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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Latest package of bliss (books) has arrived from #betterworldbooks ...including the Joe Hill prompted by @stinasdemons.com 's mention ::rubbing-hands-delightedly::

stack of books, spines of : King Sorrow (Joe Hill), The Gathering (Anne Enright), Her Little Flowers (Shannon Morgan), Black Dogs (Ian McEwan), The Other Valley (Scott Alexander Howard)

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Ah! An extra, a surprise, from this VitalFarms egg :)

cast iron skillet holds four eggs in the process of being cooked "over easy"; one is a double-yolked egg! Yolk colors are rich orange. Pan is black. Whites are half-cooked.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Picture me (baking frenzy past few days) with a tin of Magenbrot staring at me. Challenging me to cut off just a bit to sample. ... ... (oh. yes.)

an open tin cookie container with Magenbrot inside -- diagonals (rather like thick-cut biscotti) of dark brown baked cookie that's been slathered with a candy-sugar sort of coating. amazingly delicious
recipe from DaringGourmet dot com

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Joyous Solstice and/or Happy Christmas and/or whatever you may be celebrating. For xmas card this year I tried out Procreate. Title: "Find Your Joy" (first vid I've posted; hope I do this correctly)

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

My first go at "Engelsaugen" ("Angel Eyes") are ready to go in the oven. #baking

a pan of 20 shortbread cookies with dab of raspberry jam in center

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Just for the record, Cornish pasties are entirely decadent

2 baked savory pasties, a sort of pie you could hold, in a half moon shape. Very flaky rich pastry

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Many (white-tailed) deer seen in walk through town/neighbourhoods to the Co-op (grocer's). On the way there, a boy and his (hoped for) harem; on way home, just the girls being naughty by nibbling rose bushes. #deer #wildlife #walk

4 of the 6-7 deer seen first seen. in empty grassy-weedy lot in neighbourhood. mature trees, some changing to red. in center, behind post of a stop sign is the male, with antlers, and intent on one of females. others nibbling and nearest one looking at me.

5 female whte-tailed deer nibbling on shrubs including roses between paved street littered with leaves and a circa 1900s well-cared-for two story blue house. a 'no parking' sign can be seen next to 2 of left-most deer

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

So a very “fall” (autumn) day and launching right into baking mode. Strawberry pecan quick bread recipe I’m trying out here—then, this afternoon, grape pie. Excuse, pls, the condition of the oven window etc #baking

Dark gray 9” x 5” loaf pan holding 3/4 complete golden brown loaf of a sweet quick bread, as seen through somewhat grimy oven window

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

You (and your choice) have bewitched me. I've been curious about this saga for some time. (just ordered, dammit) I read widely differing things (some oddity of my psyche?), but anyway -- a favourite is in quite another vein from Peake ...

cover of book shows smiling woman in 1960s Welsh whitewashed cottage front yard surrounded by chickens, goats, etc. The book is "Valley of Animals" by Elma M. Williams

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I’m unable to unsee a jowly person grimacing

Upside down shopping cart (“shopping “) magnet seems to strongly suggest…

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Great evening last night with the appropriately loquacious ☺️ @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social -- Q & A (and #newbook ) at Boise's beautiful Egyptian Theatre What a treat 🍰

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

After yesterday's (welcome) rain, I walked. At one point I caught a glimpse of a strange movement in a backed-up gutter at a street corner. Upon closer inspection, it was a tiny frog (1"/3cm) clinging to a fallen leaf. #nature #walks

a shallow pool of water at an intersection's graded cut-away. a few larger fallen leaves -- shades of pale greens -- have landed there following the rain. a tiny dark brown frog, barely visible, clings to a leaf's edge

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

One of my favorite books in the world is *Valley of Animals* by Elma M. Williams. And here is Jezebel who is brilliant, communicative, rather possessive, and sports the most magnificent whiskers. (happy birthday!!)

A black and white cat sits in a sphinx pose, but with head turned toward camera. The late-day sun is catching many individual hairs which shine brightly. She's on a shelf; behind is an African violet(?). Her expression is sage and mysterious.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The borage is being somewhat over-exuberant…as is its wont. Tomato stoically enduring. #gardens

Densely planted bit of garden. Colors predominantly green and violet-blue (which are the borage flowers in foreground). They’re 5-point star shaped and numerous, leaning off the stem in several directions. Fuzzy, they look almost backlit

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh

Cartoon by Twohy - Side view, cat sitting behind desk viewing manuscript. Eager dog sits opposite in chair. Caption is cat talking: "You tend to overuse the exclamation point."

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Bert Bunny sends earnest greetings!

A very small cottontail rabbit in pale shades of grays and browns sits in very large (2.5 ft. diam.?) plant saucer that was repurposed to catch seeds from birdfeeder above (not visible). Behind are fallen needles from pine plus old and worn wooden wheelbarrow with rusting wheel. Bunny is alert and large black(?) eye is watching! Ears are alert and swivelling to catch any nearby disturbance.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I'm just catching up on the #rabbitrabbit thing, but serendipitously, we've recently met a small fella who's spending time in our back garden of late, and who explored our (outbuilding) studio briefly, just yesterday. This is Bert

sitting still atop old linoleum tile in shades of sage is a Mountain Cottontail rabbit, a young one not larger than a quart jar, with shiny alert black eye and a coat of browns and grays. Not visible (they're sitting on it) is the white "cotton ball" tail that gives it its name.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

wow. yet another amazingly rich trove of resources from bsky.app/profile/arch... ... for #screenwriters over 1000 scripts there, if I'm reading that correctly archive.org/details/scri...

"Film and Television Script Archive" - a collection of scripts related to television, films and other productions
(the header from the page the link points to)

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

familiar ploy well-known in the black-and-white cats community

on inner porch near front door a cat stares imploringly from a kitty stroller

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

“Hey, whadaya want? I was sleeping.” Cold gray wet windy day. Perfect for napping #caturday

Black and white cat with surly annoyed expression is curled before a window

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Much excitement this morning as the first poppy has popped!

Single coral red poppy blossom in midst of garden greenery

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I suppose I am the last person on Bluesky to have read Shirley Jackson's *The Haunting of Hill House*... what crystalline brilliance The opening paragraph is itself a masterwork in #horror (transcribed in alt text) Also pleased she had no fear of semicolons ;

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

So I look out the front window and there’s this flock of turkeys walking by #boise

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Some friendly types I met on my neighborhood walk

Over a dozen ceramic figures of
Dogs and cats in various poses, a bit of and worn as if they’d come from a second hand store—all on a small roadside bed of rust colored pine needles

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

In my email...to share with my closest Bluesky friends :) Blambot are a superior #font foundry. If you are an #indywriter and create your own #bookcovers you should (IMHO) make sure the font faces you use are properly licensed. Enjoy browsing! (temporary discount code in graphic) blambot.com

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Just got a BookBub notice that *MIRRORLAND* (Carole Johnstone) is on sale at Kobo, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Amazon. I read this book about six months ago. Don't think I will ever forget it. Brilliant dark psychological mystery neo-gothic #bookrecommendation #booksky

A screenshot of part of BookBub's listing for the book MIRRORLAND by Carole Johnstone

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Having just finished Alan Moore's The Great When (*****), I'll be starting, by @premeemohamed.com , The Annual Migration of Clouds. In both cases, my first read by these authors.

Book cover of Premee Mohamed's "The Annual Migration of Clouds"

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Yet another reason I love Kagi for #search

Web page explains how Kagi downranks AI-generated images, and labels them as such. I can filter them out from image search results and block sites that serve them.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This little girl is 10 years old today! Alt: Black and white cat with symmetrical mask face, black nose, and black circle below mouth sits on shelf in late afternoon sun as the light catches her magnificent whiskers and white belly hairs. One green eye (the other in shadow) conveys inscrutableness.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This morning's bit of happiness has included buttermilk banana bread (in process) as well as planned orange cranberry bread (yet to come). Also watched fun/useful YT video on making (Chinese) dumplings*, plus req'd a book on drawing journaling from my library network. * youtu.be/UUSUxECqb1Y?...

partially baked loaf of quick bread, just turning golden, as seen through my (not entirely pristinely clean) oven window

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

smirking at myself as I'm not sure this qualifies for #OnlyBeautifulThings -- but decided to pick up my dusty BuddhaBoard today :)

in corner of my room, beside book stacks, is a light gray surface upon which you "paint" with water using a bamboo brush. I've made wavy lines to suggest tall grasses and within is a rough approximate of a rabbit with two ears erect and tiny eyes, nose, mouth.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Happy 220th birthday to a perennial inspiration & grisly delight: Edgar Allan Poe img: Portrait of Poe, credit: National Portrait Gallery

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

As I may've mentioned, for 2025 I plan* to (a) set a books-read goal and (b) avoid excessive dithering by identifying beforehand what books I'll read next. Monumental tho feasible. Useful. *the noise you hear is the gods laughing #booksky #reading #planning

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

#Booksky Most very-much pleased with @whistberry.bsky.social book, just finished yesterday. (Readers: I am so bad about this myself, but posting a review is so tremendously helpful to authors, especially independents.)

A screenshot of part of a 5-star review of Helen Whistberry's book "When Your Heart is a Broken Thing"

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

One of my ... plans (avoiding the R [resolution] word) ... for 2025 is to begin (a) planning in advance which book to read next, and alongside that (b) setting a Books Read goal. (Beaming admiration at you who do that already.) Pictured: one bookcase Collecting; it's a mania. #booksky

a chaotic and colorful set of adjacent bookcases with books stacked sort of orderly and also somewhat haphazardly. a stack on the left is precariously high. window behind can be barely seen in spots. a wooden circular step stool is in the foreground

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Off I go to bake cookies (gingerbread, vanillekipferl -- annual tradition for former; first try at the latter). I leave the front garden and the festivities at the squirrel pagoda to the local #squirrel populace.

Three squirrels approach (while one is already at) a small-scale (around 1 foot high?) green-painted, 8-sided, single-level pagoda-type structure in which a bowl of seeds and peanuts sits. It’s situated in a sea of previously-eaten sunflower seed shells along with spruce tree needles. This is situated in a front garden, brown and green as it’s winter. An old cement walkway is visible on the left.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A spate of sewing -- working on the blanket for our caga tió, which is a new annual tradition we started about 24 hours ago.

atop a sewing table, two orange-handled scissors and a remnant of black, green, and red plaid flannel, not yet sewn (raw edges showing)

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Yes! 25(?)-year-old diskette labels are handy for addressing dark or intensely coloured envelopes! #itMightComeInUseful

photo of desktop with greeting card, red envelope, Avery (label supplier), and partially used sheet of Avery no. 2186 - 3 1/2" peel-off diskette labels

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

On a medieval #music kick this morning...

album cover for The Dante Troubadours performed by Martin Best Mediaeval Ensemble. The artwork is in sepia, a landscape with river or cove rendered in the same pale blues as the sky which takes up 2/3 of the picture. Rendered in a style reminiscent of Rembrandt (tho' he's not medieval )

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Apologies for posting too much today and yesterday. I'm having fun, like That Other Site was back a long time ago when people were people and not just ranting, quipping, or selling (note the "just"). Nice to meet you all (whom I've followed)! Now...limit BlueSky, more #writing.

A screenshop of Scrivener app's info splash window overlaying my current fictional work in process.

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

word of the day #wotd "contumacy" ... "stubborn refusal to obey or comply with authority... origin Middle English: from Latin contumacia ‘inflexibility’, from contumax (see contumacious)." via this post by @publicdomainrev.bsky.social : publicdomainreview.org/essay/charle...

screen capture of paragraph from the referenced article, in which "contumacy" is highlighted

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Wish I could remember whose 🧵 I saw this in, but....

Caption: off to experiment with gouache... Below is a 4-panel color cartoon. (1) woman at easel with brush, paint (2) close-up stirring tea with brush (3) paint-spattered tumbler to lips (4) woman's face with color splotches around her lips

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The inimitable soft-paw, Mr. Poe.

white and creamy brown cat looking at camera; blue eyes; lying on cushion, one paw extended directly at camera; soft fur

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

appropriate venue to mention this, I suppose ismy.blue My results....

a web page with a gradation from medium green to medium blue with a vertical line to indicate where my perception tests out

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Cheryl @cherylwriting.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

Happy Easter - Frohe Ostern - Joyous Ēostre Image credit: flashbackshop.com/products/jos...

Drawing in black with some green and red bits of rabbit in tall grass, in the style popular in 1908 Europe

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