https://flexagon.dreamwidth.org/ ice water and ocicats - Dreamwidth Studios Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:48:25 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios flexagon personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/14905867/2910526 https://flexagon.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://flexagon.dreamwidth.org/841568.html Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:48:25 GMT https://flexagon.dreamwidth.org/841568.html Two pieces of good news, one expected and one not:<br /><ul><br /><li>I have tenants for the new condo! Nothing's signed yet but everyone wants to sign. I had two options, and I picked the pair of people who had a) lived together before and b) had owned a home before. Ex-homeowners make the best tenants. It's also the case that the ones I chose are the ones who're definitely going to use the back yard (for their small, middle-aged dog), and there's some petty pleasure in that, given how hard I pushed for a commonly-owned yard. Oh <i>and</i> one of them is a mechanical engineer who likes to learn how things work, but there was actually a mechanical engineer in each of my possible pairs of tenants so that wasn't a decider. <i>(ETA: these folks flew home, measured their furniture and got a whole lot less excited. So oops, and maybe there'll be better news later.)</i></li><br /><li>I have tenants in my SQUIRREL NESTING BOX, omg, squeeeee! I saw one go into it yesterday morning, carrying leaves, and immediately got very excited and ran off to get wool and alpaca roving from <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://apfelsingail.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://apfelsingail.dreamwidth.org/'><b>apfelsingail</b></a></span>. This morning, more activity between about 9AM and 10AM, with the one Very Responsible Grownup continuing to carry up batches of leaves. Then, incredibly, a juvenile reappeared, one that we'd seen a few days ago but not since, and <i>it went into the box too</i>, and we got pictures of all this. Then a third squirrel went in there at 10 and so they have remained. (Or actually -- the young'un just poked its nose out -- but mostly.) The warm fuzzies could not get any more literal! I've been hoping for this ever since <a href="https://flexagon.dreamwidth.org/2025/03/29/">installing the box in spring</a>, and I guess it appeals more when the temperature drops, because there they are now. Curled up inside, with straw and leaves.<br /></li></ul><br /><br />Creating environments and then watching them get used is absolutely and 100% my jam. Even when it involves talking to HVAC people more than I'd usually choose to, but that's for another post.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=flexagon&ditemid=841568" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://flexagon.dreamwidth.org/841568.html gratified public 3