Monday Update 5-17-21

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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "What the Cat Needs"
Pasta Shapes
Birdfeeding
Poem: "To Feel Safe and Warm" (85 comments)
Content notes for "To Feel Safe and Warm" (with soup algorithm and Dal Sarvesh)
Birdfeeding
Community Building Tip: Time Bank
Today's Smoothie
Poem: "One of the Hardest Arguments to Refute"
Birdfeeding
How Pin Tumbler Locks Work
Coping Skills: Kitten Videos
Birdfeeding
Go-Cart Song
Birdfeeding


The crowdfunding  Creative Jam went well.

There will be a half-price sale in the Daughters of the Apocalypse this week.


Poetry in Microfunding:

There are two open epics at present.

"The Hobbomak" launches the Bear Tunnels series. Emma and Jesse explore the images on the walls.

"A Celebration and a Consolation" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. Keira comforts her mother after the breakup.


The weather has been mostly mild here. It rained last night and today.  Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large flock of mourning doves (including courtship behavior), a flock of sparrows, a flock of goldfinches, 3 bluejays, a few robins, several house finches, a pair of cardinals, a male rose-breasted grosbeak, a male oriole, a gray catbird, a brown thrasher, a rabbit, and a squirrel. Currently blooming: violets, purple allium, white allium, lily of the valley, butterfly weed, honeysuckle, wood hyacinth, calendine poppy, orange poppies, wild strawberries, raspberries.  Iris, peonies, and blackberries have buds.  Mulberries have green fruit.