• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (scifi/fantasy/horror), Book Riot (queer [disability pride], queer, romance, YA, mystery/thrillers, historical fiction, nonfiction, comics/graphic novels, scifi/fantasy), Reactor (scifi, fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “Why oppressive fictional societies suppress reading – and how they mirror our current culture“.
• Ficlet.
• Oh hey, turns out there’s no such thing as male or female brains.
• Oh, good.
• “Superior it’s said never gives up its dead…“
• On the physics of catsup and toothpaste.
• No-bake s’mores bars.
• Love this!
• Cool church conversion.
• What a lovely historic townhouse. Except for that tub enclosure. Lol!
• Cute boat house. It does look like an awful lot of the wood (especially the floors) needs to be refinished.
• Tiny house. That bathroom sink!
• I like this style, although that green is a bit much.
• Nice, but my favorite thing is that coffee table.
• The carpet is terrain.
• The most orange bathroom possible.
• I’m not sure if I’ve ever hated ceilings as much as I hate these ceilings.
• The Mushroom House.
• Kind of a weird one.
• The stairs to the second bedroom – yikes.
• Your balance must be impeccable at all times.
• I guess at least it’s not a kitchen counter.
• Mysteries in stair construction.
• Here’s what it looks like when you descend glass stairs.

Harry, having a bit of an existential crisis.

Polly looking up, up, and away through the window.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA comics/nonfiction, best out this week, queer historical fiction, YA)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• A very heartfelt post about reading LotR for the first time.
• Comic about libraries.
• Haunting ficlet.
• There will be The X-Files and Wallace & Gromit LEGO sets!
• Horchata inspired Oreos.

• Very cozy.
• Barbie house, but guaranteed to get hit by hurricanes and such.
• Parts of it are castle-esque.
• The lighting is terrible and it’s hard to tell what the house looks like beyond all the art, but other than that!
• The wallpaper in the half bath is very meta.
• The little round blue sink in the kitchen bothers me.
• Monastery vibes.
• Perfect if you want to live someplace ornate.
• A very unusual property.
• I wish they hadn’t painted the kitchen cabinets.
• Hack job remodel of this poor late MCM.
• Really hope they sealed their Scrabble tile bathroom floor.
• Who needs a complete railing anyway?!

Harry keeping an eye on SOMETHING.

Polly grooming her leg, as one does.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, YA)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Ficlet about Zeus and Hera’s marriage counselor.
• Characteristics of pseudoscience.
• Sue his tRUMP.
• Have I already posted about The Land of the Lost reboot?
• There will be a Godzilla LEGO set.
• Parts of the interior are quite castle-esque.
• Stone house with a turret.
• Hobbit Hollow.
• Fascinating photos from the owner.
• Fancy.
• Way too much gold.
• MCM with potential.
• Trippy.
• Live right behind an iconic sign.
• Unusual property…
• A very cramped bathroom.
• Wow, that many cables and cords cannot be safe.
• D’oh.
• Maybe it’s an art installation and not stairs?

Polly telling me about the birds outside.

Harry yawning.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Book Riot (YA queer, YA, best out this week, horror, steampunk)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• “No Kings, Yas Queens” free printable pdf/png, since the “No Kings” rallies are happening during Pride month.
• Cool barn conversion, although I do not like the catwalk at all.
• Pretty fun one in Seattle.
• Cute.
• This is a new one for me: Streamline Moderne.
• Interesting house built against a big rock formation.
• Very pink AirBnB.
• You could buy your own island in Lake Huron, complete with lighthouse.
• Medieval inspired loft condo.
• If you’ve been meaning to open an artists’ colony…
• Huh. Guess it’s supposed to be a cabin? FYI, Ely is almost in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
• Black house in the desert.
• Egyptian themed with a very distracting ceiling and a secondary Mickey Mouse theme.
• Sort of strange one in Utah. The bathroom remains mostly mysterious.
• Very weird inside and includes sculpted carpet death stairs.
• It is indeed odd.
• Erm, nest of breasts house.
• Over the top.
• No square footage only vibes.
• Do not like.
• Nope.

Polly says Happy Pride!

Little crime man contemplating his little crimes in his “Crime Scene – Do Not Cross” collar.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, mysteries/thrillers, historical fiction, nonfiction, comics/graphic novels, SFF, LGBTQIA+, genre benders, mysteries/thrillers/true crime, romance), Reactor (fantasy, SF, genre benders, YA SFF), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Ficlet.
• It DOES sound familiar…
• Universal afterthought heel calculator.
• “How to like everything more“.
• Cute little comic about dragons.
• Check your local air quality.
• I love it.
• Kinda cool MCM.
• You get a lot for the money.
• I would need to remove the “for display only” books so I would have room for my own.
• Funky trailer in Sweden.
• Huge amount of work for whoever buys this odd property.
• It’s going to be so expensive to paint over all the black.
• Is it me or do the bedrooms seem very narrow? So much so that the beds are facing the way they are because I don’t think they’d fit the other way.
• Ummmmm…
• That counter is unfortunately in the male pee zone.
• Obstacle course.
• Hmmm.

Harry looking out the window.

Polly :thlurrrp:

Apologies – I’m behind on responding to comments (again!). I will get there!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Minnesota now has an official state fossil.
• You go, Harvard!
• Oh goody.
• Black cat wallpaper.
• Art that can’t be unseen.
• Very colorful, except where it isn’t.
• Dramatically decorated interior.
• Converted gas station.
• The house is boring but the labyrinth is awesome.
• Has a secret speakeasy.
• I hope there’s a better way to get to the tower suite than that ladder.
• Confusing late MCM.
• Late MCM looks interesting from the outside, but it was gutted inside.
• You can barely tell this is an MCM inside except for the rec room. Not sure what’s going on with the ceilings.
• This is a weird one, starting with the “hand”rails on the stairs.
• Stupidly shaped shower.
• Shelves are not stairs.
• These look really annoying.
• Nope.

Polly and Harry napping together, ignoring the perfectly good kitty bed on the left.

Polly washing her face.

Harry “winking”.

Have a happy Memorial Day weekend to those in the US and a happy regular weekend elsewhere! 🙂

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA nonfiction/comics, YA, best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “[US] Treasury Department places final order for new pennies“.
• Germany is kind of intense about eggs.
• I was not expecting how this gender reveal party turned out.
• Cute round stone cottage..
• I love all the built-ins.
• Converted windmill.
• A house shaped like a boat and one shaped like a lighthouse.
• Little adobe house.
• Quirky little place.
• Large fully furnished house in New Orleans.
• Pretty nice MCM.
• Time capsule MCM with a large collection of National Geographics.
• Weird MCM that has a minigolf course and a small amusement park.
• Modern brutalist with an extraordinarily purple home theater.
• The castle-esque exterior and the dragon statue are great but it goes downhill from there.
• Interesting partial conversion that needs a lot of work.
• Haunted Victorian with before and after photos. Unclear if the “mermaid skeleton” is included.
• Yikes.
• Oof.
• Dubious.
• No one who puts in stairs like these must need to pee in the middle of the night.

Focused Polly is focused.

Is he making eye contact or not? Hmm.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “Massive victory in lawsuit filed against…administration’s dismantling of IMLS“.
• On the Discworld City Watch books and copaganda.
• “Orange you glad we finally figured out why some cats are ginger“.
• “WWII vet destroys Tesla with a tank“.
• The Onion on autism. Boom!
• Strawberry lemon bars.
• Coffee pot shaped building, no longer in existence.
• I like this one.
• A most unusual condo that needs some work.
• Fun, but the photoshopped to white/grey examples made me cranky.
• Funky place that has two cool businesses on the ground floor.
• Castle-esque dome home.
• Nice earthship, as long as they take all those statues with them.
• Artistic condo with the illusion of a pool and a bedroom in a trailer.
• Suitable for hosting jousting tournaments.
• Strange mash up of chalet and castle.
• Has its own creek inside.
• Weirdly shaped in Seattle.
• Not very macabre at all.
• A very depressing B&B.
• You could live in a sad old water utility shed.
• Yowza.
• Consequences.
• Who thought this was a good idea??
• Nope.

The Attitude!

This is the photo that confirmed for me which tooth Harry had extracted, lol.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Book Riot (YA, historical fiction, queer, best out this month, comics/graphic novels, nonfiction, horror, mysteries/thrillers), Reactor (fantasy, genre benders, YA SFF, sci fi)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• Tiny revolutions.
• A reminder.
• You go, Salt Lake City!
• Knit a pencil scarf.
• I am Dubious of their claims about the numerous health benefits of donuts.
• Pop Tarts ice cream sandwiches?
• I like this one.
• A fine MCM.
• Nice contemporary with a tower and a courtyard. Something about the windows gives it an MCM feel.
• Converted potato shed.
• Converted caboose that’s all about unrealized potential.
• NOT a fan of the gigantic horned bovine heads overhanging the dining room table.
• Definitely worse after the photoshopping.
• Refrigerator mystery.
• What the what.
• Steps for giants with bonus rounded edges.
• Nope.
• Oh, that could really hurt.
• It’s the midpoint that’s going to get you on the way down.
• Scary glass stairs.

Polly and Harry looking out the window. Of course, when I went to grab my phone, they were both standing up…

Harry!

Polly!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (SFF/horror), Book Riot (romance, SFF, YA, best out this week, books by trans and non-binary authors)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Good quote from Sir Terry.
• “15 essential books to read for the resistance“.
• Ficlet.
• If you have a gmail account…
• Knit some goose socks.
• “Soda is a shockingly good egg replacement for boxed cakes“.
• 15 rhubarb recipes.
• Who is drinking the water??
• Cute bank conversion.
• Has some exceptional tile.
• Fascinating home with terrifying access to the rooftop deck.
• Comes with an ice rink and a little Zamboni.
• Maybe the lower part was used as classroom space?
• Has a yellow brick road inside.
• Must like boulders.
• I’m just way too clumsy for all of these aesthetics over functionality stairs!
• Ouch.
• D’oh.
• Sigh.

Some belated birthday socks for my SIL. Colors could be better – the purple looking stripes are actually more deep red. That weird white heel? Looks like a yarn misprint! This was only part of it – I cut out a bunch, but I did want to preserve the weirdness for posterity.

Harry hanging out on the edge of Cord World. Split loom tubing on the cords, protecting both cords and cord chewers…

Polly “hiding”.

Polly looking exceptionally cute.