Thorn Cryptid

This is what I do too!

Ok so when cooking, you have a covered pot, and it’s time to open the pot… what do YOU do with the hot, dripping, possibly food covered lid?

Some days you take pictures of the spooky black-on-black shape with glowing eyes in the darkness and sometimes you *are* the shape in the darkness

Can’t help wondering how the beaver felt about this

You do all that hard work with your TEETH and then somebody comes in like “ok but check it out VRRRRRRRR *crash*”

My “favorite” thing about this is how it initially goes with a metaphorical take where woims is a colloquialism for any barter or perhaps “exposure” based economy, but then quickly decides that actually, woims is woims

This was supposed to be “tyranny” but autocorrect decided only “tyrant” is a word. Tyrant of Lawn is my new d&d monster type

It’s a blurry trailcam picture of a shadowy hulk with glowing eyes, taken at 12:31AM on December 4. The camera registered 22F.

Bear! The stream gully has bear friend! I hope they will not really be my friend. Befriending humans is bad if you are a bear.

Back Garden progress! The tyrant of lawn will fall.

Recent collapse, seems like… check out those concentric circles in the mud. Fallen tree of yore, maybe?

Did that even tag, the tag isn’t a link

#invert if you see this and you don’t wanna see a bug, maybe do something about it?

Watching some microcosmos (“catching up” is a lost cause at this point) and the second Hank says “polka-dotted vacuum cleaner” I yelled “Aeolosoma!” Feel like anybody who’s met one of these would immediately recognize them from that description lmao

What’s a bit more disturbing is that sometimes it seems people think it’s naive and childish to appreciate something that doesn’t directly lead to personal gain. Like it’s socially acceptable to enjoy edible mushrooms but if it’s not edible it’s weird if you like it, what’s it useful for?

Sometimes looking at bugs and moss and stuff is billed as an activity “for kids” (only) and I think that’s a problem. Childhood is where nature appreciation should BEGIN, not where it should END.

(She doesn’t get the seasonings)

Simple is best. Butter, salt, coconut cream, maple syrup, garam masala.

G will have hers with stew type dog food.

Maybe G can have some with her dinner, since she’s on soft food for a few days and it’s probably a perfectly good thing for a dog to eat

G appears to think this is a great idea

I don’t wanna do much cooking, so probably something like “butter and nutmeg and a bit of brown sugar, cube and toss in a pan real quick, eat on rice” or “squash is an appropriate base to eat chili on” or maybe “mashed squash like mashed sweet potatoes”

Anyway what should I do with a roast winter squash for supper at like 8? Dinner (late lunch) was half a frozen pear Gorgonzola pizza I picked up a couple weeks ago at Safeway.

I wish bsky’s mobile web interface didn’t freeze if I looo at it funny.

There’s a farm stand near the vet so I stopped by before picking G up from her dental surgery (which went well!) and now I have a pile of winter squash that were 5 for $5. Tonight I’m trying out whole roasting. I was too much of a wimp to put them in without poking them with a knife a few times tho.

If you need to understand a logistics problem, consult with experts.

And it’s not that bad - sometimes there’s snow! I just… feel a bit disinclined towards Freezing My Butt Off rn.

The Time When It’s Actually Legitimately Cold fortunately doesn’t last all that long… like mid-Dec through mid-Jan, maybe?

Getting closer to what I think is one of my two least favorite WA months/mini-seasons: The Time When It’s Actually Legitimately Cold. My other unfavorite moves around, and is The Time When It’s Hot And Dry And Things Are On Fire.

Whoever said plants are slow never had to control a thicket of an invasive species in late spring.

And there’s a thicket of Himalayan blackberry to try to reclaim. Working on the yard and finding my way into the woodland are going to be an endless lot of work, which I am loving every minute of so far (though we’ll see in spring when I have to keep up with the plants)!

Also working on taking out the existing lawn a little at a time and shall be planting a lot of native shrubs and flowers, propagated from plants on the property as much as possible.

Once the leaves dropped and I could see into the woods to find a way in, I put a trailcam in the stream gulley. It saw a bobcat! I shall try to keep my activity to a reasonable level so as not to disrupt the wildlife’s lives too much.

Most of the neighbors’ 5 acre lots are the same way - small clear for the house, 4.5 acres of steep hilly woodland. My woodland is divided by me into these sections; the hillside [bigleaf maple] forest; the hemlock grove; the stream gulley; the redcedars in the yard; the riverside; across the river.