Season 2 begins with Dracula chicken, Don Knotts, tiny ceramic skeleton drama, and one firm boundary: Satan does not own October.

If your conscience tells you to skip Halloween, skip it. Truly. I am not here to drag anyone through a pumpkin patch against their will.

But my pumpkins are not a gateway drug to the underworld.

My decorative skeletons are not a theological crisis.

And I refuse to surrender harvest, memory, imagination, porch lights, old movies, and cinnamon candles to fear.

So yes, we are starting Season 2 calmly.

With restraint.

Like civilized people.

[Insert sanctified snark.]

Fall has been declared. Hallowtide has begun. Edgar Allan Purr is turning one, Mr. Darcy is still reporting for evening lap duty, and somewhere in this house a chocolate cat is doing something I will absolutely have to clean up later.

Season Two of Domestically Feral is here — clean, family-friendly, faith-shaped, cat-haunted, coffee-adjacent, and slightly unhinged.

Welcome back to the house where the animals have motives and civilization remains unstable but functioning.

Barely.

Somehow, a series of completely normal decisions has led to me being invited by actual researchers to help find extremely elusive female lightning bugs.

I have no degree, no credentials, and no reasonable explanation for this. I am a housewife with coffee, a butterfly net, and apparently just enough stubbornness to stand outside in the dark longer than is socially acceptable.

This is the story of how one tiny glow in the leaves turned my yard into a hidden world of beetle courtship, faint flashes, scientific questions, and mild personal crisis. Soon, I’ll be leaving my emotional support house to go looking for tiny glowing ladies in the dark.

With snakes.

And people.

And because apparently I wasn’t done making this weird:
The firefly obsession eventually grew into a public education project called Find the Fireflies.

FindTheFireflies.org

I also have a Kickstarter live right now for I Don’t See Fireflies Anymore, which is helping fund free educational resources:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fireflies/i-dont-see-fireflies-anymore