A reminder that tomorrow is Donut Day. Get some to share with your emotional support hippo

Someday when we all have more disposable income I want to do a graduation fundraiser where we give $100 cash ( $50 or gift card or whatever!) to every kid in the neighborhood with a Graduation 2026 ( or whatever the year) sign up in front of their house.

I finally got a decent night's sleep since Sunday although I have a tiny headache as a result but Farmers Market, yeah? The dogs have been such good housemates while Ben has been away. Waffles has been especially animated but I really gotta wash that door again.

WHO BELIEVES THIS? From an administration that siphoned all the $ away from America250 to create a Maga Rally with taxpayer dollars and on public land? You really believe it was "vandals" that treated the National Mall with trademark Dominionism? Come on.

"Mother, why are you working and watching tennis when you could be playing mini avocad with meeeeeeeee?"

I know I said I hate Threads but it is a lot easier and more fun to follow sports (specifically Tennis) there. I wish more of the official accounts would set up shop here. Social media apps like HootSuite now have Bluesky integration so get on it, brands and teams and entities.

New Podcast Episode Night!

Waffles says dinner was so good tonight

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit 🐰🐰🐰

I am blasting Noah Kahan's Downfall so loud right now that the yogurt container full of Blueberry's chicken meatballs just blew off my bluetooth speaker.

Reminder: Do your rabbits tonight/tomorrow before you do or say anything.

I do not believe this for one hot minute. How can you be "misled" these days unless you are either very stupid or very privileged to not be aware of what is going on in Washington DC (or both, I guess) but I suspect they are all just fuckin' liars.

This is why we have Fridays off, now.

The world is a hard place right now for 100+ different reasons so if you can, if you are in a position to do it, consider summer hours/Fridays off/4 day work week. Today I decided we all have summer Fridays off because we could not give raises this year bc of funding. Will revisit after Labor Day.

Uh, did I just hear on the TNT coverage of RG, one of the guys calling the Shelton match (was it Jim Courier? I don't know because they don't show them) refer to the two BLACK French players, Arthur Fils & Moise Kouame as "a couple of young bucks?" Can we move these elder tennis guys along now?

14 years ago I sat my my father's hospital bed and waited for him to part this mortal coil. There's more story before this date, and more story after this date, but when we drove home there was a rabbit in our driveway, where we had never seen a rabbit before.

This day. Ugh.

Thanks to bestie @kazurcher.bsky.social who sent a CASE of gatorade (the stores only had the zero sugar which I can't drink and some other toxic sludge full of magnesium which wrecked me!) to help me power through this bad cold. I am finally on the other side of it and my appetite is finally back.

And by "all the stuffies" I mean just the ones I could see and carry in one armload. There are at least 5 armloads of stuffies, probably more, plus giant avocad, the Blåhaj, and a sea turtle that is as big as a small pillow

Has anyone seen Waffles? I was washing all the stuffies and he just disappeared

And in other news! Happy Birthday to @samanthakm.bsky.social --I hope she's off visiting some animals today and then lots of cake.

I see a lot of "the problem with Bluesky" "thinkposts" and I believe that those who write them do not have actual interaction with real live white christian nationalists in their family and life and can't understand why some of us may not want to interact with violent & stupid strangers on Twitter.

Would it be irony if whatever Trump et al stayed in town for this weekend was to make more members of the Memorial Day club?

What’s in the DNC 2024 autopsy?

Ken Martin has to resign

Blueberry 🫐 says he was just too exhausted to chase his tail the other night.

Baby bird at the buffet today

Democrats who won't do the work are just as bad as Republicans who won't do the work.

You all were right. the Peanut M&Ms did not help.

I have a sore froat.

Clown Shoes does not like car travel; he much prefers little green cart transit. Or walking.

Still no hummingbirds but I plugged the regular feeder back in today to see if any bluebirds are around. Guess what? Bird butt.

I am so much less upset that my mother forgot my birthday this year, then I am that she thinks that Democrats should continue to follow the rules of engagement and not take a page out of the right's playbook when fighting back. "Pitchforks and torches," she'd say. "Get them out."

Mother fucker

Have you seen Laddie Marmalade lately?

This is perfect for when other law enforcement agents (CBP, NATIONAL GUARD ETC)have to specifically say that they're "not NICE."

Congratulations to @pablo.show !!! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/b...

You guys know my birthday is tomorrow, right? 😂

@meredithhaines.bsky.social I went to Abernethy & Spencer yesterday and OMG it was like I died and went to plant nursery heaven. It was truly the exact kind of lil bit shabby place I love. & I didn't even get into all the spaces--just the perennials & annuals. I might go back on Monday.

Ok don't forget

My sister and I got each other the same little garden cart for our birthdays and Clown Shoes has claimed it as his own

Fatniss and I are on an adventure

Here's your early reminder for Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit on Thursday / Friday!

HAILEY BAPTISTE ⭐

New Episode Night! Get it where you get your favorite podcasts! In this episode: It's Birthday Month!

If you haven't listened to the @pablo.show Pablo Torre interview with Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social about the Onion winning the Infowars auction and court case, do it. It broke my heart. Excuse me while I drive to the Chicago area to give him a hug.

New Episode Night! Get it where you get your favorite podcasts! In this episode: It's Birthday Month!

Let me guess, only political violence and rhetoric from the left though, right?

Farmers Market update from Northern Virginia: Strawberries are coming in and so is rhubarb. We are working on the foundation for the greenhouse today. Also: It is my birthday week which is the start of Birthday Month I am going here this week abernethyspencer.com and spending whatever birthday $

We are thoroughly enjoying Sabres Hockey in this house.