Monday morning OT

 

It’s just another manic Monday, Balkers. Rise and Shine.

Sunday Evening OT

 

This is my plan for lawn care this year. 

It's pretty dire here in terms of Covid. The rest of Canada is organizing medical volunteers to bail us out. The summer looks like a wash. I'm wishing I had trusted my gut, applied for a leave of absence starting in September and planned to take a "gap year" at home on the east coast.

If you're in my neck of woods, please consider calling, emailing or sending a post card to our dear leader to ask for paid sick days for all, vaccines for workers in actual hot spots (not ministers' ridings) and looking ahead, proper ventilation for schools. Or just that he follow the science and stop f@#%ing up. I'll get off my soapbox now.

To keep my mind off things, and to get through another lockdown spring, I signed up for a creative writing class. It's focused on short stories. Should be fun. I hope.

What's everyone reading and watching? I just re-read Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. If you love YA, or were ever into fanfic, I recommend it!

Discuss below. 🙂

Sunday Morning Open Thread

 Just got back from shopping. 

Glad that's done for the next few weeks.

Yesterday I was fairly productive. Today I'd like to neaten my stuff. We'll see how that goes.

What's up with you today? 

The Photo Gallery

   It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.

They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too. 

As Much As U.S. Culture Loves L & O (some the concept & some the show) – It Might Be A Con: From A Culture of Carceral Hurting to One of Healing

 

Had a long search this afternoon (as yet unresolved, even though I thought I had taken care of the problem when the stupid little X went away) on a multi-component computer system where all the components come from different manufacturers and it's anyone's guess what software compatibility is causing the stupid drivers to malfunction.

National Haiku Day

 

Petals I amass

With such tenderness 

Prick me to the quick

-Kobayashi Issa

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The Bat And The Cat Sat(urday) On The Mat With A Hat

 Come in and hang out! It is International Bat Appreciation Day. Not sure Cousin George would approve after meeting a bat-poop bacterial fueled flesh-eating demise. It is also National Haiku Poetry Day, though C'estLaVie will have that covered later. Bat poems away? 

"Casper the Friendly Ghost" - Daniel Johnston (1983)

"Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet" - Thomas Tallis (1560-1569)