Millamant

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

What season are you in? There's a new annual summer event that should give you a mossy boost (plant all the tree seeds you have if the weatherman is confused), plus you should be able to knock some off of town trees.

Yearly job review! I am amazing, indispensable, and brilliant at communication, all peers should aspire to my diligence and documentation, and they would be lost without me.

Rated 4 out a 5 because there isn't a budget to pay me what they would have to if I was rated a 5 out of 5.

Obviously it has already been noted, but I am obligated to be very emphatic about this:

Annual reminder to use your terrain and environmental conditions to your advantage. Trapezoidal fields and mud can do most of the work for you!

Now at 34%, after a round of frogging and rethinking. Family of @oldgodspod.bsky.social will see where I'm going with this.

A fluffy grey tabby cat sits on a cat tree with a red bandana loosely tied around his upper body. He is looking at the camera with a nonplussed expression.

Timeline cleanse: Fenris, Fenris's patience with his humans, and a bandana.

Tagging @crickwooder.bsky.social on cranberry content!

A slice of pumpkin bread with lots of add-ins on a white plate.

Pumpkin bread with walnuts, dark chocolate, and craisins.

Let me introduce you to two of my top ten favorite Shakespeare adaptations: The Chronicles of Riddick and Iron Man 2.

I am having to make Thanksgiving entirely by myself this year and then transporting it three hours away and I'm having a minor existential crisis about it.

Still gonna have two types of cranberries.

Asters!

A grey tabby cat catches a shoelace in his mouth while a fluffy black cat closely observes. A one-eyed brown tabby watches in the distance from within a seasonal cardboard ghost hutch.

A rare group shot, brought to you by string.

A fluffy black cat lies in a box, his ruff spilling over the edge.

A fluffy black cat lies on the floor, his fur pooling out around him. His front paws peek out from under the expanse of floof.

Loki is still wary of strangers, but has been an attentive nurse through spouse's medical issues. I am permitted to scratch the ruff. He likes murdering feathered toys and engaging in the occasional chase and wrestle with the other cats. Our fanciest boy, Commodore Fluffernickel.

A black cat sits on a black laptop bag. His tail is extra fluffy compared to the rest of him.

The same cat, but older. He has a very prominent ruff and is generally very fluffy overall; the tail is now proportional in its floof.

Today is Loki's second anniversary with us and his third birthday (observed)! The tail has remained constant, while the floof has expanded.

A fluffy grey tabby kitten sits behind a toilet, looking at the camera with suspicion.

The same grey tabby cat, two years older and much bigger, sprawling on a couch with his fluffy belly up.

It's the second anniversary of Fenris's gotcha day! He has gone from lurking in corners to attempting to run the house (and generally failing). Cautious but curious, loving affection but uncertain it will be given, frequenter of the cat wheel while talking to himself, we love our Mr. Beefy Paws.

YouTube video by Paris Paloma Paris Paloma - Good Boy [Official Music Video]

In other things I've been enjoying lately:

Husband keeps telling me to stop face tanking so much as I'm no longer Zagreus, but I think I'm managing ok.

Day 3 of playing Hades II. Have gotten through phase 1 of the area 4 boss (lower route). I have never objected to excessive moon goddesses and also have been vibing pretty hard with Hestia the past few years, so it's no surprise that I'm having a good time. (Har.)

A profusion of purple flowers, with some of the stems toppled over.

The New England aster continues to contemplate world domination.

A thick clump of the aromatic asters with several flowers.

I planted one little plant last spring and utterly neglected it. Huzzah for natives!

A few small purple flowers with orange centers in the midst of many more stems with unopened buds.

Aromatic aster is starting to bloom!

A fluffy grey tabby cat lies on a green cushion, a tiny bit of tongue sticking out of his mouth.

Just keeping on with the cross stitch, plant, and cat pics, as I have absolutely nothing else to contribute right now.

Since mid-May:
--Husband had 2 planned surgeries
--Husband had 1 unplanned surgery (still recovering)
--I stressed myself into the ER
--We both got covid (still recovering)
--Squirrels destroyed husband's car's electrics

Finally have the brain and energy to get back to this. The words still need French knots but I don't have the brain and energy to learn those at the moment. This is 14%.

Lettuce will be salads, potatoes and peppers will be hash, tomatoes will be roasted and thrown into pasta and stuff, and I have no idea what I'll do with the bok choy.

Box of veggies.

Farm share day! Missed a couple of weeks of pics due to the whole covid thing. Bok choy, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, wee bell peppers.

I am obviously cosigned, but the upcoming Netflix series has Rufus Sewell and Olivia Colman as Mr. & Mrs. Bennet and I would watch eight hours of just that.

Also had a video visit at 10am (a mere one hour after I tested!) where I was prescribed paxlovid. Do I have paxlovid to take? Of course not, because the script was held up all day by an "insurance issue." Perhaps tomorrow.

Officially have covid for the first time and I would be very mad about it but I don't have the energy.

(Totally had it in April 2020 but testing at that point said no. Have tested negative every time since, but I don't entirely trust that, given the nature of this asshole virus.)