Laura Lorson
@lauralorson
Opinions personal, retweets ≠ endorsement. Target for faraway laughter. Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock.
I personally don't like cherry limeade. My husband, however, does...and I happened to have fresh limes, Italian Amarena cherries, simple syrup, water, and ice. Boom.
Flour, salt, water, yeast, time, and heat. 14-hour overnight refrigerated rise. Soon to be toast with butter and honey.
honestly, life is hard enough, I don't need terrifying plushies. Except for my Cthulhu plushy. That one, I love.
Archie has decided that the best solution for when there is thunder is to put his 120-pound Pyrador body into the 3 cubic feet of space between me and the coffee table
5 deck planters: planted. Here's one. (They all have the same stuff in them.)
This is Archibald, aka Archie Bear/Archieboo/Sugarfoot/Buttercup/Crankypants
Ok, for some reason the nice phoenix sketch from the 1500s is not showing up (I thought .png would work?) so here's a probably-AI version from the web
I am a longtime resident of Lawrence, Kansas, which was burned to the ground in 1863, so: the phoenix is kind of our thing, and I embrace it
Somebody asked what we were all stress eating and in my case, I baked a Ding Dong cake
@stereolad.bsky.social I noticed that Chez Steinman is still up for sale, and this time the dining room wall decor caught my eye:
I could not take one more minute of news input, so I dropped everything and put together these Lego flowers. Fiddly, but satisfying.
Winter solstice hits different this year. But the great earth still spins. We will survive the darkness. Blessed be.
Tired: DIE HARD is a Christmas movie Wired: FROSTY THE SNOWMAN is a Bergmanesque meditation on mortality and the innate human hope in resurrection
Go for it, Abs. I would consider it, but we bought solar panels for the house for approximately the same price as the bed+mattress+drapes
We skipped the light fandango Turned some cartwheels across the floor I was feeling kind of seasick When the crowd called out for more The room was humming harder And the ceiling flew away When I called out for another drink The waiter brought a tray AND SO IT WAAAAAAAAAAAS
Archie likes to cap off a day of lounging on the couch and snoozing with a good, brisk nap