Butternut squash, spinach, and Gruyère galette on parchment paper. Recipe from America’s Test Kitchen: The Savory Baker

A little bit of #sundaybaking

Reclaimed denim “Delectable Mountains” quilt in various shades of blue, draped over a wooden fence. Pattern from Blair Stocker’s “Wisecraft Quilts”

Newly finished, and just in time for my nephew’s graduation! #quiltsky #tiedquilt #denimquilt

Good luck! One of ours loves it, the other—not so much!

Beautiful work!

Beatrix the tortie cat sits demurely in front of a mangled (non-toxic) houseplant.

Me? Chew up your houseplant? Never!!! Look at my sweet, completely innocent face.

Oh no! Glad to hear you’re improving.

Help stop large‑scale commercial quartz mining in the Ouachita National Forest, the forest service is taking comments.

Submit yours:

📬 Mail:
District Ranger Mike Welker
P.O. Box 189
Jessieville, AR 71949

Fax: 501‑984‑6253
Phone: 501‑984‑5313
Email: SM.FS.r8oujwfrdcom@usda.gov

#arpx

I’ve bathed her, washed all her bedding, vacuumed and mopped thoroughly, limited her time outside… Last year we had to resort to a round of steroids because her ears swelled so badly, but hopefully we can avoid that this year. 🥺 Wish I knew what is triggering it.

Very out of it hound dog sleeping on her freshly washed Razorbacks blanket

Poor Mabel. Every year, there is a week or so in mid-April (almost to the day) when she has a terrible allergy flare-up with itchy skin, red eyes and inflamed ears. We figure there must be something blooming in the yard that is the culprit. Anyway, she’s conked out on Benadryl right now.

And cats that really want out or have been accustomed to it can be trained to use a harness and leash! One of ours loves it; she sits by the door next to where we hang her leash and begs for walks like she’s a dog 🤣

YAY!

I have an echinopsis with blooms that look very much like this, except they are all white. It looks real to me.

Black and white check quilt backing taped to the floor, ready to sandwich and baste. A tortie cat relaxes on the fabric.

Reclaimed denim delectable mountains quilt, tied with cotton yarn

Big stretch! Beatrix has claimed the quilt as her own.

Beatrix “helped” me tie a quilt this afternoon. #caturday #quiltsky

A ceramic vase (handmade by me way back in college) full of paperwhite narcissus flowers sits on a window ledge, along with a houseplant and a few of my Arkansas quartz crystals.

Some flowers for your Friday.

Libby works just fine on my Kobo.

There’s one in my neighborhood with a Scooby Doo Mystery Machine wrap 😖

Here’s a stigmaria we found in a creek bed in the Ozarks

Yes, mostly. Agnes (the other tortie) is a bit of a loner, but Bea and Mabel are gradually growing on each other!

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Orange jasper worry stone

Right there with you!

Tortie cat on a windowsill, pictured mid-yawn.

Big yawn.

Same, Girl. #mondays #catsky

Oops. I-70 runs through KC. Either way, there is no I-50 in Arkansas.

The number system is real, but this map isn’t accurate. There is no east/west interstate through northern Arkansas. I-50 runs through Kansas City well north of us.

During her puppy years, our dog destroyed SO MUCH stuff! Thankfully she grew out of it with time and training.

Tiny sassafras sapling

We’ve got a little patch of woods that was severely damaged by a tornado 2 years ago. We been cleaning it up/ attempting to curate what grows back (non-native privet and tree of heaven are trying to take over. And vines. So many vines) Anyways, pleased to see a grove of native sassafras popping up.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Thank you! We recently adopted Beatrix, and my teenager really wanted to name her Zelda but he was outvoted! He’ll be glad to know there’s a tortie named Zelda out there! 😊

Beatrix (a tortie kitten) and Mabel (an old hound dog) are snuggled together on an unmade bed.

It’s a Good Friday miracle! I knew Mabel would win her over—she’s been trying SO hard! #catsky #dogsky