wendy knox everette

peat is awesome!
But if you need easing in, Glenmorangie is great; then try their Quinta Ruban. Also Compass Box Orchard House is very light and non-peaty.

a single malt glass by a glass lamp

(I also recommended Oban, bc it's so lovely & not peaty if you're not ready for peat. Which is lovely, you should enjoy it, but I understand some folks are not there yet)

a glass of single malt

Whisky nerd lyfe: my pilot husband texted me bc his co-pilot, a bourbon drinker, wants a scotch recommendation for their post-dinner drinks. My go-to "you're a bourbon drinker, you should try" is Dalmore, thanks largely to @bobb2.bsky.social, so we will see if that work here too 😅

She is 95% floof by volume

re: play growls, you can hear her play growl here... I was trying to kick the ball for her to chase, but bc herding dog, she'd rather bite at my ankles and play growl than let me kick it.

a bi-black sheltie asleep on a sofa with her paws curled up

Growling & barking in her sleep. I'm always so curious what in the world she's dreaming of when she does that! She only play growls when she's awake- is it a dream play growl? A real one? About what?

a bi-black sheltie stands on a sidewalk and looks at the camera

heh, my mom loves to tell me how many grandkids her sisters have & I remind her that Tallie is a fabulous grand dog 😂

a bi-black sheltie sitting in a crate on a pink fuzzy blanket

Tallie heard that it's almost Friday

Both of my grandfathers were electrical engineers who worked at Bell Labs. Gee, and I wonder why I'm a nerd. 😅

(My mom's dad taught me electrical stuff when we did a home renovation when I was about 8 & he did the wiring for the house. Not just how to wire, but about current & magnetism & etc.)

a very wet and very annoyed sheltie wearing a tie dye raincoat

Ned, I just had to carry Tallie out to pee under duress. I thought Shelties were from rainy Scottish islands??

wait, there may ever be an end to the NPM patching treadmill in sight? 😭😭😜

my Coastie loves to go on about how the USCG makes all their Academy grads learn to use a sextant while the Navy doesn't. I should ask him if that's still the case. 😂
They used to spend a long time on the Eagle plotting their location only with a sextant & then compared to actual location later.

A fluffy black-and-white Shetland Sheepdog sits on a neighborhood sidewalk at sunset, golden light glowing around its fur. The dog wears a pink harness attached to a blue leash, with a quiet residential street and houses softly blurred in the background.

Tallie is waiting patiently for Kell Walkies

A fluffy black-and-white Shetland Sheepdog stands on a sunny neighborhood sidewalk, smiling with its tongue slightly out while on a blue leash. Yellow daffodils and green spring plants bloom along the garden edge beside the path, capturing a warm, cheerful spring day.

A fluffy black-and-white Shetland Sheepdog stands on a sunny neighborhood sidewalk, smiling with its tongue slightly out while on a blue leash. Yellow daffodils and green spring plants bloom along the garden edge beside the path, capturing a warm, cheerful spring day.

Spring walkies in West Seattle this afternoon

Orcas Island 🌲

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I'm so happy that you're in less pain, and hooray for finding things that make you happier & getting to see the kiddo more 💜

lol he stayed in the sit though! Tallie is very fond of what we call the "curtsey" aka "my fuzzbutt touched the ground for 0.00010 of a second, your 'sit' requirement has been met on a technicality" 😂

A fluffy black-and-white Shetland Sheepdog stands indoors on a dark floor, looking at the camera with its mouth slightly open. The dog has a thick, long coat with a white blaze down its face and chest, and is positioned in a room with teal walls, large windows, and a couple of black chairs in the background.

Tallie is excited that it's almost Friday

Oooof 💙💙💙

Her tail kills me

sheltie excitement

I swear they're also worse vacuums than they used to be. I have one Roomba that's about 8 years old, WAY better of a vacuum than the new one my parents gifted us for Christmas. 😒 The new one drops clumps of Tallie fur all over and can't pick up pine needles very well. Old one has no issues. 🤨

sending lots of strength for both of you 💙 💙 💙

tea is being poured into a cup with a floral design ALT: tea is being poured into a cup with a floral design

oh noes. sending some warm tea & honey.

(that lost context trying to make character limits, "they" == creators of bluebook 😅)

classic Claude, "here it's close enough!"

(I sadly don't have a bluebook floating around here anymore to check, but I wish they would at least make an online checker that you could put a cite in to verify if they won't make their own cite formatter tool 😒)

it's flurrying here but, alas, not sticking. So here's Tallie last February being quite excited about the snow:

Screenshot of a chat interface. At the top right is a small thumbnail of a PDF labeled “PDF.” In the chat, a user message reads, “hi claude, Can you make a bluebook cite for this court order?” Below, the assistant responds: “Here’s the Bluebook citation for this order: Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. C 24-05417 WHA, 2025 WL [___] (N.D. Cal. June 23, 2025).” The response adds that the Westlaw citation number must be filled in once assigned and explains that a pinpoint citation would appear as “at *3.”

where was this when I had to do bluebook spading for law review???? 🤯

Awww, I hope her recovery goes well ❤️‍🩹