Three good things on a Saturday:

-- we've been purging our bookshelves this week. If you've seen them, you know what an undertaking that is. So far we have four boxes to recycle and at least seven more to donate somewhere, with more to add. Partner would rather wallow in poison ivy than cull books, so this is a Very Big Deal;
-- During the Polar Vortex when nighttime temps were at their most frigid, the power went out in the greenhouse and some of our prettiest flowers took a severe hit. We thought they were done, but there are new signs of life in all of them. 🙏
-- another snowstorm coming our way. We've already made more bread and brought in more firewood. Lord knows we have plenty to read. 😆

#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #books #gardening #ImpendingDoom #photography #flowers #FlowerPhotography #bloomscrolling

Rub da belleh. You know you want to.

https://cutetropolis.com/2024/02/01/cat-sits-at-foot-of-recliner/

#Cats #ImpendingDoom #Kittens #Sleppy

The last post talked about trusting my instincts. A big part of me is wishing I hadn’t written that because for most of this morning my instinct has been telling me that today is going to be a really shitty day.

Why?

I don’t know.

It’s the day before Thanksgiving and I am working in the office. The office alone sort of points to a bad day, but it’s more than that. In the United States, the day before Thanksgiving is traditionally the busiest travel day of the year. Everyone in the country hits the road on this day each year. I expected my morning commute to be an absolute nightmare. Add to the expected gridlock that it was pouring rain outside and it would be safe to assume that the traffic would be a gridlocked nightmare times 10. Nope. There was no traffic at all. Everyone drove a little slower than the speed limit thanks to the rain, but I never had to hit the breaks once over the entire 40-something mile drive. You would think that would ease my sense of impending doom, but nope. Somehow it made it worse.

Today should be a quiet day at work. If the office is anything to go by, it’s dead as can be here. I only see two other people and they both work for me. Weird. I should be feeling optimistic and excited about the coming holiday weekend, but instead I am just dreading everything. Once I get home tonight and see my beloved bride again, I will start feeling really good about the weekend, but until then?

It’s going to be a long, sucky, painful day.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/22/impending-doom/

#365 #365Challenge #commute #Hipstamatic #Holiday #holidayWeekend #impendingDoom #inTheOffice #instinct #iphoneography #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Thanksgiving #thanksgivingWeekend #trustYourInstinct #work

When I was a kid, I argued with my Mom what felt like every year about wearing a coat over my Halloween costume. Halloween is 5 days out and it's 69 (not so nice in this context), at least half the leaves are still green, and I had to close my car windows to keep wasps out on my lunch break.

#climatechange #impendingdoom

Song for a mood just dropped - has #ExistentialDread and #ImpendingDoom in first minute. Melodramatic as.

Noah Skape - Embrace Me.
FYI @Kitty @timjonesbooks
https://youtu.be/PDeMRIcujaw