I've been occasionally collecting DS Games, when I come across them, still even though I don't have a working DS and even my 3DS is out so I've been without a way to play DS games until I stumbled across this gem at the pawn shop for less than what the retro shops ask for them.

There were two options this pale pink one and then a white one for $30 but that one didn't have a charger and it was in questionable condition so after going home and sleeping on it I decided that I wanted it even though it was pink.

I also ordered an R4 for it though there are a few Japanese game Roms that I'm having trouble finding, namely Utacchi so if anyone knows a good place to download that one I'd appreciate a point in the right direction.

Bought myself a few days late birthday present, I have a few woring GBAs but I've been wanting to get an SP again for awhile now for the lit screen, unfortunately this isn't the 101 so it's the front lit not the backlit but it's the se model and color as the one I had years ago so I'm happy with it. 🙂

I also grabbed the Shrek game that they had and it is not very good 🥲

Just two more panels and I'll have covered up my neighbors rotting fence and I've already got some privacy for the table in the back.

I've also cleaned up the small patch of thinning grass up front where we leave the trash cans on trash day

I've gone back to putting up a new fence in for my side yard(to cover up my neighbor's ugly, rotting literally falling apart old wooden fence that they refuse to take care of) it's a little slow going since the plastic fence panels that I've been getting are $100 a piece though thanks to the fact that the IRS finally sent me my 2020 tax return(Not kidding either, I never got it back in 2020) I was able to buy a couple and make some real progress.

I also got a couple heavy duty solar powered street lights and set them up in my back yard using a long metal pipe that I cemented into the ground to make a parking lot style light.

I have something completed from January that I'm very excited to show but I can't just yet since the winners for the 2022 Pokemon Card Illustration contest haven't been announced yet(supposed to happen this month though so soon) other than that though I don't really have anything complete to show. I've had plenty of ideas, I've just been lacking the motivation(I could transfer some more work over from my Deviantart but that would be lazy)

I have have started a few things but finished even fewer so for the meantime here's a dump of my rough sketches and doodles from the past couple months.

Had part of the Meowth rastor, that I made a few months back, recorded so I threw together a short Speed Art video for my youtube(I hadn't uploaded anything in months)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLf0I09k5Ts

In my last post I showed a few pics of a cat that the neighbors had abandoned and after feeding her for a few weeks she was comfortable with me enough to let me pet her and slip a collar on her.

Well now she uses the pet door and comes and goes as she pleases and after a few nights of having a grey kitty sleeping in my bed, I think my prayers have been answered and I finally have a new cat 😄