One more week and I'll be in SoCal for my birthday weekend...

In the meantime I chase "park grackles" out of the chicken pen (they are eating the organic kibble for the hens...who only want to eat the fatty scratch) and watch the squirrels steal the bird seed from the song bird feeders. Someone sent me rainbow flame pinecones????? No card, just like the mysterious Xmas Jam.

pepper seed or gravity feed

Feeding the birds is fun. Feeding the squirrels? Not so much! The hot pepper suet and feed assuredly works well, but is so pricey! One squirrel braved the flavor but then tried to clean his whiskers on the picnic table. The gravity feeder we bought recently also works but it is so small the bluejays don't fit. Need to get the big one.

Trying our best...soylent green

The whole fam has embraced eating less red meat, despite only one of us actually identifying as vegetarian. I found a line of products (fake meat) that are slightly healthier choices than IMPOSSIBLE and BEYOND. They are so delicious and 97% believable because of the high amounts of fat and sodium. So...we tried ABBOT's chick'n today in a "chicken salad" ciabatta for lunch.

Not bad, from frozen to food in ten minutes, believable shaped chunks that browned up nicely. This would be good in rice bowls, tacos/burritos etc...discusssion of how to bread it ensued. 8/10.

New Morning routine-I am not a product.

Yep...dumped Goodreads and Meta. Dobby is FREEEE! BUT! I have joined storygraph and bluesky! My morning routine used to be feed and water chickens and dogs. Have a longer 2nd coffee and delete emails, which usually drifted to FB to check on humans that I like. Peek at news, run screaming. Lately? I also check the SoCal fire map.(Last night the Eaton Fire was 89% contained.) After coffee, (weather permitting), walk dogs, post a picture of walk, so other peeps know that I am alive. Do some Yoga. Attend to my Scrabble addiction and perhaps watch a couple of cute fossil hunting and mudlarking/dog/moose videos... maybe a water color tutorial. Eat something. Shower. Get on with the day. Whelp, I have a weird big lonely hole now. It is too cold to walk dogs and no gossipy shenanigans or (thankfully) "getting influenced" to buy poorly made shit w/the good doctor's very hard earned cash. I am no longer MAKING content for an already finacially oversecure asshole. I am currently stuck using the ifruit (devices themselves and email), G**gl3 (though I did just give wikipedia $) and as little as possible is purchased from the big beautiful river. Speaking of that online giant, they failed to deliver the VERY POPULAR "Oynx Storm". They didn't anticipate the power of basic bitches who like dragons. BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Good thing I had the audio on pre Order. It is a fun read... lil too much sexxy time for my hormonally unbalanced old ass BUT...the dragons ROCK! I am also reading "The Last" by Hanna Jameson, if it weren't for the lexapro I wouldn't have gotten past the end of the world intro to the cozy murder mystery that is so far, pretty engaging. Do you remember IRL when that young girl turned up DEED on the hotel water cistern? Similar plot...but not... COMMENTS WELCOME! lol

Lexapro...sure why not?

Hey...s'up? Bailed on FB between the ads and the unsolicited "friends" nope...back to the '90s. The Eaton Fire out in LA is 89% contained. Matt. Fabi and the boys are safe. I can't wait for it to rain out there. Meanwhile, the temp is minus 3F here,so THISOLDHOUSE and the exterior wall plumbing/taps are dripping and cabinet doors are open. Fingers crossed. The Lexapro is a.) assuredly helping with sleeping and pooping. b.) takes the edge off panic doom spiral but kind of just muffles everything...It is like hiding under a quilt in a cave. The hellscape is still out there I just don't care. Still fat. Got a new fitbit.