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2026-08-05 17:03:49 UTC

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Max total purchase $9.99!

2026-08-04 23:35:56 UTC

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They're friends of your husband, aren't they? You could invite them for pie socials on the new deck once in a while.

2026-08-04 23:34:26 UTC

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I love those stairs - so generously sized!

2026-08-02 18:04:58 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-07-15 00:09:59 UTC

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So many more answers than I was expecting - almost enough to fill out one of those lawful/chaos chart thingies!

2026-07-14 13:06:34 UTC

Accessibility is resistance! by @npub1tsg…0qlp
"Those of us who use AI to compensate but also recognise the need to resist AI need your help. For 30 years we've been asked, silently and implicitly, to use a web that hasn't been designed or built for us, and AI offers us a solution.
"If you want to resist AI, make accessibility part of everything you do, every decision you make, every product you design and build."
https://tink.uk/accessibility-is-resistance/
#accessibility #a11y

2026-06-30 19:49:17 UTC

I found some lovely lichens and fungi in the Middlesex Fells Reservation the other day.
Edit: adding #TextureTuesday at the suggestion of @npub1uty…llxg
#lichens #LichenSubscribe #fungi
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2026-06-25 00:26:34 UTC

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I've kayaked on the Concord, Ipswich, Mystic, Assabet, Sudbury, Charles, and Neponset Rivers, but never on the Shawsheen. I'll have to check it out!

2026-06-20 20:32:02 UTC

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Wait, you can freeze avocado!? Fresh, sliced, or is some additional prep needed?

2026-05-15 16:43:03 UTC

My lilacs are blooming. They smell divine!
#bloomscrolling
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2026-04-18 14:22:32 UTC

There's a squirrel on the porch! The nerve! A squirrel!!!!!
#Caturday
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2026-04-08 00:51:44 UTC

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Tony, you might like this article (found by @npub19ua…53cv - thank you!) @npub1rap…7pwr
https://petapixel.com/2026/04/06/the-10-year-old-nikon-d5-dslr-really-is-the-best-camera-for-artemis-ii/

2026-03-13 03:29:34 UTC

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I just feel bad for my mail carrier. If she had a bunch of those to deliver her back must be killing her!

2026-03-13 02:36:30 UTC

I have suddenly started getting catalogs for fancy furniture addressed to "Sarah Bick" (not my name, never has been.) This one is huge and weighs at least 2 pounds - you can't even hold it in your hands to look at it. The stuff in it is way out of my price range. The sofa is $16k for instance. Those fuzzy chairs? They're "New Zealand sheepskin and black oak" and go for almost $6k each. As if everything in the world doesn't feel surreal enough already.
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2026-02-27 04:32:23 UTC

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Oh no!

2026-02-23 00:54:27 UTC

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I hope things get better or at least stay the same. You've been on my worry list.

2026-02-22 00:38:58 UTC

Hilo is pretending we don't see her in her paper cave, so we can pretend to be surprised when she jumps out to "attack" us!
#caturday #cats #FindTheCat
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2026-02-19 19:36:15 UTC

Kona has done it again. She grabbed my gray fuzzy before I could hang it up and chewed two holes in before I could grab it back from her. (She's fast!) Used a chain stitch in a spiral with hemp yarn to fill the void. One down, one to go!
#sewing #VisibleMending #CatsOfMastodon #handsewing
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2026-02-09 03:44:59 UTC

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I'm still surprised the Pats made it to the Super Bowl this year. And Seattle obviously has the better logo.

2026-02-09 02:26:50 UTC

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OK, so your clear path forward is to figure it out and post it here in the fediverse and hope it works out for someone who could really need a taste of good luck.

2026-02-02 22:15:33 UTC

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omg I see it!!!

2026-01-29 13:53:51 UTC

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Seems to be the Austin Street Brewery, 115 Fox St

2026-01-28 02:44:35 UTC

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Back when I worked in an office, I would come in early on Valentine's Day. I had a stack of those kid's Valentine cards and a bag of chocolates to leave one of each on every desk on my floor. Yes, even for people I didn't like. Yes, for me, too. It made people so happy. Only a few people ever knew it was me, so they had a bit of intrigue to start the day, too.

2026-01-26 17:31:27 UTC

Especially for @npub1qgg…0ptl and @npub1prs…eh8y : somebody got tired of waiting for us to shovel again and made the trek from under the guest room to the house.
#snow
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2025-12-09 21:47:22 UTC

Deer trails appeared overnight.
Attn: @npub1qgg…0ptl and @npub1prs…eh8y!
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2025-11-13 03:49:02 UTC

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oh no they might have to sell one of their America's Cup sailboats

2025-11-01 00:49:59 UTC

A long time ago, we had just moved into a new neighborhood. For Halloween my mom set up a table at the door with a cast iron cauldron and filled it with candy. She put up a folding screen and donned an above-the-elbow black glove. When the door bell rang, she opened the the door, crooked a finger, and said in a spooky voice, "Come in!"
Almost all the kids ran screaming away in terror.
Turns out they were expecting the folks who lived there before who had taken a flash photo when the door opened.

2025-10-23 04:11:42 UTC

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I've been enjoying hard cider lately. There's a growing number of local cideries in New England, so it's not as hard to find as it used to be.

2025-10-23 03:51:17 UTC

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It could just the amount of hops in most US ales - they really like to hit you over the head with them. The problem is that if it's a hop allergy, eventually even brews with less hops will be a problem.

2025-10-20 16:34:56 UTC

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I totally understand why they ask that. Most dogs are not Summer, and how can they know?

2025-10-19 23:37:17 UTC

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She needs her daily exercise!

2025-10-18 22:45:10 UTC

Some favorite #NoKings signs that I can remember. (There were so many more…)
Fight truth decay.
No faux king way.
A woman's place is in the resistance [picture of Princess Leia].

2025-10-15 00:08:06 UTC

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I wonder if that was where a tree was cut down, like these red maples? https://mastodon.social/@sbourne/115333226511914172

2025-10-13 04:32:41 UTC

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I for one am glad it didn't cause an accident!

2025-10-10 05:03:07 UTC

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It was probably reassuring that, yes, this is a hard thing, it's not just me being inadequate. Sure, they would have left happier if the problem were solved, but maybe that's why they didn't leave unhappy or angry.

2025-10-01 23:27:49 UTC

At the Waterville Opera House to see Oteil [Burbridge] & Friends. Friends tonight: Melvin Seals, Steve Kimock, Jason Crosby, Johnny Kimock, Tom Guarna, & Lamar Williams, Jr.
#LiveMusic

2025-09-21 22:45:50 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-09-21 20:16:11 UTC

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This tells me he's feeling pretty good these days. I can think of times not too long ago when that wouldn't have worked. I'm glad you took the opportunity to do something for yourself ❤️

2025-09-14 18:53:54 UTC

#SilentSunday
#PenobscotBay #schooner #clouds
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2025-09-13 11:48:04 UTC

"There's an animal in the upstairs toilet."
"Really?"
"The kitties are very interested."
…
"It's alive!"
"I know!"
We opened the window, took out the screen, put on heavy gloves, opened the toilet lid, grabbed it and tossed it out the window. It landed on the grass, took a minute to ponder what just happened, and ran off into the field. A gray squirrel we think, but it was hard to tell being so wet.
And how's your morning going 😂

2025-09-07 16:28:23 UTC

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Lovely roof! I like your color choice, too ❤️

2025-08-27 23:31:14 UTC

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You absolutely have to take care of you! First of all, you deserve it.

2025-08-27 01:51:05 UTC

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Here's the story behind "spoons": https://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

2025-08-04 03:12:45 UTC

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True, but nobody likes being barked at!

2025-07-14 17:44:47 UTC

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We have a "baby Godzilla" toy left over from my son's childhood, about the same size, that we use as a garden decoration. Something keeps knocking it over. We added a stake to stick it into the ground. Got knocked over. Used a longer stake. Got knocked over. We think it's the squirrels seeing it as a threat. 😂

2025-07-09 23:34:31 UTC

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Scones is his favorite, right? Might be time for a batch of scones to get him to spill!

2025-07-09 23:33:36 UTC

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That would make a great song lyric, too!

2025-06-18 17:13:12 UTC

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I just can't do that much sugar in one go anymore…

2025-05-19 04:23:46 UTC

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Sepsis! That's not good. I'm glad you got him to the hospital.

2025-04-28 12:32:40 UTC

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The only solution is to make your own urn.

2025-04-24 20:05:52 UTC

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In a sentence: It was a hippo decision.

2025-04-24 20:04:57 UTC

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I've heard it called hippo - highest paid person's opinion.

2025-03-22 13:24:32 UTC

Very Scientific Conversions, part 1:
1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

2025-03-19 03:07:58 UTC

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I wanted to see the cup designed by Vedder. Maybe we have to wait until it's awarded 😥

2025-03-05 23:20:13 UTC

Pocket salt marsh in winter.
#MarshMadness
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2025-02-17 01:46:01 UTC

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I ran into financial problems finishing my degree, but got a job at the college and was able to finish up my credits at "night school" as a benefit. Those were some of the best classes I took. Most students had full time day jobs, and lives, and they took everything so much more seriously. They did the readings, they engaged with the profs and other students, and there wasn't a minute of class worth missing.

2025-02-17 00:56:01 UTC

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Some Sensitive Ferns decided they wanted to live by my front steps in Maine. OK guys, but you know this is Maine, right? Within a few tenths of a degree F of freezing, they turn brown and totally give up - the "sendative" name is for a reason. But they come came year after year and hooboy do I get where they're coming from.

2025-01-27 02:43:22 UTC

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Here's a picture of 2 in a nest, probably only a day or two old. You can see part of a parent's huge brown-feathered body on the right.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-18-at-2.20.37-PM-1280x804.png
Edit: meant to say, this is a screenshot from Cornell's Lab of Ornithology Hawk Cam.

2025-01-27 02:34:28 UTC

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Not all baby birds have gray down. Red-tailed Hawk hatchlings are pure white, for instance, and are cuter than heck. They get a little dowdy-looking as the contour and flight feathers come in.

2025-01-26 22:21:53 UTC

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They make me feel very queasy. No, I didn't find it "so cute" at all.

2025-01-20 14:14:34 UTC

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it makes me so happy!

2025-01-20 14:07:44 UTC

Snow, shmo, our resident porcupine has places to go!
Attn: @npub1qgg…0ptl @npub1prs…eh8y
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2025-01-20 01:16:50 UTC

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In our local district, free breakfast and lunch started with a few of the principals getting grants for their schools. It was successful on so many points. It's now funded by the state for all the schools, and that's even better.

2025-01-09 21:38:49 UTC

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The little friends that snapped me out of it were mr and mrs cardinal 😍

2025-01-02 00:24:46 UTC

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I had no idea they were into geocaching! 😂

2024-12-17 19:51:13 UTC

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Family vacations are so fun!!

2024-12-17 19:44:42 UTC

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Where was she going? Was there actually anything to walk to?

2024-11-26 05:59:36 UTC

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Water will attract them, too. We had a small but persistent leak under the sink. If it weren't for the ants, we wouldn't have known.

2024-11-21 03:37:23 UTC

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ughh.

2024-11-13 01:26:39 UTC

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We wanted to upgrade our wiring and ended up doing a 95% gut. No regrets.

2024-11-09 20:08:50 UTC

I still have my first computer, an Osborne Executive with all of its original software and manuals. It still worked great when I last booted it up in 1999. We're really trying to not hang on to stuff forever, so it's heading for the electronics recycling in a week unless someone wants it. Free, but I don't think I can deal with shipping it anywhere, so pick-up in Woburn, MA.
Boosts appreciated.
(See computer details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Executive)
(Any ideas, @npub16vf…2n9f?)
#free #VintageComputer

2024-10-15 22:55:14 UTC

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Paper notebooks don't talk back…

2024-10-13 23:41:25 UTC

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I know you and Summer had your misgivings about such a big outing, borne out -alas! - but I'm glad your sweetie got to have a day with his (other) bestie. There's more to living than just staying alive.

2024-10-09 23:42:45 UTC

One of the things I find most interesting about the "Waffle House Index" is that their team of meteorologists is using data gathered by NOAA and international satellites and sensors to make their decisions about what to close when. And then everybody goes "oh wow! so much more trustworthy!"
US folks: please vote against the GOP folks, who want to defund NOAA, or we're all gonna die.

2024-10-05 16:29:14 UTC

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I took a mini-vacation to Nova Scotia, Canada, last week and was introduced to "chow chow" (or just "chow".) It's a relish made with green tomatoes, onions, vinegar, spices, etc. I found it a little sweet for my taste, so I would probably cut back on the sugar if I were to try my hand at it. There are lots of recipes online, some for a refrigerator pickle approach and some for canning. Outside of the Atlantic provinces, there are recipes that add other veggies, different spices, etc.

2024-09-12 21:13:09 UTC

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The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced she had that little bomb in her pocket. She's clever that way…

2024-09-12 19:52:52 UTC

I haven't had a lot of success with #gardening in the traditional sense: intentionally placing seeds or seedlings in a specific place with an anticipated outcome. So now I just let things grow. I check to see if any are invasive non-natives - those are ruthlessly uprooted and I keep an eye out for follow-on incursions. Otherwise, the plants just get to live their lives in peace. They seem to really like that.
Those white asters, by the way, are taller than me!
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2024-09-11 00:05:22 UTC

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Ah, so elegant!

2024-09-10 20:12:06 UTC

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Try telling him how much printer cartridges cost 😂

2024-09-08 19:47:35 UTC

Went for some lovely walks on this fine September day at the Snow's Cove Preserve (Blue Hill Heritage Trust) and Lookout Rock (Maine Coast Heritage Trust). I saw the largest examples of this lichen I had ever seen. I call it Elephant's Ear because an interpretive sign at some park called that, but I've since seen other names for it.
1/?
#lichensubscribe
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2024-08-24 13:57:24 UTC

Kitchen gadgets! Growing up, we called the one in front a "church key", probably because they were indispensable at church suppers. One end is for punching holes in the top of tin cans. The other is for popping off bottle caps.
In back is a more modern take. One end is for prying up pull tabs. The other is for unscrewing plastic bottle tops and on the other side for untwisting twist-off bottle caps.
Both get used a lot.
#gadget #cooking #kitchen
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2024-08-05 15:34:42 UTC

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Did you ask that fellow if it was OK to post this looking like … that?! 😂

2024-08-03 16:15:57 UTC

#Caturday and it's tether time! Kona is going for partial shade where she can watch for chipmunks. Hilo has chosen total shade and is being yelled at by a pair of cardinals, some chickadees, a handful of sparrows, and a titmouse (birds not in picture.)
#CatsOfMastodon
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2024-06-22 11:00:25 UTC

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My guess: they're going to cover it with sand.