Sarah 🐈‍⬛

@sareth

Boston-based; chemist by training. Reader, knitter, fond of cats—stereotypical, yes. Inveterate lurker (she/her)

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Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· 7d

It was an excellent day for a short cruise on Boston Harbor!

The Graves Light, a granite lighthouse on a small, rocky island. The water around the island is unusually still

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· 9d

The cats interfered with this project throughout the knitting process but I'm pretty sure they can't get into the room where it's laid out for blocking 🤞

A black cat is perched on a denim-clad leg, facing away from the camera. A knitting project is draped over her hindquarters. Her body language suggests she is not amused

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· 12d

Lagrange St in W. Rox. A cement mixer took down a bunch of poles @universalhub.com

Power lines and emergency vehicles in a road

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· 12d

Anybody know what's up/why helicopters are circling?

A power outage map from Eversource showing an outage of >1000 customers centered around West Roxbury/Roslindale

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· 16d

I guess I'm done knitting for now

A black-and white cat sprawled on her back on a knitting project. She's looking up at the camera, one paw ready to bat at the photographer

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· 17d

Excellent outing to the Arnold Arboretum. The toddler did sit in the stream while fully clothed but we had a spare outfit packed

A large (~first joint of thumb) beetle on a decaying log with moss

An aquatic snail on a rock, seen through clear water

A pine tree, seen from below, looking up at the branches. There is a well-camouflaged squirrel on the trunk

An arch built of dead tree branches at the top of a hill, with light coming though trees behind it

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jul 18

Happy Caturday! The kitty with the ball on her head has mellowed a LOT now that she's in her teens

A shorthaired tuxedo cat curled up, asleep, with a tangle of white paws with pink toes toward the camera

A shorthaired black cat in a loaf position with a small blue ball balanced between her ears. She looks slightly annoyed

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jul 11

She's just been brushed and now it's naptime. A hard Caturday

A tuxedo shorthair cat sprawled on her side with her head on a boardbook of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. An orange wiggleworm cat toy rests between her paws

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 21

Speaking of the 1800s… I dug this out of a newspaper archive to amuse a friend with a recent gout dx

A scan of an old newspaper item: "A Cure for the Gout—Thofe who chufe to try the experiment, and are aflicted with the gout in the exiremities, Capt. Simmons, commanding the Foreign Depot at Eaft Cowes, offers a moft fimple, yet certain remedy, difcovered fome years ago by a German Serjeant, when encamped, and, as it may be fuppofed, is the offspring of neceffity: A ftocking knitted from dog's hair of the long fhaggy kind—applied to the part, when firft feized with pain, will fo effectually relieve it, by a little prickling irritation, and afterwards perfpiration, as to leave the patient in twenty-four hours free from every difagreeable fymptom"

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 20

Happy Caturday!

A tuxedo kitty sprawled on her side on a red rug, paws tucked under her chin

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 20

Saw ducklings and Scotland fans at Jamaica Pond today! Beautiful day for a walk

Two ducklings swimming along the edge of a pond, framed by leaves

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 18

I think she thought she might get fed, too, if she sat where the toddler is served meals

A chunky shorthaired tuxedo cat with a mustache & goatee sits in a wooden high chair

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 16

The toddler's feline partner in crime got tucked in for a nap

A shorthaired tuxedo cat is partially under a green tartan flannel throw. She looks sort of resigned about it

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 15

Very weird

Screenshot of universalhub.com showing admin bar logged in as "adamg"

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 7

Didn't see any snapping turtles today but did see this lovely critter

A red-eared slider (turtle) sunning itself on a rock, its hind end in the water

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 5

That's the WORST. Have a kitty

A shorthaired tuxedo cat with moustache and goatee looks up and to the right of the camera, white whiskers spread, green eyes intent

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 4

She's willing to risk the toddler's attention for the perfect sunny spot

A black shorthair cat curled up on pale yellow fabric, viewed through a pinewood frame. A brown radiator with a copper backdrop is visible behind her

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 3

We have bloom! Definitely going to have to prop some of the plants that haven't flowered yet

A pale pink peony flower pretty much fills the entire frame. A tiny bug is hanging out on one of its petals

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 3

Excellent outing to the Arnold Arboretum. Besides this frog we saw three snapping turtles, a northern yellow warbler, and a Baltimore oriole, among other cool critters

A bullfrog in greenery at the edge of a pond

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 2

Such a cheerful little graphic for the mortuary notice! From the Freeman's Friend (Saco, Maine), 20 Sept. 1806, p. 3

An image of a sun with a face rising behind a tree trunk next to a tombstone with a skull and crossbones and the word "DIED"

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Jun 2

The peonies didn't bloom at all our first year here, and barely since, but there are more than a dozen buds right now. I think this one will be fully open tomorrow!

A pale pink peony, almost open, petals just starting to unfurl

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· May 30

Is this the vehicular equivalent of critters that have bright coloring to announce they're poisonous? 😬(Spotted in West Roxbury)

A black Range Rover with a small red "Trump" sticker and MA license plate "DT 4547"

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· May 27

No clue! The kitty in question does have excellent facial markings though

A tuxedo cat with a moustache and goatee is curled up in a red chair and looking at the camera

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· May 25

Saw what I assume was part of a Memorial Day observance from the Harborwalk at UMass Boston today

A firefighting vessel spraying water in several directions as it travels toward the camera, escorted by many smaller boats

Same vessel and a few escorts seen from the side

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· May 18

Hoverkitty!

A shorthaired tuxedo cat (with moustache and goatee) on a wood floor, with all her paws and tail tucked neatly under her body so they're invisible

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· May 14

I might be tempted by such a concoction in allergy season (Ellsworth American, January 3, 1906, p. 3)

Around a sketch of a head filled with a word cloud mostly drawn from elsewhere in the ad (as well as the word "deafness") appears the text:
Nasal CATARRH In all its stages.
Ely's Cream Balm cleanses, soothes and heals the diseased membrane.
It cures catarrh and drives away a cold in the head quickly.
Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils, spreads over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is immediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Druggists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents.
ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street, New York

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· May 12

Birdwatching. As in birds watching me in my house

A somewhat blurry photo of a pair of Northern cardinals facing toward the camera from their perches in a sad rhododendron bush

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· May 7

I love old newspaper ads (Boston Globe, Dec. 17, 1881, p. 3)

To the left, a bearded gent demonstrates some sort of odd suspender arrangement. He appears uncomfortable. To the right: "WILL YOU have the M BRACE! The Most Perfect Device For Supporting Pantaloons Ever Known. A TRIAL FREE. 98 Court St. WILMOT'S, 261 and 263 Wash'n st"

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· May 4

The baby squirrels are exploring in Boston! Mama and a sibling were watching from the tree trunk

Tiny, slightly rumpled-looking gray squirrel on a sidewalk at the base of a tree

Sarah 🐈‍⬛@sareth· Apr 25

Happy Caturday!