⚔️Jess⚔️

That heartbeat sound started on Speak to Me and I actually wandered around the room looking for a gakking dog before my brain kicked in.

Had to buy one of those magnifying lights because dammit I need bifocals.

Kotobukiya Mephisto model kit sitting cross legged next to a plastic bottle of rubbing alcohol with a white paper towel propped against it to reflect some light into the shadows on his little robot face so it didn’t look like he only has one eye.

My halfassed paper towel against a bottle of alcohol reflector.

Kotobukiya Mephisto model kit sitting cross legged with his hands up against the left side of his face. PLEASE IGNORE THE MANY STESS MARKS. I just didn’t care all that much.

I’ve been building models kits in the evenings to keep my hands limber (and limit doomscrolling.) I bought him because he was pretty. First kit I’ve done since high school (not including a half finished HG Barbatos 6th form. And Blokees don’t count; no tools needed.)

Small brown bird in the snow with one wing outstretched, dead grass and hardware cloth against a wire fence next to it.

Small brown bird in the snow, dead grass and hardware cloth against a wire fence next to it.

Tiny bird.

West siberian laika Khroma, left, and red tazi Dood stand in the snow in front of a wire fence, snowy desert landscape in the background.

West siberian laika Kroma, and tazi Dood wander in the snow while brindle saluki Miksi and black Afghan hound Marduk play together. Snowy desert landscape beyond the wire fence in the background.

West siberian laika Khroma and tazi Dood snoot the snow while salukis grizle Marsh and red Cope play. In the foreground black Afghan hound Marduk lunges at brindle saluki Miksi. Wire fence and snowy desert landscape in the background.

West siberian laika Khroma and tazi Dood snoot the snow while salukis grizle Marsh and red Cope play. In the foreground black Afghan hound Marduk and brindle saluki Miksi look on. Wire fence and snowy desert landscape in the background.

Dogs are idiots. >>>

Snow piled against a fence between two cabins. Snowy desert landscape in the background.

Footprints in snow between two cabin steps.

Brighter sun on a snowy desert landscape. Wire fence in the foreground.

Bright sun on a snowy desert landscape, wire fence in the foreground.

A lot of snow for us today. >>>

Five Salukis lying in the wintry desert sun on rocky ground. Bottom left: smooth grizzle Marsh, top left: feathered blue brindle Miksi, top right: feathered black fringed red Cope, (all siblings, four years old) bottom right: smooth silver brindle Nini (their mother, ten) center: red tazi Dood (no relation, 10)

Dogs. See alt text.

Our old place was so remote they’d see strange cars maybe twice a year. Now we’re on a paved road, and there’s multiple cars a day to be barked at, especially the white trucks going to the power station down the road aways. White trucks are the worst.

Later.

Sunset in the desert. Rippled clouds in shades of purple and orange lead to the yellow setting sun over desert dirt and creosote bushes.

Desert sunset with a large billowing cloud formation painted with gold over a landscape of brush a dead grasses.

Desert sunset with a large cloud formation colored with gold and purple, with dark rain in the distance.

Desert sunset with streaks of golden clouded receding in the distance over a blue sky, with gold dead grasses.

I miss the canyons and bluffs at our other property. All we have here are some unenthusiastic hills.

We had a ton of rain this summer and our cleared space exploded with weeds and grass.

Goatheads. We hateses them.

Marduk, a black Afghan hound puppy, lies on a grey dog cot with a stolen grey bath towel draped over his hip. Marduk has started dropping his puppy coat and looks quite terrible, aka ‘gonna have to clip him down soon, yay.’

A puppy and his towel.

Negative space is the devil.

If you follow me, I will check your profile, and if you look like you’re follow farming I will block you.

Nothing personal.

Desert yard with a curtain of rain in the distance and an elderly black dog walking towards the viewer in the foreground. Brune is 16 years old, 3/4 Afghan hound, 1/4 Saluki, the last living granddaughter of our first Afghan, Zora.

Landscape with Rain and Old Lady Dog.

Brune is 16, 3/4 Afghan hound, 1/4 Saluki, granddaughter of our first Afghan, Zora.