confiance

Quote of the day: mama, no! Don't walk on the ground!

It is November. I absolutely should not be killing mosquitoes who are trying to bite me.

The 3 year old has learned 'mama! Watch me!' from older children at the park.

Flavor doesn't seem to matter. I used mango orange the other day, strawberry more recently. Same results.

I do not understand how walking upstairs and brushing my teeth is enough to take me from unable to stay awake on the couch to unable to fall asleep in bed.

Right?! Clearly, something is deeply wrong with the child.

I fear we have made a major error somewhere.

The spawn does not seem to like Kraft mac'n'cheese or grilled cheese.

Just snatched a mosquito out of the air with one hand. Pretty sure the rest of the day will be downhill.

The amount of free time I'd have if my brain could just.. Let things go and not try to remember every detail to be able to look something up..

What is the return policy on Mondays?

I think you need Mailbox Pants that live near the front door for this purpose.

They are hiding with the tape measures and scissors.

If it helps, we bought that card before Christmas and only managed to mail it.. Sometime earlier this year.

Sign from a museum, saying Towy River coracle (cwrwgl), 2009. Built by W. Karl Chattington. This boat was produced for the 2009 Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival and is provided through the courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution The coracle has been in use in Wales since the 7th century. Today, coracles are used along the Towy River in southwest Wales by sport fishermen angling for salmon and sea trout. They are propelled with a paddle held in two hands over the bow, in a figure-8 movement. Coracles are very light - the hull is painted canvas over wooden strips. When a fisherman came ashore he would simply pick the boat up and, using the leather strap, carry the boat home on his back. Why the irregular shape? On the fast flowing Welsh rivers the pear-shaped coracle is more stable and able to cope with river conditions. Picture of four men with coracles included, as well as a map of the UK, with the River Towy identified by a star.

Picture of a coracle hanging from a wall with an oar in front of it.

Hey @gwenynen.bsky.social - we saw this sign in a museum today and both immediately said Wales.

I am teaching the toddler that they are fluffy murder cows.

I really don't like snow or cold but I am tempted to move much farther north. Where the air hurts my face has less bugs, yes?

The fact that you have a spare bayonet is incredibly on brand.

Just spent more than 1 minute rotating a bottle of mustard as the local toddler yelled "mustard turn around!"

The list of things the local toddler only does at home or at daycare, but not both, is mind bogglingly long. How does he keep track of it all?

For someone who spends a lot of dinner time making his own soups, the toddler has a very strong dislike of soup.

I blame @swistle.bsky.social for the book hangover I am suffering having finished Asunder over the weekend.

That is an oak catkin behind the smol fwog, to give an idea of smolness.

A small green frog in a red bucket.

It is frog season!

This is clearly the bad place.

This is making me want to do a re-read but I need to check the library hold situation first.

You have met @nate-in-va.bsky.social who is basically a human golden retriever and survived!

I am fairly certain that the dog knows the sound of rain and just nope out of peeing before bed because Bob forbid he be subject to the torture that is peeing in the rain.

Leigh Butler wrote a reread column for Tor. It is excellent for making sure you didn't miss stuff. There are definitely some spoilers, but I still tend to read a chapter of WoT and then see what Auntie Leigh had to say.

"... and in other news, USA is being sued by a company that will be founded some time in the future, when time travel is invented. Apparently, the company will offer 'punch a nazi' tours, with exclusive rights to 1933-45. But competitors will start to offer similar tours to USA 2025-28, and..."

She is not wrong. Some books are a bit of a slog. Have I mentioned the reread blog yet? Or the rereread blog?