The first set of seeds have been started!

If you're looking for accounting help or tax prep, A friend of mine has hung out their own shingle. They did good work for the taxes for the LLC that a local convention set up, and I'm planning on using them for my own income taxes this year. lavender-cpa.com

really want to get a pair of these "arm chaps" (basically leather gauntlets) for hacking at english ivy and other times when I'm likely to end up with fucking poison ivy and they are not designed with petite fat women in mind. My knuckle measurement is an XXS, and my forearm is a M. :/

Very annoying that you can’t mute authors on AO3 who use one of the Anonymous collections. Would like to get this endless series out of the tag on the page but nooooooo

Clothing company sends me a plaintive postcard, “we’ve missed you!” And doesn’t even bother to include a discount. Your shit is expensive and you stopped making two of the things I bought from you, and I’m stocked up on the third.

I suppose you do have to be irrationally smug to run as a Republican in this district, but goddamn, who thought this picture was a good idea.

thank fuck, a bunch of work related prep work is now done. Now we just have to see if I remember to press Go Live on the thing on Monday. I made an appt to drop my car off for warranty work right before so chances are mixed.

Season 6 Trailer #1: Foreman's Report How can soil hunger? youtu.be/mbhR2Jk9HdQ

The rhino is definitely having a good time. The dik-dik looks a little more serious but I think he's also just playing.

This is delightful and everything looks delicious!

abrupt subject change while I try to forget even the stills I accidentally saw: someone's trail cam finally got a bobcat on video in one of our local parks and seeing this dumb joke underneath the images was an unexpected laugh

Holy shit, all of this.

Muttering to myself about possibly moldy food: it'll be fine unless I give myself Aspergillus. J: What? Ass tuberculosis? Me: no, Aspergillus. It's a fungi. I don't think the other thing is a thing. J, googling: "Anal tuberculosis is an extremely rare extrapulmonary presentation of tuberculosis"

I saw a melanistic grey squirrel in my neighborhood today! (All black) They’ve been in neighborhoods across the major road for a couple of years but I guess they finally got one safely across. Will be interesting to see how fast the gene spreads.

One of the very first videos we rented in 1987ish? was Date With An Angel and I was fucking obsessed with it. Also The Last Unicorn I think was part of that rental?

How do you say Clematis? I've always said Cle-matt-tis but the audiobook I'm listening to says CLEM-ah-tis and it's driving me up the wall.

‘Round here we have a healthy respect for the wolf-bird. I remember once reading about a bald eagle that had made the poor decision to go for a loonchick snack too close to loonparent. Per the eagle’s autopsy report, cause of death was loon bill STAB THROUGH THE HEART.

Slogging through more life admin. Trying to get the FSA bastards to reimburse me for pads which may be dicey since I got them off amazon to donate and the receipt from amazon is fucking useless. Like, why does the invoice not even have their logo on it???

Looking at new plates for my car because mine are so old that they're peeling and I wonder if I can get a "Horse Enthusiast" plate with the custom tag of "HISWIF A"

Omega cabinets, hur hur hur. (Actually this is a pretty set!) communityforkliftmarketplace.org/products/8-p...

For those playing the home game on my solar install, I have not yet heard from my project manager nor gotten a new contract. I do not have solar installed.

Got my bonus so splurging on some books and preorders on bookshop.org and hoping that I remember that I preordered those titles by the time they come out!

Man, I would like my efforts to help people find jobs would be successful soon.

Squeeeee! I had some ornithologists confirm an #owl calling (audio only) last year as long-eared. Me: "No way! We don't have them." But, LOOK! Yes. We. Do. #birds So excited to capture this looker on #cameratrap. (Edited ... it was here quite a while)

the thing were it will take entirely too much time and effort to explain a question because the person you're asking doesn't even have the basics of the situation and you decide to just wing it. Will this bite me in the ass? 50/50.

I usually photograph flying birds with their wings outstretched, but this 'tuck position' allows for a nice tight shot. Mallard drake, Huntley Meadows Park, Alexandria, Virginia, USA 6-JAN-2025 #birds

Meanwhile, in Vermont, the chickens have had enough

$390 raised already!. C’mon… you know you want to flip people off with handknit mittens.

!CLICK HERE FOR HOT DESPERATE HORNY SINGLES IN GOTHAM CITY! We’re waiting for you and we don’t have our gas masks ;) archiveofourown.org/works/60141589

There are three other mammals in my bed. Two of them are snoring and one is kicking me in his sleep.

My new fitness tracker has a really weird idea of what a stressful day is for me. I'm guessing it's basing it off like resting heart rate which for me is above ideal. Like, the dogs weren't even assholes on their walks today.

Finally got a siren-inspired chorus

I love when the attendee list scammers send me an offer of a list for MY OWN EVENT with like 5 times the registrants than we actually have. Like, I half want to take them up on it to see what's on it. How many names are completely made up.

You can find a Stop The Bleed class here, highly highly recommended in this time of [everything] cms.bleedingcontrol.org/class/search There's no minimum age requirement, bring your tweens & teens.

It's nice enough to have the door open so the dogs are running out to the deck to scream at wildlife. I bet everyone wishes they lived next door to me!

Snowhenge at dawn in Burlington VT

I’ve loudly talked about how making stuff for @romancingthevote.com and other charitable auctions fills a lot of my time and it really really helps. Money for important orgs and I get to make wild things for appreciative people. Like this bag set I just finished!

I keep thinking it's blue. It hasn't been blue for like five years.

For DC residents in the Anacostia watershed: free plants!

Have now watched a squirrel bounce off the baffles like three times. Gotta admire persistence, I guess? But also, like dude, the fucking house sparrows fling seed everywhere off the feeders. You're not starving. You just have to work a little harder.

One of my coworkers has a letter he sends to the new interns each semester that does things like list off the working groups they'll be added to. Two of the groups merged like 18 mon ago. I've sent the correction to him like 3 times. I was just copied on the letter with the wrong groups again. Bro.

Look at these amazing mittens!!

Scrolling through sewing videos and making judgy commentary on their binding process choices. Like, why sew on one raw edge and then have to go through a fiddly folding and sewing process at the end? folding and sewing on both raw edges at once and then just one fold is the same number of layers.

This Kottke short links to a longer article about the reaction to the quilt which is very interesting. www.quiltfolk.com/journal/one-...

The last invoice from the Deeply Stupid Project has finally been paid! There is 1 (ONE) outstanding invoice for anything 2025 left and chasing that one is not my problem. Now I just need to get all of these fuckers to pay their dues.

Update: Yeah, it sucks.

Please, baby fic writers, learn to use vocative commas. I’m begging you.

Have to log into work tomorrow. Dunwanna. Fuck, I probably need to turn email notifications back on too. Got a lot of house and life admin done over the break which is impressive considering we were out of town for half of it. So at least I’m going into it without a huge backlog.

SHE LIVES! Yeah she's not very choppy but it's the thought that counts. 😂