This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓 The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺 The facts are so good 🥺 Eels are so cool 🥺 Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

Tell me your favourite things from the #BlueJays season. I'll start. Watching a team that had such clear joy in playing baseball. Who played as a team and made amazing things happen.

My heart is sore for the boys. #BlueJays, thank you for bringing me back to baseball and for the truly amazing season of watching you be incredible. I will be watching next season - sending hopes and hopes their way for another fantastic season next year.

All my mental energy is going to the Blue Jays playing their game tomorrow - taking it to the Dodgers the way we know they can. #OkayOkay #LetsGoBlueJays #LetsLetsPlayPlayBall

Okay boys do it tomorrow. I wanted the win for a birthday month present but I'll take it tomorrow instead. Just feel bad for Gaus. Tomorrow #GoBlueJays

Oh wow - what a game that was. I was happy to see how well Lauer pitched - what a performance from him even if this game didn't go our way. #GoBlueJays

Would have loved for the boys to go to LA up by two. But even will do. Just feel bad for Gausman the boys will need to be on their bats next time he pitches! #GoBlueJays

I've never wished I was in a sports stadium more than I wish I was in the Roger's Centre tonight. #GoBlueJays

A person gets so attached to the players on a team you watch play 160+ games in a year. I wish the rosters were bigger so I didn't have to see them move people I really enjoyed and think were important to the team off. But also happy to see those added back. I could never be an MLB manager.

Oh my gosh. I am an October baby and I have to say that the Blue Jays just gave me the best birthday month present I've ever had. Now I just need to wait a little to see if they one up their present. #GoBlueJays

Just like a win is a team effort, so too is a loss a team loss. I'm sad about tonight's result but still believe in my Jays and look forward to their comeback in the last two. #GoBlueJays

How about that - my team showing their true colours again tonight. #GoBlueJays Does Gimenez get the four finger treatment in the third tomorrow?

That was the perfect example of why I believe in that team and their whole team mentality. #GoBlueJays

Jays - I've watched you all season and I believe in you! #GoJaysGo This crew has a real team mindset and you can't keep a team like that down for long!

I'm trying to write one (generally terrible) little 'poem' for each player on the Blue Jays. I'm only at about 5 of them so far. Need many more. #GoJaysGo

I had filed my request for many extra innings tonight and my request was granted. Wonder who will pitch on Sunday against our Jays?

All I can say is Yay Blue Jays!!

Who else wants to admit they might just prefer the Queen of the Night's Act 1 aria, 'O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn,' over the more famous Act 2 'Der Hölle Rache' from Mozart's The Magic Flute? Detail from an old piece (Tamino is out of crop), c.2004/5. We won't talk about its manifold issues. 🙈

Hadn't watched baseball in years until last fall when my parents moved in. This season has been wonderful watching the #BlueJays. Was feeling a little worried but today felt like the Jays team I've been cheering for all year. Glad to see them looking themselves again.

I keep hearing a wee kitten crying outside but I can't find it, it stops when I go outside plus the sound dynamics are weird around my house, things often sound like they are in my back yard when they are in my neighbor's yard etc. Best way to find a wee baby stray cat anyone?

Today I give you camouflage cat and cuddle cat. I almost sat on camo cat later that same day.

Here is Black Cat with her chonky belly up to the air, 'hugging' the cat toy that she will either continue to just hug for a while before abandoning this lounging post by the stairs or start to viciously assault from this same belly up pose.

Today I register a victory over the badly manufactured a frame clothes hanger rack that I got for the closet. I beat the bad packaging/instruction combo (I think). I beat the bad threading. Sadly I'm fairly sure it will have the final victory when I hang one too many things on its junky frame.

So, GPS apparently has rendered people unable to read street signs (it is bad for my house so all the delivery drivers get lost). This is why I have no trouble believing those studies that show chatGPT ruins critical thinking skills.

I love your Mercenary Librarians books and am happy to send a shout out for them. I love the hope inherent in them, that good people can make a difference even in a dystopia.

Does anyone on here remember a Sask Roughriders player in the 1990s who broke his neck? A really promising rookie I think but I just can't seem to find anything about it and am wondering if I just have a faulty memory circuit in my old brain.

Original artwork available at auction, ending Friday 6th June, 18:00 BST. 🙏 Edmontosaurus Ink & gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, 132 × 85 mm. www.facebook.com/share/p/1AQ3...

Why can't I ever spell the word squawk without 10 tries and sometimes going to look it up?? WHY. Also why, given my troubles with it, why do I want to use it so often???

Anyone out there that wants to share something fun and/or fascinating. Could use a mood boost.

What's this I've drawn? Five points, A star! A star! No suckers? Things gone so wrong. Magic summons? A star's sea friend! Everything be-comes good in the end? #whistpr #tentacle #oopsPentacle (how do poets do it? not like the above ;) )

I really love this so much. Each time I read it I find an additional thing I love about it. Thanks for sharing.

"It's the bones Margi," Fred flips her a frown, "they get caught in my teeth. You know I hate the phalanges." "Freddy, when you start catching the talking apes, you can pick the parts you get to eat. Until then, slow down and eat what you're given" #whistpr #Bones

Orange Cat (sometimes lovingly called Dingus) who is usually either in motion or sitting in a way that allows her to stick her arse in your face, is here depicted in a rare moment of scritch reception without buttfaceitis happening.

Black Cat (or Chonk-op-o-popolis, or Chongo Bongo) has a thing about her back leg. Dangling off, or touching/resting on something. #Caturday

gosh, this felt so good to watch and listen to

Hung curtains in the sunroom (immediately felt the temperature reduce). Yay me, task done. Also got some dishes done and a little clean up work in my office space. No writing though. But there is always next weekend!

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Back in the day we had a beta VCR and a collection of movies so all of those got watched a lot of times because eventually you couldn't rent them anymore. So here is one from that list. You will feel great sadness for me if I list more of those movies.

In the Comic Timing dep't, feline division... (via @cosmonautroger on Tumblr)

Okay - greatness here and then down a couple more in the thread with the video with the poem. Do yourself a favour, check out both of them!!

I swear I once read something that talked about the relationship between the size of animals and the speed of a planet's rotation. Did I dream this? Or is my search skill just too poor for me to find it again? Any thoughts?

I just saw the luckiest Richardson's Ground Squirrel ever. It dashed and skittered onto the road (3 lanes). It dashed into the lane where everyone was driving. Not one, but two cars passed overtop of it before it dashed over to the final lane of its crossing where it wagged its tail as I passed.

Putting it out to the Group Mind: years ago, I read an Anne Lamott story about a woman visiting a friend with dementia that ended with a powerful visual symbol of a burn site. Does anyone know this story or remember what it's called? I'd love to cite it as an example of a visual symbol.

Does anyone know of a metal or alloy that is particularly hard to work with, that would be very hard to cast something from? But not iron or steel.

Choose 20 Canadian paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - one Canadian painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #CanCon Christi Belcourt Offerings to Save the World

For some reason I was just remembering having a 'tail' back in the 80s. Why I have no idea. That is why I remembered or why I had one for that matter.

It's that time of year again... It wouldn't be Saint Patrick's Day without the Leprechaun Brothers singing Danny Boy 🍀 The Swedish Chef, Animal, and Beaker from the Wally Boag episode of The Muppet Show in 1981

Sad #Brier moments as all the teams I was cheering for are now out. Watching curling makes me wish I'd kept curling. I used to have this three finger broom that I could make the whole rink thunder with. I love the idea of the physics of the new brooms but I miss that resounding thwap of old.

A story is drafted, a story is drafted! I'm very happy with it even in it's unedited form. Here's hoping I remain this happy with it once I dig in to edit. A mention of @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca 's art even makes an appearance!

So excellent!