Day 20,203
Resting up and enjoying the day off after Max and the family hung some of our art from the old house in the new house. The red room, living room, dining room, and bathrooms look even more like home now.
Watching Paddington with the in-laws and @maximillian_deersteak , going to grill some veggie dogs later, and then maybe watch paddington 2?
#doodle #paddington #comfortmovies #decorating
Day 20,202
A little TV time today with the in-laws.
#doodle #owls #ukmysteries
Fed the first panel into a program to describe it in text, then fed that description into 3 different self-policing (only donated images) version of huggingface, which gave some of the following translations. Pretty interesting results. Note the name archie on the first produced image, even thought she looks nothing like an archie comic, and the androgynous 3rd and 4th images, but they include the blue hat.
Day 20,200
If I can be a yeti made of vines and plants, why not a tree made of mammal parts? Seems only fair. Honestly, I think I got the better end of that deal.
Please don’t step on the nerve endings.
#doodle #treeoflife #tree #veins #organs #heart #brain #guts #viscera #bodyhorror
@littleedibleplates mentioned that he misread one of my posts to read “animation eels” instead of “animation cels,” so I tried to draw some eels as if they were in a cartoon.
#doodle #animationcels #eels #animationeels
Day 20,198
The in-laws are back in town, and that means I want the Black Pearl ⚫️ to be clean and tidy for tour bus duty. She got a bath and a vacuum, as did I.
The leg brace needs some adjustment. I can’t get it on properly, even with the help of my sweet mermaid spouse, so I need to investigate other options.
The last of our old house belongings are now in the garage of the new place. Time to put more art on the walls and unpack more! Going to replace the old games cabinet in the living room with the red wardrobe!
I hope you are doing well, dear doodle journal.
#doodle #hondapilot #cryptid #carwash #may222024
Day 20,196
Current mood, a little creaky and crunchy. I think I need watering, again. Mondays are gonna monday, sometimes. #selfie #doodle #cryptid #may202024
Day 20,195 Assortment of some, but not all, of the stuff seen and possibly taken home from the @blueridgeindiemarket today!
#localart #critters #turtle #kittens #bear #spider #unicorn #palmreading
Me hugging two sweet baby kittens at the cat Cafe. 2nd picture enhanced so you can see the extra fluffy one’s lil sleep smile. Not shown, the orange tabby / Maine coon mix named Eustace who climbed up on me after, and it was like I was covered in a weighted blanket of cat.
#blueridgeindymarket #catcafe #kittens #love #selfie @scottobear #blackcatsofinstagram #blackcat
Day 20,194
Just a couple of zombie cavemen to represent the FIL and me working with primitive tools to make sounds from the magic box.
I was a little unsuccessful with my brace yesterday, and I am going to renew my efforts tomorrow. I’m just going to take it a bit easier today.
Anyway, I’ve got the surround sound set up on the new TV and ancient amp. There are a few bugs to be worked out yet, but it’s as good as it can get without an optical cable or a system that supports eARC.
Next time, I’m going to take the system down from the fireplace and work on it at the kitchen table or in my workshop because bending and reaching have done a number on my back.
#doodle #zombie #cavemen #neanderthal #cromagnons #selfie #family
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)