Jen Coleslaw

@jencoleslaw

SideCar &Two Chocolate Cakes Podcast. NoVA Environmentalist. Friend of Farmer's Markets, Animal Hospitals, inflatables, and desserts. Bitter Winter Child. ✅ the alt text on pics & gifs linktr.ee/jencoleslaw

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Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 1d

There's a reason she's called Murder Kitten.

A close up of Murder Kitten, a small brown tabby with green eyes and gold nose and white mouth. It is blurry because you honestly do not want to be a witness to whatever it is she's about to do.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 2d

I brought a freeze dried chicken treat home for Waffles but someone whose name rhymes with ShoeFerry ate it right out of the pocket of my bag. And doesn't even feel bad about it.

A portrait of an unrepentant cat, who is a lynx point siamese mix with blue eyes and a pink nose and a red collar with a big fabric carnation on it, his eyes are mostly closed (one is just open enough to see what I am doing) laying on his back on the bed, with his paws up, after eating Waffles' treat. He's probably resting and is going to go check all the other pockets of my little yellow sling backpack.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 2d

Dog tax:

Rufus Russo Rojas is a red golden retriever laying on his dog bed which is grey and plus, with a little stuffed otter wearing a shower cap with stars on it is between his two front grinch feet. he is smiling.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 4d

Do you fancy a cuddle?

Blueberry is splayed out on the bed like some kind of centerfold cat

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 4d

Waffles, the anxious beagle, offers his perfect nose for a boop.

Waffles is an elder beagle with a very frosted face and he is looking off to the side but his perfect nose is available for booping in fact it even says boop and blue text on the photo

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 4d

Look at how tall the corn is that Jose planted before he moved back home! It is almost 10 ft

Ben stands in front of 10 ft tall corn and a crazy tie dye he did himself and red shorts

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 4d

Happy International Cat Day from Blueberry (speaking for the whole household) How are you 🎉 your cat today? Total soft ask, if anyone makes a donation to A Little Extra in honor of International Cat Day, the cat of your choice will write you a poem. alittleextrafund.org DM w/ cat of choice

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 5d

Clown 🤡 Shoes 👟

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 5d

Have you seen Rufus lately?

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 10d

Have you seen Laddie Marmalade lately?

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 11d

Here's Big Sugar doing his rabbits early this morning (volume up)

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 12d

I ALMOST FORGOT: Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit any time after midnight tonight

Three primitively drawn rabbits jumping through the universe, a black sky, with some stars, and a crescent moon, with the text Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit in the upper left hand corner. one rabbit is chasing a carrot, one rabbit has an Anarchy A tattoo and the third rabbit is just thinking about how it never seems like we get any good luck but then we managed to rabbit rabbit rabbit Lindsey Graham right out of existence.

If you're new to the monthly rabbits: You say the words Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit first thing on the first day of the month for good luck. It can be 12:01 am on August first, or it can be 9:15am on August first, but it just has to be the first thing you SAY.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 13d

How crazy is this white iris blooming in Virginia on the 30th of July?

A white iris blooming in the garden at the totally wrong time of the year.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 15d

I let Fatniss drive to the dentist and she did really well! Look at the space between us and the car in front!

A small emotional support hippo on the steering wheel of my Ford C-max hybrid. I would not let her drive if it was a stick shift tho.

She picked the music and it was my Spotify playlist "off my meds 2026"

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 15d

A reminder to everyone but especially to @darthbluesky.bsky.social that it is, in fact, too early to buy Halloween candy.

An inflatable candy corn looking really angry.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 18d

Update: I was alerted by the kind @ladycowparsley.bsky.social that there were identifying images in my pics so reposting with an update: Jose landed around midnight our time and while we haven't gotten a message from him, we are assuming he will be bounced awake by his grandkids this morning.

Jose is crouched next to Rufus who is smiling, on the other side of Rufus is the corn Jose planted, and on the other side of Jose are the lawn signs that say "Tyranny shall never prevail" and "Hate has no home here" and Chinga La Migra garden flag which is wildly popular in the neighborhood. Jose doesn't smile in most of the pictures but when I catch him with my phone camera when he doesn't think I am taking pics, he's always smiling. I think he's trying to be serious.

Jose and Rufus and Ben, in front of the garden/house, Jose is gesturing, asking how I am going to get in the picture if I'm taking the picture with my phone? Ben looks like a giant.

Jose, and me, and Rufus, in front of the garden and the house.

I miss him already. For the last few months we've been getting his groceries when we get ours and in a way it was like how Ben and I would make Kent and the animal hospital food every week. Without someone to cook/shop for, I am not sure what we'll do with ourselves. I am starting, I think, to realize that when we take care of our community, we take better care of ourselves.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 19d

Happy July 24 to all who celebrate.

This is a picture of two baseball players, from July 24, 2004.
Jason Varitek, on the right, the catcher and captain of the Red Sox, is mauling the face of that dope Alex Rodriguez of the MFY (mother fucking yankees) at Fenway Park. Many of us who were born into Red Sox faithful in New England see this date, and this fight, as the incident that changed the trajectory of the Red Sox, like butterfly wing breeze, that created the path for them to win the World Series in October of that same year, after 86 years, reversing the curse of the Bambino.

Baseball guys will 100% "well, ackshully" this and they can fucking pound sand. I will block anyone who shits on this day. Unless you're a yankees fan. But if you're a Red Sox fan and you don't celebrate this day, and you have the sack to come into my thread and try to mansplain me? TRY ME.

That summer was difficult because the first Mr Coleslaw and I were separated, he was living down the street at our friend's house while we did couples therapy to try to find our way back to each other. Or, I was. He, it seems, was working on an exit plan, which he would execute at the end of the summer when he texted me, instead of the woman (also a friend) he had been going out with referring to the night before. When I made a joke about it, trying not to out my own hurt feelings, he responded that he wanted a divorce. Over text.

So following the Red Sox, with my friends, at my favorite neighborhood bar...anyway, that's a whole story. someday I'll tell it in Two Chocolate Cakes. I really need a work sabbatical so that I can get some writing done.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· 21d

I am having a day so here's Blueberry doing some light shenanigans in the kitchen early this morning.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jul 13

Thank you so very much to everyone who helped raise the funds for our beloved Jose's airfare to El Salvador, his meds, and other expenses. Ben and I continue to sort out the details w/him to ensure he has what he needs but your generosity is such a gift. Here's his fav kitty-Payasito aka Clown Shoes

Payasito (little clown) is a grey and white tuxedo cat with a very small mouth and a very pink nose, and green eyes. He is sitting on the bed looking at something behind me and over my shoulder. He is Jose's favorite of the cats and when Jose spent Christmas with us, Payasito would not get off Jose's lap and so he ate with one hand petting the cat and the other hand with a fork. When Clown Shoes hears him downstairs in the basement (where Ben's office is,) he will trot down to say hi and hope for some pets.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jul 3

It is very hot here, even inside

A picture of my weather station showing it is 105° outside with a heat index of 123° and 80° inside on the second floor with the AC set at 68°

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jul 2

Welcome to the 4 day holiday known as Day Old Hot Dog Days. Day one, the Road Trip

A screenshot from Facebook memories, showing Beebee, a happy weimaraner and Waffles, an anxious beagle in the backseat of a car on their way to North Carolina for the 4th of July weekend 2017. It is waffles first road trip in the car since he became part of our family back in March of 2017.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jul 1

Two Chocolate Cakes post (no paywall today!) for folks today. www.patreon.com/twochocolate...

a "card" of a substack post with the Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit graphic which is a full moon with three rabbits under it and some fireflies. It is just a boring short post but I'd love it if you considered joining the patreon. It is such a nice community and we look out for, and take of each other there.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jul 1

I am so late this month for this month's Rabbit Reminder! Any time after 12 am tonight, 1st thing you say out loud --"Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit" for good luck all month long. And sometimes your rabbits are someone else's good luck, and you catch luck another month bc of the rabbits a stranger says.

A nighttime graphic of three silhouettes of rabbits, with a starry night background, with a few fireflies, and gigantic full moon and some shooting stars. under the rabbits is the text "rabbit rabbit rabbit"

Sometimes it seems that there aren't enough rabbits in the world to fix the terrible, shitty, things that people are going through, but just think of how awful it might be if none of us did our rabbits? Sometimes our rabbits we whisper first thing on the first of the month are carried by the universe to someone who REALLY REALLY needs that luck. And we trust that the universe will reward us, when we need it, with rabbits from someone else. My father would say "it all comes out in the wash."
So don't forget to say your rabbits.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jun 26

You can see my sparkles

Jen is wearing a red and white seersucker suit and standing in front of a green slide on a screen

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jun 25

My phone auto corrects my face which is kind of weird. I need to find out how to toggle that if. They are much more noticeable than this weird filter thing shows.

A picture of Jen with her glasses on top of her head, wearing a red seersucker suit and with green, red and silver "freckles" across her nose and cheek bones.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jun 13

We had a pretty bad microburst hit us last night and definitely lucky that there seems to be no damage to the house, we lost a big limb off the maple, and climate change storms claimed another outdoor workspace (which we prepped for the storm by lowering it to the ground, and it was still wrecked)

a large maple branch on the ground with fat raindrops while the sunshines in the aftermath of a fast moving storm last night.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jun 13

I didn't believe this for one second. I will believe it when we hear from the man's family family.

A screenshot from the nyt

A Tren de Aragua Leader Is Killed in a Joint Strike, U.S. and Venezuela Say

A strike this week in Venezuela killed a gang leader known as Niño Guerrero who was wanted in the United States, officials in both countries said.

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jun 11

Waffles being stoic at the vets. He lost 4 lbs! Dr Kirk says he looks awesome! We are waiting for the all clear on his heartworm test and then he's going to get all his vaccines. Rufus is getting his ears done and he'll come back in two weeks and get his Lyme and lepto and brevecto.

Waffles is a 10 year old beagle sitting behind a purple water dish and wearing a red harness

Jen Coleslaw@jencoleslaw· Jun 10

I COULD NOT RESIST and it was on sale for $20 from $49, so.