• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (mystery/thriller graphic novels,  best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• A ficlet.
• On dragons.
• An interesting review of 12 Monkeys nearly 30 years after its release.
• Cinnamon Toast Crunch flavored bacon.
• Must love pink.
• I love the turret!
• Very colorful – I think I would need more muted colors.
• An odd sort-of A-frame.
• Time capsule MCM, lots of green.
• An excess of kitchen and numerous mysteries in this late MCM.
• Potentially cool MCM in Duluth, Minnesota, that needs an awful lot of work and seems precariously located.
• A San Francisco Victorian that’s very uneven and needs some work.
• Wisconsin cabin vibes.
• I guess it’s perfect if you live for model trains.
• For the aspiring supervillain.
• At least you don’t have to mow?
• Oh my.
• Tour through the place from We Bought a Funeral Home.
• Interesting house, but I’m not sure that all the furniture being included is a good thing.
• Bad wall covering choice, especially for a bathroom.
• Just no.
• Nope.
• :sigh:
• Deadly.
• Shelves should not be used as stairs.
• Wouldn’t a railing be nice?

Focused Harry is focused!

I call this pose “Polly Potatoes”.

I almost got a picture of Polly and Mayhem in adjacent cat beds! Instead, I have unimpressed Polly and Mayhem’s butt.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, queer)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Learn more about the Great Lakes.
• A knitted fence.
• No-bake GF Oreo cheesecake.
• A peek at the Minnesota State Fair.
• Look at what only nine million Euros can buy you! (Thanks, Cheryl!)
• Cute boat house.
• Cool house, but those spiral stairs…
• Potentially cute dome home that needs some work.
• MCM with a tiki room.
• MCM with some groovy areas.
• This house is crazy.
• Better not forget your robe and towel!
• Victorian remodel gone slightly awry, with bonus portal to hell.
• Partially converted church that needs a developer break it down into affordable heating units. The last photo really shows how huge the church is.
• Castle esque house with a disappointing interior.
• Not particularly castle esque and it needs a lot of work, as do the grounds.
• Confusing mess of a house.
• Rocks included.
• Why isn’t there an actual railing to prevent people from walking into the hole in the floor (at the bottom of the photo)??
• Yikes.
• Nope.
• Ouch.
• This is not going to end well.

Vampire Polly! Very scary.

Harry enjoying the breeze from an open window.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, queer), Reactor (genre benders)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “12 of the funniest science fiction and fantasy books“.
• An in-depth look at Shadowfax in LotR.
• Soulmate ficlet.
• Tiny library ficlet.
• Amazing Detroit mansion.
• Very cool MCM.
• Cute converted schoolhouse.
• I’m a sucker for a purple Victorian.
• Kind of cool Art Deco home, although it’s oddly narrow and the neighbors are too close.
• Converted barn – the awkward bit might be the original hayloft ladder.
• Very colorful, although this “beach” color scheme is not a favorite.
• You should have seen my face when I saw Bedroom #1. And the kitchen is an absolute mess. I’ll stop there.
• Groovy MCM with alarmingly stained carpet in one room.
• Bright and cheery compound but Florida.
• So much potential, so much work.
• These people are not normal about chandeliers.
• Must really like plaid.
• This “castle” has heinous carpet and upholstery combinations.
• WTF.
• You didn’t even try.
• Really shouldn’t need a step stool to use the toilet.
• Why does the floor have to be red?!?
• I can almost hear bones breaking.
• Yikes.
• Nope.
• D’oh.
• So many reasons to fear these stairs.

Harry squinting in the sun, looking Very Serious.

Big yawn and stretch from Polly!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Reactor (YA SFF, SF, fantasy), Book Riot (best out this week, queer, YA)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• Cute not-actually-a-treehouse with a guest plane.
• Very colorful and cheery!
• Interesting MCM with all the built-ins. I can see marks on the walls of my condo where built-ins were removed. D’oh! I would have loved having the built-in bookshelves.
• Nice use of color.
• Cute little place, although the soaking tub’s location is weird.
• Castle esque.
• Has a few castle elements, but it’s the library I like. (No surprise there!)
• Intriguing house that desperately needs some color and a redo on the first bathroom shown.
• An interesting property indeed.
• Colorful house, although the murals do cover the windows.
• Very odd house – they obviously put in a lot of work, but there are hints of problems here and there.
• Bank “conversion” – the place actually has potential, but no kitchen.
• Mushroom office.
• Supposedly a Star Trek inspired remodel, but it fails at that.
• Polly Pocket AirBnB. WTF.
• Once again, counters should not be stairs.
• They could have done the right thing so easily…

Based on Polly’s reaction, Harry is apparently a bad flavor! 😉

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, nonfiction, comics/graphic novels, horror, SFF, romance, queer, mystery/thriller/true crime, YA), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Some lovely LotR fanart,
• Apparently Jell-O “drove Bromangelon off the market”.
• Very nice Tudor – the library is amazing.
• It has a lot of issues, but it also has a very cool library.
• Cute little place that needs some work but has a lot of potential.
• Has its own mini Stonehenge, go-kart track, and more.
• A fun one!
• Hobbit esque.
• Cute little Swiss chalet style house.
• Castle esque exterior, but castles shouldn’t have wall-to-wall carpeting.
• Not quite a time capsule MCM, as the carpet is looks newish.
• Time capsule MCM, complete with sculpted carpeting and a bathroom with lime green fixtures.
• Small ranch house with delusions of grandeur.
• It looks like a mall.
• Has two casinos.
• How DO you clean the porous cement and wood in that bathroom?
• A ladder by any other name…
• Yikes!
• Dizzying.
• Very curious what it looks like from the top – is it as lethal for wheelchairs as it looks?
• Stunningly bad stair placement.

Polly and Harry turn four years old on Monday!

Where has the time gone?!?!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, queer, SFF audiobooks)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Tiny interactive fiction game, “you have created a monster”.
• “Brain study suggests we perceive time through activities, not by minutes or hours“.
• You’ve never seen evolution explained like this before.
• Baby red panda.
• Chocolate chip cookie dough frosting recipe.
• Frozen hot chocolate recipe.
• Recipes for 27 ice cream desserts.
• Very nice MCM in St Paul, MN.
• Colorful.
• Nice house with an indoor water feature.
• More Barbie than actual Barbie houses.
• Very castle esque interior.
• Has a Japanese tea room.
• Lots of potential for the price.
• Extraordinarily over the top.
• Utterly over the top.
• Weirdly designed and apparently the owners must be early risers.
• Bulletproof house. No windows, of course.
• This will not be a visually restful experience.
• “No, you don’t need no damned landscaping.”
• Why would you take good stairs and cut them down into bad stairs?
• Nope.
• Exceptionally strange stairs.
• Wha…?
• Ouch.
• Really, I could just put “ouch” over and over.

Teeny, tiny, Mayhem blep!

Bonded siblings Polly and Harry are judging.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, nonfiction audiobooks, LGBTQ)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “How much time do Americans spend reading per day?” (Gosh, it’s a good thing I’m helping bring up the average…)
• A ficlet in text messages.
• Amazing tapestries.
• What a great building for a kindergarten!
• The US has a national mustard museum.
• Oh hey, we had a Coppertone refrigerator when I was growing up (plus sink and stove) (the color, not the sunscreen).
• Nicely done brewery conversion.
• Well done factory conversion.
• A rather lovely converted mill in Ireland.
• The Sand Dollar House is pretty cool.
• Cute, but not a treehouse.
• Time capsule MCM.
• Interesting house with several strange aspects.
• If you’ve always wanted to live in a parking garage…
• Sort of converted coastal battery bunker.
• Strange game-themed house.
• Has its own grubby auditorium.
• Hmm.
• Yikes.
• Ugh.

Harry sharpening his claws on the rug, which has handled SO much worse.

Polly cannot believe!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Reactor (YA SFF, SF, fantasy), Book Riot (best out this week, romance audiobooks, LGBTQ, comics/graphic novels, nonfiction), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
• “9 of the best menopause books“.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• Lovely little ficlet.
• Another ficlet.
• Somewhat dark ficlet.
• Fun anecdote.
• Best dress rehearsal audience.
• Particle sheep.
• Avocado flashback!
• Love this NOLA MCM!
• Cute California cabin.
• Castle esque house that does better than most, but needs some brightening and updating.
• Has a tiki bar on the roof.
• Very white.
• Very over-the-top.
• Brace yourselves for an onslaught.
• You don’t get much for the price in Brooklyn.
• I really hate the master bedroom and bath setup.
• Oh. My.
• WTF.
• Huh.
• They tried to help with the placement of the no-slip strips.
• I would fall down these an infinite number of times.
• Hmm.
• Eeeeek.

Harry grooming Polly’s head…

…which was apparently delicious.

Polly returning the favor and grooming Harry’s head.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (comics/graphic novels, nonfiction, YA audiobooks, SFF, LGBTQ, horror, best out this week, mystery/thrillers, mystery/thriller audiobooks, romance), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Comic/ficlet.
• “The 25 most misunderstood movies ever made” (it will surprise no one that the list contains multiple Kubrick films).
• Oreo’s latest limited edition flavor is mint chip.
• Neighborhood cat tours.
• This rubella vaccination ad from the 60s is pretty sobering.
• Moose fight! The first option is shorter and has a lot of cussing added. The second option is much more peaceful and reflects reality.
• Fun MCM.
• Funky!
• MCM that’s possibly quite nice but the owner just has so much stuff…
• Must like murals or be ready to paint.
• Very unusual.
• Partially converted windmill.
• I’ve never seen bathrooms with tiled ceilings.
• Why???
• I guess you climb the shelves on tiptoe?
• Secret but deadly cedar chest?
• Down is definitely worse.
• Nope.
• The first time you have to pee in the middle of the night, you’re dead.

Polly cannot believe!

Very Focused Harry.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, BIPOC, LGBTQ)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Reading be like that sometimes (the best times!).
• Ficlet.
• Have you heard of Scarecrow Video?
• There are Indiana Jones LEGO sets.
• Journey through the Pillars of Creation with NASA.
• “Bad map projections: Exterior Kansas”. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• “Flat Earthers are getting their own reality TV show“.
• Colorfully remodeled MCM.
• Pretty nice Art Deco house.
• Another lovely Art Deco house.
• Cute little cabin.
• That spiral staircase is what all towers should have.
• Has a professional observatory.
• Has a lot of marble and gold.
• Has “a swashbuckling pool room with swinging pirates”.
• Very over-the-top nautically themed mansion. (But is it more over-the-top than the previous link?)
• Unusual property that needs a lot of work.
• The current owners obviously got a deal on that green paint.
• Showering as conversation starter?
• Weird, confusing industrial loft – how are you supposed to get into the bathtub?
• A McCastle that has a tiny moat and drawbridge and not much else castle-esque.
• Yowza.
• It only takes one step to be a hazard.
• Sigh.
• Definitely don’t trust the handrails.

Polly yearning.

Harry, probably also yearning.

Mayhem is Very Disappointed in all of us, I’m afraid.