How nice that the local police departments are profiting from this.

This was in another Bluesky post:

I’d add No Intelligence.

You just keep telling yourself that, Grampa.

The Puppy!

Clippy can be useful.

Happy Thanksgiving!

My sweet baby that I had to euthanize this past week. I miss her dreadfully.

Some zinnias because I can’t just look at news all day.

And then there's the antithesis.

Another “Executive Order”

In the midst of all this chaos, I find gardening to be a calming influence, whether planning the upcoming garden, starting seeds, or weeding and replanting a bed. As Helena Rutherford Ely says in her classic gardening book "A Woman's Hardy Garden," "With work in the garden care and worry vanish."

Here’s my winter sowing sleeping in the yard (I sow mostly native perennials).