Saturday. After a week of sunshine the PNW "comfy gray blanket" is back. Puttering around doing chores today and wearing a heavy sweater, yay.

Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!

This is a good cooking channel. I'm also amused by the little RATM art in the background. To let you know he's punk.

The Hunterston Brooch from the collections of the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. Dating to around 700 AD, the brooch was found at Hunterston in North Ayrshire during the 1830s. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #HunterstonBrooch

Bad news, everybody. Not eating refined sugar on a day makes me feel waaaaay better the next day. Confirmed by my Fitbit.

The creature moved with a sound like dry autumn leaves being crunched by a child out for a walk. It moved with the sound of sticks scraping stone, old trees straining against storm. This was the moment he felt what seasoned occultists call ‘summoning regret’. - #CLNolan, Come Sprite, Come

Cat in the Summer Meadow, Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939).

Canaletto, Piazza San Marco with the Basilica, 1730. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge #Venice

i'm gonna roll some dice only got 20-siders in my pocket i'm, i'm, i'm rollin' lookin' for a critty this is fuckin' awesome

Potting Shed Pussycat

you guys look at this coral fungus 😳

Monday Monday, a cracking sunny day, so after I've done my housework I'll out to prepare more raised beds. It... erm... occurs to me that I should have planted my peas by now. Oh well. It'll happen when it happens.

Okay, was "don't smoke, don't drink, so what do you do?" a whole thing in 70s/80s? From Rat Race by Dick Francis 1971 and Goody Two Shoes 1983 Adam Ant.

Okay, was "don't smoke, don't drink, so what do you do?" a whole thing in 70s/80s? From Rat Race by Dick Francis 1971 and Goody Two Shoes 1983 Adam Ant.

Where the food is brown or squiggly or possibly both

You know an eBay auction is going to be fire when someone writes to ask if you'd consider just selling it to them instead of finishing the auction.

Like Pokemon, evolving to a higher state

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Strength training will have to wait until I have the gardens in order. C'est la vie.

I love Dick Francis books because they can get me in the feels but without making me cry.

My favorite posh expat travel blogger's small boys are on their "Easter hols" I guess, because they've rented a house in the Highlands. It is snowing there.

Hellebores better every year

Just now as I stood at the picnic tables planting my dahlia seed, my 15yo knocked on her bedroom window and waved Hi to me. I blew a kiss back and she grinned like a goon and made heart-hands. She's a dear and a good kid but she's also been individuating for several years now. And I've been...

I chose to watch Amadeus on the last night before I left for college, so the 1984 film is special to me. But the original NY cast was Tim Curry and Ian McKellan (London Simon Callow & same), which would have been delightful, and I'm interested to see whether Paul Bettany carries this off.

The fanciest cell packs I own for the fanciest seeds I've ever bought. This morning I started my new dahlias. Two years ago, when Floret first sold seeds, I bought a packet of Shooting Stars and they're now my favorite dahlias, above any named variety. So why not more?

Not sure how doing my garden chores is going to mesh with doing the cardio and strength work I've decided I have to do for my health. Gardening isn't quite the same but... it has to be done. I am deep in it. But I feel and my Fitbit agrees that the workouts trash me. Darrrrrrgh.

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Had missed this. Pretty great.

Photos meant to illustrate what Viking age graves might have looked like. Pictures were originally taken to show the personal clothes, tools and utensils of these re-enactors about to go to a re-enactment event. facebook.com/andrimners/p... © 2017 Andrimners Hemtagare

"A rat done bit my sister Nell"

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth... chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/genera...

I love old nutrition films so much.

Birth of John the Baptist. Midwives: see what a cute baby? Let's call him Clive! Dad: no it's John or Sylvester, take your pick. Florentine baptistry mosaic by Cimabue, whose day is today.

A someone who wrote a 2006 dissertation in the field of ontology... I am discomfited.

A 12th-century “Warder” from the Lewis Chessmen—the medieval equivalent of a rook. Discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland but likely carved in Norway around 1150–1200, these pieces reveal the artistry and reach of the Norse world.

Empress Methuselah was 100% a housecat, and she was sweet and cuddly and clearly loved us, but Peewee is *choosing* us. He scampers after us. It's a completely different vibe.

We can't get enough of copycat Olive Garden salad lately. Iceberg lettuce isn't nutritious but it sure goes down easily.

Pleeeeeeez this is the franchise I deserve

My catte ys a chaos ball A mess of mischief makinge But everye daye thys litel guy Doth keepe myne hearte from breakinge

I've never had a garden cat before, and it's fun! The only drawback is that his idea of being friendly is to tackle us with his claws. We're working on it; meantime we have a lot of pinpricks. Even my knee boots aren't enough armor.

Took ibuprofen and melatonin at bedtime, woke up feeling great! The first workout is always the worst.

Reading this thread, I had to stop to see if it was April 1 already. It isn't.

The thing about hoarding craft supplies is that sometimes something becomes rare & desirable while you're holding it, and then you get to have a fun eBay auction.

Sunday. Did my Big 3 strength workout again. Sowed a gazillion garden seeds. About to start laundry. Been up for 3 hours, feeling ready for bed.

Prescriptivism in grammar is middle class insecurity, not linguistic truth.

Hello! Illustration of lonchitis in the Old Paris Dioscorides. BnF Grec. 2179, f.65r, 9th century. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... #histmed #medievalsky

It's a trap