Alex @checkervest@mastodon.social
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
75% sky pictures, 25% flotsam
she/her
There was a really nice sunset last night
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The small children next door just figured out their mom can’t hear them out here and they went from tentatively saying “what the hell” and glancing nervously at the house to screaming “WHAT THE HELL” as they bounce on the trampoline
"Upon being appointed poet laureate of the United States in 2006, Mr. Hall explained simply his view of the value of poetry: 'It is beautiful,' he said, adding that 'there is no other purpose than the beauty of it. And that is reason enough to be.'”
---Donald Hall (1928-2018)
Ever After is such a perfect movie
It was much easier, pre-technology, to rent a cabin on the shore of a cursed lake.
Used to be families could disappear, but you and your terrified community knew you could continue to appease the lake because westward expansion would continue to deliver new renters.
These days, you spend all your time politely responding to AirBnB reviews like "Thanks for the feedback about the missing children. We did mention that risk in our listing, but can offer a 10% rebooking discount for next time!"
I was out on the steps to keep an eye out for cats and a chickadee landed in the bush next to me and started raising hell until I moved away
The gray catbirds who live in my giant loropetalum had a fledgeling fall out of the nest and the ensuing bird drama has drawn a ton of other kinds of birds to come perch around my porch and scream at anything that moves
Tiny attempt at a self portrait today.
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LB: sometimes I really miss having ferrets
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@noelle
There once was a Prof
At Purdue whose #limericks
Looked like #haiku. He
Said with a laugh, "I
Cut them in half, for it's so
Much more fun with two."
when you're astral projecting and are unsure if you missed your stop
Where is that page that would generate suggested mastodon follows? Searching for this is a dead freaking end
I have also been reunited with The Fishboi, good luck to anyone who tries to steal him out of my yard because he is the actual heaviest thing in the world
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Time to relearn how to play piano I guess!
I wasn’t able to take it with me when I moved because dad had claimed it as a desk, but now we’re reunited and it feels good
Exciting new development at my house today
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The orchid mantis is a big weird lanky bug, which is relatable, but she also rocks high-femme fashion while being a terrifying predator with swords for arms, which is aspirational.
My officemate is blooming
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Do you ever get a line stuck in your head from an otherwise-forgettable movie? Every single time it's foggy outside I think about one character's horrifying/heartbreaking delivery of a single line in The Others. I haven't seen that movie in years and probably won't watch it any time in the foreseeable future but I think about that line all the time
