We’ve Now Tripled In Size 😊 … and added a homemade stake to celebrate. 🌿

🧩 Just Completed Over Morning Coffee…now off to morning walk in 81° / 80% humidity b/f looming ⛈️ rest of day. Yep, walking in pea soup —hard to breathe. 🫤

📍Just Dropped Quilt Off!! It’s Done. 😊 She loves it. 💝 🌸🌼🌺🌻🌼🪻🌸🌺🌻🌼

Yes, I Bought New Glasses 👓 👩‍🏫 … because I’m not easy folks.🤭

90° Forecast Today, 82% Humidity Right Now -- Help! … at least the front garden loves it. Here’s the Day Lily blooms this morning. 🥵

📚 Just Finished: Where’d You Go, Bernadette 🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊 … a most enjoyable, entertaining read. Bernadette is aptly described by a line in the book: “Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because I'm about to kick the shit out of life.” Quirky, fun, smart & laugh out loud funny.

My Snooty Neighbor (Me) Coffee Stroll Through The Neighborhood This Morning 🤭 ☕️

Fested Yesterday…local beer fest I’ve attended over the decades. Definitely some Texas flair.

Patio Personalities... what people put on patios is a window into their personalities, IMO. Fun to try & guess.

@cherylfl.bsky.social Here’s mine.

Nope. Not Crazy At All. 🐈 🤭 … just really great advertising!

Good Morning Greetings From Maddie 🐈‍⬛ … the wheels are turning in that pretty head; “what chaos can I rustle up today?”.

📚 Just Finished: The Silent Patient 🤫🤫🤫🤫 … you just know it’s not good when a woman stops talking. What a mind bender… enjoyed trying to untwist this psychological head game. Trust no one.

@sarahsansom.bsky.social Just saw this on Drew Barrymore show - you must!!! I’ll have the Pastrami Reuben, thank you. 🥯

🧩 Finished Today: You’ll undoubtedly recognize many paintings by the masters.🎨👨‍🎨

LOOK! It Bloomed! … what a difference 48 hrs makes. 🧡🌿

Bearing Fruit…now to beat the possum & squirrels & birds to it.

Happy Mother’s Day, Mother Nature 🌿

Have kittens, they said, you will love it. Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there---with or without fur.

Random Critters Today…nighty nite all!

Off To Yoga — But 1st , Look! … 1st bloom on this Day Lily plant this year. ♥️ 💛 🧡 🌿 ♥️ 💛 🧡

You Really Do Have To Admire Their Chutzpah…I’ve got ‘em out in the front and back. 🐿️

📚 Finished at 1:45AM: Raising Hare 🐇🐇🐇🐇 … a most lovely memoir/debut. An orphan baby hare & a lady changed forever by loving it while respecting its wildness. An added bonus —> beautiful illustrations throughout.

🧩 Silly Cats With Fancy Collars…completed jigsaw puzzle earlier today during a cool, lazy afternoon coffee break (and didn’t spill any this time!).

🧩 Just Finished: Cat’s Leisure Time … a fun one (cats, of course!). Halfway through, I tipped over a coffee mug on the bottom half…much blotting (and cursing) ensued. Held up pretty well!

📚 Just Finished: The Anthropocene Reviewed ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️… if you don’t find a morsel of yourself in any of these deeply personal (often vulnerable) stories, factoids, then you may not be human, or at least my kind of human. Learned so much, felt all the feelings, and completely loved Green’s latest book.

My Happy Place Today … went to Hunt Slonem Exhibit at Dallas Arboretum. New artist to me; perfect weather 70-80° while there & lunch on a shady patio. www.dallasarboretum.org/hunt-slonem-...

Going In / Coming Out 🧘‍♀️ ☮️ My views walking into yoga class & then leaving. A mood of tranquility—all of it helpful these days for the body, mind & spirit. Nighty nite to all. 💤😴

Light Dinner / Nervous Stomach … Round 1 playoff hockey Game 6. Go Stars! 🥅 🏒

Maddie 🐈‍⬛ This Morning… “Let’s Go!!” She was more than ready to start the day @ 6:45AM. 🫤 Me, not so much. Another dentist deep clean a tooth appt. & errand for a printer Waste Toner Box replacement. Fun times.

Goodnight All. 🛌 🧡 Raphi 🐈 🖤 Maddie 🐈‍⬛

📚 Just Finished: All The Broken Places 👵👵👵👵 … Gretel, at 12 years old and Gretel at 91 years old respond differently to events of brutality and evil. Living a lifetime of guilt and lies, shapes a person — and in this case, the impact of the Holocaust and domestic violence collide.

@barbiedahl.bsky.social You missing a kitty? 🤭 bsky.app/profile/luca...

Please Don’t Ask … how long this took me. 🙃

Today’s Day Lilies 🩷💜 … so pretty. 🌿

This is the only improvement that the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool needed.

📚 Just Finished: One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich ⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️… the inhumanity of a Soviet prison work camp for just one day, described here, is beyond comprehension. Brutal times, brutal history. Yet, a spirit that allows survival still exists, and is told through the book’s protagonist.

Long Night. 🌪️💨⛈️ … everyone hunkered down. We missed the worst of it, thankfully. Thoughts for all our neighbors to the north & west directly impacted. 🥺

The Mums, Milkweed And A Day Lily 🌿

The Regulars 🐿️ ♥️🪶🖤… Nutella & Mr. Cardinal.

📚 Just Finished: North Of Ordinary 🧊❄️🏔️🧊…a memoir. A 12 yr old left by her mother in subzero temps at an Alaskan campsite to fend for herself. So it begins…a lifetime of love for the wilderness north of the Arctic Circle. Living where a mistake may cost your life; where death is a daily part of life.

Socks the cat never fell asleep in the Oval Office. And you know how much cats like to take naps.

Doing My Part 🗳️…local election for 3 school Board Of Trustees positions & 20 year renewal of local tax for Crime Prevention initiative that’s expiring. IT REALLY MATTERS!! Please vote in your local elections too.

📚 Just Finished: Tell The Wolves I’m Home 🐺🐺🐺🏡… YA debut novel set in 1987 AIDS crisis, told through voice of 14 yr old, June, who loses her uncle Finn to the disease. Complicated parents (esp. the Mother), often mean older sister, & Finn’s partner round out this sometimes kind of “off” tale.

Early Bird (😏) Special This Rainy Tuesday Morning 🌨️

📍Squares Galore… 156 of them to be exact. Next quilt project. 🟥🟦🟧🟪🟨🟥🟦🟧🟪🟨🟥

What A Difference A Day Makes! ☀️ ⛈️ … high yesterday 85° & sunny vs. 65° today & storms.

Quote post with the best picture you’ve ever taken of your pet.

Quote post with the best picture you’ve ever taken of your pet.