Not so hot take - Paris could use a tobacco smoking ban in many places, and legalized marijuana. Otherwise. 10/10

A misty day yesterday gave way to a chilly day today. We might have found a long-term rental! Good. Wearing an n95 mask in the WC because of mold at the short-term rental is getting old. Bleh. #Paris #photography

This dog barks. Street graffiti seen on my morning walk back from the boulangerie. #Paris #photography

The gray skies and drizzle of rain made for a nice walk to the herbalist yesterday. #Paris #photography

I’m not sure when, if ever, I’ll cross the streams and link my half-assed YouTube channel. Ray told me to never cross the streams. I go through fits of posting and months of nothing. One day I might even get to the dreaded unedited pile… #photography #wildlife #Hawaii

I cabbed it to the hardware store. Figured a two-mile walk back would be nice. It started raining two minutes in. It was still a nice walk. And all the nasty showerheads in the rental have been successfully replaced. The washing machine gasket is a different story… #Paris #photography

We should have House Representatives taking shifts doing more of this! Better yet, hold your own press conference right next to him every time he does this. Fact check his lies straight to the press in real time. Contact all of the recently exiled WH press corp to show.

Finally catching up from Paris on the glorious results back home. So many wins at every level. Let’s keep this momentum going! And what a great fucking speech! m.youtube.com/watch?v=NnM_...

I plan to get back to photography for the love of it soon. Fair warning: mediocre pics of birds, random textures, and maybe some bugs are on their way. But damn, even being an ocean away from my home country (US), does not reduce the increasing daily stress of seeing what’s happening back there.

I added “finish Wednesday’s to-do list” to Thursday’s to-do list. Did I just break to-do lists? One last view for it, on the way to sell the truck. Three more days in town. Crazy crazy. #photography #Colorado

We’re all enjoying the raspberry bushes this morning. Well, at least katydid. #photography #gardening #Colorado

Everyone is working so hard, even in the late season. Less than two weeks until we make the move to France. I’m more pressed than I have been in decades, lol. We’re going to make it, but it’s going to be a heck of a push. #photography #gardening #Colorado

The movers arrive in twelve hours. This is the biggest shift I’ve attempted in thirty years, probably our biggest ever. Tomorrow, all this and more will be loaded up and put on a boat headed to Paris. Crazysauce

Chunky skies today. The prairie dogs did not enjoy me setting up for this quick shot. #photography #Colorado

First year of grapes on the St. Teresa (full harvest). Would have had double this, but some pest beat me to it. The concord didn’t end up with anything this year. Future years should be bountiful. I hope whoever is here enjoys them, and the raspberries, and the peaches. #gardening #Colorado

Would you like some morning raspberries straight from the garden? #gardening #Colorado

Two weeks out from a huge deadline, and everything is chaotic. I think we got this, but it’s going to be fucking close. I’m working on my tomorrow list right now. #photography #Colorado

Getting to the root of the scale problem. Because I totally have time for this now… Yep. These aloe are what’s left from my mom’s plant. 50 years and going strong. The plants, that is. Me? I’m wiped out. #photography #gardening

This move is gonna hit all the feels. The great paring down continues! The circa ~1984 Garfield folder can attest to that. We shut the (16y) p/t Hawaii house down earlier this year. We're shutting down the (30y) Colorado place now. Now the real crazy can begin. On y va! #photography

This is the first thing I ever bought with "my own" money. 1980-ish me somehow amassed three dollars and asked permission to go to the garage sale across the alley. I talked them down from $2 to $1.25. I do love a good haggle. I don't know if it makes the "ship it to France" list. We shall see.

I'm two to four months away from picking up a camera again. Really. It's true this time. We have had some huge changes and transitions this year. And we still have even larger and crazier changes coming up! Every day is chaos. There is a list and a schedule (I tell myself). #photography #Alaska

When your parents wouldn’t buy you the actual glossy folder. I’m deep in the sorting project, and almost finished with this room.

Let they who have never forgotten batteries in their flash be the first ones to throw stones… Toothpicks, white vinegar, q-tips, and some metal scraping did the trick! #photography

Deeper and deeper into the sort pile we go!

St. Teresa grapes showing some early color. This is its first year fruiting. We’ll be gone before the Concord is ready, but maybe the new vine ripens in time. The raspberries are about ready to pop too. Mmm. Handfuls of morning raspberries. Soon. #photography #Colorado #gardening

Taking some 30sec relaxation videos of all of the pollinators and life in the raspberry patch, and I wondered why this one bee was dangling from the end of a raspberry leaf. Then I zoomed in. Damn, yellow crab spider, you're punching up. Dozens of other bees escaped unharmed. #photography #Colorado

This rat sneaks over from the neighbor’s yard and snacks on fallen fruit. If only the squirrels would learn that the ground peaches are fair game. We would be on much better terms, and there would be less spray bottle attacks for them. #gardening #Colorado #photography

Smol jumper. Much thirsty. Day two of the garage sale. I’m zoning out in a chair and I spot this little jumper on the orchid. 100F days in full sun, and a dusty garage at night for this little one. I dropped some water out for it, and boy was spidey happy! #photography #Colorado

This giant fuckin’ marker got me like, “where do I live again?”

Me yesterday: Why did I start this yard sale so late? Me today: Why did I start this yard sale so early? *heavy sigh*

Top Drummer Best - 2 I’m imagining a Chinese Don Draper advertising executive pitching this. “Mr. Tabata, your drums are great and all, but you want to sell albums.” (I’m almost finished sorting albums) (Censored by me ‘cause you never know…) #vinyl #vinylsky #vinylcommunity

Made it to 50! Who would have thought that would happen? Picked some peaches, got some flowers, set up for a garage sale tomorrow. Hard core stuff. I am currently enjoying a nice rain storm. Not too shabby. #photography #gardening #Colorado

I purchased ~900 albums for $300. I quick-sorted out 200 or so, then moved from Hawaii to the mainland. I’ve added ~100 to my personal collection, and am starting to sell what’s left. Quite a lot is going to the free pile. Let’s see if I break even. Stay tuned! #vinyl #music #vinylsky

The squirrels have found a workaround to my chili pepper spray… “Ew. That’s hot! That’s horrible!” “Oh my gods, that’s so good!” “Ew. That’s hot! That’s horrible!” Repeat as necessary. #photography #gardening #Colorado

They’re so close to done! I’ve shooed the same squirrel out of the tree three times already this morning. Last night’s rain washed all my anti-squirrel pepper water away… Now I sort through albums to sell, and prep for a garage sale. Good times. He’s back! #photography #gardening #Colorado

Damn squirrels… I forget to spray chili pepper water last night, and the squirrels ruined the top peach (among others). Gar! #gardening #Colorado

Morning coffee while shooing the squirrels away from the peaches. #photography #gardening #Colorado

Behind the raspberries, in the front side yard, is a bed of mixed irises. They are loving the weather, and the pollinators are loving In other garden news, the Russian sage must go… #bloomscrolling #gardening #Colorado #photography

Bring seven albums to trade in. Two get trade-in credits or cash. I take trade-in, buy a record and am now down $28. Here’s the problem… *Motions at pile of 400 records to trade in.* I was hoping to break even. #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity

I always get a smile out of seeing the bees enjoying the yard. #photography #bloomscrolling #gardening #Colorado

The lot of 850ish random records is now pared down to 450ish and ready for the second stage of sorting. I’m hoping for 5-10% keepers for my own collection, and maybe I’ll break even on selling the rest. Just a taste of the keepers I’ve found so far. #vinyl #vinylsky #musicsky

Lilies be poppin’. And I am avoiding all the yard work I said I would do this morning… Sadly, the neighbor’s ivy that constantly creeps into my yard, and invites even more japanese beetles, isn’t going to trim itself. #bloomscrolling #gardening #Colorado

Fledgling (pushing it): I’m soooo hungry. Hungry! Hungry! Mom: Go get food. It right there! Fledgling: Hungry! Hungry! Mom, get! Mom: *FFS* (and goes to get food. Teenagers… #Colorado #Corvids

Peaches come from a can. They were put there by a man, In a factory downtown. #photography #gardening #Colorado

On my morning hunt to drown some Japanese beetles, I saw this little beast helping to fight the good fight on the raspberry patch. The pollinator gardens are teaming with honeybees, and the ladybugs are patrolling the grape vines. Peaches ripen later this month. #Colorado #gardening #photography

Me? Oh not much. Decided to cut through a sprinkler line first thing this morning. You know, just because nothing can be easy. Switched to the hand trowel now… Box-O-Tools, save me! #photography #gardening #Colorado

Two yellow coreopsis, and four “surpririses” to replace the rabbit-eaten plants in the very front beds. Meanwhile, the roses haven’t been dead-headed, and the russian sage is taking over. And a handful of summer raspberries are already starting to ripen. #photography #bloomscrolling #Colorado

Going through ALL the things. Some boxes are more fun to sort than others. #photography

Sweetpeas blooming in the alley. #bloomscrolling #photography #Colorado

Here's a Great Blue Heron because you deserve it. That's is. You're doing great! Things are cray cray. You're good though. You got this. #photography #wildlife #Colorado