Aimee

New socks.

Vroom vroom

Dog or rat? 💕

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It was a dove 🙄🫣🤪

When we bought this house, there were two sheds in the back yard. One is a crappy little metal one that I really need to rip out. But now there's an animal trapped in there. I'm about to go let it out. Wish me luck. I'll report back.

New socks fresh off the needles.

A few nights ago, near my house.
#newmexico

Yeah, check out bunches at a time, with no realistic ability to read them all. But I also like to get big art books, cookbooks, science books with tons of photos. I flip through them, find them comforting and inspiring. I have to be choosy when I buy books, but at the library you can be wild.

When they tell you who they are, believe them

My dog, Tallulah, was barking at this balloon earlier as it went over our house. What is that image? It's driving me bananas.

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

Jones in my (now empty) laundry basket.

Both of my cats are obsessed with my laundry basket. Sweets is sleeping on my clean clothes.

The window in front of my desk overlooks a giant apricot tree. The tree dropped its leaves over the last week and now all the tiny birds are here, eating bits of whatever on the branches. These are house finches, but we also get goldfinches and dark eyed juncos in the winter.

Phew. Seymour made an appearance. We rearranged some of the furniture outside, and moved the cam. Seymour seems a little confused by the changes.

Seymour didn't show up on the trail cam last night. So now I'll worry all day. Did they get eaten by the cat? An owl? A fox or coyote?

This is a problem, though. Not only for Seymour's health and safety, but because we have coyotes here all the time.

We got a trail cam to see what sort of critters come through our yard. Cats, skunks a few times, a lizard. But mostly it's Seymour, a rat who lives under a shed, hoarding crab apples and leaves. I have the cam attached to a bucket so we can move it around the yard. I'm so invested in Seymour.

The calm before he starts knocking my pens down.

Minnie has grown quite the beard.