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My local AHL team -- the Chicago Wolves -- has again this year as previously provided and served a Thanksgiving meal of turkey and other treats to the shelter dogs of Border Tails Rescue in Northbrook, Illinois, a no-kill shelter with a spay-and-neuter program that specializes in rescuing and rehoming stray dogs from Mexico (they also take in owner surrenders from Chicagoland).

Harleigh Garcia, founder of Border Tails Rescue, said “We are so excited to have the Wolves again this year to help us celebrate the holidays and bring something special to the dogs. It’s not ideal for these dogs to be spending their holidays in the shelter. We’d love for them to all find homes, but that’s just not possible right now, so it’s nice to bring them a little something special, and we love partnering with the Wolves.”

To learn more about Border Tails Rescue, click here. They have many volunteer opportunities and especially are looking for tourists returning from Mexico who are willing to be "flight volunteers" at no cost to themselves for escorting Mexican stray dogs to the U.S.

The picture below is Chicago Wolves Hockey players Nikita Pavlychev, Braden Doyle, Blake Biondi, Skyler Brind’Amour, Bryce Montgomery and Yanick Turcotte with some of the dogs they treated to this special Thanksgiving meal.

Chicago Wolves Hockey Team serves Thanksgiving Dinner to the dogs at Border Tails Rescue
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It feels like I'm in a flat out and uncontrolled gallop to the end of the year and that whooshing sound is all the deadlines I'm failing to meet on both work and personal fronts!

As I was away from 13-17 November (lovely break, lots of napping and oodles of good food) and frankly lost most of last week was recovery this is more of a look forward than 'what I did over the last fortnight'.

#ORJENISE100 still need to catch up with the prompts I missed!

HOME: I've maintained the cleared areas of the flat, am making very slow progress on my bedroom and am ignoring the living room until the first week of December.

HEALTH: pretty good!

LIFE ADMIN: nope.

DIGITAL DECLUTTER: email has gone up a bit as I need a couple of hours to sort out a few folders, no progress on phone images recently. In fact, I've added to them by taking lots of screenshots. GAH!

GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: just have the three living room windows boxes to do. Lots of tidying to do in the tiny back garden (which will likely have to wait to Xmas hols) and I still have lots of bags of compost to take down to the allotment and bulbs to plant. Fingers crossed for a few fine hours this weekend.

COOKING/EATING: ate like royalty at Horbling, waddled home and lived off leftovers for a few days and then was seduced by Sainsbury's 3 for £10 offer on deli items so have been eating those with large veg portions. Won't really need to think about cooking until the weekend.

READING/LISTENING: nope.

WATCHING: Started new show Pluribus which I'm undecided about and quite liking the new Robin Hood

CREATING/LEARNING: back to crochet sessions on Monday evenings and Friday afternoons. Currently making a super simple beanie hat, and crochetings Xmas trees and stars to do a small garland for the flat. Apparently we'll be doing an Xmas challenge on Friday.

CATS: all good.

VOLUNTEERING: a few minor things I need to chase up following our first post AGM committee. We let a plot holder take over our social media and she has changed the email and passwords and now forgotten them so we can't get back into our Insta account. Grrrr.

SOCIALISING: yes - went for a roast this Sunday past in Greenwich with visiting friends from the US and [personal profile] ravurian. Good company, good convo and delicious food.

WORK: I'm at the point where I'm wondering if I could retire sooner rather than hanging on to 2030!

Temperatures have dropped here - when we drove to Horbling on 10 Nov it was a balmy 15 degrees and sunny and we were in t-shirts. Temps dropped last week and now nights are 0 or -1 and days are 5 to 6 degrees.

Winter is Coming. Brrrrrr.

Holiday cards

Nov. 22nd, 2025 06:50 am
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Shout out to anyone who wants a holiday card this year.

I plan to start writing ALL my cards this week and post by next weekend which means I'm 3 weeks ahead of final posting dates so they should arrive on time even for folks overseas!

If I already have your address you'll be on the list but please feel free to drop contact deets below to make sure - post is screened.

Today (Saturday) I am attempting to deal with the utter chaos in my bedroom, repot some houseplants and batch cook for next week - so being able to sit down and have some time to write cards would be most welcome!

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Nov. 21st, 2025 10:39 pm
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Ever since Marjorie Taylor Greene "informed" us that California wildfires were being caused by "Jewish Space Lasers" I have been obsessed with making a mockery of her. (Hey, I'm Jewish, and if I had control of some space lasers I would NOT be using them to set California on fire.)

Now I see that she is resigning from Congress after The Orange One called her "wacky"...which is the first time I've ever agreed with something he said.

At this juncture I would like to show what I have created with my Refrigerator Magnet "What Will Marjorie Taylor Green Say Next" Conspiracy Kit.

Marjorie Taylor Greene refrigerator magnet

Marjorie Taylor Greene refrigerator magnet

Marjorie Taylor Greene refrigerator magnet

Marjorie Taylor Greene refrigerator magnet

Bonus Image:
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Note: if you don't get sound with this video, check for doing "unmute" in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

This link goes to Facebook: What Would the Founding Fathers Say about Trump
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Voted first place by the FWF participants for best use of prompt.


My FWF First Place Winner - Category: "Best Use of Prompt" - Shocktober Edition

Title: Things Counter, Original, Spare, Strange
Fandoms: due South, Wristcutters
Rating: Mature
Category: Gen, M/M
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Characters: Robert "Bob" Fraser, Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, mention of Uncle Tiberius Fraser, mention of Diefenbaker (the half-wolf, not the former Canadian Prime Minister), mention of Nanuk (from Wristcutters), mention of Raife Kneller (from Wristcutters)
Word count: 400 (quadruple drabble)

Summary: Sergeant Robert Fraser -- dead Robert Fraser -- knows first-hand that All Hallow’s Eve is when The Veil between the living and the dead is at its most thin...but he doesn't know anything about Halloween-themed sex toys until Ray Kowalski has something to say about it.

Author's Notes: Written for the recurring Firewhiskey Fic Challenge, a 48-hour period during which fanworks creators drink "adult beverages" or "do the 420" and create their fanworks "under the influence" with no editing allowed. Participants then view all the fanworks and vote on them in the categories of Most Coherent Entry, Least Coherent Entry, Funniest Entry, Favorite Entry, Best Use of Prompt, and Best Smut.

Fic on AO3.

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