Our new garden shed arrived today!  :D 3q3q3q!!! I'm so excited.  It's made by Everlast, which has distributors in a bunch of places around central Illinois.

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These are the notes for Emergency Kittens."

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This poem is from today's fishbowl. It was inspired and opened for crowdfunding by Dreamwidth user Elicat, who wanted to sponsor the "cat" square in my 11-1-24 card for the Sleepytime Bear Bingo. it belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics. Purrtland House is introduced in "Nature, Houses, and Living Beings" so this will make more sense if you read ( Read more... )

This is the freebie for today's fishbowl, inspired by a prompt from Dreawidth user Siberian_skys. It also fills the "colorful area rug" square in my 11-1-24 card for the Sleepytime Bear Bingo. It belongs to the LIFC series.

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The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you for your time and attention. Please keep an eye on this page as I am still writing.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Healthy Touch & Nonsexual Intimacy." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them ( Read more... )

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
How Couples Meet
How to Find Local Activists
Birdfeeding
Trees for Southwest Gardens
Trees
Gaming
Urban Design
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Free Speech
Impersonal Cities
Birdfeeding
Sleepytime Bear Bingo
Follow Friday 11-1-24: Fiction
Garden of Repose
Municipal ( Read more... )

I took these pictures in the afternoon, after we cleaned up the old mulch pile.

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I took these pictures while walking back toward the house.

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These pictures show the prairie garden.

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These pictures are mostly from the savanna.

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