There is no better candidate.

And no capybara emoji.

Shame all the way around.

Part of our fall garden ritual - we have rudbeckia and blanket flowers that will take over the whole yard if we don't think them out every year. I know it's kind of a small task for a Root Slayer, but it works like a charm.

You? Is fall root slaying on your schedule?

I know that Root Slayer

Just the word ups the cute factor by about a thousand.

It's a special kind of brilliant.

Scientists Are Releasing the Lovingly Nicknamed 'Snot Otters' Into Ohio Waterways in a Big Success for Conservation Eastern hellbenders, the largest amphibians in North America, are in trouble, but conservationists are hard at work to help the wrinkled wonders survive

@clairmail.bsky.social @lilymarswrites.bsky.social My brother texted this to me. As he says, "Didn't even read the article - the magic is in the headline."

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

From Instagram: a screenshot showing headlines from the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, with the personal caption, "The Edmund Fitzgerald has informed more of my psyche than would be expected. But here we are." And it's true, reader. The yard Edmund Fitzgerald is dear to me.

*sniffle*

I spent longer than was strictly necessary pronouncing it. And giggling.

Nice to see you too!

It's magnificent. Use it always.

Wow. Both for the sheer magnitude of the event and the brush with watery fame.

😂 Every generation thinks they discovered the Edmund Fitzgerald.

*nods sagely*

i am shocked shocked i tell you

what did licorice think?

I WAS *SOOOOO* EXCITED, LILY!

A screenshot of Squardle - "licorice" is the word in question.

@lilymarswrites.bsky.social @clairmail.bsky.social
*someone* was part of yesterday's Squardle...

but is that a problem

Duo Lingo hasn't been this useful. Thank you.

if licorice is happy we're all happy. way to go @riotgrlerin.bsky.social!

technically

i explained to robert how Christmas is just around the corner and dinosaurs are pack animals

not today anyway

omg lily

If I had ever thought about it, I would have known how much I need an agility corgi.

just... bigger

HOW is there not!?

Also... OMG BABY CAPYBARA! 😍

Thank you! You too.

@markhanson62.bsky.social Where are you? I'm at a German beer & brat place in Frisco, Colorado, and they're playing your song! Miss you, brother.

that may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me

we are all smol paul, lily