Pixel would like everyone to know that elderly gentlemen can still be quite handsome.

(Example cute basket from thrift store)

Cold process soap came out fancy-ish, though not exactly what I was expecting. I know what happened, though, and I'm not mad. (We'll see how well it works as soap.)

Tomorrow is fancy soap making day. My plan is to make a hot process oatmeal orange soap and a cold process rosemary lavender soap.

Oh heck yeah! This was just a practice page for painting various plant-like shapes.

Okay you convinced me to get out my paints. (I used the wrong type of paper and didn't check to see how staining the paints were first. Oops.) It's been waaaay too long.But I'm not entirely unhappy with it.

Have a kitten (my younger kid is fostering). Perhaps this is a good opportunity to listen to your favorite comfort book?

FIFA game locations, from the FIFA website.

Most recent photos come from my younger kid, who is fostering kittens. This is Rocket.

My younger kid rescued a stray cat several weeks ago and she just gave birth this weekend!

Bloomscroll! 🌱

Someone went to a not insignificant amount of trouble to create this fake paper, complete with fake publisher and fake journal, and then apparently uploaded the paper at a real open source site.

It was a good day for wildlife in my yard today.

If you see this, post a concert photo that you took. (or, you know, a bunch of them)

It's wonderful to have you back. Here, have some cinnamon rolls.

I need to get a couple real trailcams; the security camera we have is okay and has a phone app I use to access the recordings, but it maxes out at 15 seconds and the resolution isn't great.

And here are the rest!

This is the snapdragons, half of the marigolds, the brocolini, and the spinach. Note: snapdragons LOVE being cold stratified.

I was obviously interrupting. How rude of me.

LOLOL sometimes Bsky just makes... assumptions, y'know?

Okay here's mine.

Three of our four furbabies all curled up together

It took the little female who mostly hangs out when I'm out in the garden less than 5 minutes to figure out they were there.

Okay this all came out SO well but now I'm having to spend 10 minutes digesting in between bites of cheesecake because OMG I am so full.

You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. Clearly I died of acute adorableness.

I might argue that my boy Fionn was loveliest of all, but honestly all cats are beautiful, right?