Best bits since we've last talked.... I got a kitten!!! Her name is Hattie and Avery and I love her very much. Hattie is a black, sweet, chompy Aries. Currently, she is post dinner-pre zoomies. Avery keeps taking laps back to the bathroom (where Hattie's food bowl is) to see if the gate has magically disappeared. It has not. Avery just laid down in the closet and sighed-- so hard to be a bun. That's a pretty normal evening for us these days. Lots of cuddles and laughing and working at my desk on creative stuff. I feel like this blurb may give you a false impression of our home. It is, essentially, a closet but a very cute closet. The only furniture being a desk, a bed, and an easel; and really, what else do you need? It's more than enough for us. One recent project was making Hattie a cat tree. So I got a big piece of wood from the hardware store and then cut it into large lichen shapes. Then I painted them and hung them up. Now, she has vertical, mushroom-themed shelves to play on as a cat tree which is very fun.

Okay I think that's enough catching up. I hope to put out another episode by the end of the year! Thank you for being here, it's a real pleasure to make this podcast. I hope you enjoy the episode and I hope the wasps and spiders you encournter over the coming weeks are met with a lengthly pause while you decide whether or not it's really necesary to kill them. 

Happy holidays! Gemma, Avery, &Hattie 

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https://theconversation.com/wasps-why-i-love-them-and-why-you-should-too-155982

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