ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Childhood memories...

In 2021, my house used an average of 23.4KWh of electricity per day. Last October I installed a 10KW solar setup on my house, and I'm planning to switch out natural gas water heater and furnace to heat pumps that use electricity. The days are still short, and I'm not producing as much as I will in the summer, but yesterday - WOOHOO!

They made a candle for my current status:

My BFA, named Boo, would let me brace his beak on my finger while I gave him head scratches. I know a parrot's beak is sensitive, and resting it on a cold, hard cage can't feel great. Scooter won't accept that. Head scratches are on her terms only, and woe to he who interferes.
#ParrotsOfMastodon #Parrots

I've been whistling the opening notes to Jeepers Creepers to Scooter all morning, and she's starting to pick it up. She's got the opening stanza, anyway.
#Parrots #ParrotsOfMastodon

I happened to finish watching the series Teen Wolf last night, just a day after the release of the Teen Wolf movie. So today I watched that. Mindless fun, with werewolves, banshees, hellhounds, and chimeras.

I just saw this somewhere else.

#BlackMastodon

I don't know if this belongs here or not - it was my cheat project. When we bought our current house we needed a buffet for this niche in the dining room, but couldn't find anything we liked and fit and could afford. So I cheated. 3 custom kitchen cabinets screwed together, and I built the top and base out of a matching maple. I thought it would do until we found something. That was 20 years ago.
#woodwork #furniture

I support this.

#DogsOfMastodon #Dogs #VikingDogs

Scooter the parrot likes the unsalted nuts we keep in the cupboard, especially when we just open the lid and let her pick her own. She's learned that we close the jar and put it back in the cupboard as soon as she takes her head out of the jar. No problem, she doesn't take her head out.
#ParrotsOfMastodon #Parrots #Birds

Nowhere in the brochure on aging did it mention that getting your ears waxed would become necessary. I'd like to file a complaint.

Insomnia sucks. My problem isn't getting to sleep, I just don't stay asleep.

I'm rewatching the series Grimm, because I long for a simpler time, when all we had to worry about was being chased through the forest by a werewolf with a big-ass axe.

I don't know how I feel about this. Brilliant, but - damn, Gina.

This is a panel representing "Moms for Liberty", an anti-trans, anti-gay group in Florida, arguing that the "Don't Say Gay" law should be expanded to include all children up to 8th grade.
Anyone want to point out to them that the 6 on the panel who are men, identifying themselves as Moms, are acting against the law?

Last night I got an alert on my phone that I should be prepared for an evacuation order. It didn't happen, but it looks like Montecito got hit again. Santa Barbara is again cut off from the world, with 101 closed on both sides of the town. This rain is something else, and it's not even an El Nino year.

An idea for a New Year resolution, if you haven't already got your list finalized:

I'm one of the people who would often forget to include Alt-Text on my images, which helps people using readers to participate on Mastodon.
I found an option in the web interface that helps with that. Go to the hamburger, choose "App settings" and check this box to remind you to use Alt-Text: