i need you to know that i just saw a gif of keira me

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HA YES

my personal brand has now expanded to include magical boobs and I could not be more delighted

I knew getting into a video game fandom would do me some good someday

shedding season

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am at the farm and just ran out to my car to get something from it and when i came back inside i got the Big Greeting from the dog, who apparently hadn’t… registered… that i had just been inside? or maybe that doesn’t matter, she’d done the Big Greeting when I came down the stairs two hours ago too, who knows.

Anyway the Big Greeting involved pursuing me to the chair where I had sat down and climbing into my lap so I’d pet her, which, I mean, she’s like 65 pounds of Lab, so, and all she wants is to lunge and put her tongue entirely into your mouth which no thanks Dini I know what you eat, you compost-digger (and this is a hog farm and poultry slaughterhouse so that compost is no joke this is not just distaste for dog slobber this is the very real knowledge that this critter is full of bad germs)

so anyway I scritched and scruffed her extremely gross extremely dirty Lab-greasy fur for a bit and came up with just literal handfuls of dense undercoat, and concluded that she hasn’t finished shedding out her summer coat for the winter one to come in. (For the record, this dog has had so many baths this summer, and baths are kind of bad for Labs, they only make them get greasier in response, and then the grease gets full of driveway dirt and anyway Dini is at her most aromatic in a while and yes they’ve switched her food but there have been complications all summer, so the poor dog is. well. petting her is an investment, you have to scrub out afterward.)

So I went and got the brush and have just basically rooed http://boulderneigh.blogspot.com/2013/03/roo-roo-roo-your-sheep.html the dog but she has settled down a bit more contentedly.

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oh yikes

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so Farmkid has been on full remote this whole school year. They decided right at the beginning of lockdown to co-isolate with the family of Farmkid’s BFF, so the two of them are in a mini-collective, in the same class, and it’s worked out great, and my mom’s additionally teaching them Spanish since she was a Spanish teacher and they asked, and they’re really getting their social needs met and it’s unusually working out really well for them. So many people are not nearly so fortunate, and part of it for my sister was, “well, I have this level of support, so I’ll keep my kid out to leave room for the essential workers without childcare etc.”. Plus, the lady four doors down the street whose daughter is in Farmkid’s class is a vocal anti-masker on Facebook and was having parties all summer so like, yeah. No.

(She’s a transplant survivor on immunosuppressants so like. She’s gonna die. The PR machine convincing her she’s immortal should be shot by a fucking firing squad, this mother of a 6-year-old is going to die. It’s so upsetting. But she’s got a Trump sign on her lawn and seems determined to be first against the wall, the poor idiot.)

ANYHOW

The school sent out a thing, like, hey, remote kids, anyone want to reconsider? now’s the like re-enrollment chance, please let us know. Farmkid and BFF’s Mom talked it over and were like “no, this is mostly working and we’re both too scared.” So they mutually agreed: no, they’re gonna stay in their isolation pod doing remote work through at least the end of the semester.

So. Sister and I were out on a walk in the woods just now; Farmkid and her dad had gone to ride bikes around the school parking lot since it’s a sunny Sunday afternoon. There amid the golden leaves and oblique sunlight, Sister was picking up leaves and explaining how you identify the species, as that’s like, her favorite hobby (witch hazel has an asymmetric leaf base. aspens and poplars have funny flattened leaf stems as they go into the base of the leaf, instead of round, and that’s why they flutter back and forth in the wind so distinctively– you can ID a stand of aspens from a distance in a light breeze because of this feature. tulip trees have cat ears at the top of the leaf and you can make a cute mask out of the big ones). It was super idyllic.

Her phone started going off and she pulled it out, cursing at it, and then said, “oh fuck it’s the school” and then proceeded to accidentally hang up the call, “ah fuck every time!” but she got the simultaneous text.

“Oh fuck it’s the school,” she said. “ALL STUDENTS are 100% remote as of October 26th. What day is it?”

“It’s the 25th,” I said.

“Oh fuck,” she said. “Oh fuck. I am so glad I kept [Farmkid] remote.”

There’d been a confirmed case in the high school, but the school had said they were keeping classes open.

We found out from our mom, expert gossip, that it was A BUS DRIVER.

Oh Christ. Oh Christ.

Well, we’re isolated from all that, by design, but it’s bad news for the community. Time to hunker down.