Notices by Laura Ritchie (lauraritchie@mastodon.social), page 13

@fgraver context is everything. Having just caught up on the American news I am pretty sure your context is very different.

I have step in to teach a class next week and I might make a few confident statements that are backed up, but only by a few days prep.

hopefully your context is forgiving and not the American news kind.
(I am thrown by the news today)

All the new students arrive this week - I went with my new students to the Fresher's Fair today - festival atmosphere, free pizza, and all the people from all the clubs and societies doing what they do. -and the weather was perfect. (picture taken with permission of one of the Chi Uni Men's Futsal team)

one mouse, full of peanut butter, placed (alive) in a field FAR away from our kitchen.

whew.

(please let this be the only one!)

well. We had it trapped behind a corner desk/cupboard thing and my son was at one end and I was at the other and we blocked ALL the holes so it had to go out at the ends and it WENT IN THE HUMANE TRAP and as I picked it up the little nimble thing jumped out. Noooooooooooo!

It's camped out under the fridge and we make a friendly barricade and I put my best peanut butter in that humane trap. Please mousie go in there so I don't have to go Tom & Jerry on you.
#smallstories

@Patlockley (some of us are quiet) said in brackets just to keep the gentle hush.

Notices your visit and waves hello
Nice to see you :)

@pixelpaperyarn happy birthday! Hope you are showered with good wishes from near and far.

@dogtrax we have no screen doors (or screens at all) and love to leave all the doors wide open when there is sun and breeze... but that living opposite a field thing comes to bite us sometimes...

I dream of a cat and then I sneeze. ;)

moon shenanigans (fun games taking pictures with the moon)
(descriptions on images)

the balancing one is inspired by you @RussSharek :)

there are so many things I want to do that have been slightly usurped by some new things I have to do and I wish...

well first I wish that mouse would run into the humane trap and I could put it back into the field where it belongs.

@marcjones still nice to be valued 😊

@clhendricksbc @Downes @dogtrax I'm going to watch our bees (we don't keep them, but we keep all the things they love) and see which ones do it. We have about a dozen varieties in our raspberries. From the little ones which hardly look like bees to the big fluffy nearly golf ball sized ones. :) We love them. I'll see if I can get a photo today...

I'm hopeful it came in from the field when the door was open. It happened once at this time of year a few years ago.

For now it's hiding under the dryer. I'm hiding upstairs.

and I'm so glad I have a lot of old cake/cookie tins so the bread and nuts that were out are not out now.

soothing myself with a nice cup of hot water.

#smallstories 2/2

I heard something while typing.

listened. I stopped. it continued.

I got up and saw under the fridge (there is a very small space) a little foot and tail. -went quickly to get my torch-o-phone (like a telephone, but the flashlight function) and

IT CAME OUT AND RAN ACROSS THE KITCHEN AND I SCREAMED THE BIGGEST BLOOD CURDLING SCREAM THE ENTIRE TIME I COULD SEE IT

My throat hurts now. I've cleaned for 2 hrs and I should be asleep.

getting a (humane) trap in the am. 1/2
#smallstories

@RussSharek this made me smile. We follow his classes on myyogaworks (because we can get that one on the UK) and the titles of the classes are delicious (see screen shot)

PS NOT suggesting anyone sign up to the yoga place, but I did want to share the titles :)

@RussSharek @tim What a lovely conversation to start the day.

Thank you both.

@RussSharek and it takes time - I think you're right with the culture thing. I have to do a modified set of things to undo my twisted core (it's not that bad, but minute things can niggle) -and people have to *know* their bodies to understand how to unlock/loosen a bit- that getting to know takes time. Sometimes years.

Goes back to the mind. Gotta keep breathing, feeling, and listening. (I was going to say I'm still on the road, but I think I'm still building it!)

@tim

@webinista having just come back from LA, my daughter and I had a whole suitcase for bringing back food.

bagels (Western Bagel), Trader Joe's peanut butter protein granola (the best ever), concord grape juice (yes I brought back gallons in glass jars), dried hibiscus flowers for tea, and tamarind pods (not sure if we were allowed those but my daughter loves them).

Fancy shops are great for treats.

@natecull I still have the 78 record of this. I played it on my brown fisher-price turntable forever and ever and ever.

❤️

@tim You are not controversial! my silly toot came about because last night I said - 'my hip-butt' is sore... Long story short, I realised I sit funny and get really unbalanced, and for me much of the bendy stuff is easier (was a child gymnast), and a few good stretches and evening out means that I can undo a day's damage (I should really figure it out and break the habit of sitting oddly)

The mind is definitely my challenge.