alexhaist

alexhaist, 22 hours ago to random

Blissful sun kitty. #whiskersWednesday

alexhaist, 5 days ago to random

Fledging house finch says, daaad! feed me! She is standing just above sunflower seeds.

alexhaist, 6 days ago to random

I started cooing at the grosbeak about how pretty she looked with her crest raised and made the dog jealous. But look at her!

alexhaist, 6 days ago to random

In Northampton today, I found my bumper sticker twin. And what a twin!

alexhaist, 13 days ago to random

An odd part of the last few years is my realization that I am living in a culture where the bad guys won and are still largely dictating policy. The odd thing about it is how much better it makes me feel to just accept that, and to accept that we are living in dystopian times. It allows me to pull strategies from those stories like Fallout, where people find crumbs of kindness and morality in a wasteland...

alexhaist, 15 days ago to random

Been a rotten week, but I did see my first ever indigo bunting, which was a little flash of electric blue in the trees, so that's a bit of all right.

alexhaist, 19 days ago to random

Wife just texted: THE WHIPPOORWILL. Every year he perches on the grate in our bedroom that is open to the outside. He sings into it. We have a dome house, and the round domed room functions like an amplifier. He has learned how to have the loudest voice in birdlandia.

alexhaist, 20 days ago to random

Anyone known of seed/nut mixes for birds that are based on plants native to the area? I'm specifically in the northeastern USA. I want to be able to shower the ground with native plant seeds and have some get eaten and some sprout up. I know for sure we have hickory nuts because a sapling is growing in our septic field, and I need to stop being a baby and remove it.

alexhaist, 27 days ago to random

Me after reading Jade Legacy and A Strange and Stubborn Endurance: time for some less grim and bloody entertainment.
Also me: I hear Solo Levelling is good.

alexhaist, 28 days ago to random

Our neighbor let her dog bark at us for 20 minutes while she was right out there in the garden, so I started barking and howling back, which seems to have shamed her into shutting the dog up. It was fun to let loose and make a ruckus regardless.

alexhaist, 1 month ago to random

Wimsey has been thwarted.

Same tuxedo cat with white underbelly and chin is lying back in a swoon with her chin to the sky and whiskers forward. The squirrel is just on the other side of the window, unbothered.

alexhaist, 1 month ago to random

An ant drowned herself in my sugary tea. Rest in sweetness, worker girl.

alexhaist, 1 month ago to random

"Elegance of the Hedgehog" has too much sneering in it. Too bad. Next book. Can't remember why I picked it up--could have been a recommendation or could have been because I liked the title.

alexhaist, 1 month ago to random

Squirrel is nibbling on the stems of the old porch grapes. I have hope she will soon turn her attention to the new ones.

alexhaist, 1 month ago to random

Porch grape update!!!!

The squirrel is now inspecting a specific grape!
The squirrel rears up with a grape in its mouth!!!

alexhaist, 2 months ago to random

This seems like the place to ask. Anyone have a map of the pre-colonial northeast United States that's been put together by #indigenous people? I swear one was in my feed several months ago. I'd like it for the class I'm putting together for my thesis.

alexhaist, 2 months ago to random

I'm in a weirdly good mood, and so it's tempting to boost every other post I see. This is great, oooh, this is awesome, too. Here, everyone look at my entire timeline!

alexhaist, 2 months ago to random

Those who love hard science fiction, take a look at the BookBub deal for Ancestral Night. It's got physics, social psychology across multiple alien species, and disability even with advanced tech! So, so much detailed thinking going on in this book. https://www.bookbub.com/books/ancestral-night-by-elizabeth-bear-2019-03-10?buy=&ebook_deal&region=us

alexhaist, 3 months ago to random

Unboxing from inside the box: How to Reclaim Your Inner Muppet

A blue merle Australian shepherd standing inside the ruins of a large cardboard box. She is kill-shaking a piece of cardboard while bracing a paw on one of the structurally intact bits of the box.

alexhaist, 3 months ago to random

Love a book where the protagonist is chosen by the one indigenous dragon seen on her island in hundreds of years, cuts through colonial societal bullshit like a sharpened scythe, and builds community with a kind of adult competence I rarely see in actual adults. If you've heard To Tame a Dragon's Breath is very good, trust that person who told you. #amReading

alexhaist, 3 months ago to random

the "like" button is such a mercy when I want to show a little appreciation and connection, but can't dredge up words. you you make a fine timeline, friends.

alexhaist, 3 months ago to random

Talk to the paw.

alexhaist, 3 months ago to animals

thank you for the cardboard shred carpet in the living room, Samarkar. we are all so impressed by your artistic efforts. #DogsOfMastodon

alexhaist, 3 months ago to random

Starlings in the trees. When you walk under them, their chatter is so loud that it falls on you like rain.

alexhaist, 3 months ago to random

My mom plowed our driveway with her tractor (go mom!) and incidentally caught a bit of soil up. The soil is now swarming with little birds who are probably looking for bugs. A good day for birds.