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I would like to introduce you all to Jerry Lee Lewis. This toad has been obsessed with my sister for years. He generally lives on her balcony and then hides in her potted plants so she accidentally brings him inside for the winter. Clever toad! Here he is begging for her to come out and pet him.

A fat toad sits outside a glass sliding door with some plants in the background, staring into my sister's home.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Horrible place for your car to die, but damn, the view sure is good for a tow wait!

Hood of a car in front of a slice of the NYC skyline including the ESB.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One last view of our gorgeous hotel. Have wanted to stay here since I was 4, wasn't sure if anything could live up to my dreams. Better than I imagined! Top-notch hospitality in my now-3rd favorite place on earth (besides my home and the Dolomites, of course). 3rd to last bucket list item ✅

The Mount Washington hotel stands grandly before its namesake and Mount Jefferson

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The train, the train! So clear now that the cog rail is visible even from this distance.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Finally got to see Mt Washington before we leave NH! I kinda want to live on this veranda forever. The Presidentials are truly magnificent and I can't wait to come back and climb them in weather more like this. But even our backup hikes were amazing, there is no bad hiking here!

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

How it started, how it ended. Great 50th bday and I am truly the luckiest woman in the world that this man walks beside me whether we are on a mountain, in the field, on stage, or in the arcade. 2-2 on air hockey. Tomorrow the tie-breaker after we climb a mountain.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Lucked out today with no rain and accidentally bagged our first NH mountain (the relatively small Mt Avalon, 3440') when we were just going to some low waterfalls due to the forecast. It just kept... Not storming. Yay! So far, 50 is pretty cool!

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Anyone else obsessed with the Little Red Lighthouse and the Big Grey Bridge as a kid? What a view of those friends! Still makes my heart go all squishy.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Talk about a different kind of view from a hiking trail!! Truly unique hiking spot that I have somehow ignored my whole life. Someday I will follow this trail all the way to the Adirondacks... #goals

Same spot with a view of the lovely viewing benches

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Suicide hotline call box at the entrance to the George Washington Bridge north walkway. Odd thing to see at the start of a hike, but then, the GWB is even odder. Glad it's there and I hope people use it!

Yellow emergency phone box with the GWB in the background

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I swear, the ol' spacetweep magic has been in FORCE today. Found the last spot in the crowded shade for the naval parade. The best soccer pub had a perfect table for us. Now we have found a terrific spot for the fireworks. Thanks for making today amazing, @vtjawo.bsky.social!!

Planes fly in formation with red, white, and blue contrails over the World Trade Center and Hoboken's Pier A

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Video version of the same waterfall for anyone who'd like to hear the water. Please excuse the lovely couple standing there, who were busy being delighted to discover a waterfall right by their house. ♥️ #PocketWaterfall

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Every trail should end with a beautiful waterfall and icy water to soak your feet in.

Water falls down moss-covered rocks into a peaceful little pool

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I will never get enough of the juxtaposition of these little succulents(?) with the NYC skyline in the other direction. Why is this plant growing on a rock in NJ? I have no idea what it is but this is the only place I see them locally. Hence the name "Cactus Ledge" for the viewpoint. #Ramapo

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What a view for a cheap lunch!

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

But I guess my trail runners have finally bit the dust. Thank you for your ~25 years of service!

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It is! Especially starting again with some fave childhood trails and mountains. It's so healing. Like I am meeting myself again through nature. I'm just a mountain girl stuck in a sea level city! Lol

The NYC skyline hazily grows out of trees and blossoms from the Castle Loop Trail at Ramapo Mountain State Forest.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

And then there is the view in the other direction.

The hazy NYC skyline peeks out above forest.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Finding an absolutely perfect sitting rock with this view made me never want to walk down the hill.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A nice stroll along the ridge to let your legs relax brings you past the swimming pool and water tower. This must have been an amazing place to live.

Cement swimming pool more full of graffiti than water.

The water tower up a rise from the house and pool.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

First reward for reaching the top, ruins! This is known as Van Slyke Castle, but was originally a grand home known as Foxcroft. Built in the early 1900s and burned by vandals in 1959 after being abandoned a couple times.

A stone chimney meets the sun and trees.

A wall of the stone "castle" with windows filled with plants as nature takes over.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

NJ may lack in elevations, but ice age glaciers delivered a whole lot of rocks that add technical difficulty. This trail is moderate, but it has its moments, even a few where your hands become very useful!

Thank everything for good boots with great ankle support! This rocky trail likes to play with those.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Day 9 of training for the White Mountains. Day 1 of actual hiking. Ramapo Mountains State Forest was my childhood playground, one of the first places I ever hiked, parents would drop me/us kids off and we'd just wander for hours. Perfect start on a stunning day!

The start of every hike from my parking lot, the trail to the trails.

Ramapo Lake was bluer than I have ever seen it!

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Sometimes you really need a goal and deadline. I love hiking and one of the reasons I kept my car was to hike more. But I barely have. Now that I'm planning to hike in the Whites of NH, I have a reason to hike locally, gotta get my trail legs back! How do you get yourself out of ruts?

Trail maps of northern NJ & southern NY hikes:
Hudson Palisades Trails
Delaware Water Gap and Kittatinny Trails
Sterling Forest Trails
Northern NJ Highland Trails

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A very green blast from #NYC past. I used to love stopping in for a cocktail while grubby from hanging in Central Park so I could use their fancy bathroom. Meh food, good drinks, gorgeous bar, best setting and building ever to dine in.

Matchbox featuring a line drawing of a horse and carriage and the name "Tavern on the Green", open enough to show the matching green-tipped wooden matches.

Back of matchbox reads,
"Tavern on the Green
Central Park
At West 67th Street"

With defunct phone numbers to book reservations and private parties.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Unplugged for most of the day and took a nice amble in perfect weather with @souphead.bsky.social at the Cherry Blossom Festival at Branch Brook Park in Newark. An absolute gem of a public park with more cherry trees than DC! Largest collection in the US. And a fab roller rink!

Cherry trees in full bloom around a lake with a fountain.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hey! I just ran across a fabulous pic from back when you got inspired to pursue this path, mere seconds ago! Seemed like nice timing with your commute view now. ♥️ 15 years ago today.

#NASAtweetup folks et al wait in line for one last big group ride on the Shuttle Launch Experience before we headed home after the STS-133 launch.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I love my city. Concerns today have included: Will they let the bars serve alcohol at 8 am on a Sunday for the Olympic hockey? (Yes) And will enough bars open for it? (Of course!) I got warning a dispensary was closing early and to get my order in for "snow day essentials." And this on my car:

Cute drawings of hearts and an alien(?) in the snow on my car.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I think I even found a pic of when we met! I took it, but your companion here is way cuter anyway. 😃 29 Oct 2010. And 15 years ago right nowish we were heading to the launch. Isn't that bananapants?? Feels like yesterday and 80 years ago at once.

@RadioKate outside the famous Space Shop at Kennedy Space Center with the beloved rubber chicken astronaut, Camilla

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

15 years ago today I was recording for my #AbovetheSky EP. Pretty sure this is "Connections", my song about meeting the #spacetweeps. Had no idea then how much some of you would change my life forever, in the best ways. But I clearly knew this was a special thing already.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I have climbed Plowed Snow Mountain and unearthed the Trunk of Many Things. My Quest for the Unbroken Scraper is finished. On to the next Quest! I hope everyone else affected by the storm is finding their way back to normal! Slow and steady is the only way out of ice.

A leg and foot stand with a decisive stance of accomplishment on a large snow embankment next to the cluttered open trunk of a sedan that has been repeatedly buried in snow no matter how many times it gets dug out.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Got the best surprise treat today - spacetweep hugs! Amazing to see @anthrogeek.bsky.social and @redshift42.bsky.social again and share a delicious Ukrainian meal at an old favorite haunt, Veselka. Some things never go out of style, like friends and hearty winter nosh!

4 friends, good food, and a wonderful mural symbolizing Ukrainian strength.

We spent the evening dodging partying Santas from SantaCon. Apparently we picked the right restaurant for an escape hatch! Lol

Window sign reading, "Eat Borscht, Support Ukraine"

Mural illustrating the classic restaurant inside

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Apparently 16 years ago today was my 1st time ever meeting tweeps IRL. 5 met up to see Mike Massimino give a talk to mostly HS students. Great day! This led directly to SDO and my first launch, + a whole host of new friends and amazing adventures. Was so nervous to go. 😂 @genejm1017.bsky.social

Ivy chatting with Mike Massimino when we bumped into him after his talk

The gang with NASA exhibit signage at the Intrepid

Cocktails with Gene on the way to our trains home after an amazing day!

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

It feels hilarious to celebrate our 1st anniversary when we just celebrated our 28th together. Marriage makes 0 difference in our lives. But any excuse for a celebration, especially w/ great food and even better champagne!!! Instead of saving cake, we saved champagne. Much tastier a year later!

Craft Lass and Woodtoast celebrating in Hoboken

A flute of Laurent-Perrier champagne and a slice of Italian rainbow cake

Woodtoast pouring champagne to kick off the celebratory meal, with bread and bruschetta

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Does this mean I now have the answer to life, the universe, and everything in italiano, too?

Duolingo score achievement card reading,
"August 24, 2025
42
My Duolingo Italian Score is 42!"

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Nothing like seeing a classic in a classic. What a film! They just don't make them this entertaining in this millennium.

Paris Theater marquee reading:

"AMPAS Presents
The Red Shoes
Sun July 27"

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

My local library recently started a Library of Things. It doesn't have a lot yet, but it does have a starter telescope! How cool! What a perfect thing for a library to lend.

$Web page reading: Telescope # 1 Description: Coleman 700mm x 60mm Refractor Telescope for use outdoors and at night/after sunset to view the night sky. Includes several lens attachments. Includes: 1x carrying case 1x finder scope 1x accessory tray 1x Barlow lens 3x eyepieces with cases 1x yoke 3x leg attachment bolts 3x tripod adjustment knobs 1x vertical adjustment knob 1x optical tube 1x instruction manual$

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The correct way to start your resume in 1965. Apparently.

First few lines of an old resume, reads:

"Personal Data: Age 27 6'0" 175 lbs Married Excellent Health

Education: New York University Graduate School of Business Administration: Presently Attending; Majoring in Personnel Management; expected date of M.B.A. – 1966"

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Heart melting. Went out for BBQ, fell in love with a dog. Woody, meet Woody. @woodtoast.bsky.social

Tall white man Woody with small black dog Woody.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This remote is as big as the system it controls and has never worked as a universal for us. Everything else needs specialty buttons I can't map. There is 1 useful button (power) and 1 useful toggle button (volume). And there are no buttons on the system itself. Silly design.

A gigantic Bose "universal" remote control

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Midtown NYC is looking beautifully ominous in half blue skies/half stormy skies, like the sky itself is shining theatre lights on these buildings.

A clump of sunlit NYC skyscrapers from across the Hudson River, with dark, stormy skies in the background.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Discovered my favorite artist tonight, Jack Whitten. I am certain I saw his works years ago but never found out his name. He clearly inspired some of my HS work! If anyone wants to come to MoMA with me to see them IRL, give me a shout! I would be happy to give tours.

A painting of Jack Whitten's at his new MoMA exhibit. Purple, black, and white acrylic on canvas. Trying to find the name and more info to share!

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Perfect shirt to wear to a literary scholar and educator's grave or what? My mom taught me this by raising me in basically a library. Gosh, I was a lucky kid. Thousands of books at home, 0 restrictions on what I was allowed to read. Now I wear this whenever my guy tells me to purge books.

Grey T-shirt reading, "It's not hoarding if it's books"

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Amazing find from my mom's library.

A hardcover copy of both volumes of "Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare" by Isaac Asimov

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Sometimes you just have to stop and savor the best things in life for a few moments. My parents taught me to equally appreciate both the finest and the simplest pleasures in life. To love both the dirty water dog and the Michelin stars. Today I am grateful for that lesson more than ever.

Miniature tea break for one with Thé de Louvre by Palais de Thé and a basic (but delicious) chocolate peanut granola bar.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I mean, of course! Mugs were uncouth. I am very excited to use these teacups regularly, even though I love a nice big mug. No matching pot, but I do have the sugar bowl and creamer. And I have demitasse to match, so now I need an espresso maker... 🤣 #LifeUpgrades

Wedgwood Florentine teacups on a very very very high shelf.

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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Sometimes I wonder if my mom and I would have learned to get along and become friends in my adulthood, if she had lived. And then I look at the china she chose as her fine tableware and think there's a good chance we would have. Because I'd have picked this in a heartbeat myself! #grief #healing

A stack of vintage dragon-themed Wedgwood Florentine soup bowls with a hint of salad plates on the side. White china with black design and gold rims.

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