iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So cute!!! Over here, our pond has developed a wall to wall carpet of duckweed.

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I need to get me one of those.

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Poor thing doesn't recognize the tire tracks of the giant trucks that drive over the sand every morning to drag the big rake that clears the beach of kelp and trash. Southern Californians prefer their beaches to be nothing but sand.

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Spouse has an old school friend coming over for lunch. Is it acceptable to answer the door with a Hi, Nice to meet you, Welcome to our home, Please don't kill the wolf spider in the bathroom It's practically family at this point.

A large, hairy spider crawling up the wall from the windowsill

020

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We ordered a couple of tiny patches for repairing a thermarest and they came in a big box with a 5-lb, 1000-page catalog of more than everything you could ever want for camping with car or mobile home. I did not know there are tents you can pitch ON THE ROOF OF YOUR CAR.

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Bored with mere mice, Ninja has moved on to killing time.

Cat balance on the back of the sofa staring up at a wall clock.

Cat balanced on the back of a sofa, reaching up for the moving second hand of a wall clock.

Cat, having attacked the wall clock, slipping back down onto the back of the sofa.

Cat now sitting on the back of the sofa under the wall clock, staring into the camera like, what, who, me?

020

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I mean, no wonder everyone is angry. Even the good guys are the bad guys.

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

OK, it's not the snowmageddon some of you are getting right now, but, still we're snowed in! Sad how little it takes to make the road disappear and the little hill impassable except with chains (which no one here has).

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Today's the first time I've faced the conundrum of shovel a couple of inches of snow every couple of hours or do all ten inches at once at the end of the day. Advice?

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This month has definitely been three years so far at least, I think we all would agree.

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I was just wondering (last week or so) why we don't just do 13 28-day months. It's so easy to overlook how made up all this stuff is.

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Grieving is definitely hard. It has been a year and a quarter since my mom died and I'm still stuck in that swamp. It'll be fine for a while, then something triggers a fall back into the mire. It sounds like your dad was a great guy. You were lucky to have each other.

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Today Ninja has forgotten how to use the cat door to go out (although coming back in still works). She's a bit of a dingbat, although very sweet.

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It's a less useless search engine. startpage.com

020

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Use Startpage instead of Google when you search.

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I finally granted Ninja, our teenage cat not yet wise in the ways of the world, access to the cat door. She's so excited about this development, she's gone out and come back in about 75 times in the last two hours. I'm giving it until nightfall until she wears out the batteries!

120

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Although, I'm not sure if this is because they took the day off or because at this point there are no mice left within a 200 meter radius of our home.

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Yay! We've made it 24 hours without the cats bringing any mice, dead or alive, into the house.

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The downside of the cat door: in just the last 36 hours, the cats have brought 5 dead mice and one live mouse into the house.

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Needing to recover from On the Beach, I am now slogging through The Night Circus, which is turning out to be all tell and no show and all stage and no action. I mean, seriously, how many words does one need to go through to describe nothing that actually happens?

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I'm still traumatized from the time our moms took us to see that in the theater.

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Sometimes, you have to mow the cat grass.

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Have fun!!! Wishing you better weather than what's out there now!

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

O.M.G.... On the Beach turned out to be the most depressing book I have ever read. And I have read a lot of books.

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Just started reading On the Beach, because I hadn't before and haven't seen the movie(s) either. It's a lot of honorable people behaving honorably while living out humanity's last doomed days. Not terribly realistic yet also fascinating, but ultimately really depressing.

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Ah, for the heady days of youth, when there was a reasonable gap between the sugar rush and the sugar crash.

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The final thing I learned in 2025 is that that grey, bean-shaped thing that cats leave behind even if they eat everything else about the mouse, including the fur, feet, and tail, is the gall bladder. As you might imagine, it's really bitter.

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Wouldn't want them to feel left out.

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

He can't invade the entire world at the same time.

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm just wondering if Europe's leaders will just shrug when he invades Greenland or if they'll actually manage to at least say something.

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Somehow it's fitting that it took me a couple of decades to read Momo from start to finish.

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

That cat is totally Salvador Dali! Or maybe Raul Julia in The Addams Family.

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Yesterday I heard my other neighbors calling Chairman Meow "Sancho", because CM's official name is a Chinese expression for "long life" (because they've lost several cats already to deadly streets here), which I guess vaguely sort of sounds like Sancho.

000

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I know it's probably totally unoriginal, but I'll never not find it funny that my neighbor's named their cat Chairman Meow.

210

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Yay! The house is ours again. MIL and cousin/boyfriend left yesterday after 72 hrs, which was long enough for her to throw a tantrum about me, but not long enough for me to have a meltdown about her. I think this means I won. :)

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

In case you haven't already looked them up... tocsin: 1. a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells. 2. a bell used to sound an alarm. kopje: a small hill

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Or, as I realized while reading recent newspaper headlines... sanctioned!

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Reading War of the Worlds for the first time and, it's weird, I keep having to reach for a dictionary!

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Aren't raincoats great at funneling the water straight down the front?

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It's beyond evil, what they're doing.

010

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Spouse is going down with the awful cold going around. If I manage to hold off long enough before I catch it, I might be able to quarantine myself for the 4 days MIL and her boyfriend are here (they invited themselves) for Xmas.

110

Christina DLR @xtinadlr.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

So, I made the rum raisin pie. It turned out exactly as expected: so rich it could only be eaten in 1:1 ratio with vanilla ice cream.

000