Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2021

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/10

    This week the pansy got an extra dose of brown to calm everything down. So it went from this: … to this: The proportions are wrong, per usual, but that’s a little closer to this: The cliffs went from this: … to this: I like my cliffs better than the one in the book. And…

  • Fox News

    The fox that brings me so much joy visited us nightly, and then some over-protective raccoon mom went after him with her claws. The fox cried. It was a heartbreaking sound. After that, no fox. Until yesterday! It would appear the Fox has found out that momma opossums are much better natured than momma raccoons.

  • Mystery Man

    Well, now that we have the Navy report on unidentified flying objects (TL;DR – “dunno”) there is still one mystery left: the Somerton man. Looks like that may be solved someday by forensic genealogy. Tamam Shud!

  • Drone?

    I looked out on the night sky Thursday evening. “My god, Venus is huge,” I said. I went to get the binoculars. I thought it might be a helicopter, because it was seemed to be hovering in one place. By the time I got back with the binoculars it was much larger, moving west to…

  • Well God Bless the NIH

    I was all pouty on Facebook about how everybody else is fully immunized and gets to go out and play and I’m grounded. No doubt they read my post and now as a result the NIH is going to study the immunosuppressed to see what can be done to get us some antibodies. Excellent. Shall…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/3

    This week the pansies went from this: … to this: Close to this? No! Sigh … I know, I got carried away with the light green. Maybe I’ll do a golden-brown wash over everything. I always say that. Maybe this time I’ll do it. But I kind of like the carnival colors in mine, too.…

  • Almost Done With Intro to Modern Cars 101

    A few weeks ago I read through the Mini manual and made a list of thirty things I felt I needed to practice hands-on. I then reconsidered three things and deleted them from the list: I got busy and now I have only a few things left to practice: I feel pretty comfortable with the…