Karrinina
@crinoidbcretaceous.bsky.social
Professional bird nerd herder.
Amateur Kansas naturalist.
Family includes Equus ferus caballus, Capra hircus, Felis catus, and Coenobita clypeatus
Amateur Kansas naturalist.
Family includes Equus ferus caballus, Capra hircus, Felis catus, and Coenobita clypeatus
One of these decorations is contemplating violence against the other decorations.
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
One of these decorations is contemplating violence against the other decorations.
Our felines love snow days bc we feed the birds on these days, offering them veritable cat television! #kansascity #catsofbluesky #birdwatching
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our felines love snow days bc we feed the birds on these days, offering them veritable cat television! #kansascity #catsofbluesky #birdwatching
Received my 2nd everaper wasp sting last Monday. It hurt for an hour and then I forgot about it. Last night the sting started itching after 8 days of no symptoms. Turns out this is actually a thing! Now I'm hesitant to go check nest boxes bc I dont know if this means I've developed an allergy.
August 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Received my 2nd everaper wasp sting last Monday. It hurt for an hour and then I forgot about it. Last night the sting started itching after 8 days of no symptoms. Turns out this is actually a thing! Now I'm hesitant to go check nest boxes bc I dont know if this means I've developed an allergy.
Paw paw leaves, with goat for scale
August 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Paw paw leaves, with goat for scale
Look at the size of these oak leaves in comparison to our 135-lb goat
August 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Look at the size of these oak leaves in comparison to our 135-lb goat
Making little wigs out of her shed hair will never not amuse me. #GoatsOfBluesky
April 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Making little wigs out of her shed hair will never not amuse me. #GoatsOfBluesky
March 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
B prepping tacos for the Current game, which we are watching outside within earshot of #CPKC Stadium while I cat sit. We hope we can hear the train horn for all the #KCC goals! #KCCurrent #Current #KansasCity
March 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
B prepping tacos for the Current game, which we are watching outside within earshot of #CPKC Stadium while I cat sit. We hope we can hear the train horn for all the #KCC goals! #KCCurrent #Current #KansasCity
My neighbor's cats often perform Synchronized Heat Dissipation on our front porch during the Summer Sleeping Olympics
March 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My neighbor's cats often perform Synchronized Heat Dissipation on our front porch during the Summer Sleeping Olympics
Noaa!
(Both to the blizzard warning, and to the much larger threat to our fave agency)
(Both to the blizzard warning, and to the much larger threat to our fave agency)
March 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Noaa!
(Both to the blizzard warning, and to the much larger threat to our fave agency)
(Both to the blizzard warning, and to the much larger threat to our fave agency)
Holy#$! I knew it was bad, but hadn't been paying close attention from my urban location. (Haven't lived in rural KS since 1996). My mom has been wanting to get rid of eastern red cedars around their property. I think I have a new fire lit under me! (Source theprairieproject.org )
February 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Holy#$! I knew it was bad, but hadn't been paying close attention from my urban location. (Haven't lived in rural KS since 1996). My mom has been wanting to get rid of eastern red cedars around their property. I think I have a new fire lit under me! (Source theprairieproject.org )
KC broke a 90-ish-year-old record low temp today. It was so cold we brought goatie in for the night. Actually, she's still in, so one of us has to work in the kitchen today. Yes, she's very good about using her giant "litter box," for those wondering about this aspect of indoor livestock keeping.
January 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
KC broke a 90-ish-year-old record low temp today. It was so cold we brought goatie in for the night. Actually, she's still in, so one of us has to work in the kitchen today. Yes, she's very good about using her giant "litter box," for those wondering about this aspect of indoor livestock keeping.
1/4 As Kansans, who have some of the country's highest home insurance rates as a percentage of home value, we need to be concerned about what happens elsewhere.
"Ishita Sen, a professor at Harvard, has found that after insurance companies suffer big losses in states that are tightly regulated,
"Ishita Sen, a professor at Harvard, has found that after insurance companies suffer big losses in states that are tightly regulated,
January 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
1/4 As Kansans, who have some of the country's highest home insurance rates as a percentage of home value, we need to be concerned about what happens elsewhere.
"Ishita Sen, a professor at Harvard, has found that after insurance companies suffer big losses in states that are tightly regulated,
"Ishita Sen, a professor at Harvard, has found that after insurance companies suffer big losses in states that are tightly regulated,
#Goaturday
My poor girl puts up with a lot of silliness
My poor girl puts up with a lot of silliness
January 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
#Goaturday
My poor girl puts up with a lot of silliness
My poor girl puts up with a lot of silliness
Started new set of plants in my miracle grow device experiment in our built-in kitschy plant cabinet (with doors to keep plant-gnawing felines out!) Basil I started from grocery store specimen, grew on the front porch all summer. It provides more than enough snippets for our HH!
January 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Started new set of plants in my miracle grow device experiment in our built-in kitschy plant cabinet (with doors to keep plant-gnawing felines out!) Basil I started from grocery store specimen, grew on the front porch all summer. It provides more than enough snippets for our HH!
Another video of our visitor. It watched feeder birds for about 2 hours, but never made any attempts. #kansascity #kansas #blizzard #wildlife
January 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Another video of our visitor. It watched feeder birds for about 2 hours, but never made any attempts. #kansascity #kansas #blizzard #wildlife
... one not-so-harmless predator watching feeder birds during the blizzard. We have *never* had one in our very urban yard, so this is quite the big deal! (I work with raptor geniuses, but am not one myself. Immature Cooper's?)
January 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
... one not-so-harmless predator watching feeder birds during the blizzard. We have *never* had one in our very urban yard, so this is quite the big deal! (I work with raptor geniuses, but am not one myself. Immature Cooper's?)
One harmless predator enjoying the fact that we are feeding birds during the blizzard, and...
January 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
One harmless predator enjoying the fact that we are feeding birds during the blizzard, and...
We don't regularly feed, but with a blizzard heading this way, we've filled the feeders. Note our unraked leaves left for our invertebrate friends!
January 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We don't regularly feed, but with a blizzard heading this way, we've filled the feeders. Note our unraked leaves left for our invertebrate friends!
Crabstopher Walken has been really active since emerging from molt recently. I think we've now had him for about 10 years, the last survivor of 5 we rescued after an event where they were being "raced." I felt bad for them. We don't handle him. He's had enough trauma, right? #hermitcrabs
January 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Crabstopher Walken has been really active since emerging from molt recently. I think we've now had him for about 10 years, the last survivor of 5 we rescued after an event where they were being "raced." I felt bad for them. We don't handle him. He's had enough trauma, right? #hermitcrabs
Brace for #NYEGoat pics. When she comes inside I get shutter happy. (Yes, she actually has a shaving-filled shallow 3x6ish plastic pan for peeing & understands we wish her to use it. Poop is NBD, dry & odorless, & we just sweep it up.) I know. We are childless goat peeps, ruining America.
January 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Brace for #NYEGoat pics. When she comes inside I get shutter happy. (Yes, she actually has a shaving-filled shallow 3x6ish plastic pan for peeing & understands we wish her to use it. Poop is NBD, dry & odorless, & we just sweep it up.) I know. We are childless goat peeps, ruining America.
Someone just literally curled her lip at my proffered indoor-raised hydroponic greens (flehmen response). So onto her wide, winter-fuzzy back they go. She's hanging out indoors tonight bc of NYE mayhem. She does not like fireworks and effing gunfire. Neither do we... #goats #goatsofbluesky
January 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Someone just literally curled her lip at my proffered indoor-raised hydroponic greens (flehmen response). So onto her wide, winter-fuzzy back they go. She's hanging out indoors tonight bc of NYE mayhem. She does not like fireworks and effing gunfire. Neither do we... #goats #goatsofbluesky
Here's the page from my first grade "diary" on Jimmy Carter's inauguration day in 1977. (I've included a close-up of the portrait I drew of him, and several surrounding pages from the diary.) #JimmyCarter #RIPJimmyCarter
December 30, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Here's the page from my first grade "diary" on Jimmy Carter's inauguration day in 1977. (I've included a close-up of the portrait I drew of him, and several surrounding pages from the diary.) #JimmyCarter #RIPJimmyCarter
Here's a little holiday postcard of my youngest hunting "birds". #catsofbluesky
December 10, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Here's a little holiday postcard of my youngest hunting "birds". #catsofbluesky