Great blue heron hunting goldfish in my garden pond. #Birds #BirdWatching #PondLife #Garden #GBH

Check out the iridescence on this cormorant. 😄 #Birds #Birdwatching #WSF #PugetSound

I've never seen a Canada goose on the pilings at the ferry terminal before. She's chased off all the cormorants, who are now hanging out on a channel marker. #Birds #Birdwatching #WSF #PugetSound

Today's #earworm #4nonblondes

Today's #earworm was particularly obnoxious because all I had was a fraction of one line, which was incorrect, (something something "for the good times" something something "for the bad times") and a cadence. I finally figured out what it was. I haz google skillz. 😄 #Chumbawamba

First day of spring quarter and The Mountain is out. I hardly saw it at all over winter quarter. #Tahoma #Rainier #PNW #WSF #PugetSound #Commute

Walking out my front door to a low, constant buzzing. #Bees #Garden #BloomScrolling #Spring

Sylvie snoring away. Do your cats snore? #TuxedoCats #CatsOfBluesky

Your moment of #Zen Song sparrows #Birds #BirdWatching #Garden #GardeningForWildlife #PondLife

What's blooming today 1/4 ID in alt text. Natives noted. #BloomScrolling #NativePlants #Garden #Spring #PNW

Photo of the Earth taken by astronaut commander Reid Wiseman from the window of the Orion spacecraft during the #Artemis II lunar mission. The images capture the planet from approximately 41,000 miles away.

I emptied the pantry, threw a bunch of stuff away, and reorganized everything. I may be hypomanic. 🤪 #SpringCleaning #Bipolar2

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using, with no explanation.

Calm space. It's been a hard day. #TuxedoCats #Crochet #Cannabis #Relax

Pooka the Lap Dog #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs

Today I am inspired to delve into why "I'm sorry" is an uncomfortable response for someone talking about trauma. For me, this response throws me off because I pivot to comforting the person listening. "It's not your fault." I understand it's an expression of sympathy, but it shuts me down. 1/3

Today's hellebore float. #BloomScrolling #Hellebore #Gardening

Hemulen is front and center today. #Aquarium #TropicalFish #Freshwater #Plecostomus

I stood up and there weren't immediate fireworks, but I made Jasper (the ginger) move before I left. Sylvie would have won the argument, but it would have been noisy. #CatsOfBluesky #TuxedoCats #GingerCats

No room! No room! #TuxedoCats #CatsOfBluesky #Dogs #DogsOfBluesky

I'm making new microwave bowl cosies today. One size for soup plates and one for deep bowls. #Crochet

I am DONE! Another school term finished. I'm gonna go crash now. #BloomScrolling

I'm glad I didn't pay full price for this "spreadable brie". 😝

This was a confusing ball toss for Pooka. I had to throw three more balls at it to knock it down, which was even more confusing. 😂 #DogsOfBluesky #BullyBreeds

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet:

Wild Friday night. I did go to the theater, though. Yay! It's about 1am, so, Happy #Caturday #TuxedoCats #Crochet

Friday, March 13th: Proof of first snow. #Snow #Garden #Spring

Let's play a game. Your pet gets chosen to be immortalised on a banknote. Which picture are you submitting?

I don't always come home from work at 10pm and stomp dance on the porch to Excitable Boy, but when I do, I'm probably manic. David said the cats inside were alarmed and worried, but it got Pooka off the porch in the rain to go pee. #WarrenZevon #Bipolar2 #Hypomania

Here's Jasper being photogenic while supervising my ablutions this morning. #GingerCats #CatsOfBluesky

I needed this tonight. Give me some of that boogie-woogie music. "You know you're over the hill when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill." #LittleFeat #Boogie

I miss thunder storms dearly. Sitting out on the deep porch and watching the thunderheads rolling in across the prairie. Lightning strikes stalking across the horizon. The whole house shaking. It's exhilarating! 🥰

I am tired of rabid atheists who use their atheism to justify their hatred of people. Some politician is raging against Muslims, saying they all ought to be deported. These guys are jumping on the bandwagon. All worldviews that spread hatred and division lead to concentration camps and murder.

How my brain works: Friend posts about local preacher's expensive car. Brain reacts with: Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz. Look up song and its genesis. Wander off to heroin. Spend two hours studying the history of opioids going back to 4000 BCE.

Today's #earworm Janis Joplin's last recording. Three days later she she was dead from a heroin overdose. #JanisJoplin

An interesting question for International Women's Day from Lainey Molnar. #LaineyMolnar #InternationalWomen'sDay www.instagram.com/p/DVobn9LiN2R

I encountered an interesting distinction among computer users. Those of us who started on PCs in the 80s are the command prompt generation. We see computers as understandable tools we control. Those who came after are the interface generation who see computers as appliances that work mysteriously.

It's been a long week. #TuxedoCats #CatsOfBluesky #Dogs #DogsOfBluesky

I tried Dubai #chocolate. I really like pistachios. It's okay, but the #pistachio flavor is drowned by the sweetness and chocolate. It's not worth the premium price.

For some reason the address 1313 Mockingbird Lane popped into my head. That ages me. 😂 #VintageTV

My pile of laundry fresh from the dryer is purring. #GingerCats #OrangeCats #CatsOfBluesky

First hellebore float of the season. They're usually more staggered and my first float has half this many or less. Warm winter hurried them along. #BloomScrolling #Hellebore #Gardening

I haz lumbar support. #Dogs #DogsOfBluesky #BullyBreeds

Bruno stretching for #Caturday #TuxedoCats #CatsOfBluesky

The view from my porch. #Spring #BloomScrolling

I sat down with my student who melted down in Zoom last night and found out why. He has an eye condition that makes screens hard to use, so he has problems with Zoom and with typing his research paper. We're sorting it out. #Teaching #Accomodation #Disability

I had to step on a student tonight. I hate doing that. He went off on a rant about not having enough time for his project. I had a mute button, though. <sigh> #Teaching

Time to wash Pooka's balls. She is concerned. #DogsOfBluesky #BullyBreeds #Dogs

The seagull is innocent! #Birdwatching #PNW #WSF #PugetSound #Seagull

I cleared out the house my grandparents built in the 1940s. It was an archeological expedition. There were lots of cigar boxes containing oddities. I named this one the Poe Box. Item ID in alt text. #Oddities #Antique #WeirdStuff