#how to wash a cat

[ofliterarynature]

TBR TAKEDOWN: Week 19 (October 6)

This week we're doing a special Cozy Mystery poll to finish the first round of the Takedown! Now, I love a cozy mystery, but it's hard to find good ones - the writing is not always good or as diverse and progressive as I'd like. So this week, I have a new question for you:

TLDR: I have too many unread books, and I’m asking tumblr to help me downsize. Comments and reblogs welcome, book descriptions below the cut. See my pinned post for more info.

I'll be taking a break after this poll but will be back in November for round 2 with my Goodreads TBR!

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Foul Play at the Fair by Shelley Freydont

When a rotten apple spoils the local harvest festival, event coordinator Liv Montgomery becomes an unplanned amateur sleuth in the first mystery in the Celebration Bay series.

As more and more tourists flock to Celebration Bay, New York, to enjoy their seasonal festivals, the town is in need of a professional coordinator. Enter Manhattan event planner Liv Montgomery, tired of big-city stress and looking for an idyllic spot where she and her Westie terrier, Whiskey, can put down roots. The Harvest by the Bay Festival is Liv's first chance to prove herself, and everything from apple bobbing to pumpkin painting goes perfectly--until the body of an itinerant juggler is discovered stuffed into an antique apple press.

With a murderer on the loose, town leaders threaten to shut down the upcoming Halloween and Christmas festivals. But the town's livelihood is at stake, and there is no way Liv is going to let that happen, even if she has to solve the murder herself. No matter how many balls she needs to keep in the air, Liv is determined to find a killer who's rotten to the core...

The Pickled Piper by Mary Ellen Hughes

After her dreams of romance are crushed, Piper Lamb decides to pursue her dream of opening her own shop of pickles and preserves, called Piper’s Picklings, in the idyllic small town of Cloverdale. But she isn’t in town long before she encounters a barrelful of trouble…

The Cloverdale fair offers Piper a sweet opportunity to promote her business. With her new assistant, Amy, she sets up a booth centered around an eye-catching display of the ever-popular dills in an old-fashioned barrel of brine.

But things soon turn sour when fairgoers witness a fight between Amy’s boyfriend, Nate, and town council blowhard—and bagpipe player—Alan Rosemont. When Rosemont is found floating in Piper’s barrel, Nate becomes the prime murder suspect. With Amy’s boyfriend in a pretty pickle, there’s no time to dillydally. But as Piper searches for the real killer, she needs to be careful to preserve her own life…or she may end up a pickled Piper herself.

How to Wash a Cat by Rebecca M Hale

Two cats are better than one...

A deceased uncle and a surprising inheritance propel a woman and her two very curious cats into the mystery surrounding his death.

An investigation that starts amid the curios and novelties of a San Francisco antiques shop follows a twisted trail of dangerous deception that leads all the way back to the days of the Gold Rush itself.

A Peach of a Murder by Livia J Washburn

All year round, retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as peach pie-except during the Peach Festival, whose blue ribbon has slipped through Phyllis's fingers more than once...

Everyone's a little shook up when the corpse of a no-good local turns up underneath a car in a local garage. But even as Phyllis engages in some amateur sleuthing, she won't let it distract her from out-baking her rivals and winning the upcoming Peach Festival contest.

She and all the other contestants guard their secret, original recipes with their lives-and talk a whole lot of trash. With her unusual Spicy Peach Cobbler, Phyllis hopes to knock 'em dead. But that's just an expression-never in her wildest dreams did she think her cobbler would actually kill a judge. Now, she's suspected of murder-and she's got to bake this case wide open.

[aterfish]

Oh no! LBM got wet...

[insomnya777]

they're filming the next life series like right now. like Right Now. they're making alliances that are gonna change our brain chemistry entirely!!!!! they're doing things that are going to make us go INSANE!!!! they're talking right now. they're interacting. they're playing the game. maybe someone's died already. maybe there's a full-fledged server war going on. we don't know. we won't know until friday and that is KILLING me

[somegrumpynerd]

Do you think the determination stops dripping when he sleeps or does he ruin every pillow he has?

[megueggu]

design piece of Jasper for Youso ✨

[leonardalphachurch]

i put TOO much effort into this the other ones i do im gonna not try so hard for but. is poly blue team cmon i GOTTA put all the effort in.

i guess this is like an everyone lives au lol i dont REALLY have anything cemented for them. just play in the space with me

(link to original meme)

[tootditoot]

I remember seeing a cat just covered in dirt and then seeing the same cat an hour later absolutely spotless

[soulhollow]

[ssruis]

No more fic ideas. Write something for once in your life. This is a demand.

[katiekatdragon27]

Yesterday was special, so I decided to ignore all my college work to just sit and draw aircon, as a treat.

I was going to work on my object series, but the brain rot for these two is horribly contagious and one of my friends kept egging me on, so I folded. Also, I am so happy about the amount of aircorn art being produced. You guys don't realize how happy it's making me rn.

Also, I have not drawn cats in a hot minute despite them being my favorite thing to draw, so this was very comforting. (Lowkey inspired by @ / knightobreath's stream I crashed a bit ago, thanks man)

I remember seeing a warrior cats post about pairing usually being a short fluffy dude and a tall lanky dude. This is it boys, this is the dynamic ⬆️

Progress pictures under cut lol:

Have a great day, fellas, and keep the art coming /j!

[thresholdbb]

Bad news, I might me allergic to fabric finishing chemicals

[zaggyzoo]

hope you guys will have a good monday !!!

[patheticgirlsteve]

all of the stray cats in Hawkins follow Eddie around like he’s the pied piper and no one knows why, not even him. maybe it’s because he keeps treats for them in his pockets and is constantly feeding them, but probably not. it’s probably just because they dig his aura or something

[aurora-van-vana]

Mr. Smith: Is this mind of mine a horrible monster by my own creation or is it this beast my father’s doing?

Me: I just said you couldn’t have another popsicle dude chill

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I love the colors on your rainbow kippah, who did you order it from?

I got it from this etsy store. I loved that it was crochet (I'm horrible with MCs, I'm a beginner in making clothes), there is a visible seam in the kippah where the rainbow is, which I think is cool honestly, but I know many people are bothered by that sort of thing. It looks like they also have other "themes," too, and if I get another kippah from them, I'm looking at their gold-colored one 👀

Here is the seam in question, but honestly, you can just put the seam where nobody will see it (plus this gives you an idea of the colors themselves because that's one of my favorite parts of it):

Here is a direct link in case the one above is not working for you:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/GreenethingsBoutique

[sanchoyo]

trying to do truly deranged new things I haven’t tried before with coding after not practicing for a while is so painful 😔