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Allison Ketchell

@allisonketchell.bsky.social
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Writer & editor in my crone era / knitter / culinary dabbler / mom to humans, cats, dogs, bunnies, crows / she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The swelling is more than the knee high light compression socks I in cute patterns can handle so it’s time for the medical grade thigh highs. I have a bone to pick with whoever drew the instructional diagram. The process was nowhere near as easy and painless as it would imply #totalhipreplacement
A woman’s hand holds an instruction sheet for medical grade compression stockings above a sock putting-on device. The four step process illustrated appears simple, straightforward, painless, and easily accomplished without excessive swearing and/or crying
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Did I tell y’all I had a total hip replacement on Tuesday? Meet my care team, from left to right, Lemonberry’s, Ariel, and Flounder
A woman’s legs are under a loose-weave blanket on a bed. A chonky tabby and white cat is on her lower legs. A slightly less chinky tabby and white cat is propped up against her. A brown dog is sleeping beside her.
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The espresso message of the day
A black demitasse filled with espresso on a black saucer, sitting atop an upside-down copy of Ursula Vernon’s sixth Princess Harriet Hamsterbone book, Little Red Rodent Hood. The swirls in the crema resemble an inkblot test
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
@laguettler.bsky.social
A butter dish with approximately two teaspoons of butter plus a smear remaining, a butter knife resting on its edge
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Good morning from Backyard Bun
A small round young cottontail rabbit faces to the right in an unkempt suburban backyard in early morning light, ears erect
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Is…is this ground squirrel a rock star? #backyardwildlife
Side view of a California ground squirrel sprawled on an unkempt clover-lawn, tail straight behind him and front legs holding up his body like he’s in a music video Back view of a California ground squirrel standing on his back legs on an unkempt suburban clover-lawn with his tail on the ground going to his left
Side view of a California ground squirrel standing on his back legs on an unkempt suburban clover-lawn , front paws grabbing the flower of a weed that’s almost as tall as he is and pulling it toward his face like a microphone, eyes squinting
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Easter bunny came this morning
A desert cottontail in an unkempt suburban backyard, scrunched up and looking slightly grumpy, a very round boiA desert cottontail in an unkempt suburban backyard facing opposite the camera, ears erect, cottontail visible
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I received a padded envelope from the university Spouse and I graduated from addressed to Ms. Allison Campbell and was gratified as always because this reclamation of my own name actually took some work on my part. I was absolutely blown away when I opened it to find it was for both of us. (Cont’d)
A letter from Emory University held over the address on the envelope by a woman’s thumb (wow, she needs a manicure) greets Allison and Matt while the envelope is addressed to Ms. Allison Campbell.
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Oh no I have to pee but Flounder isn’t done with his nap
A generously proportioned tabby and white cat curled up on a blanket-covered legs, totally asleep
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
First the mayo jar and now this @laguettler.bsky.social
A nearly empty butter dish with a couple of smears of butter on the butter. Directly beside it on the counter is the wax wrapping of a stick of butter, a couple of teaspoons of butter still left at one end. Resting on top of both is a dirty butter knife.
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I guess it’s not technically empty @laguettler.bsky.social
An overhead view of an open and very nearly empty mayonnaise jar, maybe a couple of teaspoons scattered around the inside
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I’m not one to kink shame but this kink is really fucking with my day
A photo of the underside of a kitchen sink attached to a garbage disposal. A short rigid hose forms a U between the disposal and the air gap above but it has kinked to the point of restricting water flow
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The espresso message of the day
A bird’s eye view of a black demitasse cup filled with espresso. The crema on top forms swirls reminiscent of inkblot tests. The cup rests on a Bunnicula paperback with a Percy Jackson bookmark peeking out
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Rabbit rabbit February
A cottontail rabbit in an unkempt suburban backyard, in mid-hop away from the camera
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The espresso message of the day
A closeup of the surface of a black demitasse cup full of espresso. The crema on top forms shapes similar to an ink blot test
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The espresso message of the day
A black demitasse cup full of espresso on a matching saucer atop a paperback copy of Rick Riordan’s The Red Pyramid. The crema on top forms blobs of various sizes reminiscent of ink blot tests
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
When you’re in between storms and have been cooped up a lot because of weather during the past couple of weeks, you have to catch up on all your neighborhood smelling
A brown dog in a pink harness and leash and a black and white dog in a red harness with black leash several feet away from the photographer intently sniffing a spot on the grass
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Rainy day rabbit rabbit January
A very round desert cottontail is hunched on an unkempt suburban clover-lawn underneath a boring nondescript decorative shrub keeping out of the rain
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
When you have no idea when the teenager might emerge from their cave, I mean bedroom, and decide to eat a cupcake
A single sprinkles-covered cupcake in a large white cake box with transparent lid. Around the edge in sharpie, someone has messily written “Talk to Mom before eating. There was an incident” with “incident” underlined
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The bunny butt of the day
A desert cottontail on an unkempt suburban clover-lawn facing away from the photographer, ears erect, white cottontail gloriously on display
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I can’t tell if Flounder kind of melted into Lemonberry or if Lemonberry rolled over onto him, but he seems happy and he’s breathing, I checked
A grey tabby and white cat is stretched out and pressed up against and possibly partly underneath a brown dog, head tucked into the fur of the dog’s neck, back against a breastfeeding pillow with a faded owl print. A second grey tabby and white cat sleeps in a more normal cat pose curled up against the breastfeeding pillow, butt a couple of inches from the other cat’s upper back
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Zoe likes to help with Christmas prep
A black cat stretches luxuriously in a sunbeam atop a length of sloth-themed Christmas Christmas wrapping paper. A neatly wrapped present in the same paper with a red box is behind her. There will clearly be no more wrapping until Her Majesty is finished with her nap.
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Ah yes, my favorite time of year, the time of year I get called “Mrs Matthew”
A woman’s middle finger partially covers the address on an envelope addressed to “Dr. and Mrs. Matthew Campbell”
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The local mom groups: constantly adding depth to the vertical lines between my eyes that I affectionately call my “WTF lines” since I got them making a “WTF” face too often @laguettler.bsky.social you will love this one
A post from a local mom group in white text on red background reading “Looking for a baby chiropractor for our 3 week old!” Post has 8 likes, 38 comments
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Thanks, man, I’ll look for it there
An Amazon delivery confirmation email with a photo taken in the dark, with a perfectly round spot of red bricks and the toe of the driver’s shoe visible. No package appears in the frame.
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The espresso message of the day
The surface of a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup. The swirls in the crema form nebulous shapes in the vein of an inkblot test
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
My Cheerios box making promises it can’t keep
The back of a box of Cheerios Oat Crunch Oats ‘n’ Honey cereal, promising in large, all caps letters START YOUR DAY SO SATISFIED
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Backyard bunny taking advantage of a break in the rain
A desert cottontail eating grass and clover in an unkempt, very wet suburban backyard
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Ah, it may be time to start using that “bog witch” handle I snagged a while back
A rather flooded suburban backyard with large deep puddles in the unkempt grass, wet bricks, and a flooded potted plant
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The espresso message of the day
A closeup of the surface of a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup, the crema forming swirls and shapes like an ink blot test. The cup sits on a paperback copy of The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Backyard bunny mid-chew
A desert cottontail viewed from the side, ears erect, grass sticking out of its mouth, on an unkempt clover-lawn in a suburban backyard
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The espresso message of the day
The surface of a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup. The crema forms swirls and shapes like an ink lot test. Is it a pufferfish? What could that mean?
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Rabbit rabbit November
A desert cottontail, fuzzy butt toward the photographer, sits in quarter profile with its ears erect. It’s on patchy grass in a suburban backyard that clearly does not belong to “lawn” people
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Lemonberry and her kittens. I love the outtake with Ariel rolled on her back. Flounder doesn’t move at all
A brown dog is resting on a bed in between two tabby and white cats. The dog is looking slightly back toward the photographer. One cat is snuggled against the dog’s belly and looking toward the right. The other cat is curled into a boppy pillow with his butt against the dog’s back.A brown dog is resting on a bed in between two tabby and white cats. One cat is curled into a boppy pillow with his butt against the dog’s back. The other cat is flopped on her back, paws straight up in the air, and the dog is resting her chin lightly on the cat’s white belly.
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Frank and I are manning the treat table out front tonight #halloween
A middle aged woman wearing glasses and a witch hat and smiling in a somewhat unhinged manner sits with her arm across the shoulders of a skeleton
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
What
A Facebook news bulletin shows a map of southern California with a large area including metro Los Angeles in green with the heading TORNADO RISK MON-TUE in white letters on a red background
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
One of the other Allison Campbells is looking for love. I’m so tempted to reset her password and tinker with her profile
Part of an email from SilverSingles.com. Text reads: “A Good Profile Is The Key
We LOVE who you are, and so will your matches. Make sure your profile reflects your true personality. It makes starting a conversation easier if you can ask a question about someone's profile information. Did your match say they enjoy paragliding? Ask them about it!” followed by a button to UPDATE PROFILE and a red circle enclosing a white heart with a red pencil. Remaining text reads: 
“Make it personal:
Do you bake the best brownies or speak Japanese? Share it! Those are the things that make you” The bottom of the message is cut off.
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The espresso message of the day Is the universe telling me “C is for Cookie, and that’s good enough for me?”
The surface of a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup and saucer atop a paperback copy of David Whyte’s Consolations, the crema resembling a bubbly letter C, or if the cup were rotated 90 degrees, a U, or any number of other Rorschachian interpretations of pattern
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The espresso message of the day
A closeup of the surface of a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup on a black saucer, atop a paperback copy of Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan. The swirls in the crema form shapes like an ink blot test.
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Ok I love Compartes (I covet their winter Fox advent calendar if anyone is wondering) but I do not feel this gift would say good things about you
A Compartes chocolate instagram ad featuring a vivid red bar on a backdrop of tomatoes. The caption reads “the tomato chocolate bar. When your gift says everything about you”
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
He put his money where his mouth is
News headline from April 6, 2023 reads, “Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment”
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The espresso message of the day
Swirls and dots in the crema of espresso in a black demitasse cup, very Rorschach-ish
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
ICE shooting projectiles at the backs of unarmed civilians who can’t see because they’ve been tear-gassed, what a country
The back of a woman’s upper leg sporting a bruise of three purple and pink concentric circles
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The espresso message of the day
Dots and swirls in the crema atop a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
@laguettler.bsky.social wtf are these people doing with the butter?
On a kitchen counter with hopelessly outdated tile and discolored grout, a packaged pound of butter stands vertically beside a covered red butter dish with a butter knife sticking out from under the cover, globs of butter visibly on the edges of both the knife and the cover. Beside the handle of the butter knife is a stick of butter, nearly half used but not properly unwrapped, more mangled like a wild animal attacked it. Less relevant are the jar of preserved lemons beside the butter dish and a ziploc baggie on the counter in the foreground.
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The bunny butt of the day
A desert cottontail sits in profile on the patchy clover-lawn of an unkempt suburban backyard, black-tipped ears erect, tail like two of the most adorable cotton balls ever
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Flounder has been napping for an hour and a half. I’m hungry, thirsty, need to pee, and out of coffee send help #cat
A rather portly grey tabby and white cat is asleep on a woman’s lap
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Painting a cow with Mo
Unhinged middle aged women painting
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
He made a perfect croissant shape.
An orange tabby cat curled into a croissant shape
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Allison Ketchell @allisonketchell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
He always looked annoyed at Ariel and Flounder and occasionally needed to do some bapping when they got insolent.
An orange tabby cat on a bed looks down in annoyed fashion at two young grey and white tabby cats
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