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Caretaker of a (literal) gutter 😼 and two other street rescues. Queer/Bi , He/Him/Any

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Noel @breadhiking.com · 24/09/2026
This is roughly 50/50 stuff that I played solo and stuff I played online with people or in the lounge at school.
Social share image from the my9games.net thing.
Top Row: Stunt Island, Total Annihilation, Starsiege: Tribes
Middle Row: Kerbal Space Program, Super Smash Bros., Goldeneye 007
Bottom Row: Cruis'n USA, Blast Corps, Star Control II
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 04/09/2026
Did you do the standard or extended? Because what the HELL is the first one in the extended? Also they nailed me pretty good.
Screenshot of the first question from the extended quiz:
Question 1 of 148
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What do you call the game wherein the participants see who can throw a knife closest to the other person (or alternately, get a jackknife to stick into the ground or a piece of wood)?mydialect - Extended results map

Showing closest similarity with California, Alaska, and a bit of Nevada. Strongest dissimilarity with the South.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 04/09/2026
The first one on the extended version is a total wtf
Screenshot of Question 1 of 148
What do you call the game wherein the participants see who can throw a knife closest to the other person (or alternately, get a jackknife to stick into the ground or a piece of wood)?
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 04/09/2026
Mine is perhaps also unsurprising. I need to have my spouse take it as though they have lived in CA nearly their entire life they have some odd NEisms that creep in, presumably from family. I think the only family one I have is y'all from my mom from well before it became popular more broadly.
My results from the mydialect website, it shows my most likely area as broadly the western states with likelihood getting lesser as it goes East. The area of least similarity is the South, with the exception of Florida.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 01/09/2026
For my crimes, please witness this extremely failed experiment from yesterday. Did pizzas for a bday celebration, decided to see if I could do bread in the absolutely-no-temperature-control pizza oven. It was still raw in the center. Admittedly, an expected possible result.
A somewhat meteoric looking loaf of bread on a pizza peel. It isn't just a trick of the light, the side of the loaf facing the camera is absolutely completely blackened and has giant bubbles on it.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 25/08/2026
He was fished out of a storm drain in downtown San Bernardino at about 7 weeks old! I'm always amazed, looking at older pictures, how much his fur has changed since he was young and from season to season. He's about 6mos old here
A diptych of a broken jar of bath salt and the 1000% exonerated totally 1000% innocent baby Electro that never could have possibly caused the broken jar.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 25/08/2026
Electro really liked the bathtub at our prior place, we had to keep a towel in there for him when it wasn't in use.
Electro the cat laying on top of a towel in a bathtub with a collection of cat toys, a few balls, a mouse, a banana, etc.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 19/08/2026
Private tab in California. I appreciate the reference to the Divine Comedy as well as the comparative overview. A refresh gave Eastern Orthodox and a second just gave Christianity.
Al Overview
If a single, specific tradition were entirely correct in this hypothetical final moment, the scenario described in The Divine Comedy aligns with historic Christianity, where the soul encounters the specific triune God and the judgment outlined in the New Testament.
Perspectives on Exclusive Truth
Exclusive Claims: Many major traditions, such as Islam and Christianity, explicitly teach that their specific theology and foundational revelations accurately reflect ultimate reality.
Alternative Frameworks: Non-theistic or cyclical traditions like Buddhism and
Hinduism view the transition of death not as a sudden revelation of a single divine lawgiver, but as part of an ongoing cycle of karma and rebirth or the realization of an ultimate impersonal reality (Nirvana or Brahman).
Comparative Overview
Tradition
Concept of Ultimate Reality
View of Final Revelation
Christianity
Triune God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit)
Centered on Jesus Christ as the sole Savior
Islam
Monotheistic absolute unity (Allah)
Finalized through the Qur'an and Prophet Muhammad
Hinduism
Brahman (ultimate reality) manifesting in many forms
Cyclical time and continuous spiritual evolution (Samsara)
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 15/08/2026
Took the pictures for this back in May and just got around to assembling them! More in the alt text
A composite photo of two portraits: Kehinde Wiley's Portrait of a Young Gentlemen and Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy. They are both in the Thornton Portrait Gallery (as noted above the painting) at the Huntington in San Marino, CA. There is roughly half of each portrait showing with Wiley's on the left and Gainsborough's on the right. The elaborate frames are also composited in the same location. There is a detailed textured wallpaper on the wall the frames are mounted on.

Wiley's portrait depicts a young Black man standing in a jaunty pose, wearing a tie-dye shirt and shorts and holding a ballcap in his right hand. He is both in front of and behind a painted background reminiscent of William Morris Anemone pattern. 

Gainsborough's portrait depicts a young white man standing in a similar jaunty pose, his left hand on his hip with his elbow sticking out. He's wearing silky blue 17th century clothes. He stands in front of a dramatically lit dark landscape.

Continued context: I've really enjoyed the curation and idea for the installation since Wiley's Portrait of a Young Gentleman was installed opposite Blue Boy. Earlier this year I had the idea of a composite of the two.

The poses aren't ~quite~ as close as I was hoping for a smoother transition, but still, glad to have finally gotten around to it!
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 01/08/2026
I can't find any of the pictures of the inappropriate cucumbers we've had over the years, but I do have one of a zucchini. Still no idea how this thing got missed in the plant.
Half of an absolutely massive zucchini. It has the center scooped out and filled with ???? and cheese (sorry it was many years ago, no clue what the filling was). The monster squash is sitting on a yellow Fiestaware platter on top of a pull out cutting board in front of a blue tile with black grout counter.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 21/07/2026
So, do we think he is a long time Never-Ending Pasta Pass holder? Or has he seen a stupid headline about it recently?
A screenshot depicting a few search results, notably from The Sun and Fox News talking about how the Never-Ending Pasta Pass will require ID
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 20/07/2026
Dined al fresco this evening. Grilled green beans (not pictured) and cedar chicken packets.
Cedar paper wrapped chicken packets fresh off the grill, sitting on a blue plate on a plastic folding table.One of the aforementioned packets opened up. Chicken breast rubbed with smoked olive oil, vinegar, and a spice mixture and topped with artichoke hearts, fresh tomatoes from the garden, bacon bits, havarti cheese, and sun dried tomatoes sitting on a plastic plate with a fork and a knife in the background.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 29/06/2026
it made me think of this
A picture of the director Uwe Boll wearing a red t-shir that says "GAME" with the A being made from the Atari logo.

His head has been replaced with that of a boll weevil. A boll weevil with googly eyes, glasses, and floating eyebrows.

He's still rocking his headphones, must be a style accessory since there are is no proper place for him to wear them
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 22/06/2026
My absolute favorite berry needs a bit of processing for it to be how I like to eat it (pictured below) but I won't kick a tomato or banana or cucumber off the plate.
A dark chocolate bar with leaf and cacao pod design on it sitting upon the paper part of the packaging.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 22/06/2026
behold, a bucket full of berries:
A white bucket sat upon some grass and filled up with roughly Hass looking avocadoes a number of which have a ton of their flesh missing, it having been removed by devious parrots.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 16/06/2026
Electro is also a fan
Electro the cat snoozing in the lower tier of a 2 tier cat tree. He's semi-curled up and got all 4 paws kind of mashed up into a somewhat difficult parse.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 16/06/2026
I grew up with it being a name for both the spider and the crane fly, which according to this is unusual for the USA, but also peep these other names.
Screenshot of the Common names section of Wiki article for Crane Flies
Common names
Numerous common names have been applied to the crane fly. Many of the names are more or less regional in the U.S., including mosquito hawk, mosquito eater, gallinipper, and gollywhopper.[31] They are also known as "daddy longlegs" in English-speaking countries outside the U.S.,[9] not to be confused with the U.S. usages of "daddy long legs" that refer to either arachnids of the order Opiliones or the family Pholcidae. The larvae of crane flies are known commonly as leatherjackets.[9]

They are also known as "Jenny long legs" in Scotland.[32] In Ireland, they are generally called "daddy long legs" in English, whereas in Irish they are commonly known as Pilib an Gheataire, which means Skinny Philip.[32][33]
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 11/06/2026
right? such a font of wonder
Mashup of devil face and penguin emojis to give an evil purple penguin with demon horns!Penguin mashed up with penguin, this dapper penguin has got a bowtie an orange?? A sparkle, a pocket square.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 20/05/2026
Folks it is that season once again in California. PM.3, 1, 2.5, and 10 all with a nice spike right when the wind shifted!
4 graphs from an air quality monitor showing (in order)
PM .3, PM1, PM2.5, and PM10.
I should note the monitor is not outside, and I don't really want to know what it would show there.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 13/05/2026
I thought I had already cleared it from spam, but I hadn't! The body has some, let me say, more veiled antisemitism regarding big pharma than you would expect given, you know, the rest of it.
A screenshot of an email in the Gmail spam folder:
The Longevity Lab
Hitler's secret formula helps men perform. Secret WW2 research helps men get rock hard...
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 24/04/2026
It was BAFFLING I never saw them playing on it. Apologies for the horrible drawing, but it was roughly like this. The hoops were attached to the walls of the mezzanine floor on these long brackets that folded out. Which was really more of a wraparound walkway? Pile was probably .5-.75" at minimum.
MS paint rough drawing of the facility.
On the left is sort of an angled bracket indicating the mezzanine.
On the right is another angled bracket indicating the stage.
In the center is a horrible illustration of a basketball court.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 19/04/2026
this is what it was ~supposed~ to look like
The same Cluizel Koala, but not smashed! It has a big plumpy head and ears, tiny little paws and a cute lighter colored belly
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 19/04/2026
The shipping company handled that for me with the koala I got for my spouse.
A Michel Cluizel chocolate Easter Koala in a bag. Or, well, it was supposed to be. It is in total shards
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 19/04/2026
I've seen the bars, but not the spread! These two have been my recent ones, picked them up at a local company gift fair last Xmas. They're just what they say they are on the tin too.
A jar of Crunchy Black Sesame Butter and a jar of Chinese Almond Cookie Butter
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 12/04/2026
Wide and tall stitched panorama shot from near the summit of Mt Rubidoux. In the foreground to the right you can see part of the dry riverbed of the Santa Ana River. To the left in the foreground is a portion of the city of Jurupa Valley. In the background are the Jurupa Hills and the snow capped San Gabriel Mountains.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 03/04/2026
but what if
The same screenshot as above of "the pitt crazy good this week" being repeated a bunch.

but WAIT!

sometimes the "the" has a capital T and sometimes it doesn't

if we assume, as is only natural, that the lower case represents a dot and the upper case a dash what do we have...
JK!!!!
it was all a ruse, a deception!
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 23/03/2026
I've been doing some genealogy research (for reasons), and I already knew this had happened, but found a death certificate for an ancestor:
Fracture of skull
Looking out of his cab window
toward rear of train his head
was hit by a bridge.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 03/03/2026
At first I was just going to hop out to look at the eclipse and not take photos, but then I decided I should take some. Then I was going to go to bed at a normal time... but then I dallied and thought might as well wait till totality. So I missed a bunch of stages, but, eclipse photos.
A WIDE picture with seven moons! The first two have the moon still mostly lit, the rest are a bit before or during totality.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 02/03/2026
I was just thinking I didn't realize it went down to hundredths of a percent, and then I went to look at mine!
A screenshot from YouTube Music showing a picture of Sufjan Stevens and:
Top listener of Sufjan Stevens 
I was in the top 0.02% of their audience of 6.7 million in January
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 27/02/2026
found it! I don't know if it is original, been that way for at least 20 years though I think.
A picture of a relatively normal single level home in SoCal, painted gray with white trim, a sort of bay window in the center and pretty standard vinyl windows to the right. In between the front door and the bay window is a triangular window with probably at least 16 individual panes in it. The front yard is sparse, mostly dirty and rocks behind a block and wrought iron fence.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 13/02/2026
at our old place it was a not uncommon experience for this little jackass to scramble himself all the way to the top of the curtains in a fit, and then sit there looking at us like "why did you do this to me" and wailing
Nestor the gray tabby cat is precariously perched upon the curtain rod in between the curtain road and the decorative framing around the window. he's intently focused, probably on the cat bed that is SO-SO far out of reach from where he is.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 12/02/2026
Ours is needlessly complicated this month because of it being across 25/26 and getting the rates from both. this is roughly 48% EV charging. This ends up at roughly $0.103/kWh not including the fixed costs AND including kWh from the solar self consumed that never touches the grid.
My ~needlessly~ complicated electric bill.
It has 10 individual kWh rates as well one single credit rate.

81 KWH ( ON PK ELE)@$0.160300 = 12.98
9 KWH ( ON PK ELE)@$0.256500 = 2.31
150 KWH ( MID PK EL)@$0.128300 = 19.25
25 KWH ( MID PK EL)@$0.205300 = 5.13
311 KWH ( OFF PK EL)@$0.116300 = 36.17
59 KWH ( ON PK ELE)@$0.172800 = 10.20
6 KWH ( ON PK ELE)@$0.276400 = 1.66
-314 KWH ( MID PK EL)@$0.073300 = 23.03 CR
108 KWH ( MID PK EL)@$0.138200 = 14.93
18 KWH ( MID PK EL)@$0.221200 = 3.98
225 KWH ( OFF PK EL)@$0.125300 = 28.19
NETWORK ACCESS CHARGE 18.39
CUSTOMER CHARGES 14.31
RELIABILITY CHARGE 20.00
STATE ENERGY 0.30
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 06/02/2026
smh, why is everyone sharing the photshopped version. we shouldn't be spreading misinformation instead of the real picture
the emo ice agent picture, (nerdy emo looking ice agent with glasses, a grey beanie, a POLICE ICE vest and a black hoodie) except the ERO has been hastily photoshopped into EMO
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 04/02/2026
we need to go further
The cover image of Starsiege Tribes.

At the top it says "THE ULTIMATE IN FIRST-PERSON SQUAD WARFARE"
Below that tagline is an icy planet, a person in light armor and a scout flyer.

Below that is the logo for the game.

Below the logo is more of the icy planet, another armored individual carrying a flag.

At the bottom is the a black strip with the Dynamix logo, 3DFx logo, Dolby Surround sound logo, and the Teen Rating symbol
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 01/02/2026
we're over here tying record highs in the IE
Screenshot from my weather station
85 degrees F
Clear Skies, Sunny
Feels like 85 degrees F
22% humidity
30inhG and decreasing
Winds 2mph WNW
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 01/02/2026
yeahhh, same down here in socal
Full sun, 80 F
Tomorrow's high may break the record for Feb. 1
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 30/01/2026
living with multiple cats, I think it can only ever be this
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A white flag with a black cross
STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 27/01/2026
Some possibly good news this evening, went outside and saw the glow of the sunset on the flag and decided to lean in.
A photo of the Peace Tower and the American flag near the summit of Mt Rubidoux. The roof of tower and the flag both have a bit of sunset glow on them while the foreground of Mt Rubidoux, the rest of the peace tower, the vegetation, and the sky are all a bit muted and twilightly.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 27/01/2026
Moon looked nice tonight!
A photo of the night sky (tricks actually, it was nowhere near that dark out yet when I took the photo) with the just over half illuminated moon sitting in the center of the bottom third of the image.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 26/01/2026
Gooseberries are great! Only discovered Tiptree in '24 in a shop in Boston, got myself Black Currant and my dad Rhubarb Vanilla. Back in '12 my spouse was working in the national forest and when I visited we harvested some CA native gooseberries and I made a sauce with em (apologies for the WB)
A branch of CA native ribes with a few leaves and some ripe berries in front of a defocused background. They're PROBABLY Ribes roezlii based on where I took this picture and the form, but I didn't know the species at all then soooHarvested wild gooseberries in a white bowl ready to be cleanedMini brownie topped with vanilla(?) gelato and a thin sauce made from the wild gooseberries on a white plate that has a blue ring around the edge, there is a fork sitting on the plate and roughly the 10 o'clock position.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 12/01/2026
Hmm, I wonder who inspired the 2010s peak for my name.
Graph of number of baby boys named Noel
From 41 per 1 million births in the 1880s to 207 per 1 million in 2020.
There are also smaller peaks in the 1900s, 1930s, and 1970s.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 09/01/2026
Consequences of nearly all of my travel before the last ~5 years either being road trips as a kid, two moving road trips for others, or academic conferences.
My US Level is 69 (nice)

Road trips as a kid:
NV, UT, AZ, NM 

Academic conferences (other state as part of the trip):
FL, MA+(RI), PR, MO+(IL), TX

Space camp:
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Visiting now spouse when they were in grad school:
AK (Also drove through and stayed in some of, OR, WA, BC and YT to get there)

Road trips as an adult:
WA, OR, CO, UT, NV, AZ

Visiting family:
FL, MN, MA, NM (as a kid, we flew back in the same day as the OJ freeway chase)
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 02/01/2026
No cheating: quote skeet with the most recent picture of your pet
Electro the (sorta-snowshoe) cat looking very self-satisfied sitting in his cat tree on top of his cat warming pad with his pouch of catnip close by.

The catnip pouch depicts a cat lying on a tile floor and saying "I think I'm a seal. I'm a seal now."
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 01/01/2026
I let it brown a bit too much before tenting with foil, but it still turned out pretty well! Ends up sort of like a pull-apart style cinnamon roll, quite good. I added a little bit of cardamom to the filling as well.
The same "giant cinnamon roll" with the glaze poured over it.The "giant cinnamon roll" baked and on a blue plate it barely fits on. It's just a biiiit over-browned.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 01/01/2026
King Arthur Flour. I saw it in their December Baking Roundup and thought it might make a good New Year's Morning bake. www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/gian...
"Giant Cinnamon Roll", shaped and in a frying pan. The center is a fairly traditionally shaped cinnamon roll. Wrapped around that center are strips of the same dough spiraling around the central roll to approximate one giant cinnamon roll.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 01/01/2026
The layout has changed a bit since this photo, still need to get some fake turf or something for the floor.
The inside of a catio. On the left side are scratching posts designed for both scratching and traversal, some shelves and fabric portions. On the right is a vertical scratching post with multiple shelves, a long fabric hammock, and a rope and plank bridge.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 20/12/2025
this was early on, more presents got wrapped and went under the tree and then some left. cat-proof ornaments (cardboard ones from our chocolate advent calendar) got hung on it we're only expecting 5 for xmas eve, assuming the spouse feels better this weekend
A Christmas tree decked out in frosty blue and white lights (they're shifting colors and twinkling but this is just a picture so you can't tell that) with a tree skirt and some presents under it.
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 29/11/2025
I didn't have the chance to get many pictures during, but I did nab a few to send to the grandparents, the latter with about half the dishes out: Guests also brought potatoes au gratin and Cantonese sticky rice
A dining room table setup for crudité, charcuterie, chips, crackers, fruit, etc.A folding table with an electric chafing dish, electric warming plate, and triple crock pot filled with an assortment of Thanksgiving dishes.Screenshot of the menu from this year, text follows:
Sweet and Spicy Glazed Kabocha
Wedges of squash glazed with maple syrup and spices

Mashed Turnips
_______ family recipe, milled with maple syrup and butter

Sweet Potato Crunch
Roasted sweet potatoes mashed with butter, brown sugar, and orange seasoning and topped with a seasoned streusel

Vegetarian Traditional Stuffing
Traditional onion, celery, and broth stuffing made with veggie broth and bread crumbs

Roasted Broccoli and Cauliflower
Broccoli and Cauliflower tossed with olive oil and seasonings and roasted

Pom & Cranberry Bean Salad
Pomegranate arils tossed with cranberry beans, spices, balsamic and oil

Browned Butter Mashed Potatoes
Yukon gold mashed with browned butter & milk

Green Bean Casserole (Extra Crispy)
Scratch made green bean casserole, with veggie broth and panko bread crumb and fried onion topping

Corn Pudding
Pureed corn and whole corn with cheddar and Ritz cracker crumbs and topped with the same

Cornbread Stuffing
Traditional onion, celery, and broth stuffing made with chicken broth and cornbread crumbs

Cranberry Sauce
_______ family recipe and tradition, thanks dad!

Fluffy Dinner Rolls
Dinner rolls with a light fluffy texture from tangzhong (cooked flour paste)
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 21/11/2025
But also some.... stuff.
A unipegasus with a Cinderella style carriage for some reasonSled dog drawn Christmas Sled?Gigantic peacock lantern displayReindeer with ornaments on antlers, menorah and blue and white present lanterns?
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Noel @breadhiking.com · 21/11/2025
The one at LA County Arboretum was largely Chinese
Massive Heavenly Temple lanternDragon lantern on waterWALRUS lanterns!!! An adult, 2 pups and a juvenile maybe?Another Dragon lantern, with hanging lanterns and pots shooting stars
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