Happiest of days to you! You're one of the reasons I still linger here 💜

It sounds like you're having a truly splendid, well deserved day! May there be many, many more 🎂

It's beautiful and moody, and I would live there quite happily!

thank you! I was so lucky to be able to get in with the artist when she was doing a guest spot in Vancouver.

First beet harvest! In fact the first vegetable harvest ever for me! They were delicious 😋

generally speaking, we are! I've largely absented myself from most of the social medias these days - what was once fun and beautiful and informative has become just an endless cycle of misery and fear and it was really not good for my mental health.

Oh no! I hope it can be fixed. Not silly at all, I'd cry too.

these are fantastical!

The summoning tree in my old neighbourhood was very clear about its nature.

Yeah. I'm going to miss viewing Thedas again through a new character's eyes.

And at least in the game the bad guys get what they deserve.

I can handle that, what's getting me at the moment is kid #1 will turn 27 this year, which is the age I was when I had them 🫠

Birdsong on a bright morning never fails to give me a little thrill

Into this dark and distrustful world comes Neverfell, a little girl with no memory of her past and a face so terrifying to those around her that she must wear a mask at all times. For Neverfell's emotions are as obvious on her face as those of the most skilled Facesmiths, though entirely genuine.

The people of Caverna are more ordinary, but for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned. Only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to show (or fake) joy, despair or fear — at a price.

"In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare. They create wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer even as they slit your throat. "

oh man I LOVED those books when I was a kid!!!!

I just hope I have enough to make one big pot of borscht!

Just one half of the yard to start, it's huge and I don't have the energy to do the whole thing. I might look into hiring someone to use a sod cutter on the other side next fall or spring.

Oh I'm actually removing the lawn! I'm using the dethatching rake to pull up the all the dead grass and roots - it's all dead, I deliberately killed it. I'm reseeding it with bee turf and putting in a new flowerbed.