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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nine years ago today, I met my soul dog, and with no plans before that to get a dog, I took her home. I had the adoption forms filled out before I even called my husband. We observe this day as her birthday too, and today marks her 11th year. Every day she is with us is a gift. Our precious girl. 🐾❤️

A senior pit bull named Maya licks her lips before eating her birthday treat.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #AngryBirds, so here are four pics I’ve taken showcasing some of our fine feathered friends in some serious moods. Alt text is where it’s at, bébé.

The Grackle of Judgement. They saw you leave your shopping cart in the parking lot instead of returning it to the cart corral and they hope you have the day you deserve.

These three are so done with your shit. Pick up your goddamn litter at the beach.

He hates your tattoos and doesn’t understand your life choices.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve moved on to Gracie. It’s so peaceful.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have a hard time with anxiety, but at present, I’m outside sitting by a fire, drinking wine, and listening to Noah Kahan’s Stick Season. The album is playing through a speaker and I’m singing along as geese fly over, honking their own tune. I hope the neighbors like my performance. I’m content.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New hair: purple. When the stylist was putting on the color, she asked me if I was getting anxious. I said, “I have anxiety from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to sleep. This? I’m not worried about.” I’ve always taken big leaps with my hair, both in how short I wear it and with color. 💜

A woman of a mature age with very short, purple hair.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Post a picture of you from another era

A picture of a very serious looking young woman from around the year 1993. She is wearing a flannel over a turtleneck and is standing beside an ivy covered stone wall. It’s giving Lilith Fair. It’s also the last time I was able to tolerate wearing a turtleneck.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey, chat, looks like there is a thief in our midst. I have blocked her, you do what you see fit.

Screen shots of a plagiarist with the handle @ michelleroy78 .bsky.social

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In honor of #NationalDogDay here are my two loves. The two goodest girls there ever was, Maya Whitney and Ellie May.

A Pit Bull/Boxer/American Bull Dog mix named Ellie May.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I was listening to a movie podcast yesterday and the hosts mentioned they both were only one year old in 1998

The elderly character Ruth from the tv show, Widow’s Bay.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There was a Broad-winged Hawk at the top of a very tall tree in my yard this morning! It perched there for a long time, and I was no threat but it surprised me that it didn’t take off as soon as I took the dogs outside to potty. The distance was a bit much for my lens. Here are some decent pics. 🪶

A Broad-winged Hawk perched at the top of a tree.

A Broad-winged Hawk perched at the top of a tree and photographed mid-call.

A Broad-winged Hawk perched at the top of a tree. It had been preening and a single feather is in the air beside the bird’s head.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A bluebird building a nest surrounded by a wildflower garden?! The needle on the whimsy scale is approaching idyllic!

A female bluebird stands on the roof of a nest box. She has nesting material in her bill. The nest box is surrounded by wildflowers.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Our chicken coop is large. When my husband built it 2020, he made it big, and then later added another room behind it. The attached and enclosed run is large and the chickens can let themselves in and out of the coop into it. Little doors inside the run open to let them into the sunflower garden.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I was watering out back when this beauty jumped out of a large pot. The internet tells me it’s a Pickerel Frog. I think they’re quite handsome. Before I came inside I told it to try not to get eaten by the resident Garter snake, Gert.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

First of the Stargazers to bloom! My favorite flower!

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The larkspur is really showing off in the wildflower garden today!

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“It’s me, hi / I’m the problem, it’s me”

A dumpster with an old mattress stuffed into it. There is large writing in black paint or marker on the mattress which reads “I DON’T FIT IN ANYWHERE” and a sad frowny face is drawn under the writing.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

And here’s an update on how much more lush the entire wildflower garden has grown. 💖

A wildflower garden around a bluebird nesting box.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

New wildflower in the wildflower garden! 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘯𝘢, or Farewell to Spring. It’s so pretty!

Two bright pink and whiteish/light pink flowers in a wildflower garden.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This spring my husband planted a wildflower garden around the bluebird nest box and it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Our whimsy meter is reading 11.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

When five minutes have passed without a single like on your post.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I have one of these! Taken on November 21, 2014, at the age of 40.

A picture of me at The Colosseum taken on November 21, 2014.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

New wildflower in the wildflower garden has dropped. I didn’t know it and had to look it up: Tidy Tips. I love her.

A picture of a wildflower known as Tidy Tips. It has a yellow center, and yellow leaves that are tipped with white.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Me noticing the typo 10 minutes after posting

Mrs. Puff from SpongeBob SquarePants giving serious side eye.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Share an 80s movie you will always love

A still shot from a scene in the 1987 film, Raising Arizona. One of Glen and Dot’s children has scrawled the word “FART” on the wood paneling of the McDunnough’s starter home.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I saved these directions a good while ago when I made mine. It wasn’t easy (for me, a non savvy computer person) but it’s all the input I can offer. There may be a more efficient way by now.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The acct @ elitegrifters has popped up and its main beef is poor ppl having nice things and I went ahead and blocked it because here’s the thing: it’s a small account right now but everyone who engages with it is giving oxygen to its flame. Think of the block button as your fingers snuffing it out.

A screen grab of a reply by the account elitegrifters expressing their opinion that if someone struggles financially, they don’t deserve nice things and shouldn’t have them. The elite grifting is coming from inside the house, me thinks.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I’m not sure if this is the same Garter snake I observed eating a toad a few weeks ago but I surprised it as I was coming towards our back steps and it slithered under my giant Oak Leaf Hydrangea. So I sat down and waited to see if it would return and sure enough, it poked its head back out. I 💚 it.

A Common Garter snake looks out cautiously from under an Oak Leaf Hydrangea.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I tried to share this the proper way but it’s not working so a screenshot will have to do. Don’t let the mediocre score on IMDB put you off from watching this film. Bit is a solid vampire flick with good social commentary and just an all around enjoyable watch.

A screenshot of the IMDB page for the movie, Bit.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I was pulling into my driveway when I saw a Garter snake pursuing a toad. My camera was with me so jumped out and began taking pics. The snake eventually caught the toad and I observed the entire process, photographing it all. I have too much respect for the experience to give this a funny caption.

A Garter snake pursuing a large toad. The toad is mid-jump. Despite the toad being several times larger than the snake’s head, the snake caught it, and over the course of maybe an hour, it swallowed the toad, whole. I watched it all, and photographed the process. It was not easy to watch, and I was sad for the toad, but it was not my place to intervene. What I did do was tell the toad that someone witnessed its end– that its life had mattered (I say something simliar when I drive past any animal killed by a vehicle). I hope my respect for this part of nature, and the natural life cycle of predator and prey resonated somewhere in the universe. I don’t believe in any gods, but if there is something more out there, I hope that some force will witness my eventual end with the same solemnity and respect.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This morning I stopped at a bit of a birding hot spot I’ve found and almost immediately this Indigo Bunting showed up. They usually sing from high up in the trees but this one was low and soon I also saw a female. I believe they were guarding a nest. I didn’t stay long in order not to stress them. 🪶

A male Indigo Bunting on a green, leafy branch. It is in its breeding plumage, and it is bright blue overall, with an even richer blue on its head.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This female American Redstart put on quite a show for a crowd of birders at Magee Marsh a couple of weeks ago. She flitted from perch to perch, and gave us one pose after another. A sweet little diva who knew she had an audience. 🪶

A female American Redstart perches on a branch. She has a grey head and an olive back, and she has yellow patches on her sides, wings, and tail.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

One more Cedar Waxwing pic for all you Waxwing heads out there. I know the bird is somewhat in shadow in this one, but it looks so coy, and so stinking cute that I had to share!

A Cedar Waxwing looking coyly at the camera as it poses on a low-hanging serviceberry branch. It has a striking black face mask, and an airbrushed quality to the rest of its body, with a soft brown head and throat, and a buttery yellow abdomen.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

For a couple of weeks each spring, I have the opportunity to watch the Cedar Waxwings descend upon the serviceberry tree in my yard and gorge themselves on the fruit. Other birds enjoy it too, but the Waxwings are special because they only visit when the fruit is ready. A fleeting, magical moment. 🪶

A Cedar Waxwing perches in a serviceberry tree with a berry in its bill. The bird is so sleek that it looks airbrushed with its soft brown head and throat, and buttery, yellow abdomen. It has a striking black face mask, red wingtips, and a yellow tipped tail.

A Cedar Waxwing perches in a serviceberry tree. The bird is so sleek that it looks airbrushed with its soft brown head and throat, and buttery, yellow abdomen. It has a striking black face mask, red wingtips, and a yellow tipped tail.

A Cedar Waxwing bends forward to pluck a berry in a serviceberry tree. The bird is so sleek that it looks airbrushed with its soft brown head, and buttery, yellow abdomen. It has a striking black face mask, red wingtips, and a yellow tipped tail.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

For the past few weeks we had so much rain and all I could do was watch out the window, unable to be outside taking pics of the Cedar Waxwings eating the fruit in the serviceberry tree, knowing that when it’s gone, so too will they. Finally, this week we had sunny days and I was able to take pics! 🪶

A Cedar Waxwing in a serviceberry tree. It is a very sleek, almost satin looking bird, with a striking black mask, red wingtips, and a yellow-tipped tail. A singular looking bird.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I was watching the Cedar Waxwings in the serviceberry tree this week (pics will be forthcoming) when I saw this Red-eyed Vireo just appear in the tree, too. It isn’t a bird I often see without having to track it down so it was a delightful moment, and I got a pic of it snagging a caterpillar(?). 🪶

A Red-eyed Vireo perched in a Serviceberry tree. Its signature red eye is quite visible in the early evening sunlight.

A Red-eyed Vireo on a branch in a serviceberry tree. The bird is angled downward on a branch, in an elongated position, a hairy looking insect, possibly a caterpillar, is in its bill.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It’s late and I’m a little high but I wanted to tell you I saw a Yellow-billed Cuckoo today. I have only seen one maybe three times, including today. At first I didn’t know what I was looking at, and then I saw that bill! It was moving in slow-motion and was telepathically screaming DONT LOOK AT ME!

A Yellow-billed Cuckoo high up in a tree.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

We had a conversation. Ok, I did all of the talking, but I swear they were listening.

A squirrel standing upright in the grass.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Black and White Warblers like this female are somewhat unique from other warblers in that they move more like a nuthatch as they forage for insects, creeping along branches and trunks rather than flitting from place to place. Males have a black ear patch and a black throat patch. Such a cute bird! 🪶

A female Black and White Warbler on a branch.

A female Black and White Warbler upside down on a branch.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Here is a tiny baby painted turtle in a marsh. Never posted before, it is just for you. 💚

A baby painted turtle in shallow water, its head is raised high.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A Green Heron at Magee Marsh. If you look closely, you can see a blue egg in the nest. Something I just learned is that Green Herons are one of only a few bird species that use tools. They may use bread crusts, insects, or feathers by dropping them on the water to lure fish! That’s pretty rad! 🪶

A Green Heron with an egg visible in its nest.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

When mom brings home pizza for dinner.

An American Robin in a nest with babies. The babies all have their beaks open, waiting to be fed.

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I worked so hard to get this one and only good pic of a Black-throated Blue Warbler at Magee Marsh last weekend. They aren’t uncommon but I rarely see them. Everyone went nuts when this one appeared. Because it’s a warbler and constantly moves, it’s difficult to catch focus and the light is vital. 🪶

A male Black-throated Blue Warbler stopped for about .05 seconds right in front of me and I took this pic of it. The bird is midnight blue on his crown and back, and white on his underside. He has a black face and throat, and a white patch on his wing called a pocket handkerchief. The light wasn’t great but he had at least come out from the underbrush.

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