sunday
Mar. 8th, 2026 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
summersgate
Me. Most all of it is just one line, beginning to end.
We had nice weather early in the day yesterday so I got the chicken coop cleaned out and put in all fresh new pine shavings. Smelled good in there this morning when I opened the door. Usually I just pick the poop up with tongs each morning so there isn't much smell in there but recently, twice they knocked over their water and the base of litter was soaked. Even though I removed all the wet stuff I could get it was still starting to smell moldy in there. It took a couple hours but I felt like I got something important accomplished. Today I need to get busy and clean house. Since we are only doing Sunday dinner every two weeks now I have fallen down in my weekly cleaning of the house. It needs a good sweeping/vacuuming.
I've been watching Ladies of Letters on prime lately. I love hearing their voices. It's all just silly stuff but I think I need some silly stuff.
saturday
Mar. 7th, 2026 08:40 amsummersgate
The ARC "Community" mural at the Clarion Mall as it was being worked on yesterday. That's Dave in the middle.
End of the day. Dave and I were washing brushes while Chloe was putting some last touches on it. There will be 2 more scheduled days to work on it in a couple weeks. I plan to go.
News. Sometimes I feel like the news is trying to engulf me.
My sleep is messed up. Can't sleep at night, don't get naps in the day, I'm so tired I go to bed before 8 pm but then I wake up at 1 am. I had some crazy dreams this morning. Seems too hard to try and remember how it all fit together and make any sense of them. A dog (Trixy?) that was wrapped up in a blanket and shot 10 times, I was afraid to look inside to see if he was still alive, clumps of shit on the floor, water leaks in the roof and trying to find pots and pans to put under the leaks, Mr D our childhood neighbor coming into the house without knocking and finding me topless while I was mopping the bathroom, he turned around without speaking and left before I could say anything, I was a school girl and had two friends who were in love but finding it hard to get together - they had to sneak off the schoolbus at separate places and meet in secret that way.
A bright spot. The Entity this morning. I caught it during a moment of sun that was breaking through hazy clouds.
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friday
Mar. 6th, 2026 10:50 amsummersgate
Sunflower Baby. Her little leaf arms make me happy.
We're leaving soon to help Chloe paint a mural at the Clarion Mall. The ARC is involved. There may be pictures later...
thursday later
Mar. 5th, 2026 08:29 amsummersgateMeds all given, everyone fed, chicken butt washed and now drying in the bathroom.
Rocky eating her breakfast. I think I'll keep her isolated in the bathroom for awhile just to keep an eye on her.
Rocky eating her breakfast. I think I'll keep her isolated in the bathroom for awhile just to keep an eye on her.
thursday
Mar. 5th, 2026 06:54 amsummersgate
I made this for Hazel. She especially likes opossoms.
Fragments. Watercolor, ballpoint pen and alcohol markers. I feel like I am fragmenting sometimes. So much stuff to remember and think about. When I read the news (world news, national news) I feel like I should be doing something about this stuff but there is nothing that I can do. I feel pulled apart. I decided that instead of watching netflix so much I'm going to start to just listen to music instead. That keeps me centered better.
There is lots of animal care that needs done right now. Skye gets meds twice a day and a shot once a week, plus fed multiple times a day. Now Andy has something going on (maybe a flare up of anaplasmosis) and needs meds twice a day and special food to encourage him to eat. Rocky the chicken has poopy butt. When it's time to let them out this morning I'm going to grab her and bring her into the house so I can soak her bottom in epsom salts and get that poop off her. Then I need to find the probiotic powder I have somewhere and dose their water with it for a few days. See if that will fix it. I worry that these issues (Skye especially) won't be settled before I leave for Florida in April, or other things will crop up and I'll have to leave complicated stuff Dave to deal with. In my mind no one can do it as good as I can.
wednesday
Mar. 4th, 2026 07:21 amsummersgate
Worm Moon. The latest full moon we just had is called the worm moon. I guess because this is the time of the year that worms are waking up after hibernating through the winter. Just in time for the robins' arrival.
Dave took the potatoes from the basement outside. They're ready to quit hibernating too.
On Monday Candy and I hiked the trail beside Two Mile Run in the park. It was neat because the ground underfoot was crispy and noisy with frozen leaves.
I finished a raccoon yesterday and started an opossum. I don't have a pattern for the opossum but I think I can change the raccoon to have a pink nose and feet, black ears and put on a pink string tail and it'll be a possum.
I dreamed last night about having a little kitten that I was taking care of. We were visiting David Z's mother's house. The house was a huge old mansion that was rotting and falling in. Our feet were going through the floorboards. The living room was like a big auditorium and the stage was covered in flowers in vases. They had a bunch of older cats that lived there and my little cat was mixing in with them somewhere in the back rooms. It was time to go and I wanted my kitten back. I called it and found it again and carried it out. Put it down on the steps outside the house. Dream over. I think it's kinda easy to see the dream's connections to Skye right now, especially since David Z died of a cancer.
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- skye,
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Book 19, 2026
Mar. 3rd, 2026 05:24 pmchez_jae
Meow Means Murder by Jinty JamesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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I finished reading Meow Means Murder last night. It’s the second book in author Jinty James’ “Norwegian Forest Cat Cafe” series of cozy mysteries. Main characters are Lauren (who owns the cafe), Annie, her Norwegian Forest cat, and Zoe, Lauren’s cousin who works at the cafe.
The small town where Lauren and Zoe live and work is excited about the arrival of a noted food critic. When he arrives at Lauren’s cafe too late to score any of their locally famous pastries, Lauren decides to take some to him at his hotel. There, she finds the food critic dead. There seems to be no shortage of suspects, from the critic’s intern to another eatery owner to those he gave poor reviews to. Lauren worries that she may be a suspect, too. Being questioned by the police at least means she gets to see more of dreamy Detective Mitch Denman. Lauren is torn between investigating or staying clear of the situation.
Spoiler alert: Lauren didn’t do much active investigating, although information seemed to drop in her lap throughout the story. I enjoyed the mix of her being at work, socializing, and kinda-sorta sleuthing. Characters were portrayed well, including Annie, who was a cult of personality (purrsonality?) on her own. The narrative was a tad simplistic, but that’s okay when you’re in the mood for something entertaining that isn’t going to tax your brain.
Favorite line: “We’ll bring a doggy bag—or a pussy bag back for you.” A what?!
And the good ol’ ‘didn’t know I was holding my breath’ line: Lauren let out a breath she hadn’t known she was holding.
Tasty-sounding baked goods, a lovely cat, and a budding romance equals four stars.
tuesday
Mar. 3rd, 2026 07:08 amsummersgate
Lunar Rain. I was disappointed this morning that it was raining and we couldn't see the lunar eclipse.