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It's national Cat Lady Day, so I hope all you cat ladies have a wonderful day! Here's my favorite cat lady from my collection. She just looks so fed up with everyone and everything except the precious potato babby.

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Slightly disappointed this wasn't a reconstruction of a prehistoric fossil mosquito.

Have you ever noticed this gigantic mosquito at the Museum?

This isn’t a specimen of some monstrously-sized insect, but instead a scaled-up model of the tiny Anopheles maculipennis. This mosquito model is enlarged 47 times and debuted at the Museum in 1917 as part of an effort to educate the public about mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria and yellow fever.

Of the more than 3,500 species of mosquito known to science, the Anopheles mosquito is among a small handful responsible for malaria transmission in humans. While only females bite and transmit disease to humans, this model is a male.

At the time, it was a somewhat controversial idea that the mosquito, not poor sanitation, spread malaria. Since the model’s unveiling at the Museum, huge advances have been made in the global effort to combat and treat malaria as well as to educate the public about the disease.

Photo: © AMNH

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The eclipse from space, very cool.

The solar eclipse of April 8th, as seen from the GOES-East weather satellite.

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LOL, I think we can agree for one dog at least, the lead and collar is a polite fiction we all pretend is binding.

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While I think that might be part of it, I think the greater part was him thinking Obi-Wan couldn't hurt him like that. Not emotionally, but because Obi-Wan was too weak in the Force to ever hurt someone with his talents.

This is what happens when you witness Obi-Wan fighting Dooku but not Obi-Wan fighting Maul during your formative years.

i wholeheartedly believe the reason Anakin jumped even though he didn’t have the “high ground” was because he was 100% sure Obi-Wan wouldn’t hurt him like that

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I'm sorry, it's none of the above. The reason is wool.

I remember reading an interview of the costumer from The Phantom Menace back in the day. Those Jedi robes were made of wool. There was a deleted scene of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan pulling themselves across a rapid river on a wire and after every take the robes would be shorter and shorter because they were being felted (water + agitation), basically the wool was being shrunk in a giant ill-advised laundry accident.

It was a textile problem. Use Superwash Wool next time.

(You can see a similar effect in Classic Star Trek where in some episodes the Star Fleet uniforms are tighter, shorter and the sleeves get ridiculously short. They had to wash the costumes, but couldn't afford to replace them).

Listen. It’s important. 

#sci fi #star wars #star trek #textiles #wool #superwash

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Trying to imagine the mayhem of children watering their markers. Am realizing why instructions were not included.

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In fairness, he didn't get to pick.

Sure Obi-Wan, sure.

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Congratulations on making your own work into something even more beautiful.

The board is a cut up frozen sausage box

LOLOL. I feel less bad about saving all the cardboard inserts in the big cases of Fancy Feast because 'they could be used for something crafty/little notebooks'.

I made a book of my own fanfic! Because I can, cause no one can stop me... (cause it makes up for things I lost)(sorry, had a W/IFS moment there, I'll stop now).... ANYWAY.

BEHOLD.

Like the fic itself, this was an exercise in just DO IT and don't overthink. If a problem persisted for more than five minutes I simply got rid of it (that's why there's no page numbers, they kept getting cut off). I didn't look up how to make mini books. I did the illustrations with the first gel pen that I found on scrap paper and scanned them in.

The board is a cut up frozen sausage box, the cover paper is lokta (I think) that I got in November. The endpapers are basic black printer paper.

I love it so much.

#crafting #unconventional supplies #bookbinding

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Close Ups of the Multi-Color Tulips:

Enjoy Nature's brushstrokes.

#spring #spring 2024 #tulips #flowers

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First Garden Haul of the Season:

I'm determined to not buy more than I can plant in a day so the entire haul doesn't die on my porch in July.

I got some thyme and garlic chives for the herb box (the regular chives came back), some lettuce to supplement the lettuce I grew from seed, which proved disappointing (only 2 out of 4 varieties germinated and they look poorly, I think the window is not bright enough), and spinach (mine didn't sprout).

#spring #spring 2024 #lettuce #spinach #herbs #thyme #chives

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how, um . . . festive.

It's real!

When I first saw a picture of this I thought it was a hoax because it was posted on April 1st. Now I realize it's real. Not only is it real but he's listed on Hallmark's site.

The Sandman Keepsake holiday ornament of Morpheus AKA Dream of The Endless!

Sandman's Morpheus AKA Dream of The Endless holiday ornament!

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More Tulips in the Rain

I love how other colors are revealed as they open.

I think the Dutch tulip company called these (or similar) Van Gogh tulips, but these were just from Home Depot.

Close up to see the brushstrokes.

These continue to delight.

And my favorite oranges really put on a show this year.

Loving the tulips. I think we can expect some alliums later. There is some green bunches with no flowers yet that probably aren't daffodils.

#spring #spring 2024 #flowers #tulips l

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Pre-Tax Day Adulting

Tax Day is Monday. (Today is Wednesday).

I have done my pre-tax day adulting.

Collected tax documents

Had taxes done

Sent out tax forms that need to be mailed

Paid new year bills (garbage fee)

Had funds transferred to Roth IRA for 2023.

I have handled bureaucratic adulting and closed 2023. Just in time for a new season full of different adulting.

#adulting #taxes #retirement funds

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Someone has been around a husky too long and doesn't know they're a cat.

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My friend who passed away last summer used to half-joke that she never remembered people's names, but knew all about their pet names. This reminds me of her.

#funny memories #flo

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Captain, I think there has been an unexpected malfunction in the replicator!

Trouble with Tribbles

Struggle with Spots