Links: Bittersweet Birthday

Cat with white fur wears a blue cap with "5th" embroidered onto it.

And finally: Ready For My Close-up

(issue with video has been corrected, I hope.)

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13 thoughts on “Links: Bittersweet Birthday

  1. Georgiana September 10, 2025 / 8:07 am

    I can’t handle sad things this morning so I’ll stick with watching the cute wombat.

    • tara September 10, 2025 / 8:41 am

      ooooh! glad to know its a wombat thing. For some reason I just have a big black square with nothing to click. It’s probably our stupid work internet. I’ll check back again.

      • allein 🐾 September 10, 2025 / 8:47 am

        Does this work?

        If not, here’s a link.

        For some reason at work I can open youtube directly, but when they’re embedded in the post/comments they don’t work. I get a grey box and when I hover my mouse over it I see “The webpage at [long address with extra gibberish] might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.” I can copy the actual video ID part of the URL from that and then I just go to youtube, open any video, and replace the end of the address. It doesn’t do the same on all pages, though. Other sites I see embedded videos just find.

        • tara September 10, 2025 / 9:26 am

          Thanks Allein, it was just the stupid updates I hadn’t done in a while. 🀣 Details!
          Everything works now and I love this, especially the little huffs at the end. And look at all that Wombat poop!
          oh dear… I’m punchy today…

    • 6Rabbits September 10, 2025 / 8:53 am

      Me neither. And that is THE cutest wombat!

    • DEBG September 10, 2025 / 10:13 am

      That wombat is *really* cute.

  2. allein 🐾 September 10, 2025 / 8:23 am

    Aww, happy birthday, Miri. πŸ’—

  3. allein 🐾 September 10, 2025 / 8:37 am

    Had to look up the pink birdie with the flat beak – Roseate Spoonbill. How pretty are they!?

    Speaking of birds, I was leaving for work this morning and a mourning dove was just chilling in the middle of the intersection in my complex. It didn’t even move as I approached, and I had to be careful to turn around it, went really slow so I could look at it and it started walking away, bobbing its head, as I went. There’s something amusing about how pigeons move. I hear the doves fairly frequently but I’m honestly not sure I’ve ever actually seen one. I love to sit on my parents’ deck and listen to them calling from the trees. And one day there must have been one near the vent on my roof because it sounded like it was in my furnace closet!

  4. DEBG September 10, 2025 / 10:14 am

    Happy birthday, precious Miri! How can you be 5 already?

    Love that little wombat. And Marmee with her babies–that’s a lot of orange!

  5. Dana September 10, 2025 / 11:04 am

    Happy birthday, darling Kitten Miri! (She’ll always be a kitten to me…) 🩷

    • Duckie πŸ₯ September 10, 2025 / 11:08 am

      Yes.

  6. Blue Footed Booby September 10, 2025 / 11:22 am

    Behold: the patron saint of puffins

  7. AJ September 10, 2025 / 12:06 pm

    Loved all the bird photos, so gorgeous and some are just amazing. Had to save a couple for me to “try” painting them. We shall see how successful I am. Kitten Miri is not allowed to be 5, how did that happen!!?? Orange kitty are too cute, curious about how many brain cells are being shared amongst them. Talk about up close and personal with that wombat, how cool was that.

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