the way. It’s why I am cooking up a storm, filling their freezer. It’ll only last a couple weeks, but it will be 3 weeks of something different, provided with love. *it’s terminal, baybee. For all of us.

Also, I’m pretty sure my mom’s beloved elderly cat probably has kidney disease. Various reasons, she’s hard to get to a vet. So I ordered a bunch of non-script wet food that I researched when Pumpkin got the dx. If Silky eats them & it helps, I’ll set up a chewy autoship on my account.

I CAUGHT THE BABY GECKO THE SIZE OF MY (fake)PINKY NAIL! TWICE BECAUSE I SCREWED UP THE FIRST TIME. BIGTIME BONDING WITH DAD. AND SWEARS. no pics, the cup was frosted.

MY PARENTS HAVE HOUSE GECKOS. Non-native but non-invasive.Usually hang out on the porch, but I spotted a baby scurrying across the living room. nmherpsociety.org/reptiles/liz...

Morning visitor.

When the carnitas finally hit the right tenderness at 11:20 pm because it’s a 1970s crockpot & it took 4 extra hrs& you’re trying to decant & shred the meat as quietly as possible because the kitchen is next to the bedroom & I think I succeeded. I saved the jus.

I’ve modded all my masks for my flights.

Ok (over)packed but for the things I use thru the morning (maybe could carryon?) Pumpkin’s cuddling. Ebooks ready to go. Power pack charged. Alarms set. Neighbors at the ready.

My lunch choices are vino volo or whataburger. This is gonna be hard.

I’m glad I got to see the @writersinbmore.bsky.social OFF THE HINGES reading. Those kids are brave & funny. One wants to be an astrophysicist! Was able to tell parents best contact, given where I work. Wanted to see a few others, but travel anxiety got me. Right: start packing.

At some point here, I need to pack. Only that and take out last of recycling left on the to do list.

Aw, finally, after 7 months (this is not a bravermountain issue, it’s a vendor issue. So proud of Quince.)