Or day-after-Halloween, more accurately. Trick-or-treating got off to a busy start, as I had kids already waiting for me on the porch when I got home from work - luckily I had the candy ready to go that I'd put in the bowl in the morning before I left because I knew I was going to get home late. Rain started about half an hour in, though, so I ( Read more... )

Linking to tumblr because posting images on DW is a pain - raccoon girl got into some of my old papers and notes from when I was writing Project Reset and found this little scribble I did in the margins of little extra-small hatchling Jazz, still in his pod:

Wee hatchling JazzI've got TF: Revenge of the Fallen (or is it Return of the Fallen? I ( Read more... )

Finally gave in a couple of days ago and turned on the heat when nighttime temps started dipping into the upper 40's, and now tonight I just turned on the air conditioning again because the house it still all hot and stuffy from the 80's today ( Read more... )

I had to do the math to figure out how old I was this year, lol - 46 and 47 are numbers that just don't really stick in the head. Co-workers brought delicious cinnamon buns to work on Wednesday, and had cake with mom & niecelet on Friday. This morning I did my annual Goodwill run to restock my wardrobe - all my pants have developed the usual rip ( Read more... )

Teeny bits of it, anyway - finally feel like I'm starting to get some sanity back, as daycamps are done and I've had a few no-program days at work to get my ducks in a row. Or possums. Or something. Wildlife season hasn't slowed down one jot - still bottle feeding three late-season baby raccoons twice a day, and got in 12 teeny opossum orphans ( Read more... )

That 'minor' cold from way back when progressed to a sinus infection that knocked me flat for a couple weeks - I had all kinds of programs and volunteer trainings at work, so I dosed up on cold medicine enough to stay functional, but didn't have much energy left over for anything else, and the house was really showing it! Finally started feeling ( Read more... )

Since posting photos on DW is kinda tedious, but on tumblr I can just stick 'em directly from my phone:
Color changing betta Legolas-the-fish

I also got two new bettas, since my little Bluestreak betta died several weeks ago, after a good run of 4 or 5 years, and I had an empty tank: Two new feeshMy little zinnias are sprouting, yay ( Read more... )

Finally got dryer repaired this afternoon, so I can catch up on the big backlog of critter laundry. I've been doing my human laundry and just hanging up around the house to dry, which works fine, but would be pretty tedious to do with all the critter towels and blankets ( Read more... )

A new thing, not just a repost even!

Happy Prime Chapter 4In other news, all my wildlife permits and reports are due next week - every year I plan to get them done early and every year I'm right down to the wire - I just need about 8 uninterrupted hours, but work has been one thing after another. Thinking I might sneak in and hide in the office on ( Read more... )

It's cold out there! After an unseasonably warm fall and start to winter, it's a bit of a shock to the system, but I'm starting to get adjusted I think - got around an inch of snow just in time for Christmas, and now temps are in the low teens. Next weekend it's supposed to be even colder, -2 New Year's morning, which of course I volunteered to ( Read more... )