Chris Meliton

A hummingbird moth hovers over a cluster of pink flowers

Managed to snap a shot of this beautiful hummingbird moth in my garden!

Blossoms cover the thin branches of an ornamental plum tree.

My yard is in bloom, and I feel like I am defrosting.

Waiting in line at the advance polls for the federal election. It’s pretty busy, and I’m told there’s an hour wait. This pleases me so! Let’s go Canadians! Vote! Vote! VOTE!

A brown tabby cat takes a large bite it of a hunk of wet food. The food is on a white plate, and has two gold coloured candles stuck in the top, a one and a nine. The cat’s face is obscured by the candles.

A tabby cat leans towards a plate of wet food adorned with two lit candles, shaped like a one and a nine. A man’s arm extends into frame, holding the cat back. There is a chocolate frosted cake peaking into the frame as well.

A brown tabby cat licks her chops after eating some wet food. The food is on a white plate, and has two gold coloured candles stuck in the top, a one and a nine.

A brown tabby cat stalks towards the camera, her face slightly out of focus.

Today my beloved cat, Busy, is nineteen years old. Please enjoy these photos of our little celebration yesterday! Biz gobbled her salmon pate enthusiastically, and the rest of the family had a chocolate-frosted banana cake.

A photo of part of magnolia tree against a blue sky. Many fuzzy buds are visible. There are light clouds in the sky, and some houses in the background.

There are some flurries today, and it’s barely above 0, but my neighbour’s magnolia tree has big, fuzzy buds on, and spring is coming!

My kid wanted to turn a photo of her friend group into a colouring page. They all marvelled at the result of my woefully dated photoshop skills, and thanked me enthusiastically.

Cool mom points achieved!

A tan coloured Syrian hamster stands on her back legs, front paws relaxed and droopy, ears perked up, sniffing toward the camera. She is on a grey fleece blanket, a pillow and stuffed animal can be seen in the background, slightly out of focus.

Please enjoy this picture of Cutie, our hamster, hanging out on my son’s bed while I cleaned her habitat this evening. Her teeny paws and floofy fur are a lovely distraction from the doomscroll.

It’s becoming a series. Every night lately, at some point, Busy and Eric have a snuggle like this.

A snowy backyard with about 30cm of accumulation on a picnic table and planter in the foreground. A path leading around a large coniferous tree on the left has been trampled in the snow. There is birdseed scattered in several areas. Several bare deciduous trees line the yard, and the sky in the distance is cloudy.

My yard looks like this, but it’s 5° today so it feels like spring!

A man sits on a sofa with a cat snuggled on his belly and chest. The man has buzzed hair, and wears glasses. The cat is a brown tabby. Her head is resting on the man’s chest, and her eyes are partly closed in contentment.

This is the view to my left. She’s purring so loudly, but is so sleepy, it sounds a bit like a congested pigeon. I’m surprised she isn’t drooling. May we all be so comfy!

Mine are twelve and nine. I mostly sleep through the night now, but holy bananas, we are busy! It’s a different kind of exhausting at every stage so far, you’re correct!

Thank you for this information! I had no idea that was possible! I need to de-US-politics-ify my feed.

It got up to -2° for a bit this afternoon, and I was so excited that it was “warm” enough to dig a spot out of the snowbank for the recycling and garbage bins! I keep reminding myself that it’s only another month or so of this.

That’s enough. We can be done now, thanks!

A close up of onions and garlic being sautéed, with a bunch of spices piled in the middle of the pan.

Prepping all the flavours for tonight’s supper (to be added to a pile of veg in the slow cooker) and my house smells divine.

A woman’s legs, wearing jeans, crossed at the ankles, sitting on a sofa beside a bowl of chips and a book. The book is The Lightmaker’s Manifesto by Karen Walrond.

Saturday night vibes.

A tabby cat sits on a bed, looking at the camera.

This is Busy. She will be 19 next month, and wants you to know that I do not give her enough treats and wet food for her liking. A travesty, to be sure.

That is probably sound advice, and I should follow, but I can’t bring myself to squish the little cuties, and setting up another tank for them is not a viable option. So, we’ve got snails now. 🤷🏻‍♀️

No idea! There are three of them, and they’re tiny. I’m sure they’ll multiply and take over the tank, but for now we’re just marvelling at how small and cute they are!

Beta testing the new Flashes app. Looks like it crossposts automatically.

It appears that the new plants in my daughter’s aquarium came with some new friends as well.

As a Canadian who immediately went and watched your most recent Tik Tok, I think that needs to stay up forever, please.

Went and logged in to my Blogger account for the first time in twelve years, for funsies. Found a random influx in traffic from 2021-2023, and it’s got me curious about where it came from. Who? And why?

Also, alternating between laughing at myself and cringing as I skimmed the posts.

I’m pretty sure Bodega Cats is my favourite account to follow.

Lovely work! It’s so cute, and your colour palette is wonderful!

*bows appreciatively in your general direction*

Approximately eleven people read my blog, and I haven’t touched it since 2013ish, but I tried for a while!

So many wonderful people to follow! Thank you for compiling these!

Trudeau as a person? I think I would find him delightful, were we to meet as people! As our PM? He’s had long enough. I like him, and I feel like some good work has been done, but not enough.

I want NDP next. We need to move this country away from this back and forth between red and blue.

I had two hours to kill while my youngest was at a play date, and thought I’d run in and grab a gift for my dad with a coupon I had (plus a fancy coffee for myself). It was polite, organized chaos, but too much for me. So many people! Queues everywhere. Music too loud.

I’m becoming a curmudgeon.