Quick question and get your ears ready for another Happiness Between Tails podcast soon:
Have you checked out the new podcasting integration between WordPress and Anchor? I’m getting ready to try it and wonder if you have thoughts to share regarding it. (Here’s a podcast I published some months ago.) According to WordPress’ recent email, “We’re excited to announce a new feature that automatically converts the text of any page or post into a podcast on Anchor, the world’s largest podcast platform. If you’re already blogging on WordPress.com, there’s a good chance it’s podcast-ready—because our new integration with Anchor means you can now turn your words into audio in a few steps. The blog-to-podcast process is simple, and it opens up your work to new possibilities and listeners.”
COVID-19, staying-at-home included, is plenty hate-worthy. (I’ve griped about it here and here and here.) But not everything, i.e., I’m writing my novel, “Flamenco & the Sitting Cat” at a far better clip. (I elaborated on some COVID silver linings here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here, as did author Alice Renaud here.)
Anyone got a pumpkin seed?Nonetheless, there are those among us who love, loooooove, luuuurrrve COVID-19. Indulge me for how tickled I am by the “sound effects” of one such COVID fan…
Our fluffed, furred, feathered, slippery, scaled, and whatever else creature-family who can’t get enough of us — those guys are overjoyed! In their unique ways, they broadcast, “Hurray! Our people are home!”
At the start of quarantine, I heard a radio item about a doggie who needed a vet’s attention because she’d sprained her tail from wagging it so much!
People I know average an extra three hours to their days thanks to working from home. Here in Los Angeles County, “driving’ is a euphemism for “fuming in stand-still traffic.” Think of all the heart attacks fended off if we didn’t have to waste hours fuming behind the wheel. Just the other day, road rage triggered (pardon the sad but irresistible pun) a shooting in Long Beach.
More free time means more gardening. Urban gardening activist Ron Finley of South Central Los Angeles says, “Growing your own food is like printing your own money.”
His TED talk describes how his first parkway (what divides sidewalk from street) orchard-ette turned eco-lutionary…
When we moved into our home, my dear husband, Khashayar, applied his engineer’s practicality to our front and backyards. “If we’re going to work it, we’re going to eat it,” he said. Or something to that effect.
Which is why we’ve got several fruit trees crammed onto our bit of green. We (okay, he did the grunt work as our soil is basically clay) spent Sunday laying the groundwork for this year’s tomatoes and herbs.
Our little garden blooms with future fruits and herbs. (Here you can see some of what we harvested.)Do you know a pet who’s celebrating COVID-19?
Happiness Between Tails by da-AL 
Our cats are very happy we are home now, Da-AL, but they now cry incessantly when we go anywhere. I tried growing vegetables but I didn’t have the time. The extra time in my day seems to have been absorbed by more work.
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typical cats lol. You definitely have your hands full with your kids Robbie. I’m impressed you do so much as it is 😀
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Great ideas, I love your garden ❤
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thank you Henrietta 😃
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Good work with the garden
A friend suggested I buy bitcoin yesterday . I said i would rather cultivate an organic fruit and vegetable garden
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good answer! the other day I heard bitcoin is quite a drain on the environment in terms of a broad range of energy drain stuff I can’t intelligently convey here…
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Wonderful to have enough sun to grow such lovely things, da-AL! We live in the woods so sun is at a premium. And the sprained tail story is a keeper!
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definitely everyone moves to Los Angeles for the sunshine — the tomatoes love it. the woods must be beautiful too 🙂
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😂🥰
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My. At could care less that someone is home all day. He just wabt to be fed. Looking forward to hearing how the podcast goes.
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lol thanks, Antoinette 🙂
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The dog is so cute.
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👍👍
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thanks 🙂
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Atlas certainly loves having us both at home, but then again, he doesn’t know any different, being a covid puppy and all. Your pup is so sweet!
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thank you! we got K-D a little before Pierre & Lola passed away. we worried she’d be sad but she loves being an only doggie lol
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Loved your cute little garden.
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thank you, Veena 🙂
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts and video!!.. all the best on your book and podcast… the covid issue doesn’t bother me, I am one of those who believes the “glass is half full” and look on the bright side of things rather than staying in the dark, just like my backyard friends… “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain”. (Author Unknown)… 🙂
Until we meet again..
May your day be touched
by a bit of Irish luck,
Brightened by a song
in your heart,
And warmed by the smiles
of people you love.
(Irish Saying)
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& this is why you are such a delight, Larry 🙂
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