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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 10h

... creek is pretty high tho

Creek that's running high but not quite over its banks

Sun through the woods... fast moving creek near edge of frame

spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 10h

Flowering weed in the woods today: Bidens! ... Beggarticks of some species... buncha them by this creek, kinda little ones

One yellow flower sticking up, with some tall seeds in the center

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 12h

... let's see how a nanner pudding made half with strawberries turns out *

Banana pudding under a not very elegant meringue... only around the right half are strawberry slices

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

... oops hang on, gotta check one last thing

Dog with her snoot full up against a tree root on the creek bank

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

... she says she's done being out here today and we are going home

Dog tugging on her leash, pulling me upstream and out of the woods

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Technically okay" ... which beats not technically okay / : /feel better!

"Technically correct", as decreed by the No. 1.0 bureaucrat who flies a desk in Futurama

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anybody else feel like referring to Ms. Shipilova's place of employment as an "anti" plague lab is a little on the nose? Like, Adam West Batman levels of on the nose...?

1960s Dodge A100 van, with "Anti-Lunatic Squad" lettered on the side

(1966 Batman TV show)

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Jerry's new restaurant, Drunk Fusion, has received the Michelin "Bib Gourmand" award for excellent value for maximum calories

Jerry, Yes, in the style of that bad Cracker Barrel rebrand

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Welp. At least it's Friday; let's see what today gets up to

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday, 1940).

Text: "Friday"

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"A nice place to visit", anyone?

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So idk... It seems a little extra creepy knowing the Russians often have a wall of religious icons hanging over in the Zvezda module; I dislike political veneration that feels religious. BUT, sometimes the Russian ones are commingled with pictures of secular heroes, so maybe it comes from that...?

ISS crew in Zvezda module. Between two air vents are hanging an Orthodox Christian blessing cross and about five icons I can discern; the largest seems to be of Theotokos and Christ, the second largest of Jesus, and the others more difficult to make out

Different crew, same place on Zvezda in ISS. Still a handful of Orthodox icons including Jesus, Mary; and other saints, but also hanging with them are images of Tsiolkovsky, Gagarin, a Russian flag, and a handful of mission patches

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ahahahahaha!... www.threads.com/share/BA8xnm...

Ah the nineties... Starfleet HQ with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Apparent fictitious title card with "The Next Generation" in the Full House font, or something close to it

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Alas. Doggo would love to help if she could. (Excuse me though, I have to yell at her for chasing the cat off my lap..)

Dog, lying by the lake with sand on her paws and nose, smilin' like she got away with something

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

From the "short walkies before GBTW" collection... Kitty likes to pretend she's not following her dog friend on her walk

Dog and cat near the edge of the woods

Dog is looking back at her cat friend

Cat is pretending not to notice

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Twelve yards long and two lanes wide, sixty-five tons of American pride! It's top of the line in utility-sports. Unexplained fire are a matter for the courts!

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Flowering weed for this morning was the goldenrod that's finally in full bloom! Solidago, probably S. altissima

The bright, almost chrome yellow flowers of a goldenrod: one stem sharp and sticking up in front, with many others below and behind and a little out

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's a little gray, a lot cooler, and ever so slightly drizzly, but I guess it's a nice morning to go a-fishin'

Great blue heron standing on the shore looking for his breakfast

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

... I took my life into my own hands looking for this on Al Gore's own internet

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah I'm not quite seeing "red", exactly... ( :

Artemis II crew, Hansen, Koch, Glover, and Wiseman, in their OCSS pumpkin suits

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.

Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster in _Run Silent, Run Deep_ (1958)

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think that one on the left is carnivorous ( :

A _Garfield and Friends_ cartoon still from the late 1980s showing a fern with fronds vaguely resembling those in the left of the QTed picture, only it also has angry red eyes, green teeth, and it's holding Jon Arbuckle, Odie, and Garfield in its fronds, shaking them about and threatening to eat them.

The fern is called "Nephrolepis monstera carniverum deliciosa strangulatum" in the show. It was supposed to resemble Nephrolepis exaltata, the Boston fern, in dialog... but it does not.

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tbh this is one of the better things I've seen today ( :

A little mouse reaching up to grab a blackberry. It's holding on to the berry and on its tiptoes on one back foot, with the other foot lifted up and toes splayed out

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, I almost forgot this morning's #CritterSpotting ! Based on the spider webs I'm guessing there was nobody home...

Big ol' wasp nest hanging by the trunk of a pine tree

The camera is looking up at it as it catches a glint of morning sun

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Solid day for #CritterSpotting tho. Box turtle in a dry creek bed, the thing we heard with the herons, saw a li'l frog the dog spooked in the woods hop away... and a solid chorus of frogs, several spp/thousands of individuals to close out the walkies Def found a few mosquitoes too

Box turtle pretending if he can't see us, we can't see him

The dog was uninterested

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

... or maybe when she came up to check on her dog friend. But, y'know, casually, not too close. (Couldn't get a picture of the "stroll past about a foot away" in the dark)

Cat on a night-lit wooden dock, thrashing her tail

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This little wood sprite came to make sure we found our way out of the woods as it got dark ... I am sure we will see her up at the house as soon as she wants kibble

Very dim picture of a cat on a fallen log in a darkening woods...

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Current status: somebody's getting sand on her belly

Dog lying on a sandy beach, with the tail end of twilight above the lake behind her

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spookygrouchy @cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tfw you're scrolling and not paying much attention and DAGNABBIT it's Avi Loeb again

ALIENS COULD REACH EARTH IN 16 DAYS, SAYS HARVARD PROFESSOR

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