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mistressofmuses) wrote2025-03-11 10:00 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2025-03-11 10:00 pm
Toad, birds, turtles, cat...
Had a good birthday! :)
Here is Berry Mad lurking in her pool.
The weather was nice enough to be outside, so we went to the neighborhood park to let the dogs go for a walk. Cy was surprisingly enthusiastic and made it all the way around half of the park without even seeming tired!
This is still false spring. We may be looking at some terrible weather again by the end of the week, and almost certainly next week. Enjoying it while it lasts, though! The trees have buds! Not leafing out yet, but... soon!
A pair of robins in a crabapple tree.
Another robin!
We have robins around basically all year, but start seeing more as spring approaches. They're cheerful looking and sounding, and I like seeing them.
Then we dropped Cy at home, since he does not like being in the car for long, and does definitely get tired more easily. After that, we went back out to Pelican Pond to walk around there for a bit.
We didn't actually make it very far around, because Bella didn't seem to feel very well. Probably a quarter mile or so before turning around, so a half mile ish. I think she was just tired, and she was fine after we got home and she took a power nap, haha.
The water was pretty low. Lots of different ducks and other water birds, plus many turtles!
A turtle on the shore, and crows playing in the air!
Turtles on a free-floating log! And seagulls on the island.
The turtle on shore. Definitely watching me very closely, but didn't dart away the way they usually do.
Later in the afternoon we went over to my mom and Taylor's. My mom made me a peach pie. <3
(For gifts, I got books, haha. Of course! I tried to limit myself to asking for things that I knew were going to be on my TBR list, but that I just didn't own yet, so I'm trying very hard not to add to the enormous list!
I got Installment Immortality, which will jump the line to be my next read after the current one is done. I also got The Left Hand of Darkness, since it was not included in the UKLG ebooks, and is one I know I want to read; The Count of Monte Cristo because I did not ever have to read it for school, and Taylor says it is very, very good, but oh man, 1300 pages; Bury Your Gays, because of course; and House of Leaves because it seems to be such a unique reading experience, and has a lot of impact on like, meta storytelling type stuff, even if people are divided on how much they like the work itself, and I love weird architectural horror.)
And we got to see and play with Jaspurr. He's so cute and sweet!
Still dealing with the remnants of the cold, but I think I lucked out on missing the worst of it. I've had coworkers sick for weeks, out for days at a time. I'm mildly miserable, and so extremely tired of blowing my nose, but still functional... I tried to do without any meds for the last day two days, but I don't think I'm quite there yet. Back to the day/nyquil.
Here is Berry Mad lurking in her pool.
The weather was nice enough to be outside, so we went to the neighborhood park to let the dogs go for a walk. Cy was surprisingly enthusiastic and made it all the way around half of the park without even seeming tired!
This is still false spring. We may be looking at some terrible weather again by the end of the week, and almost certainly next week. Enjoying it while it lasts, though! The trees have buds! Not leafing out yet, but... soon!
Some robins:
A pair of robins in a crabapple tree.
Another robin!
We have robins around basically all year, but start seeing more as spring approaches. They're cheerful looking and sounding, and I like seeing them.
Then we dropped Cy at home, since he does not like being in the car for long, and does definitely get tired more easily. After that, we went back out to Pelican Pond to walk around there for a bit.
We didn't actually make it very far around, because Bella didn't seem to feel very well. Probably a quarter mile or so before turning around, so a half mile ish. I think she was just tired, and she was fine after we got home and she took a power nap, haha.
The water was pretty low. Lots of different ducks and other water birds, plus many turtles!
A turtle on the shore, and crows playing in the air!
Some more turts:
Turtles on a free-floating log! And seagulls on the island.
The turtle on shore. Definitely watching me very closely, but didn't dart away the way they usually do.
Later in the afternoon we went over to my mom and Taylor's. My mom made me a peach pie. <3
(For gifts, I got books, haha. Of course! I tried to limit myself to asking for things that I knew were going to be on my TBR list, but that I just didn't own yet, so I'm trying very hard not to add to the enormous list!
I got Installment Immortality, which will jump the line to be my next read after the current one is done. I also got The Left Hand of Darkness, since it was not included in the UKLG ebooks, and is one I know I want to read; The Count of Monte Cristo because I did not ever have to read it for school, and Taylor says it is very, very good, but oh man, 1300 pages; Bury Your Gays, because of course; and House of Leaves because it seems to be such a unique reading experience, and has a lot of impact on like, meta storytelling type stuff, even if people are divided on how much they like the work itself, and I love weird architectural horror.)
And we got to see and play with Jaspurr. He's so cute and sweet!
Still dealing with the remnants of the cold, but I think I lucked out on missing the worst of it. I've had coworkers sick for weeks, out for days at a time. I'm mildly miserable, and so extremely tired of blowing my nose, but still functional... I tried to do without any meds for the last day two days, but I don't think I'm quite there yet. Back to the day/nyquil.
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I love turtles on logs, haha. (Also very funny when one tries to climb onto the log and ends up rolling the whole thing, other turtles and all.)
Jaspurr is adorable!
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Jaspurr has such a sweet face.
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Jaspurr has such a cute face! He's very sweet.
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Left Hand is the Le Guin book I just picked up. I also got a copy of House of Leaves recently. Not sure if I am going to read it or just have it as bookshelf decoration. I really hope to get to Bury Your Gays soon, but, we'll see.
Glad the crud seems to losing.
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Yeah, I have several Le Guin books I want to read, but that is definitely one of them. I will try to read House of Leaves... but we'll see how it goes. It certainly seems to be a unique experience to try. I don't know when I'll get to Bury Your Gays (and still need to read Camp Damascus, too) but at least I've now got it!
The crud rallied to strike me down again on Wednesday, but now I seem to be victorious once more. We'll see how many more ups and downs there are!
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I feel like House of Leaves is something I'd need to put aside a chunk of time for, not feel like I need to finish by a date to get to book club books. So, it's likely not happening this year.
Oof, I hope you kill it for good and soon
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Same with House of Leaves... I definitely do want to read it, but I know it's anything but straightforward, so it'd be a whole thing in terms of setting aside time (and participating in the weird self-referential scavenger hunts and getting a mirror to read some of the pages and all the other random weird bits.) It's certainly not something I can plan to read x number of pages per day or whatever. Definitely saving it for once I've knocked out more of the TBR list, so it's probably a couple years in the future.
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Jaspurr is so handsome & Berry Mad especially *__*
Happy belated birthday! 🎉
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Thank you about the turtle pics! I always feel bad when I see them and they all immediately flee. Like, no! I didn't want to interrupt your sunning!
Jaspurr is so very handsome. I adore Berry Mad. She's so very cute.
And thank you!