Finally gave in a couple of days ago and turned on the heat when nighttime temps started dipping into the upper 40's, and now tonight I just turned on the air conditioning again because the house it still all hot and stuffy from the 80's today ( Read more... )

Teeny bits of it, anyway - finally feel like I'm starting to get some sanity back, as daycamps are done and I've had a few no-program days at work to get my ducks in a row. Or possums. Or something. Wildlife season hasn't slowed down one jot - still bottle feeding three late-season baby raccoons twice a day, and got in 12 teeny opossum orphans ( Read more... )

Was playing with Playdoh with niecelet the other day, and she was having trouble getting the lid off one of the Playdoh containers ( Read more... )

Niecelet loves these "colors" videos on youtube, and it's all sweet and happy and cute until they start pulling the eyes off and digging the face out to find the hidden egg! There's one horrific one where they have clay faces over little plastic Pez dispensers and they rip off the clay faces to reveal the second creature hidden underneath D: ( Read more... )

I watched the first several episodes of the original 90's Pokémon cartoon on Netflix today - studying up for a nature program we're doing next Saturday, comparing actual animals in the park with Pokémon critters, so totally work research, lol. Fun to watch, and parts of it are familiar now that I see it, probably caught some of it when it first ( Read more... )

Happy Valentines my dears! *snugs* *chocolate ( Read more... )

I found a little snowsuit for niecelet for Christmas - I was hoping for something like a mini-arctic expedition/baby steampunk style, but all I could find was plain pale pink. It'll do, though! Simple one-piece stick the kid in and zip up - nifty little mitten flaps for hands so gloves can't be lost. Also a pack of baby Star Wars socks and some ( Read more... )

LJ wants us to lure friends back with paid account time. Huh. Much as I miss folks and would love to see old familiar user names back again (hello dear long-time-no-see folks, if you should be lurking! *wave-glomp*) I just don't see that going over well. Although if anyone's particularly particularly desperate for a month of account time for some ( Read more... )

(Except without the bullets because they keep being weird when I add them.)

I did the Humble Bundle pay what you want thing, so now I have all the MTMTE so far! Except I haven't had time to download and figure out just where I want to put them and what format - pdf? or for my Kindle app I think it's MOBI, but they don't all have a MOBI version.

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Reported to be quite wiggly. Has a very lovely spinal cord and a wee little chin and a very round skull. Still under construction, but due to arrive early October-ish. Can't wait to show her all the important girl things, like how to pick up crawdads without being pinched, how to set up a fish tank, how to play house with giant robots, how to ( Read more... )