Guess where I’m heading tonight?!
Pretty excited!
Have an ‘Awfully big’ night tonight yourself, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn
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It’s just a few days to Winter Solstice, and I am SOOOOOO glad about that! The idea that the days start getting longer again is completely and utterly BRILLIANT because I find this cold weather so darn paralysing 🙁
I think I mentioned that Hubby and I bought Kiya a coat. A couple of them, actually (we’d never bought animal clothing before and had no clue what we were doing). The wrap-around, velcro-secured ‘jacket’ was a size too small, so that was an immediate donation to Mum’s 10 month old border collie Trav. The woollen-style ‘jumper’ was the correct size, but our clever gurly worked out how to get out of it… without ripping apart the ‘arms’ at the seams! So she was able to wear it for over a week before the seams came apart and it became a rag.
Fast foward to yesterday. Temperature feels like -2C with a wind chill of -957C or something. And poor Kiya with no coat. Necessitating a trip to the store, and now: a new, brown, wrap-around ‘jacket’ to match Trav’s army-green one.
And just in the nick of time. On Wednesday nights Kiya and I have a sleepever at Mum’s / Trav’s place… and check out the two of them in their snazzy coats!
(Sorry for the blurry-ness of the photos, it was dark already and we’d only just arrived and the two pups were so excited I couldn’t get them still enough!)
Still, I reckon they’re cuteness personified. And that patch of white near the bottom of Kiya’s brown coat is *not* a rip, courtesy Trav, where the stuffing is coming out. It’s actually a white, embrodiered, paw print 🙂
Here’s hoping you also get a cuteness overload today, dear Reader!
- KRidwyn
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#BlogJune Day 18
Back on June 7, I bought Kiya a new toy. Huge, thick. Indestructible, or so I thought.
This morning’s photo shows not only how loved it has been, but also just how wrong I was.
Sigh. Destructo-gurl for the win. Again! You’ve got to admit though, she’s a source of continual amusement 🙂
She loves it. She’s even napping with it, as I write:
(She turned her head to face me, to check out what I was doing, just as I took the photo. lol)
Have an amusing day yourself, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn
And there’s actually no ‘good’ reason for missing yesterday’s, either! In fact, I was part-way through writing it, yesterday morning, but got distracted. And never came back, obviously 🙁
Oh well. I’m going to choose to be kind to myself rather than ‘beating myself up’ about it. There’s always today.
So here’s what I was thinking I’d share with you for today’s post: a haiku I made up this morning while feeding Kiya her breakfast. Poem inspired by a conversation with my Miss19, after whose words I’m choosing to title it. And a disclaimer: this is BAD haiku. As in… you’ll probably hate it. Sorry in advance if you do! But I find it highly amusing. So here goes:
Brain rot (?)
YouTube, TikTok meme
Sigma Meals: Skibidi Sliders!
I am the Rizz Lord.
So… whatcha think? Bad haiku, hey. I mean, who’s ever heard of an 8-syllable middle line?! Really!
Okay. I’ll show myself out. See you tomorrow, folks! (Hopefully!)
– KRidwyn
So I’ve been an avid avoider of anything and everything AI related (as much as I’ve been aware, that is). But earlier this week, I attended a Webinar on ‘GenAI in schools’ and, from that, figured I should probably find out more for myself. Engage with it, at least, so I can be familiar with some of the concepts in the conversation… so I did.
Yesterday I discovered something amusing. I’m currently starting a unit on A Midsummer Night’s Dream with one of my classes, so to cut down on my workload I thought I’d ChatGPT some of the significant quotes in Act One.
So Act One has two scenes. Scene 1 shows Duke Theseus and others in Athens; Scene 2 shows a group of ‘mechanicals’ (actors) who are preparing to rehearse a play. Neither scene shows any of the fairies: Oberon (King), Titania (Queen) or Puck (mischief making sprite). But check this out:
See the explanation after each bolded quote? Oberon! Then Titania! And so then this happened:
Ha! Humans for the win right here! (Although I didn’t use question marks when asking my questions, so I feel like I’ve lost a bit of credibility there too…)
Still, have a winning day yourself, dear Reader 🙂
- KRidwyn
I missed a day! Sad 🙁
but a friend I hadn’t heard from in simply ages replied to a tweet and also commented on here (hi Snail!) so: happy!
Reason for missed day: my Mum had had a car accident on the 11th (hence the cryptic post because I was too emotional to write coherently) and – although she’s okay and in fact, better than okay, she’s remarkably good praise God! – I spent hours (literally) on the phone with the insurance company and that chewed up good blogpost-writing time. Sigh.
I *had* intended to post this photo (taken yesterday, when I discovered its existence!) as I found it so amusing:
I guess I’ve reached the age whereupon (ha! Check out that old word!) I receive birthday cards from politicians by virtue of not dying yet. Ummm… not sure how that makes me feel, really, but… okay?!
Have a ‘not dying’ day yourself, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn
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#BlogJune Day 10
So my Miss16 has 6 months left of school. And what does she do? Join in with the Senior Assassin game, of course!
Wear goggles? You’re protected. Floaties on your arms? Also fine. On school grounds (school bus seats included in this definition) or heading to or at your place of work? Also unable to be eliminated.
Anything else? You’re fair game for being eliminated (shot by a water gun, the evidence caught on video) and no longer able to win the hundreds of dollars in prize money awarded to the winning team.
My girl’s latest obsession: looking over her shoulder anywhere we go. Oh, and the goggles wearing, of course.
Let’s see if she’s a few hundred dollars richer by the end of the year!
Have a goggle-free day yourself, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn
Gone 5pm and I still haven’t blogged. That’s ’marking time of term’ for you!
But I *did* get the time to walk Kiya just now… and check out the entrance to one of my neighbour’s properties!
The colours don’t do it justice, I’m afraid. God is so amazing the way He uses the colour palette He designed!
Here’s wishing you a colourful day as well, dear Reader!
- – KRidwyn
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#BlogJune Day 8
I have Reynaud’s Syndrome… meaning that in cold weather or whenever my body cools too much, blood stops flowing properly to my extremities. My fingers and toes turn white from lack of blood. It’s annoying (and sometimes painful).
So I wear gloves. A few years back now, I lashed out on an expensive pair of ‘UGG’ brand gloves and now I wouldn’t be without them when the weather gets cold.
This morning, they only came off after 10am. Winter is well and truly here, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn
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#BlogJune Day 7
Today was a huge day. I turned 50. It was also momentous for my kelpie pup.
1) I did something I never thought I’d do, and bought dog clothing. She’s been cold at night… even Hubby mentioned that she’s not built like our (now passed away) German Shepherds! And
2) I bought her a new toy. And I swear her eyes widened when she first saw it. It’s bigger than she is! Check it out on her bed:
anyway, I hope momentous things (good ones only, of course) happen to you today, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn