Thanks for all of your condolences and kind words about Mayhem. It’s good to know she’ll be missed by more than just me!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, more romance, queer romance), Reactor (fantasy, YA SFF, SF, genre-benders), Book Riot (YA comics/nonfiction, YA, best out this week, horror, best out last week, queer)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• Linkity from The Pen Addict.
• “The literary impact of Beverly Cleary“.
• A bit of journaling humor.
• Ten most challenged books of 2024.
• “It’s a warning, not…“
• Help us in our hour of need, Dr Creampie…
• Another ficlet.
• Time loop ficlet.
• How to dye Easter potatoes.
• Cool embroidered art.
• How to tell if you’re living in a dictatorship…
• ARGH. Guess who went through the whole online passport renewal process (including going to FedEx/Kinko’s to get a passport photo taken) in <80 minutes Friday afternoon after dawdling for over four years until I only had three months before I would have to start over with a new passport application????
• GF sweet potato cornbread.
• Castle-esque house that’s not disappointing.
• Very nice MCM.
• Funkadelic MCM.
• Lots of mosaics and a pink dome.
• Colorful.
• Quirky.
• Cute little pueblo style house.
• Lovely little bungalow.
• Cozy with a tower.
• Unusual late MCM.
• Ultramodern “rocket” house.
• A garage condo???
• Even using a warmer grey, it just doesn’t look right with all the wood.
• Looks like a converted office building and has a few odd design choices inside.
• This house is trying to be too many styles simultaneously.
• Sadass fortress just as sad inside as out.
• Funky tower house with a very disturbing… “orifice” on the ceiling.
• It’s cool, but I have some questions about the last few interior photos – that looks so dangerous!
• Hope you don’t have to pee in the middle of the night.
• Insufficiently sturdy!
• Hmm.

Harry and Polly on my lap. I think Polly has a skeptical!

Harry on the couch (and pet warmer) whilst the fleecy blankets were being washed.

Polly vs the catnip pumpkin!