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ONE dose did my little girl in, and she was well within the guidelines of weight and age. Butters, our other patient with issues similar, is holding on. Will keep a close eye on his progress, but I am sad beyond belief to have lost so many friends.

Both she and Morty crossed the Rainbow Bridge alone, with no one there to share and comfort them. That’s what we’re HERE FOR. In three days we lost TWO of our rescues. I’ll obviously miss both and I’m not able to process any of this right now. Just want to sleep and hope they visit me in my dreams.😓

Sitting another hour… eventually opted to just leave, because we were still “next”! An hour drive back and he’s starting to come around, poked his head up out of the carrier, looking around like his usual self. Yaaay! Got home and Valentine was found dead on the kitchen floor.😿

Continuing on with the saga, Butters’ condition demanded a 1 hour drive to the Vet that’s open on weekends. Got there. For two hours we were “next”, yet we watched others walk in get taken cared of immediately. Finally in an exam room and he’s brought back in from initial data-gathering.

The Vet recommended Capstar chewable tabs to kill the fleas on the body in combination with the topical. Those nuggets are draining him dry. Ok, drive an hour to get them. Administered to Watson, Butters, Valentine, ButtrrnutSquash & Lola. Later, this was observed:

Well, it’s been an “interesting” few days, and by “interesting” I mean “notable” and not in good way. I’ll start from Wednesday’s attempt to get Watson’s temp under control. His ears were hot. At the Vet, he was diagnosed as anemic brought on by the current fleademic we’re are fighting.

Named 30 years ago. One wonders.....

SO, I got corrected at breakfast this morning and the aforementioned erasure of the traitorous felon's ugly ballroom is to rebuild The Whitehouse East Wing from the ground up according to the original architect drawings. Put it back the way it was intended. Not broken. Didn't need fixing.

I feel strongly that once the traitorous orange felon is finally ushered out the Whitehouse door for the last time, we should get behind an initiative to tear down the above ground portions of his ugly ballroom and rebuild the West Wing from the original drawings. Completely erase him from memory.

My first of hopefully many...

“Impressed” is insufficient to describe this.

Did we somehow fall into an alternate timeline?

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Need to write about my experiences on Substack: substack.com/@johnsonized...

DARN! Missed #Caturday again. Here's one of our recent rescue kittens becoming alarmed at Sterling, one of our grown juveniles, outside the Kittenenclosure. His ridgeback is impressive.

No, you're not seeing double. 4 of the new rescues: Snow Drift & his twin sister on a fleece blanket. Junior [looks just like his mom] & [no name yet] on the arm of the Adirondack chair. Still working on getting their eyes cleaned, being stuck shut from bad colds - but they're all getting better.

Perfect... #cats 3 of 12 of our new rescues snoozing on dad's lap in the Kittenclosure. What better way to start a Sunday than being so trusted by new arrivals that they fall asleep on you?

It's #Caturday ! We saved 12 🐈 lives this week. 2 feral moms, 10 kittens between them. 2 are albinos. Built a separate enclosure. Got them all washed. No fleas! All kittens have colds with stuck shut eyes and plugged noses, requiring repeat cleaning. Video feed if we can figure out RTSP.

It's #Caturday ! Amber, one of our smallest rescues 🐱, nestled into mommy's fluffy chair blanket. She's so sweet. She greets me at the bottom of the stairs every morning, stands up as tall as she can and implores me to join her for breakfast. 🍵 🐈 Can't pass that up.

Full Impulse! NEW in the HotShop! Always wanted a pointy-nosed, 3 fin Rocket for the Buck Rogers in all of us? Now you can. A Rocketship Christmas Tree Ornament in hand blown glass that you can display all year long. A Universe of colors available. 6" - 7" long. glasssculpture.org

This is what happened to most of my US family who're strong on "I don't engage in politics" nonsense

NEW in the HotShop! We're working on a new planet ornament: Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter. It is larger than Mercury, has a thin oxygen atmosphere and her internal ocean potentially contains more water than all of Earth's oceans combined. We wonder what creatures swim there.

In production in the hotshop: Heirloom Blown Glass Solar System Ornaments. Get the Whole Solar System as a set or build yours up one planet at a time for a yearly tradition. Also: Moon, Milkyway, Black Hole, Kuiper Belt mini set, Planet 9, Europa & Titan. glasssculpture.org/artglass/hol...

It's #Caturday ! Butters caught a Mouse! He's s Kurilian Bobtail. The breed originated in Russia. Rare within the US. He's my guardian. First thing in the morning when I open the window to the cat flap, he goes out into the kittenclosure to make sure it's all safe for everyone to go out.

As do we.

Our long-standing Allegany Artisans Studio Tour, on the 18th and 19th, now end up coinciding with No Kings #2. As such, we'll have to be in the glass studio hotshop, as opposed to showing our support. Rest assured, we do and we'd be there if we could. bsky.app/profile/glas... glasssculpture.org

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Happy #TunaTuesday from Watson, who's decidedly had his share of Tuna! After grabbing this I tried for a really great shot that captured his full shadow stretching across the floor toward me, but was beseged by many other #cats "helping" by sequentially getting in the frame and ruining it. #catsky

It's #Caturday - Moonlight 🐈 Stressing Out Again Turned from doing the dishes and met with this. What a hoot. Takes the stress out of one's day. (He isn't, so why should we be?) We're dealing with Covid-19 here, picked up at #WorldCon during our #HUGOs delivery. Gotta take the bad with the good.

✨A HUGO First! ✨ 💡 IT LIGHTS UP!!! 💡 1: Presentation On-Stage 2: Naomi Kritzer holding her #hugo with glow visible 3: Neil Clarke’s #HugoAward #naomikritzer #clarkesworld #GlassSculpture #award #WorldCon #Seattle #glassblowing Full story of all of our #HUGOs on glasssculpture.org/awards/hugo/

The 2025 #HUGO Award Revealed at #WorldCon Seattle Carved wood depicting Mount Rainier. Blown glass mountain rests atop the carving, surrounding the HUGO Rocket fins. The glass colors echo the carving within. Full story & #animations @ glasssculpture.org/awards/hugo/ #glass #sculpture #glassblowing

...The Other Side | "On The Mains" Our Second Tribute to Jim: The National Aviation Hall of Fame Neil Armstrong Outstanding Achievement Award Blown Glass | Cast Glass | Molded Glass #Apollo #Apollo13 #Apollo8 #Gemini12 #Gemini7 #spaceflight #astronaut #HallOfFame #award #LifetimeAchievement

“See you on the other side.” USN Captain James A. “Jim” Lovell, Jr. passed away August 7, 2025 at 97 years. An amazing adventurous life well lived. • Ad Astra My Friend • #Apollo13 #Apollo8 #Gemini12 #Gemini7 #spaceflight #astronaut #HallOfFame #award #LifetimeAchievement

Darn! I missed #Caturday ! Moonlight stressing out as usual.

It’s #WhiskersWednesday! Moonlight’s Fantastic Feelers!

It’s #Caturday Moonlight, still chillin’. Wheels in the air as always. Not a care in the world. Would that I could be him of late. #cats #tuxedo #rescue #stray #sanctuary #abandoned #shelter #donation #wishlist #nonprofit

The Cover Art for James A. Michener's novel: SPACE. Was really fun walking through airports as I traveled and seeing it on display in the shops. #michener #art #covers #bookcover #coverart #space #spaceart #spaceprogram #spacecraft #mercury #gemini #apollo #shuttle #iss #orbit #airbrush #miniseries

Currently working on the final stages of this year's HUGO Awards to be presented at Seattle Worldcon 2025. Can't reveal the design, so here's the cast glass award we produced for LONCON 3 2014. Animation @ glasssculpture.org/awards/hugo/... #glass #sculpture #castGlass #hugo #worldcon #glassblowing

It’s #Caturday! Moonlight, ya gotta relax…

It’s Caturday! If I fits, I sits.

It’s Caturday! Lola watching BirdTV.

"There's no good art anymore" is such an upside down looney tunes ass opinion when we're surrounded by people making amazing shit all the time on here. There's no good art? Get better at searching. Good lord.

It’s a :( Caturday! Butters saying a gentle “Hello. We miss you.” to Silicon’s remains. The disk he’s cradling is Silicon’s paw print impressed in white clay. Her ashes are in the tall Rainbow Bridge canister and some of her fur is contained in the small clear square box.

Our Silicon returned to us today. (Had to stop typing for a bit… could no longer see the screen for the tears.) We’ll create a blown glass urn for her in our hotshop and some of her ashes will be infused into a sphere using glasses matching her colors. Her fur will be placed into FurEver FurBalls.