Something I do love about the area where we live is the variety of birds. The pair of wrens who live next to the front porch have been blessing me with beautiful ariel ballets in the evenings! The hummingbird who feeds on my lantana is a delightful visitor. A cardinal and blue jay fly through now and then. A tufted titmouse checks in a couple of times a day.

Cat keeps going back and forth between us, kneading at our flesh...makin' biscuits. No amount of "Stop! Here, I'll pet you!" will stop her.

Me: Dw i ddim eisiau bisgedi!

Cat looks shocked/offended and walks away.

Husband: What did you tell her???

Me: "I don't want biscuits."

I hope everyone stops mistaking me for "always friendly" someday. I'm always kind. Friendliness is situational.

It's "creepy" to greet someone with, "Afternoon blessings to you and the microscopic organisms inhabiting your flesh!"

Yes, I knew that. That's why I did it. Just because I have to be polite doesn't mean I have to make conversation enjoyable for other people.

I need celebrity deaths to be put on hold for a while. In some ways, these people raised me. They taught me a lot through the TV. Processing a world that doesn't have them in it anymore is weird. Not the nice weird.

Friends, it is the middle of the night and I am too busy arguing with my characters to get any actual writing done.

Except...arguing with my characters counts as part of the process, right?

#CoSoWriting

I think I've found out who keeps knocking over one of the potted plants in my yard.

Today, I learned "mae'n ddrwg gen i" is Welsh "I'm sorry". This is one of those phrases that you go with how it used used, not word for word translation. The direct translation? More like, "there is bad I have". That means the Welsh have been apologizing with, "My bad!" long before it was popular.

Update: The film crew was a wonderful group. They took us out for lunch and we told stories like we had been friends for years. I was genuinely comfortable with them!

Y'aaaallllll... And, yes, that is said with a Texas drawl that raises the tone on the third "a" and drops again on the fourth "l".

My husband's job sent a film crew out to our house today, and my anxiety is tap dancing on the roof. It doesn't even know how to tap dance. The anxiety is just that high. Our living room looks surreal because it's our living room, but it's also currently a mini filming set???

This is good. Really. But also exhausting. And kind of 😱. But good. I swear it's good.

It makes sense. The plant is within what the birds recognize as their territory. It's just that I know a lot of people who would have chased the birds off, not wanting wild birds on their back porch. I didn't, and now we help each other. I love my tiny feathered neighbors.

A pair of wrens have a nest in the alcove of my back porch. They were here before we were. No reason to chase them off. In fact, I protected one of them one night when a very windy storm prevented them from getting back up to the nest until the next day.

My cherry tomato plant this year is back there. Every time I look out the window there's a wren by it. No birds have pecked at the plant. I realized this evening that the wrens are guarding it.

Yes! My drum is here! I'm going to make the whole town wish I never moved here!

They don't complain about the ukulele in the middle of the night, but the sound seriously carries with this drum.

Really...I just needed some water.

To be fair, it turned out the family member I was messaging wasn't awake.

CoSo, I have a question. I need somebody with a geometry PhD, or a quantum physicist, or...I don't know.

Do round things actually exist? Or is it that lots of tiny faces and angles create an illusion of roundness?