Ludibriumventis

But that leads to the question, if I had NOT been here and gone out there, would they have just run their excavator right over the muddy ground?

And, once again, I must ask... WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE DONE IF THERE WAS A GARAGE OR FENCE THERE?!?

Well, good thing I was home, this morning.

I just had to go out and advocate that the utility excavators don't just run over the corner of my yard. *siiiiiiigh*

I explained that there are flower bulbs right under there, and they offered to put down boards...

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Gnarled weirdo mossy creeper

(Which also happens to be the name of my next band)

‘We Couldn’t Say the Title’: Darcie Little Badger on the Words Banned at a Utah University When a Utah university gave author Darcie Little Badger a list of words she couldn’t say, she was stunned.

‘We Couldn’t Say the Title’: @littlebadger.bsky.social on the Words Banned at a Utah University pen.org/darcie-littl...

A small painting depicting a field of chunky ice under a starry twilight sky. In the background are some silhouetted mountains

An expanse of chunks of ice that have broken, rubbed against one another, and fused back together, so there are softened edges as well as deep cracks between the pieces. It kind of looks like a flagstone floor. In the far distance, along the horizon, is the land on the other side of Sandusky Bay. The sky is blue, but with some light purple clouds coming in from the direction of the horizon.

"Floe"
2026
Watercolor

A tiny painting, inspired by a picture I took in Sandusky, Ohio on Christmas Day 2025.
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On a brown paper packaging envelope sits a small wooden box stained with a rich dark brown color. A paintbrush just under 2 cm wide sits to the left of it. At the 11:00 position is a pickle jar with dark brown Walnut ink in it. At the 1:00 position is another balsa wood box with a lighter coat of the same stain on it.

I stained one of those Dollar Store balsa wood boxes with my homemade walnut ink, and I have to say, it looks pretty good!

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Like with the Olympics, the curling athletes at the Paralympics are mic-ed up, so that we hear their chatter.

The closed captions are having a dilly of a time with Latvian, though.

"Three surgical cats, Catalina."

Don’t let them take silly away from you

I really enjoy watching wheelchair curling.

I was sitting here, minding my business, when I heard a high-pitched noise that sounded like a tiny animal in extreme distress.

Of course, this caused ME some extreme distress until I realized that it was coming from the partially finished bottle of kombucha I'd not completely closed.

My yard is a foraging paradise in the spring!

No, my yard is filled with them in the spring, so I am familiar with the size. But I just cannot believe that people consider it a weed. It's so pretty! And, you can make tea with the flowers! And the most beautiful jelly! And the leaves are good for making soothing balm!

It depends on how much you plant, and then how patient you are. They do reproduce by corms, so you will hopefully get more the second year, and more after that. But, there is also a reason why it is the most expensive spice on Earth by weight alone.

Who's got two thumbs and three bright green 5-gallon buckets that she just filled with approximately 90 kg of cement mix in hopes to further prevent people from driving through her garden‽

You can order them now - they won't ship until August or so, as they're autumnal.

I ordered mine from Roco.

I planted a bunch of non-saffron crocus bulbs in the fall - I should go out and see if any of them are peeking, yet!

How is that a weed? d:

ooOOOoooo!!!

🫂

Ah, takk fyrir!

On a purple background, white blocky text says 400 day streak then, below a little graphic showing the days of the week with the most recent one highlighted, which is actually incorrect because today is Tuesday and not wednesday, in smaller white text, it says, okay, now you're just showing off. At the top is an image of a little flame in shades of purple and pink and white.

Woo!

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In a small square balsa wood tray covered in gold tissue paper, a diorama depicting the Tarot card The Hanged Man. The background is an elaborate floral pattern from a Victorian era wallpaper design, and in the foreground are some cut-outs of flowers: some from a Klimt painting postcard, and another from a different Victorian wallpaper design. There are some cut-outs of birch trunks in assorted spots. In the back left corner is a rather thick forked branch that, in scale, looks like a stout tree with a sturdy limb sticking out toward the 2:00 position. A green ribbon with many leaves coming off of it is wound around the branch and up and around the inside of the tray. Dangling from one end that is wrapped around the diagonal limb of the "tree" is the eponymous man, dangling upside-down by one leg. His left leg is bent so that his ankle lies across his right thigh, and his arms are bent with his hands resting behind his neck. He looks rather relaxed, to be honest. There is a yellow "halo" emanating from his head.

Today's tarot card diorama - with background and snippets of William Morris wallpaper patterns, some birch trunks and flowers from Klimt postcards, some leafy ribbon, and a real tree! (;

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I was saved from the temptation by the arrival of my partner with dill havarti and cracked wheat crackers and mango guacamole. (Well, guac with absurdly large unblended pieces of mango in it...)

OK, I need to put this bag of kara boondi out of arm's reach before I finish off the entire thing.

And your credit card information...

I dust my house. My AI robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

I'm getting into making miniature books, and the fold/opening options are ENDLESS!!! I am so excited to dip my toes into this.

In a square balsa wood tray is a diorama of the tarot card The Moon. The tray itself is covered in black tissue paper, and there is a vintage photo of the Moon pasted in the very back. It takes up almost the entire inside. The two watchtowers on either side are cut out and perched on some three-dimensional Hills made from crushed up gold tissue paper. The two dogs that are banging at the Moon in the foreground, red on the left and yellow on the right, are also mounted on three-dimensional Hills made of crushed up gold tissue paper. At the very center in the front is a Red Lobster looking like it is jumping out of the water and shouting yay!

This one is also not finished, but I had to point out how the dog on the right side kind of looks like Pikachu. And I couldn't leave out the celebrating lobster.

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In a small square tray turned on its side, a diorama of the tarot card the fool has been set up using ephemera cutouts of old astronomical illustrations, origami paper with Japanese wave patterns, and some paper with a design reminiscent of a Klimt painting. The fool himself is cut out from a shiny golden Tarot picture (not a consecrated deck, fear not!), and the little creature at his feet has been replaced with a cutout of a neko good luck cat. The exterior of the box has been covered in a floral line drawing design tissue paper.

It's not by any means finished, yet, but my latest arts and crafts project is a Foolish little diorama.

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Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.