Ugh. The temptation is real (I live on a residential road that's a shortcut between two highways) but alas, illegal [as far as I know]... Luckily, I'm also just within city limits and they recently started using photo enforcement that does seem to have helped slow down the worst offenders.

I was about to say how happy I was that my girls have outgrown the 3am zoomies when I suddenly remembered I was woken up by soft little momma-cat meows from the twelve year old at some ridiculous hour of this "morning"... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️😻

😳 And I thought the "join us" ads from my city and state 👮‍♀️ departments, which have been on my FB feed for *weeks*, were bad...

ffs... 😠😢

And then the bite is itchy and irritated for daaaaayyyssss... If I have to be allergic to something, at least it's tick bites---? 🫤

Still being researched, apparently. (My body already does this! As soon as a tick bites me, even the . ones, the spot itches. The trick is remembering to check—I once ignored the itch, kept scratching, and ended up with a dozen bites as a tick chomped its way across my stomach... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️)

I asked my veterinarian about this years ago—apparently it doesn't work in humans the way it does in dogs. We did have a human version, very briefly, about 25 years ago. (According to the CDC website, production stopped in 2002 due to low demand. I believe it had other issues as well.) ☹️

💯 My new not-a-wagon SUV (ty, Ford) not only has a screen the size of a small tv (what was wrong with all the easy-to-find-and-use buttons and dials?! 🤨) but an app. An app. For my car. 😫 (I can drive w/out it. It's more for communica—ok, that's bad too, my car talks to me. Not literally! Yet... 😵‍💫)

Even with only the base layer (it's heavy if you go for all three! also, short attention span 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️) it makes a great looking, practical shawl. I added a border along the top plus a few rows of fun fur yarn to imitate a marabou feather collar. 😊

I hear ya. (Although I'm on the other side; I was very put out when Ford turned their SUVs into wagons—maybe as a response to Sub's success? 😆) Nothing wrong with wagons! I grew up in wagons. (dad had a Mercury & mom's Pinto counted, albeit a very small one 😉) Wishing your wagon many more miles!

Crocheted stocking cap in graduated shades of blue and aqua yarn, using shell stitches for the long tail and with crocodile stitches around the head to resemble scales. Pointed, slightly flared piece in dark blue on the tip instead of a pompom and a matching flat band at the open end.

Ok, I think I'm done with stocking caps. For now. Maybe. Probably. (Do need to find the matching arm warmers/mitts that I made about 6-7 years ago...)

Screen shot of a four day forecast for the mid-Atlantic US region for the week starting February 10th, with snow predictions of one inch per day for three of the days, and an eight inch accumulation for the second day.

Wait, WHAT?! ::sighs:: Oh, February... [mid-Atlantic US, Philadelphia region]

Noooo... Not Springsteen. Enunciate, Bruce, enunciate!!! 😂😫

Person wearing fingerless gloves and a long stocking cap ending in a big pompom, both crocheted in a fanciful stitches and stripes of bright red, orange, and yellow yarn along with a yarn that is a mix of reds, oranges and light purple. The hat brim and pompom are both solid red.

Days might be getting longer and brighter but it's still winter—and a typically cold, cloudy, damp and windy one in the mid-Atlantic. So while it looks like the sub-freezing weather is gone (for now), I am still fighting back against the bleakness... #killwinterwithorange (yearly Feb prompt on IG)

😂😳 As a teenager in the 80s who did, by default, listen to pop music, I am now desperately trying not to catch your earworm... 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yep. Same tortie (well, technically a torbie, so Stealth Tortie) high on Tramadol—she somehow managed to get through a thick crate cushion cover and ended up lying in a cat-sized pile of bite-sized chunks of foam during recovery from hip surgery... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

I once had a *tortie*, the queens of cattitude, who was only 5% trap... (My gray, though, was 100% trap—not that I ever recall him offering a belly in the first place.)

The charming head tilt being the honey in the trap... 😹

Given Madame on the left likes being swaddled and held close, I'd say Luna loves belly rubs. But then they're cats, so that logic is shaky at best...

😹 This is very true. (Or double down, as they did that day...)

Or two. (Glutton for punishment, me.) 😹😻

Long, stocking caps crocheted in bright, thick yarn, one in winter blues and white, the other in a colorful mix, with different stitches providing texture, some fuzzy yarns and a large pompom on the end of each.

It'll get super-cold again soon. Probably. Or maybe not, now that I'm doubly prepared. 🥶 Pattern (mostly) by EarthTricks #pixiehat #stockingcap #crochethat #stashbuster #crochetersofinstagram #crochet

I love it! And it looks like a variegated version of a houseplant...