Wet

 Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope everything is going great for you, my love.  It's wet here today.  It didn't start off that way, when I looked up at the sky in the morning I thought it was going to be a sunny day.  But it's cold and wet.  I like cold weather, so this doesn't bother me.  Today is Friday, and I managed to get to and from the mosque without getting drenched.  Allah was being nice.  I had planned to do yard work in the evening, but instead I cooked my dinner.  Nothing special, just curry pups.  They're so convenient and yummy!  I usually plan them for days of yard work.  Anyway, I hope you are having a fabulous and relaxing time time being you.  I love you!

Here are some nice snapshots from the How does your avatar look today ? thread:

Mackerel

 Hi Natty!  How are you, my beautiful love?  I hope you are doing well.  I want you to know that I love you with all of my heart.  It's another average day here for me.  A bit on the busy side, I drove my mother around in the morning, but it calmed down in the evening.  I didn't do any yard work.  I didn't even have to cook my dinner, because my Mom gave me some stew.  I did have to prepare more cat food, because rice and fish has a 3 day window in the cooler tops.  A couple of days ago, I went downtown and got a good deal on mackerel.  I was surprised that there wasn't much information on mackerel on YouTube.  That was a few years ago, today there are a couple of videos about them.  It surprised me because mackerel is pretty much on everyone's menu.  The batch of mackerel before this one was a few days old, and only good for cats.  But this batch is fresh, so fresh that the cats didn't know I had fish with me when I entered the house.  That's how to tell fresh fish Natty, is has NO scent.  So when I make cat food, I stew the fish first and when the fish is done I pull it out and into the cooler, then steam the rice in the broth with NO SALT.  When I mix the fish in, I like to snack on the roe and livers.  It was heavenly today, the fish was so fresh when I bought it!  The roe melts into the stomach cavity and becomes creamy, and the I like to chow on the stomach lining too.  Not all of it should go to the cats!  This particular fish had large scales.  The cats don't care, though.

Cell phone

 Hi Natty!  How are you?  Are you keeping safe and healthy?  Please do.  I just gone done with the sunset prayer, after eating my dinner of curry pups, after cutting the grass, after not being able to cut the grass because of all the rain.  I'm looking forward to a nap after this blog, so I am able to work on the computer all the way until I go to bed.  Do you happen to own an IPhone?  I'll bet you do.  If so, then your laptop must be Apple as well.  I would love to have a nice new cell phone.  What I have is an old Lenovo from 2015, and the cheapest one at that.  It has Android, but Google news and Accuweather don't work anymore.  No more server!  I use the hardware version of Google Chrome to watch YouTube, usually when I'm lying in bed about to go to sleep.  Otherwise, everything I do is on my pc.  It suits me fine though, I don't feel the need to change my routine, only to strengthen it with a wife.

Adolf Kitler

 Hi Dreamer Girl!  How are you, Sweetheart?  Please make sure you take care of your health and safety, and get lots of sleep.  The dreams you get while you sleep are the most revealing and exciting, and so much fun to explore!  All dreams are good, there is no such thing as a nightmare.  Just realize that you have willpower and choice when you are in a dream.

Argh!  I forgot that Bro is a male cat, and male cats can't consume salt!  Kibble typically has a lot of salt in it, and is dangerous especially to male cats.  So I had to go downtown to find an affordable deal on fish.  Thus I did, right after the dawn prayer at 6:30 am, I went to the main market downtown to buy fish for Adolf Kitler.  He does look somewhat like Adolf, don't you agree?  But his moustache is lopsided.  There are other cats on the Internet that have more accurate markings.  Bro is an "almost".

But the green snake is a zoo specimen...

Hi Natty!  How are you?  How's business today?  Yeah it hasn't changed much throughout human history, people are more than willing to deceive in order to make an extra buck.  I hope you are keeping yourself safe and healthy.  Only yesterday I mentioned that my cats upgraded from chicken to rice and fish, yet today the price of fish shot up.  That's because everyone is selling the larger mackerel, and the small fish is nowhere to be seen.  But just because the small fish aren't for sale, doesn't mean the small fish isn't being caught.  No, they're just not selling it because the small fish is cheap.  Well, I didn't buy the more expensive fish.  My cats can handle cat food pellets.  Floofy was the one who couldn't handle kibble, but she passed away.  I try to be nice with the local economy, even though they have never really given a shit about my budget and needs.  At least I don't have to be Mary.  She has to behave like a lady 24/7, while others give themselves free hand to be complete jerks to her.

The LeLUTKA Lilly mesh head 2.5

 Hi Natty!  What's going on?  How's your weekend so far?  I hope you are keeping safe and healthy.  Not much going on here, just the usual.  Except my Mom gave me the day off today, so I had a leisurely morning.  She also gave me a chicken, so I portioned that out.  It's not cat food anymore, the cats have upgraded to rice and fish, so I portioned it out for my own taste: boneless chicken breast, legs and wings skin on, all other skin put aside (usually for artificial bacon bits), liver sliced up, and the rest of the carcass divided into 5 personal serving soup stocks.  So I was itching for noodles and soup for lunch.  I simmered a portion of the soup stock in miso broth, using the chilli bean oil.  I let that stew with basil, green hot chilli peppers and cubed tofu until the time was right, then added some anchovy bouillon (with MSG).  I pulled out the soup stock, peeled off the meat I wanted, then gave the rest to the cats.  I used rice vermicelli for the noodles, and served it piping hot with dried fried onions, hot sauce, artificial bacon bits and salted radish.  The saltiness could have gone overboard, but it didn't: it was just right.  A little bit of honey would have made it perfect, but I forgot.  Getting the saltiness right for noodles in soup takes practice.  My noodles in soup was complex when I wanted simple, but it was a success so alhamdulillah.  Dinner wasn't as successful.  I made a tofu omelet with sautéed sliced chicken liver marinated in tamarind, with fries.   I used the chilli bean oil for the omelet, so it didn't harden very well.  Even my fries didn't harden very well, I don't know what's up with that.  I think I got the debris at the bottom of the batch in my bag of frozen fries.  And I should have used beef liver, not chicken.  I'll have to grade dinner as "strange but edible".

I heard many good things about LeLutka, but I never got around with demoing any of their stuff.  I was just satisfied with doing the best I can with what was in my path.  Even when I had money to spend on a nice mesh head for Mary Unknown7, I went with the Catwa Mejer mesh head because I was impressed with the ads I saw.  It took me a while to get used to it, but I'm getting some awesome snapshots with it now.  Then LeLutka started to give away the Lilly mesh head as a Christmas offer, and that was more than "in my path": that was throwing it in my face, so I had to get one.  The snapshot on top is the LeLutka, and the one below is the Catwa.  I'm really impressed with the Lilly mesh head.  It's both sophisticated and expressive.  I can understand why people love LeLutka products.  To be fair, I took the 2 snapshots above about an hour apart and the light changed, I should have chosen a consistent light but I forgot.  I showed Mary the new Lilly mesh head:

Mary:  That's really nice.

Me:  You like it?  I'm having trouble getting the nose on the Lilly head to be as bulbous as yours.

Mary:  Oh no, that's really incredible.  How much did that cost you?

Me:  Nothing.  It was a free gift.  I guess we can afford to save so you can get a nose job now.

I got glared at for that remark.  So it looks like I have an option, a really good option, for photo shoots now.  I'm sure you folks will be able to tell which head I will be using at that moment.  Incidentally, I have a cat named Lily:

Too darn pretty

 Hm.  At first I didn't get it, Natty.  Then I guessed that you are just too darned pretty that you need somebody to accompany you in order to be left alone.  Looking at those short shorts, of course you're going attract attention.  Thank you for the eye candy, though.  I assume you're not in Canada.  Hornby Island, is it?  Seems nice.  Wah!  I wanna be pretty too!

But I'm not pretty.  I'm a man, and since I don't have a lot of money then people assume that I do labor.  Which is what I did all day today.  But after I take a nap, I'm going to do computer work for the rest of the night which is work that I prefer, so alhamdulillah.