Good luck to everybody doing #NaNoWriMo ! We don't have to write well. We just have to write. What's usable can be sorted out and dressed up later.

No spooky sounds outside. (Not until the coyotes come out later.) Nothing weird happening.

And I still feel like everything is standing in an open doorway. Not what it was anymore, and not yet what it will be...some odd hybrid of those things. I've been feeling this for several days now. Like the air is full of potential.

So we all keep mentioning the bird app, but what about another bird app? Anybody else hear using the Finch app for daily lists and such?

Haven't done #NaNoWriMo for a few years, but I've decided doing it this year might give me a boost on my stories!

No idea what happened to my old NaNoWriMo account. I did it for, like, six years I think. But okay! Fresh starts can be good.

I had plans for yard decorations, but things happened and plans didn't. A view from the back of our property seems to go with the day, though. I never had Halloweens that actually looked like autumn until I moved to a different part of the US.

#GrowAllTheThings Here's another of my #PlantBuddies ! 🌱💚 Lantana and I go way back and I will not hear any mean things said about her. But they grew in the ground where I'm from. Has to be in a planter where I live now. Butterflies have been stopping to feed as they head south for winter, and lantana will come indoors for a while when it gets colder.

Happy Halloween, CoSoNauts! I've posted a #divination charm reading to my substack (no pay wall) to look at the coming stretch of months.

https://diydiv.substack.com/p/a-charm-reading-for-halloween

I don't adjust easily to new things. I thought I'd make an account here, check things out, and then forget about it because I'd stay in the familiar space.

Nope!

The past couple of days, when it comes to my social media time, have been so much more enjoyable and so much less anxiety. For someone who doesn't adjust easily, I'm getting comfortable here quickly.

Writing up a substack post for a Halloween #divination reading. I've been doing this for a long time and still worry sometimes that I over-explain. It's my autistic nature to want others to understand it as I do.

Another plant friend! My lady palm is a little under two feet tall. I've only had her a few months. Sitting to the right is my friend Hayden from the Hookland Doll Emporium. #GrowAllTheThings

Oh no...we just found out my husband's pet salamander died today. He's heartbroken. She was his little friend who ate from his hand.

The cat will be heartbroken, too. They would sit at the corner of the tank and chat with each other. Salamander looked for the cat when she couldn't climb over there for a few days after surgery.

This is Mother Spider! 💚 She'll perk up with temperatures cooling down. We've been together for 5 years and she has sent many of her baby spider plants to other homes.

I'll bring more plant pics later!

Here's a few more plant friends. There are two jade plants. One is grown in the shape of a small tree. Lemon fern in the back, and polka dot plant in the owl planter in front. Polka dot's name is Warner.

Hey, CoSo...loving the pet pics! 💜 Y'all want to meet some plant friends? I have a lot of them, so we'll go in small doses.

This is Keanu Leaves, a golden pothos. This is just a few leaves here. Those vines are loooonnnng!

Also made one of those skeleton faries. Not a dead fairy. I like to imagine them traveling with the Beloved Dead. I drew and painted the wings. The little plastic skeleton glows in the dark. Surprised our cat at first!

This is another of my projects for reclaiming Halloween through crafts.

Our house is an old school, so if the walls look like school walls...well, that's why.