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Whenever the CPSC puts out another recall or warning list I always wonder why anyone buys baby products from Amazon.

I make Mississippi Vegan's Pantry Pasta with positively obscene frequency, but this was the first time with sauteed chanterelles (thanks to my first mushroom foraging trip) and I'm upset I cannot have it like this always.

Those pictures of Bob the Weather Cat just made me feel old.

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Setting up a tent on this hill.

She just gave me that look I've seen consistently all of my life and went back to her jigsaw puzzle.

She looked around at the pumpkins, scarecrows, wheat stalks, indigenous people figurines, cornucopias, fall leaves, and other dried foliage.

Mom: Where are the pilgrims?
Me: ...
Mom: [my name]
Me: Dead, I imagine.

When I came inside the house my mother was just starting the process of switching Halloween decor to the Thanksgiving items she'd gathered on her coffee table. I asked to help, which means I took over while she worked on a jigsaw puzzle. I put away the unneeded items and indicated I was finished.

Because I'm not yet old enough for a broken hip to be a likely death sentence, I fetched branches off of a steep, ivy-covered hill for my mother after she hacked down filbert bushes on a ledge of her property. I'm sure the squirrels will be just devastated for the two seconds it takes for regrowth.

He didn't do any Seattle games for quite some time, but I've seen him come up as VAR more recently, probably because he can be tucked safely away from the supporters.

Red card wedding.

Every single time I hear Daniel Radford announced as an official for a Sounders match I just give a little chuckle.

I'm happy Liverpool finally won a match again, and the Timbers don't give a shit if I give a shit so I do not currently give a shit that they won today, so overall I'm not happy with my sports day.

Boooooooooooo.

The best part of being an aunt is the looks my sister gives me.

I'm sorry, did you say 11?

I haven't been in awhile but I understand it's still very popular. I've never been there right at open, but people still recommend getting there as early as possible to avoid a wait. You can check the wait time on their website now, but you still have to sign up in person if there is a wait.

Just FYI, the latest Off-Center owner had a "Let's Go Brandon" sign in the window at one time. Honey and Co is former Busick employees and supposed to be good. Word of Mouth also has new owners but is mostly the same and still great.

That was a lot of celebration for the first game in a non-championship series.

But then, I wanted my team to lose their play-in game, so who am I to judge?

I received a tin of Cougar Gold for Christmas one year and it was one of my favorite presents ever.

Just realized that with the shutdown there won't be a Bat Beauty Contest by the BLM. Real blow to Oregon as it's pretty much the only thing we're any good at winning.

I usually watch both the ABC and CBS evening news and they covered it for a couple of days late last week. According to their YouTube channels, their morning shows and 24/7 news channels had coverage as well.

The squirrels have the walnuts stripped off of the tree and buried long before any fall for other critters.

There's an oak tree near our shared driveway. Crows line up acorns along the grooves and in the pockets where it's deteriorating and let the cars do all of the work.

A protest sign of a chonky black cat treading on the “Don’t Tread On Me” snake with the caption “OH LAWD HE TREADIN’”

#NoKings

Left my gartenmeisters outside a hair too long, but I didn't want to take the new, poorly timed flush of flowers away from the hummingbirds. It's just minor frost damage; they'll be fine.

Always pains me so much to remove all of the flowers.

I am distressed that the Tombstone camera is down.

🦌 🤝 🐿️ 🤝 🐇 🤝 🐛 🤝 🦃

destroying my garden
dreams

Oh that bird still has a long way to go. I'm exhausted thinking about it.

Jfc. This is why I watch soccer.

For someone who doesn't particularly care for baseball, I am incredibly invested in this game.