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White posterboard with writing saying "Elon Musk (in blue handwritten print) Hands Off! ( in black thick print with a line drawn through the O) Our Government (in blue handwritten print) on the top left side, a large blue cloud with 4 yellow lightning bolts coming out of the bottom of it on the top right side, a handdrawn gray cybertruck with orange and yellow flames coming from the the top of it and a red swastika on the door in the middle and a handwritten "Fuck D.O.G.E." in black on the bottom right

a white posterboard sign with "Hands off! LGBTQ+ Rights" (which are colored in rainbow colors on the top left. On the top middle, "Hands Off! Transfolk" with Hands colored in purple and Transfolk written alternately in blue and pink script. On the top left "Hands Off! Free Speech! colored in red white and blue. On the middle left "Hands Off! Libraries" colored in red. In the middle "Hands off in large font (colored in red orange and yellow covering smaller font reading "our bodies, medicaid, medicare, social security, fair elections, clean air, clean energy, schools, libraries, free speech, immigrants, courts". on the middle right "Hands Off! Unions colored in red and orange. Bottom left "Hands Off! (in black print) Our Consitution (Blue handwritten print). Bottom Middle "Hands Off! Our Bodies (colored in yellow). Bottom right: "Hands Off! Public Lands (Colored in green)

G & I plan to go down to the protest for a bit. Any guesses on whose sign is whose?

I heard that you could plant smushed berries and end up with a berry plant. I am gullible ehough to put some blackberries and raspberries in a couple of pots (with potting soil) to see if anything germinates. What's the worst that can happen? Scientific method for the win!

Ok peeps, I realize this is def an underwhelming issue compared with everything happening. However, we finally got my Christmas LitterRobot set up. (Wasn't Jesus supposed to have been born in March anyhow?) Any tips for helping cats acclimate?

Then I went to do a postpartum at another client's house (after stopping for breakfast coffee at 13:45). After that I came home, immediately put bagged clothes in the washer then went to shower. However, I am now off call (aside from prenatal day and 2 more childbirth ed classes) 2/2 #midwifelife

Another birthapalooza, 4 births/week, instead of 4/month. The last one was a doozy; mama had the flu which caused labor. Everyone fine but I had a COVID flashback as I changed out of possibly germy birth clothes in client's driveway, (in the country so nobody got flashed). 1/2

Anybody local got info on how the Day without Immigrants protest is going? #cbus

Last week's birthapalooza by the numbers: 3 births in 28 hrs 43 min. Time spent with clients during labor, birth & postpartum: 25 hrs 41 min. Time I spent napping between births: 5 hrs 47 min. Average baby weight: 8 lbs. 2 males, 1 female. They all honored the midwife's prayer and TOOK TURNS!

This was after he yelled at me for picking up his coat to wash it after he suggested I do so (because he hadn't cleaned out the pockets yet). How was I supposed to know? SMDH. No jury in the world would convict me. 2/2

Ok, I swear that this post & the previous one are not related, but obv Pat and I are crotchety this long weekend. Here's the text I sent to the kids: YOUR father came into the kitchen and started fucking around w/MY father's slumgullion recipe that *I* was cooking. 1/2

Have been sitting in a state of funk mourning the installation of the oligarchs/Felon until I realized that "You will need to get a warrant. That is all I have to say." can be sung to the tune of Do You Want to Build a Snowman? & now, even without immediate plans needing the lyrics, I feel stronger.

a hippopotamus face in cloudy green water with some rocks on the bottom of the pool

Today's status: generally surly but resting below the surface to gather up energy for doing What Must Be Done against oligarchs and their white supremacist, conservative, sexist, homophobic, ignorant minions.

How Long Am I Contagious? [Infographic] Longer than you think, according to a Northwestern Medicine internal medicine physician.

My sister had norovirus & is going back to work as an elementary school teacher 48 hrs after finishing vomiting. I told her to stay home another day, but she says getting a sub is hard. This is why diseases spread. If you can stay home and not lose your job, please do www.nm.org/healthbeat/h...

COVID levels continue to be high, probably because everyone thinks it's fairly benign now and has stopped masking. This article shows that the long variety can be worse than what is popularly thought, esp for the olds. Mask up, folks! t.co/N4fNNHOd2A

Today, I did a home visit, shoveled the walk and the driveway (had to go to a funeral out of town yesterday and couldn't get to it then. Now I am ensconced on the couch with my heating pad and sublingual t-relief and I don't want to do anything else constructive today.

Far be it for me to begrudge anybody a snow day, but climate change has really messed with the idea. I grew up in Lima City Schools w/no buses knowing that the superintendent would only call it if the snow were higher than his German Shepherd's back. This is just a couple inches, a dusting really.

movie poster of the movie Gremlins. Shows a person's torso (gray t shirt, blue jeans) with arms holding a white shoebox, partially open with two paws showing. Also has white script reading Care. Clever. Mischievious. Intelligent. Dangerous. And the bottom has white script saying Gremlins

So we are still watching holiday movies around here...hey, Christmas lasts until after Three Kings Day, right? I told Pat that I wanted to watch Gremlins, but only from the part where they start causing chaos---that the build up was too slow. Who's with me?

two homemade woven potholders, one blue and white checked, one red, green and yellow on a green fuzzy blanket

a person in a blue shirt, holding a small loom to weave potholders. On it are red and green loops being taken off the loom by the person using a gold crochet hook.

Youngest kid said she needed potholders, which is funny because I used to run Santa's little sweatshop having her and her sibling make potholders for everyone for holiday gifts. So, tonight I made a couple and even Tom Sawyered Pat into making one. Mwoo ha ha ha!

a plastic Rudolph reindeer with a broken back leg, a hot glue gun, a wooden popsicle stick and a stick of glue for the gun.

Rudolph decoration (with leg repaired) on a piece of cardboard with half a popsicle stick and part of the hot glue gun showing

It's been a bit of a bleak holiday, but I was able to shed a little light by repairing my mom's reindeer decoration and getting it out on the lawn to raise "such a clatter". I also figured out that I'm gonna need a floodlight next year to light the whole ensemble.

A Welsh Mari Lwyd figure with skeleton white horse head with blue mane, red roses, a typical black witches' hat atop a sheeted, ghost-like figure.

Also looking for a Mari Lwyd for the nativity. Playmobil doesn't have one. Am thinking about making one with a horse head on a staff that is carried by a figure covered with some kind of sheet of plastic/clay? Again, any leads for demented 3D printing people, or ideas for carrying this out? 2/2

Playmobil figures of Saint Nicholas and a Krampus. Saint Nicholas is wearing a red mitre with a gold cross, a red cape and white robes, carrying a book and a large gold staff. Krampus has shaggy hair. long horns, dark clothing, is sticking out his tongue. He is wearing a basket on his back, carrying a plastic rope whip, carrying (or wearing) a length of chain as well as a bucket that has coal in it.

I have a wondrous Playmobil nativity set with all the usual accoutrements. Also Roman gladiators, a wizard, a caganer, la Befana, camel wranglers, Wise Women midwives. I want to add a Playmobil Krampus. I found a lame devil that will do for now, but I really want this. If you hav a lead, lmk. 1/2

I am lamenting the fact that I was today years old before I was introduced (by my eldest adult kid) to Limp Bizket's "Break Stuff"

black cat playing with a black plastic penguin toy on a brown varigated rug

So Pat usually gives treats to the cats around this time, but he's out. I put the treats in a toy because I'm busy so they have to work to get them. Sent this to him & he said "Poor kitties having to work for their treats" My response "Yep. It's kitty treat sweatshop all up in here."

Are you a modern day sansculotte or is it really about making them?

a kitty pic (and current mood) for the algorithm

So taking Haitian Creole from the green bird actually paid off yesterday. A family came into the CHOICE office looking for our old resource room, & though I mostly spoke French with them, mwen te kapab pale pi piti kreyol ayisien when I recognized some of what they were speaking to each other.

PTB, I'm feeling a little Dune-esque: "Beginnings are such delicate times" after dealing with other social media algorithms---I don't want to end up with a ill-fitting curated feed. I just want to see the people I follow/want to follow. Is that so hard?