Day 20,193
I got my brace back yesterday on the third fitting. I will try it out for a couple of weeks to see if any more adjustments need to be made. 💪🦿 I will wear it a little longer each day to adapt. 🐌 Test today will possibly be a little jaunt out with @maximillian_deersteak to @hang10iceandcream and the surrounding environs for a little Friday duck date. #doodle #cryptid #legbrace #duckdate https://www.instagram.com/p/C7EsQvoOgsO/?igsh=MWJ3ejVwOGg1cm80NA==
Day 20,191
“…trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children’s playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all, the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.”
Ray Bradbury (1950). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
#doodle #trees #selfie #cryptid #raybradbury #martianchronicles
This little sloth spent all of her afternoon with her mama in the upstairs office today. I only saw them both once it was time for dinner.
#misspearl #catsofinstagram #tabbycatsofinstagram #stripedcatsofinstagram #sleepycat
“A girl’s piercing scream drew Byron Kent to that inner room where the blind old man, the giant idiot and the cursing crone sat in ghoulish glee – as the rats fed!”
Amos Sewell (1901-1983) – Illustration from William B. Rainey’s ‘When the Rats Fed’ (Dime Mystery – April, 1934)
Day 20,190
Waiting for some tests, per standard procedure. “Rock Lobster” is playing on my headphones, and the doodle is a quick and dirty one. I may continue editing it, or I may not, but I thought it was a cute idea. (I’ve sometimes thought crayfish pincers looked like throwing horns.)
#doodle #rock #lobster #b52s #rocklobster
Day 20,189
Scribbled using lock tools and a little creative mirror cloning. Shooting for someing that looks like what a person from ancient Mesoamerica might draw if they saw me coming. #doodle #aztec #cryptid
Happy Mother’s day, Pearl! I hope your litter is happy and healthy as you are. We love you!
#misspearl #catsofinstagram #stripedcatsofinstagram #tabbycatsofinstagram #mothersday
Day 20,188
No dice seeing any more Aurora activity last night, but we did go out for an after-leftover-dinner ice cream date (I had a brownie bits Blizzard, and @maximillian_deersteak had a birthday cake-dip cone), and on the way we spotted a young raccoon considering a street crossing, but who thought better of it when it saw our headlights. Our ice cream run was rather strenuous, as the froyo joint we go to was pretty busy for Saturday night, as was blue cow. Third place was the charm, though. Thanks, Dairy Queen!
Hopefully, we will get another chance to view Aurora sometime soon… if not here, then maybe on a trip to Iceland someday? It’s already on our travel go-to list.
#doodle #raccoon #duckdate #backyardzoo #auroraborealis
First pic is Aurora over Roanoke, VA tonight, captured from the cockpit heading back to ROA by u/webmonk on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/roanoke/s/5ojR21qgP9
Day 20,186
Playing the guitar is difficult when Scotto draws you with three-fingered hands. He does all right, though, as the C, F, and G chords are easy enough for the kind of tunes he performs onstage.
#gorilla #glam #doodle
Day 20,185
Today’s doodle, ripped from today’s headlines. Explains a lot, really. How lovely that someone with actual brain damage may cause people to sway the vote enough to get 45 back into office. For what it is worth, he claims a full recovery from the incident, but he also has promoted a conspiracy theory that coronavirus vaccines were developed to control people via microchips. He has endorsed the false notion that antidepressants are linked to school shootings. And he has pushed the decades-old theory that the C.I.A. killed his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy. (He also stated that wifi causes cancer and “leaky brain”, and that AIDS is not a virus, but passed by doing poppers)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer, is a leading vaccine skeptic and purveyor of conspiracy theories who has leaned heavily on misinformation as he mounts his impossible 2024 campaign for the presidency.
In a three-part series, FactCheck.org’s science fact-checking project, SciCheck, examines the trail of false and misleading claims on health topics such as vaccines, autism, and Covid-19 made by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine advocate who is running for president
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html
#doodle #brainworm #rfkjr #robertfkennedyjr #conspiracytheory #sciencedenial
From x-force #49 , aw, I miss the good old days of Beast and Wonder Man, too, Hank.
#comicpanels #beast #wonderman #hankmccoy #simonwilliams
Day 20,183
Just a caveman on a wooly mammoth. I’ve got pachyderm on the brain lately, I guess!
#doodle #caveman #spearman #mammoth https://www.instagram.com/p/C6sS_ObMBkk/?igsh=MTNxdmltenUzYXIyNg==
Painted pig looking pretty flash this week. I don’t know who zeke! is, but makes a snazzy porky.
#paintedpig #salemtraditions #salemva
Day 20,182
I saw a song titled “Elephantom” and thought it would make for a cute prompt idea. Maybe if I were to do another, I would do Lee Falk’s purple jungle hero as a pachyderm or the mammoth version with a half-mask at the opera?
#doodle #elephantom #elephant #phantom