#off topic slightly

[abybweisse]

I spent too much time gardening 🧑‍🌾 in the sun ☀️ without proper gear yesterday, so now I have a sunburn 🥵 in numerous places. 😔

Anyway, I've been gathering my thoughts about Seb vs Modri's demon, and I plan to post about it sometime this evening, CST.

[abybweisse]

Q: What's a funeral director's favorite element?

A: Barium

[abybweisse]

While gardening last weekend, I thought it would be really funny if I took pics of gardening tools in our tool shed, etc... and made posts about the ones that would make the most inefficient and/or cumbersome death scythes. 😆

🤔

I might....

[abybweisse]

I thought I'd be here for cosplay purposes long before I'd be here for my mom. Looks like I'm here... for both. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I picked up my mom's ashes a moment ago, and I figured I'd look here before finalizing a decision on what to bury her ashes in.

But I need to leave Dallas soon, so I might not actually buy anything there right now, even if I find decent options.

[abybweisse]

I gave a large antique (circa 1920) Majolica bowl of my mom's to a fellow gardener. I chose to offer it to her since she's Jewish, and the bowl was made by the Jewish diaspora in Fez, Morocco.

She loves the bowl, and I think she felt a bit guilty for accepting such a nice and valuable gift, so she offered me a lovely new Japanese hori hori knife. If I were a grim reaper and didn't mind getting physically close to my "prey", I'd probably choose a death scythe like this.

Almost (but not quite) tempted to paint the handle red and then add "Death Scythe" in black.

[abybweisse]

Japanese stories with cultural commentary, by one of my favorite social media personalities! I'm hoping it includes stories and/or histories that are referenced in Black Butler. 🤔

I adore Kyota Ko. 😊

And I'll probably start reading them tonight.

[abybweisse]

Book haul at HPB

First, here's a pic of everything.

Here, you can see each of the P. G. Wodehouse titles I got. Never bought Jeeves and Wooster books before, but this should be a great read. The BBC series was hilarious, what I recall seeing when I was a kid. Always adored Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry; in fact, I already have books written by them, too. Also got a couple Jane Austen titles and a Fyodor Dostoevsky that are part of a special edition series.

Then I got a bunch of books in this gorgeous special edition collection by Chiltern Publishing. I already had Jane Eyre and a couple other titles in this series, so I hope I don't have any extra copies of anything. I don't think so, but I'll have to unbox my books to find out for sure. I'm a bit worried that I might already have a copy of Wuthering Heights....

And then these books that are more random. I already had books 1 and 2 of Parasyte, so now I also have book 3. Then I already had Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis, but this is a signed copy! The Philip Pullman book is a collection of his essays about the writing process. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is considered by some to be one of the 100 greatest masterpieces of American literature. And then Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the one book I actually went there for. 😅 Too bad they didn't have a pretty copy, but that's ok. Maybe Chiltern will release one later. 🤔

[abybweisse]

Bought one of these at a freaking Hallmark store. Gonna cross out "retired" and write in "escaped".

(Hihihi!)