I had a dream last night that my husband made me give away our cats and I still have not forgiven him even though he profusely apologized for what dream-him did. 😅 I keep looking at my cat and going “I can’t believe he made me give you away!”

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

The arguments on the right justifying Trump demolishing the East Wing as fine because Obama replaced a tennis court with a basketball court are truly insane.

This fall is really just too much on every level. I am, at this point, about one more problem needing an immediate solution away from totally cracking up.

I am kind of astonished at how muted the reaction has been so far in a country were people try to get, like, gas stations declared as historic landmarks. Can we at least get Mike Johnson on camera claiming he hasn’t seen these pictures? Or doesn’t know where or what the White House is?

Psst. Washington state: are you listening?

In case anyone needs a visual of what's happening to the White House, I drew this scaled diagram. Obviously this is a pretty rough sketch, but the dimensions are correct. You can see how visually, the new East Wing will dwarf the existing White House building.

“Argentina has great beef.” “Beef and nazis.” -While You Were Sleeping

My favorite sign today said “our healthcare has been deported to Argentina.”

Big turnout in our little town! Little kids to the elderly with walkers. And it was joyful community and very peaceful. We love our country!

The boys from Zaporizhia were separated by Russia's war. A year without seeing each other. Then came an unexpected reunion that changed everything. 👇

A creative structural strategy here. 🤔

My high school senior is beginning to hit that emotional wall where it’s all hitting him that some big life changes are coming and he doesn’t feel ready and whew! How on earth do you not sob along with your kids through this stuff? Like. This is the sweetest kid ever and I’ve never done this before.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. Autocad dimension of 21/64”

Diane Keaton died! I am crushed! Such an icon.

Their second album just dropped. It’s called We No Longer Like Pâté.

I was just saying last night that I could use one more work project and I woke up this morning to an email regarding a (good!) new project. I love when the universe works like that.

New hair for my favorite pot.

For my architecture/engineering buddies out there: I just had a structural engineer give me a set of drawings in 7/32 scale. What??? Why??

My oldest turned 18 over the summer necessitating a realID to travel at Thanksgiving. I gathered all the docs back in August, made appt, was told he had to get standard ID first. Got that. Went home, set docs down (birth cert, ssn card, etc). Then house construction chaos began. 1/

Second Friday in a row my high school kids have been stuck in a lockdown. This time it’s going on 2.5 hours. How on earth are kids supposed to learn like this??

Thanks, Taylor.

The news continues to suck so here’s my cat.

I have gotten a lot of permits in a lot of local jurisdictions, but I have never seen bureaucracy like the city of Renton. Sheesh.

Rest in peace to my teenage crush. Thanks for caring so much about the environment.

A great thread if you need some positivity!!

This replacing pipes situation has turned into a real life version of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and I think my husband might die of cost-overruns.

Studs in old houses are so beautiful.

Yep! So much better!

Your old home PSA of the day: if you have galvanized pipes, they probably look like this inside and you really really need to replace them. They have an expiration date which was years ago.

Took my kids to the state fair today and we were all very amused by this particular food option.

Sitting at a light watching 3 police cars finish up some kind of stop, officer puts carefully closed paper bag in trunk. Me to 12 who loves & has watched many detective shows: what do you think is in that bag? Evidence? 12 very confidently: it’s either drugs or a sandwich. I laughed so hard.

This is their album cover. It’s called “I’ll Wake You Up at 5.”

I’ve already had my 6 weeks of summer. I’m ready for the chill in the air, fuzzy pj pants, and snuggly throw blankets. What I am not interested in is another heat wave - especially at the height of fire season. 😭

Took my youngest to the beach today and we were marveling at all the sand dollars. Look how its little hairs move around. These act like little feet.

Look at our cute little honey jars! All ready to gift to our neighbors.

Hozier was awesome. 🤩

This is basically the religious deconstruction I had to do in therapy. What does good even mean? Who defines it?

Walked into a [big name] law firm on the top floor to meet with a client I’m designing a house for. The receptionist was kind enough to tell me there was kombucha on tap. 🤔 Also, this was the view from the conference room. 😵 The lobby was even more amazing but I was trying to play it cool.

I just learned that a relative (not raised conservative or overly religious) is moving to AZ bc they don’t like the schools in WA - too much “gender” & “lgbtq stuff.” 🙄😬 (Their kid is a baby - they have no experience w/school.) HOW/WHY are ppl joining the conservative movement at *this* moment?

First honey harvest! We got about a gallon which surprised us because we had a massive die off of bees in the spring and some queen drama. My husband calls this his gentleman’s hobby because this is a VERY expensive gallon of honey. 😅

Today’s garden harvest was plentiful.

I’m an AC miser (we have an older gas system that is $$ to run & it’s not THAT warm here) but I totally turned it on for my cats today. Just look at that comfort.

i think it's cool that the existence of Zohran Mamdani is clearly driving the Vice President insane

When you hire an architect, they will care about building codes and they will remind you of them when you want to do something that is not code compliant. It's just part of the job description. Being annoyed by life safety codes does not make them go away. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

That’s Paul Simon way down there. Tonight was one of those nights I didn’t care about the seats, was just happy to be in the building. The last night of his Quiet Celebrations tour and the set list was perfect. I got to hear St. Judy’s Comet live. A dream for a mom of once little boys. 💫

Awww. 🥰

I did my best on a periodic table cake. I had a whole plan for the elements that didn’t work out so buttercream was as good as it got. You guys! Somehow I have an 18yo! So weird.

I asked my kids to put *a few* of the cans of soda I bought into the basement fridge and clearly they UNDERSTOOD the assignment. It is now officially a drink fridge. (Which my then-15yo equated for true wealth when we moved into this house. We have arrived.) #sorryforthemormonism #iykyk

I was alone in this basement measuring today and blessedly I am still alive.