I just got yelled at for sneezing by 8 pounds of fluff (Púca), so that's my morning sorted.

They want to rip up a national forest to dig f'ing pit mines. You know, the sort of activity that national forest/park designations were created to protect the land from. Go shout this one down.

Bunny sploot. I think the local bun is comfortable around here. (For anyone concerned, we do not interact with it at all.)

It's not wrong to want a better world. It's not wrong to want peace, warmth, and talking owls to deliver secret messages from witches. It's not wrong to want to drink boozy milkshakes and get lost in a haunted forest together forever.

Spending the day at the Lunenberg Earth Day event yesterday was exhausting, but so very good. Not gonna lie, it kinda made me want to consider making another go at the little traveling market wagon of my dreams again. (I really am a wandering merchant at heart, aren't I?)

The thread is long, but a whole lot of people really need to read the whole thing and then take a good look at themselves.

It's Earth Day! If you're near Lunenberg, check out @redtrilliumgardens.bsky.social 's table at the Lunenberg Earth Day celebration at the TC Passios building and bring home some native plants for your yard!

Baked beans. I'm sorry, but molasses is a terrible thing to inflict on perfectly innocent kidney beans.

After several years of not using it, I decided to move my HSA to a different bank because I'm sick of their statement fees and crap interest rate. The problem? I can't set up an online account to start the move because buggy site so now I have to wait *2-3 DAYS* to get a temp password sent. FFS.

"A little help, please?"

Finally on the last row of this little guy before starting the cap. The ruffle instructions were throwing me for a while, but I've got it sorted now.

I know better than to engage with assholes online, but sometimes I just can't make my willpower save.

My cat seems to have melted. He's asleep like this. Weirdo.

The sweetgrass babies I planted last summer not only survived the winter, but are putting up flower stalks! I'm so proud of them!

I got bored with Pokemon Go and started playing Pikmin Bloom instead. It's pretty cute. Someday the Switch game will be on sale and I'll get that, too.

Tonight I venture forth to the Skywarn weather spotting training class, which I have duly warned is a gateway to ham radio. Thankfully, raging dyscalculia and little to no mechanical aptitude should save me from falling down that particular rabbit hole.

A custom wardrobe, made just for me.

Post your favorite film from the year you turned 18.

I need to find someone who will hire me to be a decorative pseudo-hermit*. I feel like it's a job that I'd really enjoy. *Being married sort of precludes full hermitude, hence the pseudo- prefix. Part-time hermit, maybe? Show up at a little cottage, putter around for the day, then go home?

I do so love it when people try and mansplain unions and union history to me.

After several days carefully inspecting the neighborhood, a pair of house finches have decided to set up housekeeping on one of the gutter pipes near the front door. In a few weeks, if all goes well, we'll have baby birds around the place!

I was a strange, feral child and, despite years trying to pretend otherwise, I remain a strange, feral adult.

Seriously, some of the images coming back from Artemis II are just absolutely, mindblowingly gorgeous.

Keep calling your reps, folks, and don't let up on it. Be polite to the folks answering the phones, but keep calling.

Burned a few spoons calling all of my reps to tell them to keep pushing for Caligula's removal *and* for consequences. Now to go get potting soil for the raised beds so maybe we can have at least some vegetables to eat this summer. Fucking bullshit timeline.

Sure would be nice if someone with actual power to do so FUCKING DID SOMETHING TO STOP THIS SHIT. Any time now. Ya know, *before* the lunatics do something we can't come back from.

Welcome to my DIY sound booth.

Slowly, but surely, training the cats that doorbells and/or strangers = cookies is paying off. At least with Oisín, and sort of Púca.

We've successfully cobbled together a makeshift recording booth in the basement room so I can do voiceover for videos, which removes one more obstacle from the path of getting back on track. Hooray! Now to get the weather and gas prices to stop thwarting me...

Springtime reminder for North Americans (yes, Canada, this goes for you, too) that honeybees are a non-native livestock species, brought over from Europe specifically for their honey crop and used to pollinate other non-native crop plants that native pollinators ignore.

I also just signed up to attend my credit union's annual meeting, and oh gods, I'm getting old aren't I?

Just registered with the weather service to train to be a storm spotter. Figure it not only gives me something useful to do, community-wise but it also might help my nerves with the increasing amount of tornados our region is getting if I actually know what I'm looking at, storm-wise.

Gas prices are up another 10 cents today, and I'm screaming because I haven't gotten all of the footage I need to film and it's rapidly becoming to expensive to go out and get it, but I need to make the damned videos so I can try and make money and GODS I hate those assholes.

The question is, do I want to spend 2.5 gallons of gas to go to my Congresscritter's Town Hall tonight...?

This.

Today, as it has been one year since I joined the Church of Gnome, I have attained the title of Lawn Gnome. Definitely one of the times that Trickster steered me in the right direction. It's a silly path, but one that has, against all initial expectation, had a lot of positive impact on my life.

Hnnnnng

*looks at latest gas price increase and screams* It's okay, I mean it's not like I need to be able to drive to do the things I need to do to try and make money or anything. *checks notes* Oh. Well, fuck.

Does anyone have an idea who the god(s) of photography and videography might be? I need to have a talk with Them. With gas prices being obscenely high, I can't afford to waste gallons of gas failing to get the shots I need. I need to know who to petition for successful video trips.

Gods, am I glad that I fixed the typo in that post yesterday. I did not expect it to get this popular.

The problem with the local fairy portal is that sometimes it's a doorway and sometimes it's just a ring of old plastic toys.

Updated my profile pic for Reasons.

Tried to attend a localish gathering of folks, but there were so many people there that the nearest parking option was further than I can walk. Good turnout for a small town!

"Sometimes The Mushrooms Don't Kill Us: The story of life on planet Earth."

"Protests are performative!" Yes. They are. THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT. TO DEMONSTRABLY SHOW THE FUCK UP, PUT ON A FUCKING SPECTACLE, AND MAKE IT VISIBLY, UNDENIABLY CLEAR WHAT YOU ARE SPEAKING OUT ABOUT. Preferably as annoyingly as possible because you WANT to draw attention. In numbers.

Have a lovely day to everyone out at the protests today! (Meatsuit is not letting me get out, myself, and I'm grumpy about it.)

Technically you *can* record audio directly in DaVinci Resolve, but apparently you can't do it *reliably*. I just want to make nice videos. Why is this such a Herculean task?

When he finally goes, can we take a page from the ancient Egyptians and scrub every instance of his name from history? Just completely erase his entire existence.

Bodach seems to be doing better this morning, thank gods, so at least for today we seem to have staved off a trip to the Big Vet Hospital. Cats, man.