#bushel and a peck

[dawnrider]

Hello everyone! I hope you're recovering between holidays. This update features Inuyasha with baby Izayoi for the first time alone overnight. Babies are known to do all the Things They Never Do™️ on that night you don't have backup, so Inuyasha is doing his best with the skills he has. Solo-parenting is tough for one night, but having to do it 24/7, 365 is a whole other thing. That @mamabearcat manages it with such humor and grace astounds me all the time, so this chapter is for her. We are so fortunate to have her as part of this fandom even as she "juggles all the plates" at home.

Includes art by @nartistadigital!

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[the-state-of-georgia-official]

Could you make spooky pfpf for me?

-washington

of course, dearest countryverse sibling

we shall match :3

[geezerwench]

Math

[inkstars1138]

So uh, @vintageandroid and I like to do RPs with each other, telling cool/weird stories. Orville Peck is clearly a cryptid (whom we love), so we decided it would be cool to base a demon guy off him. Or really, kind of hilarious. Imagine a massive powerful demon stuck with leather, rhinestones, spikes... it's great. And well, who doesn't love a fish out of water story? Except this one's weird. (We all love those, too, don't we?) Usually I don't draw these, but I was having way too much fun.

[thebirdandhersong]

At my age I shouldn't be this excitable but someone mentioned Mary Oliver today and my voice rose three octaves I kid you not

[cosmicmetallove]

nobody talks about the worse trauma that sticks with you after working in theater: musical song stuck in your head

[rebelcliche-archive2]

well, steve heard that nancy wants to give some loving and so here he is!! crawling into her arms like the touch-starved puppy he is, fully open and receiving to her every touch as if it’s his very lifeline. he’ll gladly stay here forever if she were to let him, a vessel of her affection which he always gladly returns in earnest, never to take anything from her without giving it back in full. she deserves to always feel loved and appreciated, and steve refuses to settle for showing her any less.

real life footage of nancy snuggling her golden retriever bf

[wausaupilot]

JUST IN: At least 25 injured in Chippewa Falls orchard hay wagon rollover

We are working to learn more about this situation. A group of 4K and 5K students were at the orchard when two hay wagons overturned:

Wausau Pilot & Review Two hay wagons carrying children and adults rolled over at a Chippewa Falls apple orchard, injuring at least 25 people, officials said Wednesday. The rollovers happened Wednesday at Bushel and a Peck Apple Orchard, 18444 County Hwy OO, Chippewa Falls. A group of 4K and 5K students from St. Mark Lutheran School in Eau Claire were on a field trip when the wagons, which were…

[strawberrystepmom]

for your three things game, i associate you with fluffy animals, pink cowboy boots (it's giving lana del ray), and flowy dresses. giving you a very gentle forehead kiss. 🤍

and i am accepting it and holding both of your beautiful hands and we are walking into the day as two good people doing their best

[dawnrider]

OTP Prompt Challenge request:

9. Morning Routine: InuKag

(I’d love to read some fluffy, domestic married Inukag morning routine bliss, but please write if/ as you feel so inspired ❤️)

Hello @xanthippe-writes ! Thanks for the prompt from this list.

This felt like it fit into my Bushel and a Peck universe so have some domestic morning routine. While not blissful, per se, it's fluffy and happy. And hopefully a bit real...

Fancy Cheese and Size Threes

“Don’t forget to grab diapers,” Kagome called from Sara’s room, the sounds of an angry baby not wanting their diaper changed following her words.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes in the mirror as his toothbrush hung out of the side of his mouth. He was trying to simultaneously wrangle curls into pigtails – Izzy’s current style of choice – and brush his own teeth while not dribbling on his shirt. “There,” he declared with a sigh, tugging on each one to pull them tight. “Go get your bag and your sweater.” Grasping the handle of his toothbrush, he got back to brushing.

“But I’m not cooooold,” Izayoi whined. Inuyasha paused in his brushing and gave his daughter a sharp look in the reflection of the mirror. She pouted, then turned on her heel to do as asked. He heard his wife cooing to Sara in order to distract her while trying to dress her. She’d hit the stage where she hated being changed in any capacity and tried to escape the changing table while you fought leggings onto her chunky little legs. “Daddy! I can’t find my sweater!”

“Nice try, pup. It’s on the chair,” he called back, spitting out the last of his toothpaste.

“Oh.”

“Uh huh.” He stepped out of the bathroom just in time to be handed an armful of squirming baby. “Well good morning to you too,” he muttered, dropping a kiss on top of her head. She squealed angrily at being restrained, little arms flailing.

“Here,” Kagome murmured. Her fingers swiped something from his face, then grabbed a towel just inside the door. “Toothpaste,” she clarified with a grin when he gave her a confused look. He sighed dramatically, then chuckled when she went up on her toes to place a kiss on his cheek. “Diapers.”

“I heard you the first time.” Inuyasha adjusted Sara in his hold to keep her from climbing over his shoulder. “She still in a size three?” Kagome nodded as she pulled socks from the top drawer and tried to balance on one foot to put each of them on before giving up and plopping onto the floor. “Anything else we need? The C word?” he whispered the last, glancing toward the doorway. Izayoi was in her room, presumably struggling her way into her sweater based on the sounds she was making.

Kagome grinned wryly. “Probably not a bad idea. Just don’t get the soft kind. She doesn’t like those anymore.” He nodded. No string cheese, only the sticks. Got it. “Can you grab a bottle of wine too?” He knew if he asked her what kind she would say anything was fine, but he would end up grabbing two and hope one of them was serviceable.

“I’ll even get us some of the fancy stuff and the you-know-whats you like.”

Kagome’s eyes glowed. “Can we watch that movie I’ve had saved for later?” Inuyasha pretended to hate the idea, but nodded anyway, a sly smile lifting his lips. Fancy cheese and cracker night was a long-standing tradition. Especially now with both girls, they rarely got the chance to get out for an actual date night, so an old romance adventure movie on the couch with “fancy” grocery store cheese and crackers was about as much of a date night as they could reasonably expect.

“Am I gonna be late, Daddy?” Izayoi called from her room. She had only minimal understanding of the clock, but knew that time was a factor in their day. Inuyasha glanced at his watch and swore under his breath. “That’s a bad word!” Izayoi scolded, sounding scandalized.

“Yea, yea. Just don’t repeat it. Bye. I love you,” he murmured, kissing Sara’s squishy cheek and handing her to Kagome. “You too.”

Kagome grinned as he pressed a kiss to her lips, snatching his collar for a moment to keep him there. “Love you. Fancy date night.”

“And diapers. I know.” He grinned, kissing her one last time, then went to scoop up the four year old. Despite her protests, she’d put on her sweater and had her little backpack strapped on her back, the clip done in front. “You’re gonna have to take that off in the car, you know.”

“I know. I don’t wanna lose it!”

“Kid, that would be some kinda skill to lose your bag between here and the car,” he said with a chuckle. Despite his teasing, he wouldn’t put it past her to set it down somewhere and get distracted. He asked her about what she planned to do at preschool today and she told him elaborately the picture she planned to color and the tower she wanted to build in the block corner because Joey – another hanyou child she seemed to have a love-rivalry relationship with – had knocked over her last one before it was finished.

As he was backing down the driveway, he looked up and spotted Kagome holding Sara, chubby baby hands banging on the window glass and a face that told him she was squealing with laughter.

“Wave bye to your sister.”

“Bye Baby! Bye Mama,” Izayoi called as she waved back. Inuyasha grinned and gave a little wave too, making Sara screech and smack the glass again. Kagome was barely holding in laughter and she wiggled her fingers to say goodbye as well. “Daddy?”

“Yea, pup.”

“When I’m bigger, can I eat fancy cheese too?”

Inuyasha nearly choked, then smothered a laugh so he could look at her seriously in the rearview. “Sure, pup. You can eat fancy cheese when you get older.”

“Good. I wanna know what’s so great about it. You and Mama never share.”

“Trust me, Iz. When you get older, you’ll understand.”

“You alllllways say that.”

“Yup. And it’s pretty much always true.” He shook his head and smiled, seeing the slight pout on her face. “Guess what.” Her ears perked up, her pigtails quivering behind them. “We have to stop at the store on the way home from school later. You want to pick out a treat for you and Sara?”

Her eyes got huge and her mouth dropped open. “Really?!” He nodded. She squealed in excitement, then stopped almost immediately as both their ears flattened at the noise. “Sorry, Daddy.” Inuyasha only reached back behind his seat and patted her leg. She still had a lot to learn about being hanyou, but she was learning, and he couldn’t be more proud.

[the-state-of-georgia-official]

ive been trapped under post limit jail so made an alt account

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[roesolo]

Mini Doodles: Fun prompts and activities

Gina Perry, who has written one of my most popular storytime books (Small, 2017), has turned her illustration talents to activity books. Normally, if it doesn’t circ, I pause before blogging about it, but these books are adorable and they’re super handy to have around if you want to have a program that calls for some creativity. At 8 bucks a pop, you can put some budget money in and pick up a few…

[the-state-of-georgia-official]

hold on, I'm finishing my food, I have 6 tots and a piece of chicken left

I'll be there in a minute 🫡

Going live

[c-f-lindsey]

Saw this at our local Waffle House. Thought someone might enjoy this.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Disclaimer: I love and use the Metric system and am in NO WAY advocating for its abolition

However,

I really fucking love old, bizarre, hard-to-calculate measurement systems. Sometimes they're fairly simple, and sometimes they evoke a world for me where people got very into one particular realm of expertise and did not worry much about the minutiae of others. Because if they did that profession's guild would send around enforcers to stop them from encroaching onto their turf.

Practical example: Eggs! I've always bought eggs in the dozen. But the dozen is itself a unit of measurement, and it blew my mind when I first learned of places that sold eggs in units of 10.

Meanwhile, horses only make sense in Horse. They're measured in hands, half-hands, and quarter-hands. One hand is 4 inches. The decimal system works in base four, so 14.2 hands means 14 hands and 2 inches. (That's 58 inches, measured from the hump just before a horse's neck begins. It's also about the size of a large pony or small horse.)

Carats. In ye oldey dayes, a troy ounce (1/12 of a troy pound) was made up of 24 ounce carats, which were divisible into 20 grains troy, or, four ounce grains (a totally different thing from grain grains) which could then make four ounce quarters of 1.5 grains each. What the fuck. Wheels within wheels.

(Yes, that's why we talk about "24 carat gold", meaning that as close as is humanly possible, all 24 carats of the ounce are pure gold. It's a great fineness for a ring that will get the absolute shit beaten out of it if you work with your hands.)

Nautical miles should bother me more but honestly they make way more sense than the other miles do because I've read Longitude. It's 1/60 of 1/360 of the circumference of the earth. The earth is a giant sundial. I can't explain it any more clearly than that.

Bushels. Bushels don't make sense anymore but we still pretend they do. "A bushel of oats weighs 34 pounds," we say. "A bushel of barley is 48." Back in MY day, a bushel was 8 dry gallons, 4 pecks, or 2 kennings, and that's the way we LIKED it.

Board feet. My brother handles lumber for a living and he's explained it to me half a dozen times but I still don't and maybe never will understand board feet.

[brain-rot-hour]

You know what's the hecking cutest?

[Bushel and a Peck] by @dawnrider