The joints thing makes me wonder about Lyme.

Update: My 22yo German niece is going to make Käsespätzle for me tomorrow!!

A lot of the reason we like each other I suspect!

Sounds about right.

!foryou

Ooh my German family is unexpectedly coming for the weekend. Maybe I’ll see if my sister in law is willing to make spaetzle.

I would’ve tried it!

Like…with gelatin?

Ew, Tim

My dad was fixing me some leftover hue dup bap (Korean rice bowl with raw fish.)

Dad: Want some of those refried beans on top?

Me: what? No! Just gochujang sauce

Dad: or we have leftover marinara

Me, shocked: Dad, no, EW, stop

Dad, totally confused: They’re both red sauce. What’s the problem?

Silver-colored rounded metal knob

Same knob flipped around so you can see the threads inside

Knob held upside down just bec the shape is cool

My 19yo is studying to be a machinist and she made these cool knobs to go on the ends of a handle on a piece of equipment in the machine shop. She is a genius and I adore her.

I don’t see it! You’ve got vcmcguire at gmail?

This is so so cool! Love me some Louisa May Alcott intrigue.

I’m prohibited from posting pictures of my girl. Your kid looks like a wonderful goofball.

That sounds really hard.

I’m with you but I’m not very patient and so I often cook them too fast and they end up much darker. Fortunately I like them that that way also.

Three silly adults on the swing set at a park. My sister and I are grinning at each other.

When you’re 46 but you can still wheedle your older sister and brother into playing on the swings with you (from September 2023)

This is so silly. Like there weren’t homebodies before.

I do a lot of this for my 19yo daughter. She has had opportunity to learn how to use email effectively (both parents are writers and academic-adjacent) but she hates writing of any kind and has resisted. Now that she’s off at school if an email is important enough she’ll call and ask for my help.

I would be like this except I like owing a house so it would probably be more like every 5 years. Fortunately my spouse figured it out quickly and dug in his heels. When we bought this house he only agreed on the condition we didn’t move again til we had an unavoidable reason. Now been here 14yrs.

The only thing cuter than a baby in a pumpkin costume is his parents, friends of mine who struggled with infertility for many years and finally had a baby this year. Their faces in every picture look like they’ve won the lottery. LOOK AT OUR LITTLE PUMPKIN.

This used to be my rule too but in my neighborhood easily 20% of the kids don’t have costumes. I’m talking 8yos, not teenagers. Now I just give it to everyone. Last year I gave some to a grandma who was walking around with her grandkids. Idgaf.

Is the no furnace thing a temporary situation?

Doesn’t it mean talking or chatting?

Unmasked tech, leaning over me to take my vitals:

“Your heart rate is really high. Are you feeling anxious?”

Little weird Pokémon made out of modeling clay. It’s sitting on a small bright pink box on a metal outdoor table.

My 9yo friend in Seattle made a Flareon out of modeling clay and sent it to me via his mom who just came to visit. I made a flower crown Glaceon to send back. (Both were inspired by the all-important question, what’s your favorite eeveelution?)

A fenced veggie garden enclosure in my Philly back yard

Autumn in the garden 🌱

Oh good. My copy finally arrived and it seemed like everybody else already had theirs! I’m just a few chapters in but I love Miss Maple 🐑

Oh, she’s fun. Very absorbing light reading.

Oblong brown brown egg case, about an inch long, with a chevron pattern on the top. It’s on the blue mesh surface of an outdoor chair.

A Carolina mantis used my outdoor chair as a nursery! This egg case will hatch in the spring. 🌱