material things i like plus death throes which i know is a weird combination

first, here are a few new syuhari things i like: 

and in other news, yesterday was a bad slash good day for small creatures here at casa enhab. first our cat jasmine

aka jazameen

aka jazzie

aka queen of sheba

aka furry critter killer

brought a very large newly dead chipmunk into the house and lovingly laid it out on the floor by the kitchen sink as a little pressie slash offering. i felt both grossed out and weirdly honored. she's been a super-predator this spring.  we have an old house with no screen windows so we use the little flimsy insert screens. jazzie has made convenient "cat doors" aka gaping holes in most all of them so she can wander in and out of the house as she pleases. this makes it super easy to bring in her prey for me. lovely.

then not long after dealing with that unpleasant affair a wee birdie crashed hard into the office window. i ran outside to check it and found something i should not describe here. let's just say i now have an image to attach to the term "death throes." first i burst out in tears. i am fragile as you know. i knealt down with tears dripping to the rocks at my feet and repeatedly apologized to the little thing. "i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry, sob sob sob" then i made a little cardboard death house so it could die in shade.

but listen to this. now, i know you were not there so you may not be able to visualize the gravity of the situation but let me tell you, that bird was in it's last minutes on planet earth. so i checked it every few minutes and was stunned when i found that it had righted its little self and was sitting fairly calmly. here's a picture:

although i decided this was a minor miracle and maybe even a sign slash gift directly for me (and also little bird-friend, obviously) from the "great beyond" that life does indeed do something other than suck sometimes (i kid...sort of) i still felt there was no way this thing would live. you just should have seen it prior to the above picture. so i continued to monitor it. and then...

then...

what do you freaking know. this is what happened then:

end of story.

thank you for reading all the way through.

gold star.

way to fully commit.

xo to infinity,

me