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Biscuit, just before she joined our family. We bought her an IKEA bed like this one at the shelter.

She sat on it just ONCE.

@Piano-Dad I’m on BlueSky, too.

I haven’t used X/Twitter since November. Too gross.

Beautiful.

Looks like a Botero. And he looks kind of like Elon Musk, too!

@wtg You would think that this would really bother him (being made to wait, and the butt of a joke about it), because he’s pretty sensitive about being mocked. I don’t know why he puts up with it.

@wtg I didn’t love the first video; I will check this one out. There is a Taoist Tai Chi Society group that meets at our church, but not at times that work for me.

@RealPlayer Taking a class sounds like a smart move. I crashed and had a concussion (with helmet!) in 1997, and it took me a good while to feel comfortable riding again. I don’t remember anything about the crash, other than it was starting to rain, and the new tar patches on road cracks were slick…

I miss braunschweiger. I used to mash it with mayo for even more fatty goodness.

@wtg Thank you! We are taking Tai Chi for Better Balance at our local community center. It’s nice, but I would like to just do the form and not have her teach parts of it over and over again because it’s one big class with beginners all the time. I’ll check out this video.

@AndyD I hadn’t realized that Cook’s last voyage was really about the Northwest Passage; I only knew that he was killed in Hawaii (we spend time in Hawaii most Decembers).

I worked in a salmon cannery on Kodiak Island, Alaska, which paid for university. Long hours. But the descriptions of Alaska in The Wide Wide Sea brought it all back to me!

@dolmansaxlil I loved Ministry of Time; I reread it immediately upon finishing because I wanted to see how the plot points had been set up. That was a great read.

The inspiration for the book, Graham Gore, was a real person. And his grandfather John Gore showed up in another book I read recently, The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides, which was about Captain James Cook’s final expedition (looking for the Northwest Passage from the western end).

The Wide Wide Sea
IMPERIAL AMBITION, FIRST CONTACT AND THE FATEFUL FINAL VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
By Hampton Sides

I highly recommend this book. I learned a lot about Captain Cook and that last voyage. I saw the Captain Cook monument at Kealakekua Bay in December (where he died), and this book provided a good background for me.

@dolmansaxlil That was an excellent and enlightening episode of This American Life.

@wtg That’s beautiful work!

That’s a great story of a plucky woman. May her memory be a blessing.

JaMPDX are two very local ladies who do beautiful work. Meaghan used to work as a cake decorator, and she uses some of those same techniques on ceramic.

What a great idea; that Sharon’s a keeper! Enjoy every crumb. San Francisco is a fun city.

@wtg Do I have to take a mug home? (I’ve been downsizing mugs…) Although I do have some very beautiful mugs from JaMPDX like this one:

and the matching cream and sugar set.

No thank you.

Very nice. A different take on the Little Free Libraries you see all over.