photo of a side view of a chonky Egyptian cat amulet. It is made out of faience and a light greenish color. There are pitted marks that seem to indicate perhaps spots on the cat's coat and also markings suggesting a collar around the neck.

I played with the Last Museum site and looked up cats (of course!). I found this delightfully chonky little Egyptian cat amulet. Other ancient Egyptian cat figures always seem to be so tall, regal and slender. He's just so huggable!

I lucked out and found some more cherries at the store this week but I think cherry season is probably winding down. There wasn't the variety that there was a few weeks ago and, much to my disappointment, no more Skylar Rae cherries. Man, I hope the stores near me carry them next year! They were SO good. Surprisingly, what was on offer aside from freedom cherries were cherries imported from Canada. I opted for the Canadian cherries, since that country has NOT decimated their food safety program and is NOT currently undergoing a multi-area parasitic outbreak. They are delicious and I am savoring them.

I was successful in my quest to find shades for the cool lamps I found at the thrift store. I found them at HomeGoods, a store that specializes in selling closeout/surplus items. Because of that, it's kind of a crap shoot as to what you're going to find. I was just happy I found 2 matching shades that looked OK with the lamps.

Photo of a table lamp with a pleated white shade. The pedestal has 4 brass pillars with a colored sheath around the center portion, clear glass panels on all 4 sides and in the center a candelabra feature with candles of 3 different lengths. Both lamp and candelabra lights are on.

Yes, I know I didn't take the time before taking the picture to fix the shade and it's wonky. And that my bulbs don't match - incandescents on the bottom and LED on the top. Hush! My lamp is awesome.

Other than cherry obsessions and lamp accoutrement acquistions, the other thing keeping me busy this week has been more Get Out the Vote postcard writing. Now, I'm a postcard hussy and bop among several different groups, choosing campaigns that appeal to me. Lately I've been writing for Postcards to Voters. They've had a lot of campaigns in Florida lately. I did a ton of sign up or update your Vote by Mail for several Florida counties. Now I'm writing for school board candidates.

Photo of 2 postcard fronts on the top and on the bottom the reverse side with the message. Postcard on the left has every vote counts written in bubble letters with each word stacked. Vote is in a speckled blue with a star for the O's center. The other 2 words are in yellow. The word stack is outlined in several shades of purple and the background is a lighter purple. Postcard on the right has VOTE written in a mix of capital and lowercase letters that are white with green stars on the inside. The background looks like blue scribbled marker. The text on the bottom: India Palencia and Jean McDaigle are running for School Board. Lee County Democrats back them to save your tax dollars and public education. Please vote for both of them on Tuesday August 18. -Sue Thank you for being a voter!.

I write a lot of postcards and all of them want you to sign your name or initials. "Sue" is my postcard name.

Listening

Some podcasts I listened to this week:

Reading

I finished reading House of Frost and Feathers: A Folkloric Fantasy by Lauren Wiesebron this week. This was the Baba Yaga-ish fantasy. It gave me The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden vibes. I've always loved the Baba Yaga stories - the house on chicken legs, the fence with skulls, Baba Yaga flying around in a mortar and pestle. It was just so cool and unlike Western fairy tales.

Once I finished up that book I started on We'll Prescribe You Another Cat by Syou Ishida. I'm trying to read that one as quick as I can because it's a library loan that is due tomorrow and there are a couple people waiting for it so I can't renew the loan. I think I can finish it up tonight, though. I'm enjoying it as much as the first book although I'm still a little confused on the emaphsis when characters have a Kyoto accent. Not being Japanese nor speaking the language, I think I'm missing out on something that's being conveyed.

Not sure what I'm in the mood for or what will be my next read but I'm acquiring quite the TBR pile on the e-reader.

Watching

This season of Harry Wild went quickly! I watched the last episode this past week. I was kind of surprised they didn't advance the budding romance between Jane Seymour and Joe Lando's characters any more than they did. When I was looking up information on his addition to the cast this season, I came across this article. They have a lovely real life relationship!

I still need to watch the rest of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. I watched the first 2 episodes of this season and then got distracted with other things.

Link Lagniappe

OK, that's about it for this week!

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