We just got back home yesterday, just in time to celebrate Susie’s birthday. We call Susie “Best Cat” because she’s better than all of us. Better at hunting, better at drawing pictures, better at climbing trees, better at everything I can think of, actually. And she has the best personality too, so we just all call her Best Cat. We celebrated by having (non-dairy) ice cream and failed cinnamon rolls (Kim), and then took turns brushing.

Last night, after talking about all the crazy things we saw and heard at WILD COP27, we decided that we’d just go ahead with publishing our environment/ecology video series as-is, never mind re-editing anything. Our videos are broad enough that nothing in them contradict any of the new stuff we learned over the past couple of weeks. So, right after I finish posting this diary entry, I’ll go ahead and post the first video in our new series, “100 Years of Planetary Caregiving.” I’ll be posting the second episode in about two weeks.

Tomorrow is “U.S.A. Thanksgiving.” There’s so many conceptual and historical reasons why this holiday is very stupid and harmful, and an annual catastrophe for turkeys, obviously. The only part about it that I like is every year our friend Lady mails us an apple pie a few days before “Thanksgiving”, and if it arrives before “Thanksgiving” (it almost always does), we eat it that morning. Every year the U.S. Postal Service medium-WRECKS the pie on its way here, but that’s part of the fun! Still yummy. :)