Jean MacDonald

ICYMI October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge!!

Time to send in your prompt suggestions. 🤔 💡 jean@micro.blog

Thank you for all the lovely notes about Grace. It dawned on me that pets was our last Micro Monday roll call.

Keep posting pet photos to your blogs. I love seeing them, as do others. We even have emoji tags 🐶🐱🐕 🐈 for dogs and cats.*

*Still 😡 about no guinea pig emoji!

RIP Grace. She was a great pet for 7 years, a respectable run for a guinea pig.

I’d say that now she’s happy to be with Ada again in guinea pig heaven, but they are probably frenemies there as well. (Photo: Ada and Grace, my iPhone lock screen since 2017)

Dept. of Good News: Portland’s Only Cat Cafe Reopens and Immediately Adopts Out All Its Cats 😸

Sticker mailing achieved. Countertop cleared of stationery and dinner could be prepared. 🎉

Posting for accountability: my Micro.blog sticker sending station on my kitchen counter. Something keeps interrupting in finishing off this task.

This will be stored tonight, meaning 1) stickers will be in the mail, and 2) it is STILL not too late to request. jean@micro.blog

So beautiful, cloudy and windy. You know you’ve adapted to the Pacific Northwest when you are excited about the rainy season kicking off. Soon!

Oh dear. The new guitar seems to have sent me down the rabbit hole of music tech purchases. But this Jam+ USB instrument interface is really cool. So smol. 😍

Portland. My new backyard.

Please remind me in the future that I don’t NEED to watch Apple Events live. They are the masters of getting my attention. I set out this morning to work on the Micro.blog sticker mailing, with the event only in the background. And then totally forgot that plan. 😵‍💫

The stamps I ordered came in today, both domestic and international, so I’m ready to send out the latest batch of Micro.blog stickers.

There’s still time. We even have a few Micro Camp stickers left. Email your address and requests to jean@micro.blog.

Previous Monday roll calls:

• pen and paper
• wristwatch
• coffee
• crafts
• bicycles
• bird nerds
• WWDC
• runners
• trains
• walking
• photography

Conversation threads are still open if you want to declare your enthusiast status. And feel free to suggest future roll call topics.

It’s Micro Monday again. No new podcast episode today, but let’s continue our series of roll calls to help enthusiasts find each other. This week’s topic is pets. Raise your paws if you have a pet in your life and leave a comment so others can find and follow you.

Cat dangling from the stands at Universal of Miami game caught and rescued below by fans: YouTube 🙀🏈🌴

Now I have to find out how a cat ended up there in the first place.

I traded in all my electric guitar gear and my Martin Backpacker for a credit when I downsized. I didn’t want cash because I was afraid I wouldn’t bother getting a new one. I wanted to switch to back acoustic for a change. Very happy with this one.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was at the gym. People gathered around the tv screens, but I didn’t want to know what the latest terrible thing in the world was.

On the evening of September 11th, I went to the liquor store. The line was long.

On September 12th, I started this website project and published it September 13th. It’s still the most popular site I’ve ever done.

Portland. I snapped this quickly because I love these corny old-fashioned apartment building names. Later realized how much I like the combination of shapes and textures.

On this date, 55 years ago: “The Man Trap” airs, aka Season 1, Episode 1 of Star Trek.

Would any Micro Star Trek fans out there be interested in a Star Trek Day remote hangout starting at 5:30 Pacific Time? It looks like a fun schedule of panels and previews. 🖖

Happy Seven of Nine Day! 🖖🥳

Just realized it’s not Monday. I’ve been feeling a bit stressed about no new @monday podcast episode to publish, but it’s Tuesday! That’s all in the past. 🤸🏼‍♀️

If you haven’t checked out the Micro Monday podcast in a while, catch the latest with @uncertainquark and @cm.

I worried that moving to a new place about a third the size of my house, with just a small balcony instead of a backyard, might make me feel a bit trapped during this ongoing pandemic.

In fact, I feel less isolated. It was a bit lonely having all that space with no visitors.

I was excited to hear that a new season of Vera was being released. Ready to subscribe to BritBox for a month and treat myself to a binge. 🍿🎉

But they’re only releasing two episodes now, the rest in 2022. Do I have the willpower to wait? 😭

I re-branded my micro pet’s little cardboard hiding place, aka the “crunchy condo” from guineadad.com.

(I’ll be sending out stickers again soon. If you want one, send your mailing address to jean@micro.blog.)

One of the fun things we did for Micro Camp was give away “door” prizes. We chose categories that aligned with popular M.b interests. Attendees could choose one drawing to enter.

A big thank you to @Brad for donating the ✒️ gift card from Nock Co. We chose small independent companies with values we admire. I’d love to hear suggestions for Micro Camp 2022.

• Nock Co. 🖋
• Annie Bloom’s Books 📚
• Happy Cup Coffee ☕️
• Spicewalla (cooking; we need an emoji tag)
• Scrap Creative Reuse 🧶

Congrats to @cheri, @wldunbar, @corntoole, @mandaris, and @roman on their luck in the draw.

(No one was strategic enough to enter the crafting 🧶 category, so we awarded two gift cards for the most popular category, books 📚.)