Alas there is more fuchsia than I wanted & none of the teal I wanted.

What will I get? I’m trying to get a sparser ice dye. But I am already thinking that even this small dusting of fuchsia is going to foil my plans. I put salt onto the ice. I don’t know if that will work for the teal. Kinda wish I’d planned better but couldn’t let another hot day go to waste!

I love it when an unnecessarily artsy item serves a very mundane but satisfying purpose. The local Salvation Army has good stuff!

No human could ever be as comfortable as a little goblin dog in his momma’s cottagegorblin bed.

Oh my god they’re still in there! 🙀 & now they’re sleeping! There’s like at least 5!

Oh my gaaawd one has emerged & then gone back to bed. Lookit him he’s so tiny. His name is Obert Jr.

I put a camera trained on the fig tree, and also captured Smokey Joel intently possum-watching at the exact moment a different possum ate the momma’s possum’s “sorry for almost drowning your babies” cat food I left for her.

Please enjoy this goblin blessing of a possum family in my grandma’s fig tree. My first time seeing a baby possum irl! They were much cuter than the camera captured. Like sweet, innocent, naive little kittens.

Frank has decided that he needs to be part of my shower times. Which means he needs a nest made for him. He’s always a little worried that it will end in him being put into the bath also.

It’s terribly hot in the LA Area. Smokey is lying on a cooling mat, between two box fans. Unfortunately my NPD grandma meticulously ensure the other caregivers turn off the ac in his room after I leave bc accomodating him makes her feel threatened, & there’s nothing I can do while he’s there.

Just a mighty descendant of the wolf hunting his natural prey, the sheep

I’ve only known about Jimothy for 10 hrs but I’m obsessed. There’s baby pictures!

Everyday I betray my cat & give him a pill, & everyday he forgives me.

The side eye of a wiener dog who KNOWS that the Nefarious No-good Neighbors are behind the loud noisy noises, & thinks his momma shoulda let him bark at them some more, but he since he didn’t get to yell at them harder, the noisy noises continue. (They were not, btw & they’re very nice folks.)

I spent an hour searching high & low for my parents’ golden retriever. Went to the park shaking the cat treat box. She was “trapped” in the garage & couldn’t turn around or back up without hitting the cooler with her ankles, which would make her panic. I had to drag her back by the hips.

New level of cat joy unlocked.

There is an online/farmer’s market restaurant called superbao, servicing SoCal. Best bao I’ve ever had! They are delightful in shape & taste! If you are in the LA/OC area, you should get some! superbao.us

He such a derpy animal. Who is likely allergic to chicken. It could be beef he’s allergic to, his favorite food. Fingers crossed that it’s chicken!

What day you’re about to have, it starts out well when you are awoken by the pressure of stretchy lil peets

Oh shit, it’s never a good sign when you can see the smoke moving from where you are, or when you can see lots of smoke before the fire has even been listed on CalFire.

Oh what a day of days to be a dog! Frank has found a stiff dead lizzer! Alas he dithered too long about whether to bury or immediately run off with his windfall, & I spotted him & stole his prize. The lizzer was buried using the ancient custom of throwing it (un)ceremoniously over the fence.

Hello good morning please look at this amazingly beautiful spider

I angered Smokey Joel today. For about 5 minutes, he returned to my grandma’s old room to glower mistrustfully at me as he did that fateful day 2 years ago.

Smokey Joel likes to sit on my stuff. If not given some of my stuff to sit on, or if the stuff is not to his liking, he will sit on the stuff I am busy with, such as clothes I intended to dye more teal, & wanted a before picture of. The dye projects were not successful.

Happy Pride Month!! 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Please enjoy Smokey Joel chasing butterflies. 🪿🦩🦋🐈‍⬛🦇🦞🦊🐆🦎🦕🦄

Oh no. Daniel Striped Tiger did a flirty showing me the belly roll when I gave him his dinner. The cat distribution system has over-distributed again.

I had an unexpectedly, unnervingly close encounter with the Red Lady. I’ve seen her from my car before. It’s weird, there’s this moment where she stared at me, but in my mind, it lasted longer than that. She is as tall as a retriever. Second biggest coyote I’ve seen, after her husband the Pale One.

TW it looks like a disease This gross hairy lesion on my wrist was once my baby nephew’s face from his birthday party. This is why I stayed away from temporary tattoos as a kid! The horror. It’s not even a real problem & it gives me the willies. Now you have it in your head too.

My Smokey Joel. I’m so proud of him. (I had no faith his skills so let it happen.) He even accepted his disappointment with dignity.

Today’s mission impossible: trick this too-smart-for-his-own-ass cat into taking his meds & then repeat that.