I guess I'll do a #caturday post with yesterday's doodles. I think I'll make the pastel looking one more vivid today though. I like my colors a little noisy.

I bet I end up with 150 of these.

Now that is some fine art right there. I think I want to make 3, get them professionally scanned (larger than my scanner), frame them, auction them off to raise funds for a no kill shelter somewhere, and buy prints for my own wall. What do you think, would I raise more money by simply donating it? (Traced him and sketched over the trace lines. Also many of those pencil marks are his.)

#cosocats

No kittens were harmed in the creation of this sketch, only the artist. I wish I thought of this a few weeks ago, but at least I traced him while he could still fit on the paper. I should do one a month, watch him grow too big for it.

I traced the cat. There's still unmarked flesh on my hands, so I'm gonna do it again.

Wrote about a free garden I had back when I couldn't afford soil or tools, when I left that garden was fertile enough that the next person just pulled my dandelions and plopped a plant in the middle of my clover.

#foraging #gardening

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/when-i-foraged-a-free-garden/

Another old photo, sharing this one for those who haven't met Morty, my golden eyed guardian of the terrorarium, entrance to the castle of death, apex predator of the food chain and terror of the kitchen corner.

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/2023/09/23/my-recovery-garden-is-persephones-garden/

Found a pretty shot of my little Earth Day seedling (American Plum) I put in the front yard. This one I decided to put in my store, it looks good on a hardback journal.

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/162112549

Indoor garden update. While sunflowers tower above the house outdoors, indoors has been flattened. I got tired of trying to maintain microbial diversity and balance while battling spider mites, they were even causing malformed pitcher leaves to come up. Also, my chores are too much for me to handle right now, so everything was plowed down, my soil was sanitized in the oven, and my collection of pots was cut in half. The extra room was filled with decorations, and fairy lights were added :).

More old pics, less nostalgia.

Sifting through old photos, ran across when NYC surprised me. I pictured concrete and glass, angry people. Instead I found the old growth forest underneath, abandoned mansions swallowed by vines and headstones washed clean by time. Neighborhood was quiet, lined with trees, chipmunks in the backyard. I often pictured Poe listening to the sound of wolves out of his window. Art littered the walls more than trash on the ground, and cheerful bodega owners helped me find black market goods.

Last year, my kid got sunflower seeds from Grandma, and we put them in a container on the porch garden because there was no more room. It grew six feet tall, and I could stand on the bench to get pretty macro photos (shown). This year, I was able to plant them in the ground, and they officially reached just a little taller than the trailer before the bloom started to open. So, this year's flower photos have to be done with the telescopic function instead.

#gardening

I can participate in Caturday! Here's Freddie the formerly feral earning his keep by heliping me shred cardboard for worm food.

#caturday #catsOfCoSo

Freddie the feral rescue kitten update. He is no longer bony, and recently finally started coming to me willingly as soon as I enter a room and call, rather than hiding until I gathered him for feeding time.

#petsOfCoSo

Been playing The Sims and their "Happy at Home" event is giving me the earworms, and the kitten is happy to have a home and I also realized the other day that I am myself happy at home and BAM.

Kitty is Freddie. He can sing duets with Bowie the dog. Great month for it.

As soon as Not The New Dog left, Joe handed me You Will Pry This Away From Me Over My Dead Body. Now in a soft jacket and starting to sleep :). He made momentary mouth noises about fining (something, I didn't let him finish the sentence) before I reminded him I'm a Cat Person. Haven't flipped over frightened baby yet to check the plumbing.

Not The Dog has two people who want her, and I REALLY hope she works out with the first one. She'll have a job! Emotional support dog for hospitals!!

Not The New Dog got a bath and haircut, to help find her a home. We'll get better pics outside tomorrow and put her up on the web, maybe walk her around the neighborhood and see if anyone falls in love. What do you think, Schnauzer mix? She leapt right over a fence too high for even Romeo without even blinking, even though she's a low little sausage of a thing.

Finished studying diagrams and using them to adjust my notes. At this point, I want to see what happens if I use only my notes for the next page :).

Finished studying pics of fossils. I had fun straining the old eyes trying to figure out how this thing was pieced together the way someone did when they were first discovered. Just looked at an actual diagram of the thing and it wasn't too far off. Definitely done with that though, it's time to study diagrams and models, to really see how these guys fit together instead of guess and wonder :).