After years of making beds with cats, I have learned some great tips that you may find helpful for saving time and making the bed more efficiently when you are a cat mama. Step 1: Prepare to change sheets. Step 2: Remove cats to the floor. Step 3: Remove sheets. Step 4: Remove cats from exposed mattress and place on the floor. Step 5: Install fitted sheet while cats attacks it. Step 6: Remove one cat and place in the hallway and return for the second cat. Step 7: Discover the second cat underneath fitted sheet. Step 8: Remove second cat and place in hallway. Step 9: Discover first cat is now underneath fitted sheet. Step 10: Give up and make the cat into the bed. Step 11: Add top sheet. Step 12: Remove cat. Step 13: Reposition top sheet. Step 14: Remove cat that has now statically balled up the sheet. Step 15: Remove cat and sheet. Step 16: Add top sheet again, but this time using the flowy tent pattern. Step 17: Remove cat before the sheet hits the bed. Step 18: Throw favorite catnip toy down the hall and hurry to complete the top sheet. Step 19: Add blankets and comforter. Step 20: Discover first cat still underneath blankets. Step 21: Carefully lift the edge and show cat the light to freedom. Step 22: If cat declines freedom because blanket cave is fantastic, continue to Step 23. Step 23: Shake treat bag. Step 24: Cat emerges and so does the second cat you thought was still playing in the hallway. Step 25: Question every decision that brought you here. Step 26: Admire freshly made bed. Step 27: Watch both cats immediately jump back onto bed wondering why the fun stopped. Do you have any helpful tips to add for making a bed with cats? Please share them with your fellow cat mamas in comments. ❤️🐾

You really surprised me on this one! I thought the drummer would win, but maybe that’s because I know who the musician is. But the stargazer you voted for is still an amazing critter to meet. Introducing Scarabaeus satyrus, an African dung beetle. Seriously. I’m not BS’ing you. These expert poop scoopers spend their lives scouting out poop. The fan-like plates at the ends of their antennae, called lamellae, are covered with tiny receptors that help them sniff out a fresh pile. When they locate one, they’re on it. Literally.. They break off a piece, shape it into a ball and climb on top. Then they spin around in a little dance to get their bearings. On moonless nights, they use the glow of the Milky Way to stay on a straight path while practically doing a handstand and rolling their ball backward with their hind legs. We’re talking some major gymnastics here. But why do they want to play with poop, you wonder? Because it’s both a meal and a family matter. Adult dung beetles drink the nutritious liquid found in dung. Yes, poop juice. 🤢 Some balls are buried and used as tiny underground nurseries called brood balls. A female lays one egg inside, and the dung feeds the baby as they grow. They will also go a couple of rounds with another dung beetle trying to steal their future baby ball. Dung beetles bury enormous amounts of manure, returning nutrients to the soil, helping plants grow and leaving fewer piles behind for pest flies to breed in. Let’s give a big round of applause for this crazy little beetle and appreciate the sh!t out of what they do for the earth we share with them. ❤️

Today we celebrate the hardworking people who keep our communities and country moving forward. We also honor those who fought for fair wages, safer working conditions, and reasonable hours that many of us benefit from today. Enjoy your holiday and stay safe! Butterfly and I are heading to Orcas Island, hoping to see, or at least hear, the whales while enjoying the Salish Sea and the enchanted beauty of the trees.

Here is a video of eagle badassery. Enjoy.

Quick, no looking them up first! Just pick the name that grabs you. 😂