Saturday:
Is the hydraulic wood splitter running?
⭕ No
⭕ Hell no
✅ Are you effing joking?

Grab maul, whale on wood, load rack (with lots of help from special needs 7yo).

Today:
Laundry and dishes.

Specialization is for insects.

13yo pulled up the camera app on his phone and waved it at the rainy side window in the car.

It's a good thing the 7yo's R/C truck is already incapacitated. The puppy chewed the charger cable in half. And laid a bunch of landmines on the carpet. That $#¡+ is hereby banned from the bedroom.

Some cute overload for the evening: #DogsofCoso

The 13yo went ice skating today with a friend of his. He came home and told me, "Some girl asked me for my number!" with this "WTF?" tone.

Later in the evening, as I was getting the 7yo out of the bath, he came in to tell me his primary crush… likes him back. He was giddy.

The male version of Turning Red, without the shape-shifting. I guess I'll have to give him the updated version of The Talk (he got the abbreviated version at age 8 when he was texting with a girl in his class).

As someone who had used electric and gas stoves, I prefer gas. It heats up quicker and cools down quicker. You can also adjust the heat faster with gas.

Electric stoves do have the advantage of being user-serviceable. A burner dies, yank it out and put in a new one. So there's that.

We have an electric cooktop now, but I'd like to replace it with a gas one. But I can't afford the one I want. 🤷‍♀️

A #FlashFicFriday - "The Naked King, part 2" (totally not based on current events). https://farmanor.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-naked-king-part-2-flashficfriday.html

Yow, I just typed counter.social into a tweet and Twitter app says it's a "dangerous link" and won't let me post it. Afraid of people leaving the fouled nest much?

Well, here I am. Let's see if I can figure out how to follow some people whose handles I've collected.