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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Converting my voice satellites from Wyoming Protocol to Linux Voice Assistant is proving to be a somewhat painful process, but sadly, Wyoming is deprecated. At least Google and Amazon don't know if I turn off a light and LVA doesn't try to upsell me to "Plus" or show me ads. Two down, three to go.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Need one more Volumio player for the kitchen to have whole home audio. Let's see whether it'll run on an old Pi Zero with a wifi dongle... 😄

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hey Mum! I'm gonna put my moff unner the frij to save for later, OK?" --sTuffin🐾

Stephanie the tuxedo cat is lying on a light brown floor, in the process of stuffing a large, mostly dead moth under a stainless steel fridge. She caught it at some point during the night, out in their catio, brought it in the house, beat the poor thing up until it could no longer fly and I couldn't even identify the species. She left it on the kitchen floor for me, and after I'd told her it was a lovely gift, she picked it up, dropped it in front of the fridge, and stuffed it under with her cat hands. I'll assume she's saving it for later.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don't know what I did, but Beans clearly disapproves!

Beans the tabby cat sits on the arm of a loveseat next to a small side table. On the table are a couple of plants and a wifi router. Beans looks, to say the least, unimpressed. I've no idea why; she rarely uses her RBF anymore, but there it is!

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You can putta groshry 'way later. I'm usin 'em right now. --sTuffin🐾

A mask and mantle tuxedo cat is lying on a beige grocery bag, half on a rug and half on the floor. I was too tired after work yesterday to do more than drop the groceries by the door, which makes Stephanie happy because she loves to lie on plastic bags, especially if there's something *in* the bags. Even if it's something hard. She likes to lie with her upper body slight elevated; I have no idea why. At this moment, she was reclining on my box of snack crackers, but she's nowhere near heavy enough to crush it. Stephanie is an odd little thing, but I don't mind occasionally leaving a few bags of non-perishables by the door for a day or so if it keeps her from finding "something else" (Stephanie-style 😮) to do. She'll help me put them away later, I'm sure. Cat help...which is to say no help at all!

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Something planted it for me last year, and this year, it bloomed.

Maypop flower (Passiflora incarnata) in bloom in my yard. I meant to move it to a better spot last fall, but forgot about it, and I guess it didn't mind. Normally, Japanese beetles absolutely *destroy* maypops, but over the years, I have encouraged birds and critters like skunks and opossums to hang around my property, and they do a good job of digging grubs to keep the beetle population in check. I give them a quiet place where they feel safe to live and raise their kids, and they give me chemical-free, zero-effort pest control at no cost.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

But this is lots better than kitty beds! --sTuffin🐾

Stephanie the mask and mantle tuxedo cat is curled up in a grocery bag among some boxes I need to break down because tomorrow is trash day. The bag was just tossed on the pile of boxes, but she pulled it off and stuck her head into it until she got it open, then made it into a nest. Like all cats, she loves boxes, but she likes making nests from plastic grocery bags, too. She doesn't chew them like she does boxes, so I let her have any she finds until I can't stand literal trash on the floor any longer. It's not like the house isn't full of comfortable cat beds, and the cat trees have hammocks, and there's obviously upholstered furniture, but nope--boxes and grocery bags! I installed a new cat door for The Herd this weekend, and I'm glad I don't have to return it because when Stephanie realized that there was absolutely no way she could fit into it, she chewed it. She doesn't eat the cardboard; just spits it out on the rug for me to clean up.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Stevie Cookie, trying yet again to get out of the Cat Cave. There's a reason their RFID door is powered by an AC adapter rather than batteries; he unlocks the door with his chip, then just...sits there, draining the batteries while he plans his next move. He did make it out...eventually. 😹

Stevie Cookie, a mask and mantle tuxedo cat, is peering out through the cat door to the Cat Cave (used to be the garage). The door is RFID; it unlocks with the cats' microchips, and makes an audible click when it does. Cookie, however, is not the brightest guy, and hasn't made the connection between the click sound and "I can open it now"; he seems to think it's some sort of random magic that happens if he sits there long enough. The door is powered by four AA batteries, and while power use is negligible when it's locked, it uses a lot to hold it unlocked. My late husband's cats had one of these doors, and the batteries needed changing twice a year. I have Cookie, though, and a new set of Duracell or Energizer was lasting a little over a week, so I bought an AC adapter that has one live cell, and three dummy cells to fill the spaces. Considering I've seen Cookie sit there as long as twenty minutes, his chip holding the door unlocked, but his 640K RAM brain not yet having processed what to do next, it was the only viable solution. Poor Cookie...so cute, so sweet, so dumb. 🖤🤍🖤

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You're onna caputer too much anyways. --sTuffin🐾

Stephanie, a mask and mantle tuxedo cat, is sprawled upside down on my beat up old black office chair. Sometimes, she lets me sit there, but not always, and even when she does, I have to squish over to make room for her, too, because Stephanie. She's her own reason.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm watching hordes of small flying insects over the flowerbeds in the back yard, sun reflecting off their wings. Dragonflies are zipping back and forth, back and forth, through the swarms, and I'm imagining them with mouths wide open, front legs shoveling food in as fast as they can.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

OK you can sit in my chair, but oney if you geddover an make rooms for me. --sTuffin🐾

Stephanie, a mask and mantle tuxedo cat, has squeezed herself in between me and the arm of my office chair. In the background are two resin printers, and some stacks of filament for FDM printers, and a notepad Stephanie knocked onto the floor. This is her new thing; come in at a dead run, jump onto the back of the chair, wait a minute, then put her cat hands on the chair arm and slooowly climb down, carefully balancing, until she's squeezed herself between me and the chair arm. Then she looks at me as if to say, "Scooch over and pet me!", and of course, I do. If I'm not in my chair, she is; that's her new favourite place to sleep. It's certainly not the most comfortable place she could sleep, but it's where she wants to be because cat.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thunderstorm, rain, tornado siren blaring, fire truck sirens going by out on the highway. Beans: "What? You're disturbing my catio time."

Beans the tabby cat in her catio, calm as can be in spite of all the noise. She loves it out there; she doesn't want to go outside in the open, but she spends most of her time sleeping in their little catio.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

You can wash it 'nother time. I'm usin it right now. --sTuffin🐾

Stephanie the tuxedo cat is lying on an old towel I use on the couch when I've been working outside in the dirt. The towel is atop my bathroom scales, though Stephanie already knows she weighs "10 ponds". I wanted to wash the towel, but she loves to recline on things as if she's a very fancy lady, so I let her keep it and washed the rest.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Oh, Stephanie, what happened? Poor babycat; how did you get a boo-boo on your nose? Stephanie: What boo-boo? What nose? Watcha got there? Lemme see!

A very unflattering, blurry closeup of Stephanie the tuxedo cat's face. I was trying to take a picture so I could get a better look at the side of her nose--"Stephanie" and "still" rarely occur in the same sentence--but of course she had to stick her face right up in the camera lens, with a bonus blep. She's not really a pretty girl, but she's cute, and she has so much personality. Stephanie is cat-shaped, but what she actually *is* remains a mystery. Insane Oreo Gremlin is the closest I can come to a description.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I like milkweed flowers...they look as if they're made of wax. Bonus tiny black friend; probably a feather legged fly. 💚🩷

The dusky pink flowers and leaves of common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, with bonus tiny friend, probably a feather legged fly. I made a flowerbed for the milkweed, planted it, and...it said, "Nah," and decided instead to roam the yard, planting itself wherever it wanted. Fortunately, I have a Yard Mullet; business in the front, party in the back. The front is neat for people, but the back yard belongs to me, the plants, and the creatures that live there, so if milkweed wants to roam, or 7' tall giant hyssop decides the front of the flowerbed is the place to be, or pipevine takes over the southwest corner, we're fine with that. We love green, and colourful flowers, and living things, and we're not fussy about how it looks. We don't let perfect get in the way of good.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Not great because I was doing yard work and all I had was my phone, but Eastern Pondhawk is a favourite. 💚

Female or juvenile male Eastern Pondhawk dragonfly. Vivid green with black patches on the abdomen. Adult males are a blue and look as if they've been coated with a dusting of fine white powder. This one would have grown up in my frog pond, and was perched on pipevine as it hunted in The Flowerbed That Pipevine Ate about 50' from the pond. Seriously...I planted one scrawny pipevine ten or so years ago, and now it owns the southwest corner of my yard. Not that Pipevine Swallowtail butterflies are particularly upset about that...

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Lots of fireflies out tonight; I think they like the dampness after a rain. JJJJJJJJ. 💛 They're the best kind of fairy lights. They don't need wiring or power,or batteries; just a suitable place to do their thing.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Trumpet creeper can absolutely be a thug, but I knew exactly what I was planting, and have it contained. Once these open, I'll have some happy hummingbirds!

Soon-to-open blooms of Campsis radicans, trumpet creeper. Controlled, it's a beautiful native vine with big, bright orange trumpet-shaped flowers, beloved by hummingbirds. Uncontrolled, it can take over a yard, a deck, a house, and possibly your car if it's parked too long! 😄 I have it in two places: an 18-year-old one on a 10' high purpose-built pergola in the back yard, by itself so I can mow all around it, and a younger one on the south side that I'm training into tree form. That one is near the house, so I cut the bottom from a big storage tote, sunk it in the ground, and planted the vine within, so it can't send underground runners and engulf my house. Trumpet creeper has a bad reputation because people think it'd be pretty right beside the house...and it is, but this is a vine that means business, so you have to be careful where you plant it, and remove seed pods before they mature!

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My copilot. I found him on the windshield when I left work. Not wanting him to blow away, I opened the door and herded him into the car. He hung out on the dash, probably criticizing my driving, until I got home and herded him to the outside of the car. Phidippus audax, the bold jumping spider. 💚

Rear view of a male Phidippus audax spider on the door frame of a red car. He refused to turn around for the camera, but jumping spiders are the puppies of the arachnid world, and P. audax is definitely one of the cutest. Chonky, fuzzy bodies, black and white, with big eyes and metallic green chelicerae (fangs). They seem more curious about people than they are afraid, and will often stop and look up at you. Why, I don't know, because to a spider, we're so big they can't even see all of us at once, so we're viewed more as mobile landscape than individual creatures. Bold jumpers are sometimes kept as pets, and may even follow a laser pointer like a cat, but I prefer mine free. I didn't name this guy, but I had one named Tim who lived for a few weeks between the window and screen of a storm door. He moved out and moved on over the long weekend. Wishing a long and happy life both to Tim, and to Copilot Spider. ❤️

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Just saw the first fireflies of the year! Only a few, but it's early; more will come.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Delphinium is notoriously finicky and hard to grow. For that reason, I've never tried; I don't have time for fussy flowers. I went into the Flowerbed That Pipevine Ate to make sure my baby dogwood wasn't getting strangled, and...I have delphinium. I'll guess they're wild.

Small stand of some kind of delphinium that has randomly appeared in a woefully overgrown and fairly neglected wildflower bed in my back yard. I guess the trick to growing delphinium is...don't even try and they just appear?

Closer view of the delphinium blooms. Most are white and a few are purple. I'd assume they're wild; I can't imagine how a cultivated variety could have got there.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

@karaisntactive.bsky.social Ant Ka'ra, I made you a pitcher of Mum when she was fixin the mowr wire. I colour real carfel!

Drawing of an angry stick lady in an orange T-shirt and jeans, holding up two ends of a broken robot mower boundary wire, drawn in the style of a child. There is a flowerbed of seedlings, represented by a brown blob with small green marks, and a tree in the background. A bright red Northern Cardinal is perched crookedly in the tree. The Automower sits on the grass in the foreground, and there are digging tools on the grass in front of the stick lady.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

If I find one more chewed boundary wire, I'm getting my chain saw and cutting down every tree in my yard so I can have an RTK Automower. Either that, or I'm finding a way to shrink Miki so she fits into mole holes. Argh! Stupid moles--chew something else!

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Mum would never ganore a perfekly nice kitty belly on her chair but I better make a skweek so she will look an see I am cute. An pet me. --sTuffin🐾

Tuxedo cat Stephanie is lying upside down in a black desk chair, doing her best to look cute. I was not asleep on the couch; I was merely resting my eyes, and when I woke u...when *my eyes were rested*, I went to the kitchen. Stephanie is difficult to see in my chair if she's right side up, and I've nearly sat on her more than once, but she emitted her distinctive tiny meow (sounds like a asthmatic mouse walking up stairs with heavy shopping) and rolled over. She knew very well I'd stop and pet her...and she was right.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Inside? Why would I want to be inside? --Beans🐾

Beans the tabby cat is sprawled out on a light green-painted wood platform in the little catio I made for her and Stephanie. Beans is practically a ghost in the house since the weather warmed; she comes inside to eat, and at random times for pets, and if it's raining sideways like it did yesterday, but otherwise, if I'm looking for her, I just check the catio. She'll be there.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

@karaisntactive.bsky.social Ant Ka'ra, guess what? A skarlin birb got inna house an I jump sooo high an I got it!! But it got away an Mum corner it inna closit. An she grab it an took it outdoors. But she let me keep the fevver I cought my own self. It ain't a birb but it's a good smell. --sTuffin🐾

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

At work, getting *dozens* of junk calls from India, made by actual humans instead of robodialers. Pretending to be a phone tree doesn't work, so I check the country code, and if it's 91, I'm playing Hampsterdance at top volume for them. Di-ba-di-de-doe! 🐹

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

@karaisntactive.bsky.social Ant Ka'ra, I forgot to tell you an dAde an Yorba happy star wars day! Mum says you're sposta say may the 4 be with you, so I'm sayin that. But she might be wrong cause she's treky. But we can be famly anyways cause they both got stars! ⭐🩷⭐ --sTuffin🐾

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Oh, Stephanie, I *do* wish you'd take more care with your hair. It's all going every which way! Young ladies ought to have tidy hair, you know. Mother says!" --Beans🐾

Beans the tabby cat grooms tuxedo Stephanie's head while the two of them lie on a fuzzy, light blue blanket atop my legs. Stephanie rarely holds still long enough for Beans to groom her, but Beans loves grooming her (also me), so on this rare occasion, she got in every lick she could before we all fell asleep for a long nap.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

"Sweetgum balls can be used as a deterrent to keep cats out of areas where you don't want them. The balls are sharp and spiky, and cats don't like the way they feel..." (Every Google search result for "what to do with sweetgum balls.)

Miki the dilute tortoiseshell cat is comfortably ensconced in a big pile of sweetgum balls and leaves that I've finally gathered up. That's the last of them. Unless you have one, you have no idea how many sweetgum balls a large tree can produce! It would seem she didn't get the memo that sweetgum balls are a cat deterrent. She and Andy were napping in them earlier. Having stepped on the balls enough times, I can assure you that they are spiky and sharp, but cat deterrent? Hmm...

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Beans don't wanna play with me, an Mum gotta go to work so she can't play with me. That's OK. I will play by my own self. --sTuffin🐾

Stephanie the tuxedo cat is lying on her side on the floor. Behind her is their pink toy box, the contents of which she has dumped out onto the floor because I do love picking up their toys before the robot vacuum runs and eats them, and by her feet is a pink sparkly pompom ball. I'd love to stay and play with her, but of our household of nine, only one of us has thumbs, a driver's license, and a job, and it's not Stephanie!

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Stephanie and Beans woke me up at 4AM this morning because...thunder. "Woke me up" means Beans was screaming and Stephanie went BANZAI off the headboard onto my pillow. There's a bad storm right in top of us now, and where are they? In the catio. As long as Mum is awake, the thunder can't get them?

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The fact that it's a beautiful spring day and not a cold winter day deterred me not in the least from making self-saucing cake. Now...how much of this can I eat at once? Let's see...😁

A self-saucing cake in a metal non-stick pan. The cake batter and the sugar/butter/boiling water all go into the pan, and the cake bakes up through as the water reduces in the sauce. Similar to pouding chômeur. Best warm, fresh out of the oven.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Rescued all but 20MB of data from a near-dead 5TB HDD that holds all of my ripped movies and TV shows so I can stream them on Jellyfin! Thank you, HDD SuperClone, and gdisk for partition table edits, and Claude for help with the gdisk expert menu. I did not, not, *not* want to re-rip everything!

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's oney your chair if you're in it. --sTuffin🐾

Stephanie the tuxedo cat, in my very (very!) recently vacated black desk chair. I was kind of in the middle of working on something on my desktop computer, but I guess I can lean and type. That look is just *daring* me to move her. 😄

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Came marching across the patio towards me like I owed him money. 😄 (Eastern box turtle.)

Male Eastern box turtle beside a bag of Miracle Grow potting soil on a concrete patio. Head and all four legs out; he's not scared at all. Currently glaring at Stephanie the tuxedo cat through the window, which goes to floor level. I love how they always look so *angry*.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Im makin cute bunny feet for Mum now. In case I gotta do somethin I ain't sposta later. --sTuffin🐾

Stephanie the tuxedo cat, lying on her back on the carpet (in the middle of the floor, of course), with her feet all tucked in towards her body, and her tail wrapped around the bottom. She knows I think this is cute, so I'm sure she has something naughty planned for later. Probably the middle of the night, and it'll probably wake me up, so she's scoring some You Can't Be Mad, I'm Adorable points ahead of time.

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Mum worked an worked alla day outdoors doin Random Axe of Daffydills. Whatever them is. An never played with me an Beans none. So I sleeped alla day an I'm gonna run around alla night a keep her 'wake! 😸 --sTuffin🐾

Stephanie the tuxedo cat is lying half upside-down on a fuzzy light blue blanket. I'm *so* happy she was able to sleep the whole day while I was schlepping my middle-aged and tired self around the yard, surgically extracting multiple varieties of daffodils planted by the squirrels to put them all in one area I dubbed Random Acts of Daffodils. If I was careful enough, and I hope I was, they should still bloom this year, and maybe I'll figure out what some of them actually are. I have some particularly industrious squirrels; God alone knows where they found the bulbs! 😄

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"Oh, it's like Christmas and my birthday, all in one! My beloved Miki has allowed me to be near her, and hasn't hissed or slapped me once!" --George of Orange

Miki the dilute tortoiseshell is lying in a cat bed behind George of Orange, who probably isn't comfortable on the old cushion I took out of the car, but he doesn't care because he's near his beloved Miki, and (for once) she's tolerating him. She usually doesn't want him around her, but it's such a nice day that she must be feeling magnanimous. 😄

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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾) @androidgenious.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Uncle Cookie is tryna get outta the gradge but I think he forgot how the kitty door works again. He's just sitting there. I can see him through the window. I'm gonna tell Mum to go open the big door for him. He looks cafused. --sTuffin🐾

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