From @justMangoBrown: “Our sweet 15 year old Mango the teenager Cat doesn’t just help with the laundry , he also does the dishes ! 🍽🥣 Good Boy !” #twitterweek #catsofinstagram [source: https://ift.tt/2JrjQjm ]
Had a friend enter the kitchen when I went to take trash out tonight. HUGE leopard slug. It chewed my hand when I picked it up so I gave it some lettuce. It seemed uninterested. Tried mushroom instead and it was pleased!
It ate a lot of mushroom actually. Two chunks that size. Almost half a chestnut mushroom. Set it back outside after taking a few pics.
In his travels Marco Polo vividly described the cold province of Badakhshan, a prosperous land where horses that descended from Alexander’s horse Bucephalus were once bred and where priceless rubies and the finest lapis lazuli were found.
Since ancient times lapis lazuli has been sourced in this remote region, north-east of modern Afghanistan, and exported over vast distances. Its mines on the steep Hindu Kush Mountains, above the Valley of the Kokcha River, can only be reached through a tortuous and dangerous route.
Lapis lazuli consists of a large number of minerals, including the blue mineral lazurite, the white mineral calcite and golden specks of iron pyrites.
A laborious process transforms this composite mineral into the pigment ultramarine; various grades of ultramarine can be obtained, from the purest extremely expensive deep blue, composed mostly of lazurite particles to the pale grey so-called ultramarine ash.
Our conservators recently attended a 2-day workshop learning how to make their own ultramarine pigment for use in our own conservation. See the entire process in our Case Study!
There’s also this larger attitude that “creativity” in any fashion is something that’s exclusively only available to ppl with disposable income, as if 1) being creative is an indulgence that the poor shouldn’t be able to afford, 2) things done with the intention of surviving/scraping by can’t also be creative works, and 3) creativity can’t exist in spaces that prioritize survival, even though its the exact skill that enables poor people to survive.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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